Status Update on the R11B Patch

Here's the current status on the Journals R11B patch fixes (if you recall, we couldn't get the R11B patch in before the Memorial Day weekend production moratorium):

* The patch will give us back the old (now "Classic"), non-Flash AOL Pictures embedded album slideshows for all previously-created albums; going forward, you'll have a choice between the Classic (HTML) and Animated (Flash) styles.

* The patch also has a few different bug fixes (including a fix for the bug we just found).

* The current proposed schedule is:
- Finish the bug fixes today
- Verify the patch tomorrow morning (Wednesday)
- Install the patch to beta tomorrow afternoon
- Install the patch to production late tomorrow night (about midnight or so Wednesday night).

So, assuming all goes well, we should see the patch live and in production on Thursday morning.

Now, this is a tentative schedule -- if something comes up during testing, we might slip a bit, but I will let you know what's going on.

Thanks -- Joe

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#8 Comment from lanurseprn
5/30/07 4:00 PM | Permalink

Will the captions come back? I still don't know why they messed with it in the first place.
Pam
#7 Comment from journalseditorEntry Author
5/30/07 10:22 AM | Permalink

Mosie1944 -- I laid out the timeline pretty clearly (I thought) in my entry: verify fixes, install to beta, followed by install to production midnight Wednesday, which means that most folks would "...see the patch live and in production on Thursday morning."

Thanks -- Joe (posted & mailed)
#6 Comment from mosie1944
5/30/07 6:45 AM | Permalink

Here it is Wednesday, and I'm still waiting for my albums to go back to their "classic" view.
#5 Comment from journalseditorEntry Author
5/29/07 8:20 PM | Permalink

Dawn -- afaik, AOL Pictures has never supported animated images. (You can upload animated gifs, but it will lose the animation. Never tried with bmps.) When you upload pictures directly from your computer (using the "My Computer" tab), they go into your AOL Pictures shoebox album.

If you want to display animated gifs, you should be able to upload them to your File Manager space, or to a third-party site that supports animations (like Photobucket), then copy-and-paste the URL of the image into the URL tab of the pictures picker.

Thanks -- Joe (posted & mailed)
#4 Comment from princesssaurora
5/29/07 8:14 PM | Permalink

Okay... but what about why or .gif images or .bmp images that have animation but when uploaded into the journals they lose it???

Thank you....

be well,
Dawn
http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/

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