Do you remember when all the best superheroes were part of a team?
Sometimes they had a clubhouse and went out on missions together and
sometimes they actually
formed one mega-super-hero.
(I'm
apparently on some sort of
nostalgia kick this month...) Anyway, that's
basically what we've been doing with MediaGoblin. We want all the parts
that we build to be able to do awesome stuff on their own, and be part of
one huge decentralized web super-force.
In this release we move closer to federation by shifting our oauth
code to be pump.io compatible. Not only that, many of our longstanding
pluginification goals were met. We are working towards a more modular
web and building a very modular codebase to make it happen. (So meta!)
Firstly, authentication has completely moved over to a plugin system.
Thanks go to Rodney Ewing for this awesome work! We're now able to support
multiple authentication systems including the standard login/password
system,
...and OpenID...
...plus Mozilla Persona.
Maybe *your* customized login system will be next? The framework is
flexible and ready for you to build on.
Secondly, all the media types are also now plugins! This means
that new media types will be able to all kinds of things. We could
support blog posts as a media type or a tumblr-like thing (which is in
the works!). Let us know if you want to code up smell-o-vision
support. (Just kidding, no one wants to smell the internet!)
The grammar goblins got their wishes granted in this release. The
rest of us can use this snazzy new comment preview feature to keep
from offending their delicate sensibilities.
Userland gets some nice social improvements too. You'll get
notified when someone comments on your media which means you can
follow up right away if you want to.
We also eliminated some potential pain points for Admins! If you
upload something and it fails mid-processing, it's now possible to
send it back to process again. Admins can also tweak media that's
already been uploaded. Want to convert a video to a new format or
resize all your images? You're going to love the new reprocessing
framework. A web interface for reprocessing is coming next.
We also added support for unicode filenames. Running an international
MediaGoblin instance? You won't have to worry about choking on non-ascii
filenames.
We are so lucky that all the best super-heroes are part of our team
here at MediaGoblin. Check out all the great folks who helped make
this release possible: Alon Levy, Brandon Invergo, Christopher Allan
Webber, Duncan Paterson, Dan Callahan, Deb Nicholson, Emily O'Leary,
Jakob Kramer, Jessica Tallon, Jim Campbell, Joar Wandborg, Kenneth
Dombrowski, Kushal Kumaran, Laura Arjona, Marcel van der Boom, Natalie
Foust-Pilcher, Rodney Ewing, Sam Clegg, Sebastian Spaeth, Starblessed
of Viewskew (hosting help!), sturm, and Tran Thanh Bao. What a list!
Thanks to everyone... we couldn't do it without you.
We especially want to thank our
meta-superheroes
for this summer's amazing output! On the intern/student side, thanks
to Aditi Mittal, Emily O'Leary, Jessica Tallon, Natalie Foust, Praveen
Kumar, and Rodney Ewing (RJ). On the mentoring end, thanks to Aaron
Williamson, Aeva Palecek, Chris Webber, Joar Wandborg, and Sebastian
Spaeth. We could not have done this without
Google Summer
of Code and Gnome's Outreach Program for Women. We promise you a
thorough post-summer report on our energetic mentees very soon.
Okay, excited and want to give things an install? Check
out our
docs! And if upgrading, be sure to read
our release
notes. There's some important stuff for you to do in
there... plus a more complete list of updates for this release!
Meanwhile, our mentoring schedule is about to go from breakneck to
merely brisk. Maybe the
upcoming 30th anniversary of
GNU is inspiring you to find an exciting GNU project to contribute
to? At MediaGoblin,
we love new
contributors! Visit us in
IRC; #mediagoblin
on freenode.net!
Or sign up for
regular updates here! Got ideas or questions about our work?
Email us at press@mediagoblin.org
-- we look forward to hearing from you!