Heya! So, it's hard to know precisely re: 1.0, but I'm anticipating approximately towards the end of the year. Federation is the big thing we're still waiting on until we consider ourselves 1.0-worthy. Probably we could have tagged ourselves 1.0 a while ago and considered federation 2.0, but federation is at the root of a lot of our goals, so...
Anyway, once all our summer projects wrap up, I think we'll have reached 1.0-worthiness, however there's a lot of code being developed right now, and I can't promise how long it'll take for it to hit the "quality approval for merge" state.
Read the documentation for details on that, but you can already enable a light "airy" theme if you prefer.
PS: If you're a python developer and interested in federation, you may be interested in checking out our super-awesome-contributor Jessica Tallon's "PyPump" library, which integrates with the Pump API: https://github.com/xray7224/PyPump
I know she wants more users and feedback! Pump API integration is on the way, but in the meanwhile, there's a project that's already using it if you want to try out the API: http://pump.io/
Thanks for the excellent questions! Hope that rambly response was helpful :)
What is the status of the "federation" feature? I see there's two ideas of it on the Wiki.
Will it support easy mirroring of media? Will the site be also metaservers (servers that provide the addresses of other servers), or proxy servers (they serve the content of other servers they know of)? What about the bandwidth issues (often bandwidth is asymmetric between upstream/downstream)? Maybe some form of load balancing by redirection to another server. But one would need URI scheme across all the sites... Oh my.
Federation, as said earlier on here, is in-progress; Jessica Tallon has been laying down some foundations in a library we'll used called PyPump. She's updated our OAuth code to match what the Pump API expects and is starting on endpoints now. I don't have a clear ETA on when "federation will be ready" but things are moving along well. The stuff on the wiki is totally outdated, ignore it :)
Additionally, you can already host media files with an OpenStack Swift cloud files provider like Rackspace Cloud if you prefer.
I don't know anything about windows or macs personally, though people have gotten mediagoblin working just fine on macs... windows is harder. :) I don't have any clue when that packaging might happen though... if it happens, it'll be by someone else I guess; I just don't know anything about it.
Anyway, once all our summer projects wrap up, I think we'll have reached 1.0-worthiness, however there's a lot of code being developed right now, and I can't promise how long it'll take for it to hit the "quality approval for merge" state.
We've had theming for a while, since 0.3.1! http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.3.1-a-whole-new-lo...
Read the documentation for details on that, but you can already enable a light "airy" theme if you prefer.
PS: If you're a python developer and interested in federation, you may be interested in checking out our super-awesome-contributor Jessica Tallon's "PyPump" library, which integrates with the Pump API: https://github.com/xray7224/PyPump
I know she wants more users and feedback! Pump API integration is on the way, but in the meanwhile, there's a project that's already using it if you want to try out the API: http://pump.io/
Thanks for the excellent questions! Hope that rambly response was helpful :)