In mediagoblin/auth/views.py:340 the string says: "You are no longer an active user. Please contact the system admin to reactivate your accoutn."

Typo in account (accoutn insteand of account).

There seems to be a missing step:

Do this to upgrade

1. Make sure to run ./bin/python setup.py develop --upgrade && ./bin/gmg dbupdate after upgrading.

You have to search back to 0.3.2 to find actual (but poorly formatted) instructions. This is a pain for someone upgrading for the first time, especially not knowing what they're doing. I forget everything between releases, so it is the first time everytime.

There's something in ​the docs that doesn't make much sense for me:

"No password will be assigned to this account, and you will not be able to log in as this user. To switch to this account, enter either:"

and then sudoes to mediagoblin user. Also, it says:

"Unless otherwise noted, the remainder of this document assumes that all operations are performed using this unpriviledged account."

In my opinion, user mediagoblin should get shell permissions and when finished remove them. Otherwise, do everything as another user and at the end chown it all, but it may break something.