On 12 December 2011 15:26, K. Peachey
<p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's been a requested feature for a while,
Someone finally got around
to writing it (I believe it needed the Improved metadata handling
backend first) and implementing it, It wasn't a sudden "oh lets write
this and enable it in one day thing", a lot of work went into it and
subsequent testing.
* How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously
wrongly rotated and were fixed by the feature?
* How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously
correctly rotated and were messed up by the feature?
i.e., was there strong reason to apply it to past images, not just new ones?
Such statistics were never gathered. I was told by the developers
involved that existing images with EXIF rotation would be very rare
and that most of them would be fixed by this feature, and I didn't
challenge that.
I think it's too early to focus on recriminations, we risk distracting
people from actually fixing the issue.
-- Tim Starling