On 18 January 2014 04:41, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. The current discussion has confused people about the things that are > not very contentious: > * Ingesting and converting out of more formats is good: we should start > ingesting MP4 and converting on the fly. There are no major legal risks to > our doing so. ... > If we clarify those things, a new RFC that focuses on implementing MP4 > autoconversion would have more support. It would be easier & faster if the > RFC creators chose to close discussion for now while reframing & revising > the focus of discussion.
No disagreement with wider ingestion options, many other formats remain tricky for our contributors including audio. The RFC is non-neutral and unnecessarily complex. With so much experience of trying these things, along with full time expertise, I would hope for a more sophisticated approach from in-house WMF teams. Fae -- [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
