[Clipart] What we do now - Does it affect 0.19? + Mass uploads

Mon Mar 30 20:34:31 PDT 2009

We should really just focus our attention on getting ccHost to work
well with what we want.

I think this monthly release of a new package, starting with the
current 0.19 ready to go is good, and having a monthly goal is
crucial.

Then, keeping on track with releases, attracting new developers, and
making sure I"m not a bottleneck -- which is a problem.

I'm making Jochen another admin since he has a grasp of the tech
things, and I'm hopeful that there is one more person who will step up
and help out on the tech side. Anyone interested?

Jon

2009/3/31 chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
>>
>> Jochen Staerk wrote:
>> >> (I'm wanting to know if I should continue putting clipart in or wait
>> >> until
>> >> 0.19. I dont really want to add them again.)
>> >
>> > What do you mean by you don't want to add them again? Once you added
>> > them of course they will stay but the snapshot of 0.19 has already been
>> > taken so if you upload pictures now they will be added to the release
>> > after 0.19.
>>
>> On top of that, I hope we will restart releasing often and the next
>> release (0.20) is not far away.
>>
>> So don't wait, upload as soon as you have images ready, they will be
>> available in the website and the daily tarballs, up for the end-users to
>> grab and hopefully not after a long time in the next packaged release.
>
> I'm not sure I follow, but I'll smile and nod. Or rather I'll let my
> curious-techno side get the better of me and ask lots of "dumb" questions.
> :-D
>
> To clarify my question, what happens when I upload a single image? It goes
> to a storage place on the website, and any information about it goes to a
> database? 0.19 is a cosmetic/frontend change that doesn't modify the
> database or the image storage place?
>
> I don't know how the snapshots work either. What's the purpose of them?
> What's a tarball? What am I supposed to do with them? How do I access them
> from the site?
>
> What I meant as in "not wanting to add them again" was, it takes awhile to
> upload with all details, one by one if you have more than 10 clipart.
> Especially if you go to the trouble of making them specific for OCAL. I've
> already gotten rid of my source images (I have limited storage space on my
> local computer). Which means OCAL has the only copies of what I've uploaded.
> It would be troublesome for me to upload those cliparts again.  Does that
> better explain "I dont want to upload them again"?
>
>> >> Does OCAL have a mass upload facility? PHP is able to mass upload (also
>> >> the
>> >> site admins can do ftp batches), but what facility is there for
>> >> registered
>> >> joe blogs?
>> >
>> > no idea. AFAIK OCAL does not have a mass upload because ccHost has none.
>>
>> We used to have such a feature in the old website and is missed:
>> basically you had to fill somehow the metadata in the SVG files (either
>> with Inkscape's dialog or from command line in batch mode), make a
>> archive (zip, tarball) and upload that.
>> I think the lack of this feature is what had kept us away from importing
>> all the images from the old site (at least it delayed *my* effort in
>> doing so for over a year).
>
> I think not having a mass uploader for registers users is a problem for
> OCAL, and a stumbling block for OCAL's growth. Also, since ccHost can't read
> MetaData (yet!) is there a manual solution that we could fall back
> on/develop? From what I can see after reseraching a little,  there are a few
> routes we could take in the multi-upload idea. The main thing is being safe
> with file uploads.
>
> #1. User uploads a zip file. OCAL dumps it in a temporary folder. OCAL opens
> the zip. Scans for images with .svg file extension. OCAL deletes anything
> that is not a .svg (including any other image files.) I.e. multiple uploads
> only allows .svg files. Background scripts that are coming (yes?) can make
> the .png thumbnails for them anyway so all we need are the svg files.
>
> #2. Making a special Multiple File Upload page similar to
> http://openclipart.org/media/submit/clipart. Multiple upload boxes, and next
> to each one, an input field for the tags? My reasoning with this is that
> anyone who batch uploads will *probably* already know what they are doing.
> Let's simplify so that we can fit more uploads on. I see the ability and
> space already available on OCAL as allowing upwards of 10 files. (as seen in
> this quick mockup http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1839/concept.jpg). All
> that needs doing (to my limited understanding of how ccHost works with
> php... is working with the multiple php upload scripts. Of course you also
> need file checks, safety features as well, but if you're multiple uploading
> manually you dont need the "featured artist", "suggested tags", "popular
> tags", "NSFW", "or the "publish now" button. These informations can be
> edited after the upload in the individual files pages.
>
> The uploader can then edit things manually or wait until the file has been
> checked by an admin (as all new uploads get the unchecked tag anyway.)
>
> I know ideally automatic reading of MetaData is desired, but since ccHost
> doesnt have that ability (yet!), my opinion would be that we should have a
> manual way as well. Double redundancy - I like. Also a bonus of that is that
> manually trying something might make it easier to make an autoscript later
> on. Rearranging the lego blocks so to speak.
>
> Are any of these following scripts hackable/useful with info? I don't know
> which ones would be suitable for an Open project so please be careful and
> research any of these links carefully. These are for ideas only. Perhaps
> they can spark something that we can use on OCAL. Or even use.
>
> Multiple Upload scripts:
> http://www.phpeasystep.com/workshopview.php?id=2
> http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3361474.htm
> http://www.usenet-forums.com/php-general/52153-php-batch-uploading-multiple-files.html
> http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread141715.html
> http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3772.html
> http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/338.html
>
> Things to have a look at:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/uupload
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/httpfileuploadapplet
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/easy_upload
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpforms
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebfilemgr
> --
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
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