Hey everyone,
We've made some big changes this week to what was previously opensource.mediacore.com. The biggest single change is that the open source version of MediaCore is now codenamed "MediaCore Community Edition" or "MediaCore CE" - for short. We've completely rebuilt the website and the documentation to reflect this change.
The main reason behind this new direction is that we were finding that many people were confused between which version of MediaCore they were running. As many of you may know in August we launched a hosted version of MediaCore that is completely cloud based, and many of our customers on both the open source and cloud side frequently were confused on the differences between the two platforms. We've addressed the differences in particular on the compare page here:
http://mediacorecommunity.org/#comparison
The second reason for the change is that we want the community to get more involved in MediaCore CE development. In the past we've been the gatekeepers on releasing the code, storing things up into a release, and pushing the release out. We're looking to make things much more fluid and to that end we've made both Felix Schwarz and Domar Komen administrators of the github account for the MediaCore CE community. Other active developers will be given push/pull access to our GitHub account if they wish to become a maintainer or core developer.
We will continue to make bug fixes and minor improvements to the community edition from time to time, but as the codebase between MediaCore and MediaCore CE has become massively different, we are no longer able to port improvements made in MediaCore to MediaCore CE. Most of this has to do with our architecture for MediaCore being tied exclusively to the Amazon stack. We're really hoping that there will be a group of developers within the MediaCore CE community that will continue the development on MediaCore CE and make it even better over time.
Some housekeeping items:
1. We've renamed our github account from github.com/mediacore/mediacore to github.com/mediacore/mediacore-community. This change is to make it clearer that the Community version of MediaCore is separate from the cloud hosted version.
2. Everyone will need to run this command to update your git repo:
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:mediacore/mediacore-community.git
0.9.1 release notes
Mostly this was a minor bugfix release and includes:
- Fix to reduce the possibility of deadlocks when incrementing media view counts. This should result in fewer server crashes for sites under high load.
- Simplify Media.increment_views() to not mask lock wait timeout errors
- Add troubleshooting note about Fedora installation issue
- Add encoding installation instructions to Plugin docs
- Updated MediaCore CE logo inside the application
Let us know if you catch any errors on the new site or if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Jeremy
