Reading/Multimedia/Scrum notes/bawolff

Last update on: 2014-07-28

2014-05-22

• Went through a significant portion of the back log of bugs in the MediaWiki/File management component.
  • Made a note of bugs that I think need looking into. Recategorized one's that were improperly categorized. Closed some bugs that were already fixed (14 less bugs in the component. Out of 282 bugs at the start)
• Fixed a bug in unit tests that decided to drop my user table (bugzilla:65654).

2014-05-23

• Became acquainted with the situation surrounding the Fae thumbnail outage.
• Submitted a patch to make image renders for tiff files > 50 megapixels be no-ops instead of the current situation where they download the hundreds of MB big file only to throw away the download. I suspect this is a major part of the load issues on the image scalars since failed thumbnailing attempts have only a very short lived cache.

2014-05-24

• Worked on adapting VipsScaler to work on tiff thumbnails so that we can scale larger files
• Locally this was successful, with the three biggest tiff files I could find on commons being scaled inside resource limits similar to Wikimedia's.

2014-05-26

• Make unit tests work in PagedTiffHandler
• Add tests for my changes to PagedTiffHandler, VipsScaler
• Restructure some of the core media handler tests to avoid code duplication

2014-05-28

• Small amount of code review/unit tests

2014-06-04

• Did some code review
• Look into bugzilla:66143 (?embedplayer=yes broken)
• Added a unit test to my ogg metadata patch

2014-06-07

• Read up around issues surounding resizing files in linear colour space (bugzilla:66337)
• Thumbnailing greyscale xcf files have output channels mixed up (bugzilla:66323)

2014-06-08

• Adjust when pop up video viewer is used for large files
• Fun times with making TMH unit test do what I wanted it to do
• Minor fixes to Special:MIMESearch
  • Stop duplicate header output
  • Allow image/* type wild cards for the minor mime type

2014-06-09

• Embedplayer=yes bug

2014-06-10

• Checked to see what the state of the abandoned "sequencer" feature was, and if it still worked.
• Fixed warning about thumbnails of animated svg files (+unit tests)

2014-06-10

• Checked to see what the state of the abandoned "sequencer" feature was, and if it still worked.
• Fixed warning about thumbnails of animated svg files (+unit tests)

2014-06-15

yesterday

• Filed RT ticket about video scalers not working

Today

• Investigated how java security/signed applets work, and what we need to do to make cortado applet work on common configurations
• Filed RT ticket to sign cortado applet

2014-06-18

• Worked on issues related to ?embedplayer=yes in TMH
• Fixed DjVu unit tests
• Responded to some backlogged multimedia related email
• Fixed warnings on TMHOggHandler

2014-06-19

• More embedplayer stuff
• Fixed TMH when used with a ForeignAPIRepo
• Minor doc fixes to MediaHandler

2014-06-21

• Got cgroups working locally, and improved our documentation of the feature
• Experimented with different image magick options that could potentially make gifs render in less memory (bugzilla:61711#c11)

2014-06-23

• Fixed issue with using the link parameter in gallery when the target has a fragment
• Fixed an issue with upload wizard unit tests

2014-06-23

• Fixed issue with using the link parameter in gallery when the target has a fragment
• Fixed an issue with upload wizard unit tests

2014-06-25

• Read up on what default java security settings are (To double check what is needed for cortado)
• Embedplayer bug, frames
• Look into issues with TMH not showing a warning on old browsers

2014-06-29

• Unit tests for svg alt thumbnail sizes
• Do code review/respond to people who have code reviewed my stuff
• Fix small issue with thumbnail attempt limiting

2014-07-02

Binge of GlobalUsage/wantedFile related query pages

• Remove file redirects from Special:WantedFiles
• Use GlobalUsage data to remove foreign files from Special:WantedFiles
• Add Special:GloballyWantedFiles to show most wanted files across all wikis
• Add Special:MostGloballyLinkedFiles special page to get most used image across all wikis
• Fix bug in RepoGroup::hasForeignRepo causing it not to work + add unit tests

2014-07-03

• AbuseFilter misreporting gwtoolset actions as being from 127.0.0.1
• Do not try to render indexed xcf files
• Add prettier icon for xcf files (used when we can't render)
• Fix alpha channel in xcf files
• Some code review.

2014-07-05

• Investigate a purge bug
• Fix bug where video player on android would stop after playing 1 second of video
• Add support for playing videos automatically in VLC app on irc
• Yesterday: Investigate same origin policy errors on cortado

2014-07-28

• A little bit of TMH related code review
• Investigate charset issue in gwtoolset
• Investigate issue with filter attribute in SVGs (bugzilla:67044)
• Work on making a MediaStatistics special page