This file was troublesome, for some reason. It is pretty big, but I'm not sure that's the problem.

According to the GNU Coding Standards, all GNU projects should have a configure script and a Makefile. I've gone ahead and made such a script based on some new Autoconf macros. The included Makefile.in is largely a wrapper around setup.py. It also includes some extra touches, like installing to a Virtualenv and building the docs. This should all be standards compliant now. As the project grows, I'll be happy to help a bit with modifying the scripts.

Note: these files are part of the (as-of-yet un-announced) new GNU package pyconfigure. Over there I'll be working steadily to make these more powerful than just wrapper scripts. I'll keep you abreast of any interesting developments.

The changes are available here: ​https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin-pyconfigure/commit/52aef5b445710dbe800ebba7f44ca0cc0e06ea54/diffs/ef513974abdd60284b4c32371acbe9ee0eb9c019

schendje came up with this good solution to having version numbers in the footer. It wouldn't be hard to implement. Attaching an image to explain, but basically hovering over "mediagoblin" should show the version number.

This should be easy to implement. The version number is already available in mediagoblin/mediagoblin/version.py ... import that, and insert it in mediagoblin.tools.template:get_jinja_env, where we have stuff like:

    # All templates will know how to ...
    # ... fetch all waiting messages and remove them from the queue
    # ... construct a grid of thumbnails or other media
    # ... have access to the global and app config
    template_env.globals['fetch_messages'] = messages.fetch_messages
    template_env.globals['gridify_list'] = gridify_list
    template_env.globals['gridify_cursor'] = gridify_cursor
    template_env.globals['app_config'] = mg_globals.app_config
    template_env.globals['global_config'] = mg_globals.global_config

This is an easy task, perfect for a new contributor.