My contributions for audio recording uploads are not ready because they depend on the upload redesign and client-side Flash. I am still waiting to hear from anyone why the current state of Flash is any less closed than that of Java. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt that people have simply not researched the situation with Adobe's current public documentation and license along with the state of Haxe and Gnash, but in the mean time I can wait for the upload redesign before I take up that issue in earnest. I'm also trying to raise money for Gnash developers to make that particular hurdle a complete non-issue.
I would love to see Flash/Gnash support on Commons, but as far as I know, it isn't currently in the development pipeline (and as you said, their is still lingering cultural resistance to anything Flash-related, despite the emergence of projects like GPLFlash and Gnash). If you want to use Flash for uploads in the meantime, you can set-up an uploading front-end on the toolserver. I have a Flash-based uploading front-end for Commons on there myself that I use for doing multi-file uploads.
Ryan Kaldari
On 9/6/10 1:43 PM, James Salsman wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
I meant the code: CentralNotice, DonationInterface, GeoLite, ContactPageFundraiser, the Drupal extension, etc.
What remains to be done on those projects? The only unassigned bug of any immediately apparent consequence on any of those keywords I was able to find is bug 24682 which looks like it might have a patch already described in it.
I didn't think you were a committer.
My contributions for audio recording uploads are not ready because they depend on the upload redesign and client-side Flash. I am still waiting to hear from anyone why the current state of Flash is any less closed than that of Java. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt that people have simply not researched the situation with Adobe's current public documentation and license along with the state of Haxe and Gnash, but in the mean time I can wait for the upload redesign before I take up that issue in earnest. I'm also trying to raise money for Gnash developers to make that particular hurdle a complete non-issue.
Perhaps there are Mediawiki users other than the Foundation who would not be opposed to the use of Flash for microphone audio upload?
Best regards, James Salsman
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