As you know there are other open distributed networks, that share the same problem of federation, as goblin. There is for example the ​Diaspora community, that creates a distributed social network, where some users provide some servers (so ​called pods). As federation is even here very complex, they are working currently to isolate the code of the protocol into a seperate layer.

Instead of every community spends a lot of resources on developing/testing/tuning/mainting a own inter-server protocoll for federation, I suggest to join a working group that addresses that problem and maybe raises some money so they can put attention on the development for a longer time. Maybe it results in a standard protocol as Jabber is for IM.

The D* community seeks for such kind of contacts, so please join in: ​https://www.loomio.org/discussions/6233

It would be nice if we could add a template_hook in the user_pages/media.html template file. This would enable plugins to display content near the "media_title".

At the moment there is an "Edit" and "Delete" button below the media, placed right of the media_title (when logged in). On my MediaGoblin instance I have added a media_titleinfo template_hook. This is used to display a publicly visible micropayment button for each media. Here is a ​screenshot of what and where i mean. There are some other use cases as well: consider somebody would like to add a button besides the standard "Edit" and "Delete" button: "Report this media", "View in Fullscreen" or Social Media sharing buttons for example.

The sidebar gets quite crowded at the moment, because the user_pages/media.html template has only the media_sideinfo template_hook as a possibility to put additional information. IMO the media_title line would be a fitting additional place for certain information as well.

Given fresh install on Trisquel 6.0 by following setup instructions here:

​http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/v0.5.1/siteadmin/deploying.html

When running this command:

(sudo -u mediagoblin virtualenv --system-site-packages .

virtualenv .) && sudo -u mediagoblin ./bin/python setup.py develop

Then this error occurs:

error: Installed distribution kombu 3.0.0 conflicts with requirement kombu>=2.5.15,<3.0

Full error log: ​http://pastie.org/8417541 setup.py: ​http://pastie.org/8417552

It appears that celery is the one with the <3.0 dependency:

./lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery-3.0.24-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/requires.txt:kombu>=2.5.15,<3.0

When I add a <3.0 to the setup.py kombu dependency on a fresh version before running the same command

modified setup.py: ​http://pastie.org/8417570

Then the command succeeds

result: ​http://pastie.org/8417569