Talk:Reading/Multimedia/Architecture/Tech Debt Backlog

= Fall 2013 Backlog = Discussion of issues for Fall 2013 backlog grooming.

Goal: find 4-6 big hitter problems that will give User:BDavis_(WMF) a roadmap to work on.

Chunked Upload
This seems to show up on everyone's list. It looks to me like there are several sub-issues here:
 * Use of php user session to store data is problematic due for several reasons
 * There are open bugs related to file size: 36587, 51730
 * job queue instability
 * deadlocks

I haven't found much documentation of how this component is intended to work. There is a small blurb on API:Upload and some other info at commons:Commons:Chunked_uploads.

I guess my question here is where to start? Should I do a deep dive with an initial goal of documenting the current implementation so it can be reviewed by a larger group for architectural flaws or should I just poke at the edges with small fixes and not worry about the big picture?

--BDavis (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 26 August 2013 (UTC)