[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009-04-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
Yesterday, the selection of GSoC projects was officially announced. For MediaWiki, the following projects have been accepted: * Niklas Laxström (Nikerabbit), mentored by Siebrand, will be working on improving localization and internationalization in MediaWiki, as well as improving the Translate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009-04-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/22 Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org: Marco Schuster wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: * Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical), will be building a thumbnailing daemon, so image manipulation won't have to happen on the Apache

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009-04-21 Thread Chad
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/22 Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org: Marco Schuster wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: * Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical), will be building a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009-04-21 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: Wow, I'm lookin' forward to this. Mighta be worth a try to give the upper the ability to choose non-standard resizing filters or so... or full-fledged image manipulation, something like a wiki-style photoshop.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009-04-21 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: The main issue with the daemon idea (which was discussed at length in #mediawiki a few weeks ago) is that it requires a major change in how we handle images. Right now, the process involves rendering on-demand, rather than