Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

Another round, using one of Rob's test images. The directly scaled images look sharper. > I've now realized that our image scaler uses the -sharpen option in most cases (as long as the thumbnail is 0.85 times the size of the original or smaller, if I'm reading the code correctly). This time I app

[Wikitech-l] Image scaling survey

Hi, If you have a little spare time, it would be very helpful if you can answer this survey that takes less than a minute to complete: https://surveymonkey.com/s/FY89BTX It will help determine if a specific flavor of a performance optimization proposal currently discussed [1] on the Multimedia ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shifting from PHP mailer to Swift Mailer

Hello Andre, I was indeed in search of more input whether it's a good idea or bad one. Nemo tells me it will be a nice move to shift from the conventional usermailer [1]. Since its an additional task in my proposal, I am ready to take up the shifting job, as it needs to be done first, s

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Help! Phabricator and our code review process

Copying from #wikimedia-dev IRC (sorry) and cc'ing wikitech-l as requested: [James_F] cscott: I think you're confused about fab.wmflabs.org. It's not meant for use. It's meant for evaluation. [cscott] James_F: and i'm saying that unless i can use it for something i can't easily evaluate it [greg

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift Tracking and Remediation

FYI, added sampling -- Forwarded message -- From: Adam Baso Date: Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift Tracking and Remediation To: Wikimedia Mailing List Federico asked if sampling might make sense here. I think it will work, so I've

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of May 5th

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: Of interest: May 7th - 12th is the Mediawiki Hackathon in Zürich. Hope to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Gilles Dubuc wrote: > Another point about picking the "one true bucket list": currently Media > Viewer's buckets have been picked based on the most common screen > resolutions, because Media Viewer tries to always use the entire width of > the screen to display the