[QA] resizing big images will get faster next week

[Greg Grossmeier]

<quote name="Željko Filipin" date="2013-07-15" time="14:37:30 +0200">
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>wrote:
> 
> > Yes :) There are some bugs reported thus far, reproducing and writing
> > tests for them would be great.
> 
> 
> "Yes" to all of my questions? :)

Yep :P But seriously, just "help greatly appreciated, where ever you
can".

> Is there a repository of big images that we can use to test, or should we
> create random big images?

Either create/find them online is probably easiest.

> I am a bit confused. What should be the workflow? Something like this?
> 
> - Upload any big image. (Is there recommended sizes in pixels and/or MB?
> Can we skip this step and reuse images already uploaded?)
> - Use the special page[1] to resize the image.
> - See if anything is broken.

Yeah, that works.

Recommendation on size: >= 50meg png

There might be more later, pending the bugs that are reported right now:
http://ur1.ca/enncp

Greg


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