Re: [GMG-Devel] MediaGoblin 0.8.0 "A Gallery of Fine Creatures" is finally out!

[Christopher Allan Webber]

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> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015, at 09:37 AM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Hey all!  It took a long time but I'm thrilled to announce that
>> MediaGoblin 0.8.0 is finally out! 
>> 
>>   
>> http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.8.0-gallery-of-fine-creatures.html
>> 
>> Lots of exciting things in this release, including expanded and improved
>> usage of the Pump API, which means more clients like Pumpa and Dianara
>> are usable with MediaGoblin! PLUS preliminary Python 3 support, improved
>> video thumbnailing, an upgrade to GStreamer 1.0, and more!
>> 
>> This one took a long time coming, longer than usual!  But it's
>> definitely worth it!
>> 
>> Thanks to all you goblins who made this happen!  Now go get it while
>> it's hot! :)
>
> So, um, is there a tarball of the release that can be downloaded?
>
> It seems kinda weird to not put a (more?) prominent download link on
> a page announcing a new release.

There is one, but I don't recommend using it.  By 0.9.0, I hope to fix
this.

Basically, the history is that we've been following the web 2.0 (??)
deployment anti-patterns where we focus on deploying code from the same
place we hack, our git repository.  I know, I know, this is bad for all
the reasons you're thinking.  You're right.  But it's also non-trivial
to make easier.  There's a big rift between "language / web application
style deployment" and "distro style deployment".  We've taken some steps
towards resolving this, but for historicial reasons, it's hard to get
there.

That said, if you want a source tarball for historical reasons that's
probably useless for deployment ones, here you go:

  http://mediagoblin.org/download/mediagoblin-0.8.0.tar.gz

Towards a better deployment future,
 - cwebb