To make decorators nicer, MediaGoblin has a tiny tool called _make_safe() in decorators.py.

But what this helper tool does, is actually in the standard library!

It's called functools.update_wrapper (1) There's also a nicer version called functools.wraps (2)

So replace all instances of _make_safe by one of those two.

(1) ​http://docs.python.org/library/functools#functools.updat_wrapper (2) ​http://docs.python.org/library/functools#functools.wraps

The current media processing panel we have is a demo more than anything else, and I'm not really sure it works. But users want something like this: something that's an indicator that their things are processing and to see whether things processed or failed. Administrators also should be able to see detailed errors.

This will be mostly a programming task, but we'll need some careful graphic design too to make this look nice.

Currently they are different for all media types:

• Download section for audio
• "Original" link for video
• Link on image for images