The setup bits in the hacking howto don't work on Fedora 15.

Jef gets this when he runs python bootstrap.py && bin/buildout:

Develop: '/home/jef/mediagoblin/.'
Develop distribution: Paste 1.7.5.1
uses namespace packages but the distribution does not require setuptools.
Uninstalling make_user_dev_dirs.
Updating mediagoblin.
Develop distribution: Paste 1.7.5.1
uses namespace packages but the distribution does not require setuptools.
Installing make_user_dev_dirs.

curious schendje: is that the entire output from buildout? or just a snippet that's everything okay, yes, something's wrong then schendje: I'll look into this... I guess if you like, you can not worry about it and just design into a plain html file and I can incorporate it

What should happen is that running that command downloads all the requirements and builds an environment to run GNU MediaGoblin in.

Making this an issue for 0.0.2.

Seems like it'd be helpful to have a wiki. The wiki needs to have the following properties:

1. editable by contributors without crazy hassle creating groups and permissions
2. can't suck
3. must have decent anti-spam measures that don't make it a hassle

Adding Chris and Tomaz for their thoughts.

It would be great if we could have something like:

>>> from mediagoblin.util import parse_app_config
>>> parse_app_config(path_to_config_file, app_section='app:mediagoblin')
(app_config, global_config)

where the former is the app config (a dictionary of all values you see in [app:mediagoblin] in mediagoblin.ini) and the latter is the global config (a dictionary of dictionaries for all sections).

This tool kind of already exists in mediagoblin/celery_setup/init.py, you can see a section like:

parser = NicerConfigParser(mgoblin_conf_file)
parser.read(mgoblin_conf_file)
parser._defaults.setdefault(
    'here', os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(mgoblin_conf_file)))
parser._defaults.setdefault(
    '__file__', os.path.abspath(mgoblin_conf_file))

mgoblin_section = dict(parser.items(mgoblin_section))
mgoblin_conf = dict(
    [(section_name, dict(parser.items(section_name)))
     for section_name in parser.sections()])

This should be:

• separated out into an independent utility
• given tests in mediagoblin/tests/test_util.py
• able to take the specific section as the app_section keyword argument (defaults to 'app:mediagoblin')
• bonus feature? If 'app:mediagoblin' is not found maybe we could find the section by iterating through until we find the one that has 'use': 'egg:mediagoblin#app'