Rob Lanphier wrote:
Bryan Tong Minh has been doing some great work on
VipsScaler
extension, but there hasn't been a lot of recent chatter on the
mailing list about it. Since we're somewhat close to deploying
something on the cluster, it probably warrants at least an email.
The name kinda sucks. Does VIPS stand for something? I only mention this as
it's possible more people would be talking about it if they understood what
it was. A name like ImageScaler or something is much clearer.
In any case, it sounds very neat. :-) And the VIPS dev team is using
MediaWiki, which is cool.
For example, we currently disallow PNG images greater
than 12.5 MP.
Are you sure about this? I recall a configurable 12.5 MP limit on rendering
of JPGs, but does that also apply to PNGs? And "disallow" is a bit ambiguous
here. They just won't render / have thumbnails created, they aren't blocked
from being uploaded, no?
Step 1: Deploy VipsScaler extension, but only use it
for PNGs over
12.5MP and/or TIFFs (which currently generate errors). Let this sit
in production a while, fixing any bugs we find with this
configuration.
No deployment to a labs or test site first?
MZMcBride