[documentation] Free beta screencapture software for Drupal Documentation

[Joel Farris]

>> Sepeck wrote:
>> Hosting images on a third party site produces a drag on the site
>> performanceas requests go to third party site and if that site is
>> having issues then drupal.org is perceived to be having issues.
>> Drupal.org has enough performance issues right now ;D
>
>
> Kent Bye wrote:
> Thanks for reconsidering this and do please see what Moshe is doing  
> on g.d.o.
> I agree that having drupal manage our own photos would be optimal,  
> but I
> also think it's worth considering supporting third party photo sharing
> services that are out there as an intermediary step.
>
> [snipped all content that talked about benchmarking -- Senpai]
>
> Going the third party route would also free up the disk space issue.


True, Kent. Going to a third-party hosting *might* be a valid interim  
solution, yet in the two weeks that we've fought the gods to rescue  
all the "broken" links to our drupal-dojo screencasts and get them  
hosted on a single server, I didn't think that to be the case. In  
fact, I have been holding off the process of placing links to related  
screencasts on our Handbook pages because there was no dependable,  
reliable source from which to host the streaming content.

It might work the same way with embedding illustrations in Book  
pages, or it might not. Convenience and the desire to have rich,  
flowing pages that look as good as produced PDF documents would be my  
preference for an online Drupal Handbook. But a little question kept  
popping up in my mind. "What if I had placed those dojo screencast  
links that led to blip.tv, bittorrent, private servers, and google  
video into our Handbook pages, and tomorrow we lost 3 torrent seeds  
and two blip.tv files that were deemed 'innappropriate', i.e. 'too  
big' for their service?"

How would we be able to find all the Handbook pages that needed their  
links changed?
-- 
Senpai
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   and widescreens bigger and bigger, soon the
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