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Edward Z. Yang wrote:
I'd hate to see this discussion die out without some sort of judgment from the developers. Brion, do you think this sort of implementation is possible? Perhaps if we had a dedicated cluster for performing the audio encoding, and queued the stuff up so that while the lossless version wouldn't be available immediately, it would show up eventually?
Yep!
I think it's a fantastic idea, both for audio and video.
I've stuck this on the list of suggested projects for the Google Summer of Code this year. (We've applied as a mentor organization, but won't know until tomorrow? for sure if we're accepted.)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007
^^ feel free to add/remove/tweak/suggest
Also, regarding anonymous FTP, I believe SourceForge has a similar setup for uploading release packages, so I think if we made it write-only (i.e. the list directory command returns no entries), only allowed established users to upload, and did regular housekeeping, it might be viable.
FTP gives me the willies, personally. :) But perhaps we could arrange something.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)