Change #MediaWiki-File-management to umbrella project in favour of more specific subprojects
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	Feb 14 2016, 12:31 AM

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Change MediaWiki-File-management to umbrella project in favour of more specific subprojects.

There is a bunch of tracking bugs for various types of files, eg.:

I would rename MediaWiki-File-management to #MediaWiki-Files, made it an umbrella and convert format specific tracking bugs to its subprojects in form of #MediaWiki-Files-PNG #MediaWiki-Files-GIF etc...

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Mentioned Here: T10901: [DO NOT USE] SVG rasterisation and management on Wikimedia sites (tracking)
T18456: GIF Issues (tracking)
T64466: TIFF handling (tracking)
T67681: EXIF support (tracking)

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Danny_B created this task.Feb 14 2016, 12:31 AM

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The issues those bugs track are often not so much about MediaWiki but the configuration of the WMF machines which do the image rendering (exact software versions, fonts etc).

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Eh, what for? Are you going to be working on bugs from one of the specific projects?

Wikimedia-specific issues shouldn't go in these projects anyway. There's Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, SRE-swift-storage (due to be renamed SRE-swift-storage) etc.

Steinsplitter moved this task from Incoming to Backlog on the Commons board.Feb 14 2016, 8:16 AM

"Subprojects" don't really exist in Phabricator so I have no idea what this is about, unsubscribing.

Nemo_bis unsubscribed.Feb 14 2016, 10:38 AM

In T126894#2026410, @Nemo_bis wrote:

"Subprojects" don't really exist in Phabricator so I have no idea what this is about, unsubscribing.

They do, we haven't updated yet.

Nemo_bis unsubscribed.Feb 14 2016, 11:32 AM

This task misses a use case.

Aklapper raised the priority of this task from Medium to Needs Triage.Feb 14 2016, 12:39 PM

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Aklapper removed a project: Commons.Feb 14 2016, 12:40 PM

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The majority (Or at least a fair portion) of file management tasks do not fall into the categories of GIF, Tiff, Exif or SVG.

Basically, any bug in includes/filerepo/*, or includes/page/ImagePage.php, and the non-swift parts of includes/filebackend/*fits into the #mediawki-File-management project, but wouldn't fit into one of the subprojects you mention. This is a much larger swath of the code base then the individual media handler plugins.

Danny_B moved this task from Incoming to Needs discussion on the Project-Admins board.Feb 15 2016, 7:29 AM

Nemo_bis removed a subscriber: MediaWiki-File-management.Feb 15 2016, 8:15 AM

Luke081515 moved this task from Needs discussion to Administration on the Project-Admins board.May 3 2016, 9:35 PM

Danny_B moved this task from Administration to Projects to change / set on the Project-Admins board.May 3 2016, 9:39 PM

Luke081515 triaged this task as Low priority.May 3 2016, 9:40 PM