On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki < steinsplitter-w...@live.com> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it from > > working? > It is very old and bad written and needs a complete rewrite. > That can be said of many things in our stack. ;) What made it stop working in the last month, specifically? Can you point us to the source code? > > It's entirely possible that fixing the bot is easier than hacking an > > internal rotate and reupload feature that runs on the image scalers. > It would be the best solution to fix that function in mediawiki. This > would also allow real time rotation. > > > Or... Just making it possible to mark images as needing to be rotated > > correctly on output (given we already rotate on thumbnail generation)... > The thumb rotation is not always perfect and the file itself is not > rotatet at all. > Allowing override of the thumb rotation would provide you real time rotation... I'm not sure about the need to rotate the original file; ideally original files should be left as-is and kept archival. -- brion > > :-) > > > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:51:47 -0500 > > From: bvib...@wikimedia.org > > To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an > image > > > > Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it from > > working? > > > > It's entirely possible that fixing the bot is easier than hacking an > > internal rotate and reupload feature that runs on the image scalers. > > > > Or... Just making it possible to mark images as needing to be rotated > > correctly on output (given we already rotate on thumbnail generation)... > > > > -- brion > > On Jul 16, 2015 8:27 AM, "Steinsplitter Wiki" < > steinsplitter-w...@live.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am not sure if this is the correct mailinglist to write. > > > > > > Every week on commons a bot is rotating hunderts of files, however this > > > bot will stop working soon. In the last years tens of thousands files > has > > > been rotated. > > > > > > Rotating files is a vital feature on commons and therefore > indispensable. > > > The bugreport [1] on phabricator is open since three years, but, > > > unfortunately no dev is working on it. The bug has also a lot of +1 > > > (tokens). > > > > > > I am wonder if it is possible to enable and code review this feature > asap. > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > Best, > > > Steinsplitter > > > > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35186 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
