I've been reading up and i know it's important to show 'promise' in terms of some past commits and interaction with the community. There is clearly not enough time for that. So I was thinking i would write a really good proposal before the deadline. I could then submit code before you guys have to make a decision. And then hope for the best. Would that work?
A lot of the work i've been doing is private, but i can make it available for review.
2017-04-01 09137, 2017
LordSputnik
So, if you can get a good draft of your proposal to me by this time tomorrow, I'll give you some feedback, then you'll have 24 hours to incorporate it if you want to before the final submission deadline at 16:00 UTC on April 3rd
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justharshal
I have experience with JS (MEAN stack) and Python (Flask + Postgres), etc.
justharshal: OK, good - do you know much about ES6?
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LordSputnik
(async functions, import/export, destructuring and rest/spread syntax?)
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justharshal
Yes, i've been reading up. I was reading a lot of blog posts before and wasn't getting anywhere. So now i'm just using MDN. I've also been reading Kyle Simpson's 'You don't know JS' series word-by-word.
2017-04-01 09136, 2017
LordSputnik
MDN is pretty good, I use that a fair amount
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justharshal
Is the book good? Because it's quite lengthy. There are 6 books in the series. I'm somewhere in the 4th one. What are other good books?
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justharshal
8:10 PM <LordSputnik> (async functions, import/export, destructuring and rest/spread syntax?)
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justharshal
Yup! I learnt the essentials first. And now i'm going into the nitty-gritty.
2017-04-01 09139, 2017
LordSputnik
justharshal: I haven't had much experience learning languages from books I'm afraid - I've tended to go for more general programming topics when reading that sort of book
I'm pretty impressed you've been committing daily for the past month or so! And I agree with you about whitespace in design too. And you clearly know enough about Git to contribute to other projects. I think you have enough knowledge to be successful in this project, but you'd also learn a fair amount too, particularly koa/bookshelf/knex and postgresql (I
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LordSputnik
see you've used MySQL in the past)
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reosarevok
The post is out, at least...
2017-04-01 09145, 2017
justharshal
Do you have other students applying for the same project?
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reosarevok
The page does list 1.4...
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ruaok
should we take the post down?
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reosarevok
I'd say no
2017-04-01 09141, 2017
LordSputnik
justharshal: There haven't been many this year, but you'd be competing against the other proposals for MetaBrainz projects too, since we get allocated slots as a whole
2017-04-01 09151, 2017
reosarevok
Maybe edit something on the top like "we're a bit late! Come back soon!" :p
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ruaok
oh, the post was scheduled. silly.
2017-04-01 09112, 2017
reosarevok
But it's already linked on our FB page etc, so don't take it down
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ruaok just leaves it alone
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justharshal
Oh, thanks. I agree i have a lot to learn but isn't that kind of the purpose of GSOC? I've been trying to follow the principle of 'One shitty commit per day.' I read it somewhere. Stuck with me.
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Gentlecat
ruaok: have you seen another api spotify just added?
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justharshal
And this is probably not related as it's API work, but i've recently also been trying out Angular 2.
2017-04-01 09117, 2017
LordSputnik
justharshal: yes, learning is never a bad thing :)
2017-04-01 09143, 2017
LordSputnik
How is Angular 2? I used v1 a couple of years ago and quite liked it
2017-04-01 09157, 2017
LordSputnik
justharshal: you might also want to have a quick look at https://github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-data-js - it's the data layer you'd end up using to access the database in the Web API (and also has some ES6 work I've been doing recently)
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Freso
zas: Pong!
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samj1912
Someone needs to update the PW image on the server
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samj1912
The changes are already there
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samj1912
And it's with the tag 1.4.1.0
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samj1912
The image should also be built on docker
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samj1912
Idk where zas is :p
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justharshal
LordSputnik: I never tried angular v1. But a few friends told me that v2 is a big change in the way of doing things from v1. I just started with the 'Tour of Heroes' tutorial that they have on the site. I then used angular cli to set up a project. Whenever i faced an issue, i just read the docs or found something on stack overflow.
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Gentlecat was referring to https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-the-users-currently-playing-track/
2017-04-01 09133, 2017
justharshal
LordSputnik: Most devs i talk to have quite a bit of hate for ng-2. They're all react fans. I haven't learnt react yet, and i'm sure it's great but i really like angular 2 too.
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Gentlecat
though, I'm not sure how much more useful that would be compared to another one that gives a number of latest listens
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Gentlecat
considering rate limiting
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LordSputnik
justharshal: yes React is what we use, mainly because we wanted to move away from template-based rendering
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justharshal
Would i need to learn react too? (assuming not) but i was planning to learn it in my free time anyway (which would be summer)
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justharshal
LordSputnik: ^
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LordSputnik
No probably not
2017-04-01 09107, 2017
LordSputnik
It wouldn't be much use in a JSON web API. Although I'd definitely encourage learning it if you were interesting in contributing to our site code too!
LordSputnik: yes, i've been planning to learn anyway. It's become way too common to ignore.
2017-04-01 09100, 2017
justharshal
LordSputnik: OK, so i'll get started on that proposal. Any pointers? Like i said, i don't just wanna apply. I wanna prove to be the right guy.
2017-04-01 09139, 2017
psolanki
Hello, I have uploaded an initial draft of my proposal. I know it's late but any kind of feedback is much appreciated so that I can make recommended changes before the deadline
reosarevok: It is complicated. And typescript is a pain in the beginning. :)
2017-04-01 09145, 2017
reosarevok really didn't like the lack of clarity with errors - it was hard to know *what* broke, when something did :)
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LordSputnik
In this case it would be particularly good to mention any ideas you might have about the three features we mentioned on the ideas page (caching, authentication and rate limiting) if you know enough about them to do that
2017-04-01 09112, 2017
LordSputnik
And make sure you have a clear plan for how you'll break the project down over the weeks of GSoC
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LordSputnik
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with :)
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justharshal
LordSputnik: Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.
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Gentlecat
psolanki: great. reosarevok, bitmap: you might want to look at it ^
2017-04-01 09106, 2017
jasperkirton
Hi there, I’ve been exploring MusicBrainz today - i am considerably interested in proposing an idea for AcousticBrainz for GSoC, a large part of my academic study has been focused on analysing and utilising acoustic data, and i am starting to explore machine learning in depth (i’m also a huge music nerd). I am following the getting started now and will try submit a draft application by the end of the day. Man
huh.... my nap was much longer than expected :( i'll deploy new website
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ruaok
lol
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samj1912: PW deployed
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iliekcomputers
so how is everyone's weekend going? :)
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github
[musicbrainz-server] yvanzo opened pull request #499: MBS-8393: Update schema for entity attributes (schema-change-2017-q2...mbs-8393-attributes-schema) https://git.io/vSlLv
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samj1912
zas 👍
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samj1912
zas: now that 1.4.1 is merged, can we discuss the current plans for 2.0 when you get time? :)
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ruaok
or perhaps get really serous on those analytics? :p
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samj1912
lol :P
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Sophist-UK
Anyone here who can answer an MBS techie question? Does MBS WS2 support pipelining of TCP connections?
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reosarevok
zas: ^?
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agentsim
Sophist-UK: I can't speak to musicbrainz.org, but if you follow the installation instructions in the github repo, you'll be running using plackup, which doesn't seem to do pipelining. I think you need to use nginx or a similar http server.
agentsim: Well, if it's turned on/not turned off, I guess. :) zas would be the one who knows.
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jasperkirton
Sorry, is it too late to submit a draft application? Just saw that we shouldn’t apply in the second week, this is fair enough, although very dissapointing for me. Thanks.
