I went to the office with our mural artist and discussed getting a couple of wall murals done.
I've got some sketches if anyone wants to see.
Gentlecat
do we have electricity yet?
ruaok
tuesday was a mish-mash email, kind of day.
wednesday was travel to london.
thursday I had a pile of meetings. one with rassami one of our directors. she does PR and marketing and has agreed to help us tune our messages for our projects and for metabrainz.
and we think that when we push LB into beta we will have this polish done and do a press release.
reosarevok
Gentlecat: should I take you off AB and/or LB too?
Freso
Nice.
ruaok
there was an article in vice recently that talked all about music metadata. mentioned everyone, but us.
so, we have a perception issue that needs fixing and over the next few months we'll work on fixing that.
Freso
đ
zas
+1
Gentlecat
reosarevok: yeah, I usually just go and see what's new when I'm working on them
reosarevok
Ok
ruaok
in the evening I met with a person from Berklee college of music about an initiative to improve music licensensing in the industry.
Gentlecat
but it would still be nice to get separate notifications for things I watch
ruaok
via open standards and open source.
it was a good conversation, but I remain skeptical about kumbaya solutions.
friday was more meetings and I could've had even more time. lots going on.
I'm going back to london in 3 weeks time for a conference. sigh.
regarding the office: we have an electrician coming tomorrow morning to sort that. not sure what needs to happen, but we only need to concern ourselves with opening the door.
in the middle of the night!!!
8:30am!!
reosarevok
Gentlecat: done too, let me know if there's more
Freso
ruaok: Not like he'll be there before 10 anyway. :p
reosarevok
ruaok: that's surprisingly early for Spain, must be an immigrant electrician :p
ruaok
in theory the internet installer dude will be there shortly after the electrician. if he can do anything without power, that will be a miracle.
zas
10 is still early morning ;)
ruaok
reosarevok: yep. ;)
he even reiterated that I will need to be punctual.
chrisskye: responded with: he's german. :)
so, through a miracle we might have power and internet tomorrow.
a nice solid router is arriving tomorrow too.
Freso
Amazing.
Gentlecat
furniture?
ruaok
so, I expect power and internet some time next week. :-D
Freso
Gentlecat: What?
ruaok
Gentlecat: next you're going to want water too, right? sheesh!
chrisskye: go!
ruaok can tell that Gentlecat is ready to move in
Gentlecat
whatever
ruaok wonders if chrisskye returned from making food.
ruaok
reosarevok: go in the meantime
chrisskye
sorry...was getting food...
Freso
Mm. Food.
reosarevok
I had a school-mostly week.
Was doing support as needed, including helping some Korean students with schoolwork :D
Found out the IA is blocked in Russia apparently which is pretty annoying for our cover art, but not much we can do there I guess
ruaok
CDN?
reosarevok
Speaking of the IA, also got in touch with them re: making bigger thumbnails. There's a ticket in their tracker for it now, no idea when it'll get done
But at least it's on their side now
And even though the PRs are from last week really, I'm happy to see that I got the biggest part of this week's release! (at least in ticket numbers, if probably not in lines of code :p)
But that's about it. chrisskye: if you're not too busy with the food, go
chrisskye
Iâm here.
My main activity of last week was the time spent at Hacienda (Revenue/Tax office).
We have a business ID number (provisional).
So...I was able to start the process of getting our internet connected.
Still waiting for the bank approval of an account, but one step closer.
Other than the usual correspondence... I had a phone call with Omnifone.
They claim to have the âcapability to ingestâ our metadata...but not to actually use the data.
Regardless...they were planting some sort of idea related to AcousticBrainz and sharing something audio...
So...we will keep up the conversation.
They were part-way to agreeing to support...or at least get their clients to... ya know, if/when they ever were to use that data...
Freso
(Btw, chirlu, alastairp, zas, LordSputnik, Leftmost, rahulr, kartikgupta0909 are still on my list. Let me know if anyone wants on/off.)
chrisskye
fin for me
Freso
chrisskye: Pick one from that list :)
chrisskye
how about in order...
chirlu?
Freso
(Not like there's any order in the list. :p)
chirlu
Nothing showable, but I may actually open one or two PRs soon.
chrisskye
(âas typedâ)
Freso
:)
chirlu
Also did some ticket triage etc.
fin. zas?
zas
well, i was fighting a flu
Freso
Did you win?
zas
so spent most of my time in bed ... but i feel better now
ruaok
apparently so far.
\ø/
zas
apart that, usual maintenance
then the havoc saturday after corosync upgrade
ruaok
havoc. good word. :)
zas
i postponed the letsencrypt + chef thing as much i could, ... at a point i didnt do much ... i'll resume on this tomorrow (<---=
I did few tasks on Picard + userscripts side though (finally wrote the CD Baby importer)
alastairp
i'm here
zas
and i tried to understand which bots are running or not ... we'll discuss that later in the meeting
that's all, alastairp your turn ;)
alastairp
oh, that's quick
a week or so ago we submtted a paper using acousticbrainz to one of the main academic conferences which our group participates in
will have news in a few months if it's been accepted or not
today I got back to AB code review and merged a bunch of stuff that Gentlecat had done
Freso
"in a few months"... gotta love the quick turn-around in academia. :)
alastairp
I'm also starting to formalise some development processes and get them written down so that we can use them for SoC
mostly about how much planning we do for tickets, where we talk, what is needed for a merge (tests, style, etc)
it's not that bad. I have 4 papers to review before the end of the month
then acceptance messages go out a few weeks after that
that's about it.
chirlu: ?
oh, wait. not quite.
(sorry)
Freso
chirlu already went :)
alastairp
oh, I see
Freso
LordSputnik, Leftmost, rahulr, kartikgupta0909 are left on my list.
I'm having a real hard time deciding how to expose attributes in pymb
and would appreciate any feedback on that PR
fin
Leftmost: if he's here
ruaok
you really don't want my feedback. I suck at that
alastairp
fine. any python people except ruaok
diana_olhovyk joined the channel
Freso
LordSputnik, Leftmost, rahulr, kartikgupta0909: Any of you around?
rahulr
yeah.
Freso
rahulr: Go :)
mihaitish has quit
(Sorry alastairp :))
rahulr
ok. Mostly worked on PICARD-258. Hope to finish it up by tomorrow.
had a bit hard time around PyQt.
kepstin
wow, the xml for those attributes are a mess :/
rahulr
Oh, and reported and closed PICARD-806.
that's all. finished. :)
Freso
Good job on that :)
alastairp
kepstin: :)
Freso
kartikgupta0909, LordSputnik, any one else?
LordSputnik is working on getting a new BB release done within 4 hours, so no review from me for now
alastairp
shall we postpone the meeting 4 hours for you?
Freso
kartikgupta0909: ?
LordSputnik
alastairp: thanks
Freso
Okay, let's move on!
zas: Bots!
zas
I did a fast search to see which bots are doing what, with the help of chirlu
and it appears to me ... we need to clarify things, especially since some of the bots are quite useful.
chirlu
Essentially, only 1½ are active at the moment.
zas
Yes, so we need to list which bot should run, and perhaps ensure they do
ruaok
we dont have control over all of them, do we?
chirlu
Over none, essentially.
zas
that's the main issue imho
ruaok
lol
should we declare imminent domain over them and run them ourselves?
zas
i think it would be wise for the most important ones
Freso
I don't see it as an issue, TBH. If we want an official bot, then we should set that up, but I think it's a strength rather than a weakness that we have community members that write, maintain, and run bots.
("it" = that we don't have control over the bots)
ruaok
I see both zas and Freso's statements as true.
the important ones might be good for us to run
zas
Yes it is a strength, until a random important bot stops to run
Freso
Sure. But if something's important, someone else (incl. us!) can run it too, as long as the source is provided. :)