On 04/30/2014 12:51 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
- at upload time, perform a series of scales to produce the mipmap levels
- _don't consider the upload complete_ until those are done! a web uploader
or API-using bot should probably wait until it's done before uploading the next file, for instance...
- once upload is complete, keep on making user-facing thumbnails as
before... but make them from the smaller mipmap levels instead of the full-scale original
If there's interest in investigating this scenario I can write up an RfC with some more details.
Yes, please do! This is very close to what Aaron & me have been discussing recently on the ops list as well.
Gabriel