#bookbrainz

Mr_Monkey:sure lets do this then ! ( setting up our mailer agent ) !

Mr_Monkey : we should place this mailer inside of src/server/helpers? or i was best wondering to make a new folder like src/server/services and them make mailer.js inside of it

what do you think

divyanshu: server/helpers seems like the right place. We already have other similar tools in there.

Hi guys, i was adding my first book in BB and had a rough time categorizing a self-help book, the current categories supported by BB are somewhat lacking and i feel like supporting the BISAC categorization would make categorization much easier! =D

BISAC, which stands for Book Industry Standards And Communications, is a globally accepted system for categorizing books. Maintained by the Book Industry Study Group (https://bisg.org/), BISAC codes provide writers a uniform method for categorization.

what do you guys thing?

Definitely agree that we have a lot of missing Work types (there's BB-403 and BB-404 open for that), but not sure about Bisac, which is more aimed at consumer-facing uses. I'd rather see the community come up with the types needed; having a whole separate type for "gardening", for example, seems perhaps not adapted.

BB-403: Works: Type of non-fiction should have more sub-options https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-403

BB-404: Works: Type of fiction should Also have more sub-options https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-404

yes indeed

this has been on the backburner for me (but whnever i adda work i also face this issue)

perhaps I will take up his work again at easter? 🤔

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bouhormq: a good idea would to write down the "types" you come across that we seem to not have, i deeply feel that we should let reality dictate the types we need

(but also to be broad. so maybe not "self-help book" but try to figure out *what kind* of type is "self-help" books?)

for eample, diet or excersise and meditation ones seem to also be th same kind of*thing*

maybe even broader? "non-fiction" seems *too* broad

Sure =D CatQuest ill be adding a couple of books to BB this week and ill be sure to write some categories we could add, how many categories would you guys suggest that are somewhat reasonable? I feel like having 50+ could be a bit overwhelming, i was thinking maybe around 20-30 would do the job but i would love to hear your thoughts about it 😄

Mr_Monkey: what are the configs of our SMTP server ?

Which one we gonna use ?

hi everyone I am Bharat and I am a engineering student from USICT Delhi.

I am looking forward to work on idea 1 for gsoc please someone guide me toward a starting poitn

divyanshu: The setup in production is a bit complicated, but you don't need to know about that exactly. The configuration should be added to the file `config/config.json` (and config.example.json) that way the configuration is flexible.

Something like this perhaps, unless you have other things to add to it :

Okay let's keep it that way !

And in production we have some dynamic system that will write the appropriate values to the config when we deploy.

divyanshu: and I haven't mentioned —but you might have guessed— that we'll be using an SMTP server

We're in a closed systme in production, se I don't think we'll need any authentication, but I'll check.

(By closed system I mean the SMTP server is only exposed to the docker network)

Saying all that because this is what an example of the nodemailer config:

Yes I am considering SMTP only ! Cheers