== MediaViewer release changes ==
We have pushed back some of the planned MediaViewer releases to have more
time to address some concerns from the community while still keep the
current prioritization in which we spend one third of our time on
MediaViewer, one third on UploadWizard and one third on bigger-picture
issues around file handling. Fabrice already wrote about this in more
detail [1].
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-May/000385.html
== Background work ==
Last week was mostly background work which is probably less interesting to
users. We made our automated tests run in more kinds of browsers [2], and
as a result caught and fixed a bug in IE9 [3]; based on reports from the
community, we fixed more bugs in IE9 [4] and Safari [5], and cleaned up our
metrics dashboard [6] and unit testing [7] code.
== Load handling ==
We did some research on the effect of chained image scaling on perceived
quality (see the thread about mip-mapping on this list for more details)
which seems to be a promising method to improve thumbnailing speed and make
the thumbnail rendering servers handle high loads better.
We also investigated the load caused by deploying MediaViewer on some
larger wikis; based on that, the deployment to enwiki does not seem to be a
cause for concern. [9]
== Zoom troubles ==
We implemented and tested a simple way to access the full-sized image from
MediaViewer [9]; due to UX concerns, we are currently not planning to keep
it. Depending on which wiki you are looking at, you might see it around for
a few more days.
== Code review ==
We have continued working down our code review backlog, mostly
concentrating on UploadWizard and GWToolset patches.
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-May/000385.html
[2]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/577
[3]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/617
[4]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/597
[5]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/569
[6]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/604
[7]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/571
[8]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/584
[9]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Metrics/Estimations
[9]
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/588