On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
But honestly, is there no open source software that can generate a thumbnail from a 15MB PNG without nuking our servers?
No.
Well. There's a task to add to my list, then. Might get around to it as early as 2020, or so ;-)
Yes, everyone's busy. Yes, there are more pressing issues (SUL, stable versions, you name it). Yes, MediaWiki wasn't developed as a media repository (tell me about it;-) Yes, "sofixit" myself. Still, I ask: is this the best we can do?
Why do you ask, after all these 'yes'?
Because I believe that these areas have been neglected for too long without proper reason, and I want to rattle everyone's cage about that.
The things I listed are rather basic things that shouldn't be broken, IMHO, in such a generally important software in its seventh year of development.
Magnus