Hi, On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:15:40PM -0400, John Sullivan wrote: > There is a version up and running already, and the work was done mainly > by volunteers Jason Self and James Turner (in a virtual machine operated > by [email protected]). To be honest, I'm not sure what the current > hold-up is. It would be good to discuss it in #gnu-webmasters on > Freenode -- jxself and jturner are both generally there. Jason can be > reached at [email protected] also. > > So, we launched the instance at media.libreplanet.org by publishing a > batch of videos from LP2013: > <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/first-batch-of-videos-from-libreplanet-2013-published>. > > > I would love to use the GHM videos as an opportunity to launch the new > audio-video.gnu.org in a similar fashion.
The current state is: an empty GNU MediaGoblin instance is installed on a new VM for the next audio-video.gnu.org. The remaining work is to migrate old videos to the new website. Now, I also took time to install a GMG instance locally. My immediate feeling is : GMG is still in early development, and will require patches/contributions to make it work. Pros: - Works for basic uses : http://media.libreplanet.org/ - Videos can be grouped by tag and/or single-level categories. - Very nice project goals and philosophy. - Nice support on IRC. Cons: - No actual releases, so you need to use git HEAD. - Too broad error messages/handling, requires time to investigate issues. - Currently requires actual contribution to the development to get something ready. ( For instance, uploading a .ogv video triggered 2 bugs, one fixed right away via IRC, the other not (but reported nonetheless). Transcoding is performed by default and inefficient (2-3x size for smaller resolution). Documentation was missing on how to disable it, I reported another bug with a patch, and wrote additional documentation on the wiki after trial-and-error and code reading. I also expect that transcoding will be disabled differently in the future. ) - No search, subtitling, or 'related videos panel' support, though it's planned. So as I said, it works, but we can't expect to migrate all audio-video.gnu.org without some amount of contribution. But I don't have time for this level of contribution at the moment :/ -- Sylvain
