Re: [Audio-video] Instruction to help on Audio and Video projects

[John Sullivan]

"Jason Self" <address@hidden> writes:

> John Sullivan asked:
>> Jason, can you update us on where the MediaGoblin transition
>> stands, and how new people can help move it the rest of the way
>> so that we can flip the switch and have the MediaGoblin site be
>> the new face for audio-video.gnu.org?
>
> The copy of MediaGoblin running on the VM should probably be
> upgraded to the current version as I believe that has the ability
> to add things without reencoding. Then the existing files from the
> current site need to be added without going through MediaGoblin's
> encoding pipeline and to assemble redirects so that the old URLs
> will still work and point people to the one.
>
> There also seems to be lots of files on the current system that
> aren't on the website. It'd also be nice to start going through all
> of those, figuring out what they are, and getting them added too.
>
> Whomever works on any of this will probably need shell access and
> the machine is currently only accessible by SSH from Fencepost,
> unless that's opened up somehow.
>
> The ideal method for copying over all of the existing files would
> probably be to use automgtic [0].
>
> [0] https://github.com/joar/automgtic/

Thanks. Can someone start creating issues for these items that need to
be done in the audio-video tracker?

-john

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