Add video as a media kind in photos: streaming upload with per-kind
limits, ffprobe metadata, poster frame reusing the image variant
pipeline, and a playback object (remux when web-compatible, else
h264/yuv420p/aac transcode). Video jobs run on a separate pool with a
long lease. Frontend gains a video viewer, grid badge/duration and
video upload.
Large albums opened slowly and flickered; the default album cover was
also lost in the media-objects refactor.
Large-album loading:
- quantize signed object URLs within a window and send Cache-Control so
previews are reused instead of re-fetched
- publish photo.updated (not photo.created) when variants are ready, so
clients update in place without reordering the grid
- worker concurrency + newest-first variant priority; raise default batch
Album cover:
- first uploaded photo becomes the cover when none is set
- clear the cover when the cover photo is trashed or moved out
- "set as album cover" in the photo context menu and actions panel
OpenSpec changes: fix-large-album-load, fix-album-cover
- rename Go module, binary, systemd unit, PG_DATABASE default, frontend package and docs from shared-album to galo
- add theme-aware halo emblem and favicon (new ui-branding capability)
- add make build-release (versioned, stripped, static binary) and run the binary from the repo root
- app_settings table (PostgreSQL migration 000010, SQLite 000002)
- internal/settings repository (Get/Set/Ensure) wired into store.Repos
- secret generated with crypto/rand on first start and persisted; reused on restart
- drop required JWT_SECRET from env/config; app.New takes a TokenManager and
storage.Open takes the resolved secret (URL_SECRET still overrides)
- docs updated
Move physical file facts out of the photos table into an objects ledger:
- objects / photo_objects / variant_jobs tables (migration 000008)
- drop storage_key/thumb_key/preview_key/size/width/height/mime_type from
photos (migration 000009); they are derived via joins to the original object
- album-free storage keys: objects/{id}/{role}.{ext}
- explicit GC via pending/ready/deleting states; objects deleted only when no
photo references them
- background worker drives variant generation (durable variant_jobs) and GC
- copy/move are metadata-only; storage objects are shared between photos
- remove unused storage.DeletePrefix
Non-destructive to the external JSON API: size/dimensions/mime and URLs are
still returned, just sourced from the object layer.
OpenSpec change: media-object-layer
Backend:
- expose cover thumbnail URL on album responses (LEFT JOIN + presign)
- auto-assign cover only when empty; FK cover_photo_id -> photos ON DELETE SET NULL
- add photos_count / members_count to album responses; cover repo test
Frontend:
- split layouts into (app) shell (resizable rail + contextual panel) and (public)
- album rail + create-album dialog; album panel with cover picker / make-cover
- photo viewer route with filmstrip, replacing lightbox; share reuses it
- grid density slider, toolbar + drag-and-drop upload, dark graphite default
OpenSpec: add lightroom-workspace-ui change (proposal, design, specs, tasks)
Backend (Go/Gin/pgx): env config, pgx pool with retries, Garage S3 client
(path-style, region garage), embedded golang-migrate migrations, JWT auth with
refresh rotation, albums CRUD, members/roles/invites with no-escalation matrix,
photo upload + async imaging/goexif WebP variants, cursor pagination, presigned
URLs, likes/comments, SSE hub (album + personal), notifications, share links.
Frontend (SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 + Tailwind v4): API wrapper with 401 refresh,
auth store, all screens, Uploader/PhotoGrid/Lightbox/Comments, SSE client with
reconnect + REST catch-up, three themes + system via data-theme.
Deploy without Docker: Makefile builds the frontend into backend/static and
embeds it (go:embed) into a single statically linked binary; systemd unit and
nginx SSE example included.
Use gen2brain/webp (-tags nodynamic) instead of cgo kolesa-team/go-webp to keep
CGO_ENABLED=0 static builds; design.md/proposal.md updated accordingly.
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