If you run ./bin/gmg wipealldata, but don't have mongodb installed or running, then it kicks up errors.

Given that we're done with mongodb, this should handle the cases when mongodb isn't installed or running.

130 (M=d2eab local) saturn ~/projects/mediagoblin> ./bin/gmg wipealldata
*** WARNING! ***

Running this will destroy your mediagoblin database,
remove all your media files in user_dev/, etc.

ALSO: This command is currently a hack and will only remove
  things properly on the default setup!  If you've customized
  your mediagoblin configs, it won't work (for now).
Are you **SURE** you want to destroy your environment?  (if so, type "yes")> yes
nixing data in mongodb....
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bin/gmg", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('mediagoblin==0.3.0.dev', 'console_scripts', 'gmg')()
  File "/home/willkg/projects/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/__init__.py", line 100, in main_cli
    args.func(args)
  File "/home/willkg/projects/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/wipealldata.py", line 50, in wipe
    conn = pymongo.Connection()
  File "/home/willkg/projects/mediagoblin/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymongo-2.1.1-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pymongo/connection.py", line 381, in __init__
    self.__find_node()
  File "/home/willkg/projects/mediagoblin/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymongo-2.1.1-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/pymongo/connection.py", line 659, in __find_node
    raise AutoReconnect(', '.join(errors))
pymongo.errors.AutoReconnect: could not connect to localhost:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused

Seems like this should be a blocker, too, since it's referred to in the Hacking HOWTO, but ... I'm going to just make it Critical.

We talked about this in the June 2nd, 2012 meeting. The gist of it is this:

I'm concerned that people who find GNU MediaGoblin via ​http://docs.mediagoblin.org/ never find out that:

1. it's a Free Software project
2. that they can contribute to
3. and that we'd like them to join

There's some material that's at the bottom of About GNU MediaGoblin, but it's not obvious that it's there from the TOC.

We have no metrics for any of this, so we're going on hunches, but generally, the things you want people to know should be right there on the front page.

I was thinking we could add a Contributor's Guide which covered some of the things in the wiki which I would update before every release.

Chris was thinking that's too much work and we probably don't get enough out of it and maybe it's sufficient to add some text and links to the index page.

As I'm writing this ticket, I think it might be good to put in something in the footer on every page, too.

This issue is for figuring out what's sufficient and doing it.

This is a test ticket.