Hi. I'm working on Extension:SwiftMedia, and I've got it into pretty decent shape. No known bugs (last bug was a coding bug; bug prior was a design bug). Since the plan is to switch Wikipedia over to this media storage system, we're trying to be as conservative and not-break-it as possible. If you are in the habit of manipulating files on your MediaWiki, or on Wikipedia itself, could you take a few minutes to document your particular combination of operations? Obviously, we've got test cases for "upload a file", "delete a file", "upload another file", "revert an older file". Those are the simple things to test. We're looking for your "idioms" or "use cases", where you do things we don't expect.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Document them here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SwiftMedia#Use_Cases
This is a public request. Please repost it anywhere you think appropriate.
Thanks, -russ
The only other thing although more of a MediaWiki side of things, is protecting files from being (re)uploaded or touched (eg: reverted).
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnelson@clarkson.edu wrote:
Hi. I'm working on Extension:SwiftMedia, and I've got it into pretty decent shape. No known bugs (last bug was a coding bug; bug prior was a design bug). Since the plan is to switch Wikipedia over to this media storage system, we're trying to be as conservative and not-break-it as possible. If you are in the habit of manipulating files on your MediaWiki, or on Wikipedia itself, could you take a few minutes to document your particular combination of operations? Obviously, we've got test cases for "upload a file", "delete a file", "upload another file", "revert an older file". Those are the simple things to test. We're looking for your "idioms" or "use cases", where you do things we don't expect.
Added a few, mostly related to embedding and linking to files.
-Chad
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