Hi there,
First of all many many thanks for the excellent work. Mediadrop is really a great product.
I don't understand all the complains in the Forum about the documentation. It's actually very well written and gives a lot of background info. That's a lot better than a long list of commands that you simply copy and paste without any clue what you are actually doing. If someone has good Linux skills and reads the doc carefully then it is no problem to get a Mediadrop installation working within less than 30 minutes, including Apache/mod_wsgi configuration. So again, many thanks for the good work Felix and whoever else has worked on this app.
The only challenging part for me was to get the mediadrop-handbrake-bot fork for automatically video encoding working. But that is related to the fact that handbrake-cli only works with ffmpeg 0.6 on CentOS and that the scripts need some adjustments.
Anyway, the actual reason why I write this post is the blog entry from 2013 regarding desired features in v0.11:
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Improved Access Restrictions
Publish a plugin to configure per-media access restrictions so we don't have "view all media or none" but also "group can view video X, video Y, ...".
Depending on user interest I could also write a plugin so that a group can view all videos within a certain category.
Restrict voting to registered users (or users from a specific group) and also prevent double voting on a single media.
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Is there any chance that this will be available soon? Or are there no plans for a new major release at the moment? If not, was anyone able to get this working via a custom "policy" plugin?
Thanks in advance for your help. Have an excellent day.
Cheers,
Marcus