Is this RfC still relevant, or is it superseded by other, more recent RfCs?
Topic on Talk:Requests for comment/Standardized thumbnails sizes
This was discussed further at wikitech-l "Larger thumbnails for MediaWiki / Wikimedia wikis?" from April 9-14, and mentioned in this other thread "Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping" (part 1 from April 30 and part 2 up till May 13 (None of which is in Gmane?!)) - I'm not sure what the resolution was though.
This post was posted by Quiddity, but signed as Quiddity (WMF).
In short, relevant but outdated. There are conversations about generating some thumbnails on upload and maybe using them to generate the rest of the thumbnails. It's still in the research phase, I think.
Ping :) Is this still Antoine's RfC or is it something the multimedia group has taken over? If the latter, could you change authorship in the infobox? Thanks!
We had several mailing list discussion in 2012 / beginning of 2013 regarding optimizing the thumbnails rendering. That RFC is merely a summary of the discussions and is intended to avoid repeating ourself on each discussion. I am not leading the RFC by any mean, would be nice to have the new multimedia team to take leadership there.
We're awaiting Ops input.