Media wiki extension for handling Ogg

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> On 08/18/2009 06:06 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be useful to stream Ogg Theora videos directly from the wiki
> >> inorder to demonstrate new features. What are the options available for
> >> this and is any of them being deployed in Fedora infrastructure?
> >
> > I assume you're talking about
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler.  It'd need to get
> > packaged and we'd probably have to come up with some rules about the video
> > sizes and how long we keep them as to not overload our servers.
>
> I agree about size rules but I don't like the idea of deleting: deleting
> part of release notes for old releases would be like deleting our history.
>

Would you really care about a FC3 screen cast?

> Are you concerned about disk space or bandwidth consumption? Disk space
> can be addressed by having rules for upload size and the bandwidth
> consumption should not be big for old releases, with only a few visitors.
>
> Maybe archive old videos in external sources?
>

I just don't like "keep everything forever" that's not a plan, it's a
mistake.  And people make it a lot.  Most people think they want it
because they don't have to live with the consequences.  I do.

	-Mike