Seems like it'd be helpful to have a wiki. The wiki needs to have the following properties:

1. editable by contributors without crazy hassle creating groups and permissions
2. can't suck
3. must have decent anti-spam measures that don't make it a hassle

Adding Chris and Tomaz for their thoughts.

It should be possible to do something like:

./bin/gmg wipe_environment mediagoblin.ini

This should then ask the user to confirm (the user should have to type "yes") but should then wipe all:

• sessions
• the database specified in mediagoblin.ini
• the files in the specified public_store and queue_store (assuming they're of BasicFileStore type)

It would be great if we could have something like:

>>> from mediagoblin.util import parse_app_config
>>> parse_app_config(path_to_config_file, app_section='app:mediagoblin')
(app_config, global_config)

where the former is the app config (a dictionary of all values you see in [app:mediagoblin] in mediagoblin.ini) and the latter is the global config (a dictionary of dictionaries for all sections).

This tool kind of already exists in mediagoblin/celery_setup/init.py, you can see a section like:

parser = NicerConfigParser(mgoblin_conf_file)
parser.read(mgoblin_conf_file)
parser._defaults.setdefault(
    'here', os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(mgoblin_conf_file)))
parser._defaults.setdefault(
    '__file__', os.path.abspath(mgoblin_conf_file))

mgoblin_section = dict(parser.items(mgoblin_section))
mgoblin_conf = dict(
    [(section_name, dict(parser.items(section_name)))
     for section_name in parser.sections()])

This should be:

• separated out into an independent utility
• given tests in mediagoblin/tests/test_util.py
• able to take the specific section as the app_section keyword argument (defaults to 'app:mediagoblin')
• bonus feature? If 'app:mediagoblin' is not found maybe we could find the section by iterating through until we find the one that has 'use': 'egg:mediagoblin#app'