New subject: Fwd: Switching to Timed Media Handler on EnWiki (was: Commons)

29 Oct 2012

Updated plan:
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From: Rob Lanphier &lt;robla(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: Switching to Timed Media Handler on EnWiki (was: Commons)
To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jan Gerber &lt;jgerber(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:
...
   I know we
conducted tests for TMH “playing” well with oggHandler provider (
 i.e the test2.wikipedia.org pages are embedding commons videos but played
 back with TMH ) ... I am not sure if we have conducted tests for oggHandler
 playing well with a TMH provider with the possible configuration phases
 mentioned above. 
 good point. labs is setup like that now: en running OggHandler and commons TMH

 http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Citygroup_Center,_San_Franci…
 http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Citygroup_Center,_San_F…

 so that part looks good to go. (should also test smaller embeds to be sure) 
Ok, so after this, and a couple of brief offlist discussions, we've
made a slight change to the plan:

Here's what we'll do:
1)  Wednesday, October 31:  Deploy to en.wikipedia.org first.  There's
enough video content there, and robust enough feedback (WP:VPT) that
if there's any problem with video, we'll hear about it.  Also, more
easiliy reversed than going to commons.
2)  (TBD, possibly Monday, November 5)  Deploy to everything *but* commons
3)  (TBD, possibly Wednesday, November 7)  Deploy to commons

I'll make the changes to all of the published plans to reflect this.

Rob