On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki < steinsplitter-wiki@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: bvibber@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-wiki@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
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