The team has some hires, and there will be some needed focus on hiring at least some of them as backend/MediaWiki core engineers. This is mostly because we acknowledge the sizable backlog of tasks in that area as well as the need to make improvements in that area to support future work.
I'll likely look to The Performance team to help with HHVM related activities as well. - Trevor On Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Giuseppe Lavagetto <[email protected]> wrote: > While I know that doesn't sound fancy or attractive, I think the > multimedia team should have as one of its focuses to help with > transitioning to HHVM the imagescalers. There seem to be a few issues > with that and some support that won't just come out of goodwill, but > as a team commitment, would greatly help with that. > > Cheers, > Giuseppe > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > I'm also curious what our audio/video storage/transcoding/playback > roadmap > > is. IMO it's a pretty fundamental feature that isn't well supported in > all > > the clients (especially mobile). Could probably do some interesting > audio > > stuff (e.g. narration in many languages) for visually impaired. > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Jean-Frédéric < > [email protected] <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > >> 2015-05-11 10:29 GMT+01:00 Antoine Musso <[email protected] > <javascript:;>>: > >> > >> > On 11/05/15 02:18, Tim Starling wrote: > >> > > >> >> On 10/05/15 07:06, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> >People have been talking about vr for a long time. I think there is > >> more > >> >>> >pressing concerns (e.g. video). I suspect VR will stay in the video > >> game > >> >>> >realm or gimmick realm for a while yet > >> >>> > >> >> Maybe VR is a gimmick, but VRML, or X3D as it is now called, could be > >> >> a useful way to present 3D diagrams embedded in pages. Like SVG, we > >> >> could use it with or without browser support. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > A potential use case for the encyclopedia, would be to display models > of > >> > chemistry molecules. An example: > >> > > >> > http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Jmol_MediaWiki_Extension > >> > > >> > >> See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/16/> and < > >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/804/> > >> > >> -- > >> Jean-Frédéric > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] <javascript:;> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle > > IRC: bgerstle > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
