#MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-12-04
Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056800/
Agenda
Reviews
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056807/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056819/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056832/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056838/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056849/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056857/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056872/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056894/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056902/
Leo_Verto:
My week was also a whole lot of GCI, wrote a few tasks and mentored a bunch of beginner ones.
Other than that I made a minor PR to meb.org to improve some table styles in the yearly reports.
I also thought about how to make BrainzBot less bad (i.e. not download Node.js and install it inside a python virtualenv that is also the $GOPATH), renamed the repos to use brainzbot in their names and wrote a few tickets for it.
And I heard we’re going to talk about BrainzBot later
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056915/
naiveaiguy:
SO, I don’t think I’ve had a formal introduction.
My real name is Eshan Singh, I’m 13, I’m a GCI student, and I’m super excited to be doing this!
I spent most of the last week warming up.
I did complete a few LB tasks
Including LB-213 and LB-196
Next week I’m looking to start accelerating
Starting some stuff on CB-95
Plus thinking of other ways I can contribute besides GCI
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056949/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056953/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056968/
Leftmost_Cat:
I made a couple small changes to BB search which have seemingly made a huge difference in the usefulness of our results. I also did a tiny bit of code review and I’ve scheduled some time with chhavi to talk UX. I also began looking at dockerizing, but I could definitely use some help from zas or bitmap at some point.
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056973/
drsaunde:
hello everyone, finally i’m available during a meeting time so i thought i’d jump in on the fun
Area’s are good/up to date/nothing to report there
KEXP situation is finally improving… after major pleading proding poking picking persuading and prayer, many of their editors are improving, still 2 potential issues remain
There is still one editor that is problematic, it seems to me they are going to give that person more training and then another shift to see if they can improve
Generally it feels like editing MB is something they are being forced to do instead of want to do, which is IMO the heart of the problems we’ve had with them
… but as i said getting better, don’t think there’s any solution for #2
and i’ve already closed more GCI tasks than last year (but that’s an indictment on me last year more than anything)
almost done my 3rd SXSW…and boy are those a lot of work…each time i say never again…but who am i fooling
oh and i think i invented a new word “Brainzsplaining” kind of like mansplaining but for MB and without the condesending attitude
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4056989/
anshuman73:
It’s super good to be back to the community after quite a while, school made it sort of impossible to manage everything, so I decided to take off for a bit. Considering GCI has been a really nice part of my life, I felt it would be really nice to come back as a mentor and help other students.
Last week was kinda weird, because it ended up being quite inactive for me GCI-wise, two students abandoned a task without any discussion whatsoever
However, that helped, considering I had an academically busy schedule last week, with about 2-3 college applications due and shit load of examinations (which continue next week too)
Still, managed to collab with ferbncode to review a PR on CB (& GCI task) that so far looks approvable \0/ once the student gets back to it.
Google Code‐in
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4057001/
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4057024/
naiveaiguy:
We had a fairly long… “debate” about it already.
Just wanted to see if anyone wants to add anything, clarify, etc.
Just to check I’m on the same page
As I understand it, OTHER-77 is going to be debated for a bit but should not affect current goings-on in the projects as far as code goes.
@CatQuest and @anshuman73 confirmed and @naiveaiguy was satisfied with their answers.
BrainzBot functions
https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4057038/
For 1., it was pointed out that there has been some work/thoughts made on this, which should be gathered in OTHER-123 .
For 2., @Freso mentioned that MemoServ essentially already covers this.
For 3., it was pointed out that this would be harder than just checking for whether a given username wasn’t seen before.
For 4., it was pointed out that we already have this, but some people find the current syntax complicated/non-intuitive.
In the end, @Freso said they were all reasonable ideas and encouraged @naiveaiguy (or others) to make tickets for the ones that did not already have them.