Creating PDFs from books won't work for a while. Keep the community informed.
- Publish community update after performance testing of books on the new Chromium renderer is complete T183161: Performance test books on chromium rendering service
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | ovasileva | T181079 [GOAL] Provide an expanded reading experience by improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption | |||
| Declined | None | T184772 [EPIC] Determine next steps with books functionality | |||
| Resolved | Johan | T177076 Keep the community informed about book PDF unavailability |
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A reminder that this is on the "Ready to Go" column: maybe you can already evaluate whether it's something for next quarter instead. Thank you!
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No. It seems the priority was raised automatically for a couple of tasks when they were moved from Backlog to January. I don't know why.
(Once, I would have attributed it to me doing it by mistake. Twice? More unlikely.)
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If you are moving them by dragging among columns, where you actually place them matters. Sometimes I absentmindedly drag stuff toward the top, just because it's easier, and so things end up in the "red" (high priority!).
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If cards on a board are sorted by priority (not "natural"; upper right corner), dragged cards receive the priority of the 'surrounding' cards. It's a 'surprising' feature.
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@Elitre It's probably something that should have been ten different tasks by now, but we've just kept the one.
Currently, the books-to-PDF functionality is being developed by PediaPress, and we're sort of making sure they have a chance at getting a good working relationship with the international community in this question.
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Keeping the community informed has basically been relaying the information that the PDF renderer has been "a few weeks away" (which it consistently has been to best of our knowledge) which has always turned out to be another few weeks. Hopefully this will soon be done, for single articles.
There has been a number of discussions around the book renderer, which is handled by Pediapress. As one outcome, Pediapress will now release their work as open source once it's done.
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Met with Olga to discuss next steps. We've deployed the new renderer, which seems to be working. We'll take a look at the feedback, but honestly, we don't have that much resources we can assign to this. Pediapress are working on the books. In general, there won't be much we can say. We'll write up a note, but generally phase this out.