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