The current configuration for the storage looks like this:

[mediagoblin]
publicstore_class = StorageBackend
publicstore_base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/public
publicstore_base_url = /mgoblin_media/
publicstore_password = secret

Instead I suggest an alternative configuration scheme:

[storage:publicstore]
class = StorageBackend
base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/public
base_url = /mgoblin_media/
password = secret

I implemented this on my dev/storage_config branch.

There is also an other config option with configobj, sub sub sections:

[storage]
  [ [ publicstore ] ]
  base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/public
  base_url = /mgoblin_media/

  [ [ queuestore ] ]
  base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/queue

I don't know, if this one is "better". I would prefer the first one.

Currently we have status being one of "active" or 'needs_email_verification'... we could simplify things by just having email_verified (which we already have) and "active" be a boolean.

The role of active will then switch to whether or not the user is enabled. You might set active to False if a user was abusing their account, for instance.

The migration on this should be pretty easy... just remove needs_email_verification and make all existing users active, since currently we don't have any inactive state.

This is a bitesized task.