my grooming last week....I learned a lot about MBIDs and the 7 other numeric identifiers used for music. It is quite fascinating, and intricate--and I also reviewed the Tower of Babble.
I wrote and continued some correspondence with supporters and potential supporters and we have a few more in the wings.
I also had a meeting with ruaok, we reviewed accounting issues, discussed MBIDs, messaging and some follow ups. It was a very productive 2 hour meeting, I was pleased-I hope ruaok was too....
ruaok
yep, so pleased, I forgot all the details.
Quesito
I worked on rewording and coming up with verbiage options for the UX portion of the User Survey.
lol...good thing I take notes ruaok ;)
ruaok
notes fine. gantt charts, less so.
Quesito
I worked with Gentlecat on the payments view of the MeB admin web.
I'll gantt up a review of the meeting just for you :)
ZaphodBeeblebrox
ruaok just gantt get away from those charts...
ruaok is *truly* sorry now, but I just gannt stop!!
Quesito
I also spent time to put the social media banner up for a vote on the forums, and got a lot of responses and critiques--which is great! I think as we are a week past the beginning of the vote, we should continue with this vote and proceed with quarterly social media banner contests in the future to ensure the voice of the MeB community is being heard--this
is only my latest suggestion, so we see.....
fin!
Gentlecat: go!
ZaphodBeeblebrox still thinks the original bannner10 shoulda been includeed...
Gentlecat
ok!
this week has been quite productive
Quesito thinks we should keep discussing ZaphodBeeblebrox!
I finished implementing EUR payment stuff on the metabrainz website
ZaphodBeeblebrox
!m Gentlecat
BrainzBot
You're doing good work, Gentlecat!
Quesito
🙌🏻
Gentlecat
paypal is still painful to work with, their own testing stuff is broken
but it should be working now
I also reviewed another set of changes for CB
made some updates to brainzutils package
will probably get back to working on the search indexer next
fin
ZaphodBeeblebrox?
ZaphodBeeblebrox
:D
still not much from me, I've been ill this week, and I had a (just talking) dentist appointment on friday, I'm hoping to finish up ngonis and show off a good few instruments this week :D
who is next...
Freso
Sophist_UK is next and last. :)
ZaphodBeeblebrox
Sophist_UK?
Freso
(Unless alastairp or LordSputnik or someone else chimes up.)
ZaphodBeeblebrox
Sophist_UK it is then!
Sophist_UK
Working on the paper we discussed last week. A couple of Picard PRs. A Picard-Website PR. And my first MBS PR.
Freso
:o
ZaphodBeeblebrox
\o/
Sophist_UK
A tiny one - to fix a minor CSS issue. So not sure it really counts.
Freso
Sure it counts.
Sophist_UK
The paper is mostly done - just tidying it up.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
every bit helps
LordSputnik is not at home
LordSputnik
But somebody please merge my trivial PR on lobes ;)
Sophist_UK
alastairp: go?
ruaok
LordSputnik: link?
Freso
Sophist_UK: I don't think he's around.
Sophist_UK
Ah.
LordSputnik
ruaok: it's in the MetaBrainz github. Will post one to you when I'm about!
Sophist_UK
Anyone else?
Freso
Nobody else has said they wanted to go that haven't been given a go.
And nothing is on the agenda.
So let's call it a night and enjoy what's left of May 1st.
just what are you getting your feeet wet for i mean
is this a community selected banner or not
Quesito
typically in this scenario I would be referencing a brand guidelines book, that has been carefully laid out by the entity/business. But we don't have one. So i tried to pull guidelines from the graphics, looks and images that we do have.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
because if it isn't ,and it's your coice, fine that's ok, but if it is, thne well
the community psot should be redone if it's the "community that's coocing it"
choosing*
Quesito: sorry I don't speak brand-eze
Quesito
how do you suggest I proceed when several community members have already voted and a week has past?
we can make more than one banner.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
i dislike fancy-smanchy brand-kitch "professionalism"
i think we should be more "down to earth" :)
Quesito
we have needs for more thna one banner.
i think we should be down to earth to.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
I mean: as an initial placement beore we actually get any real banners, then whatever is fine
for the actual selection/contest/whatever, a more open vote must be selected, including promoting said vote in irc, the blog, twitter etc
Quesito
if we do a contest--I suggest we start in June --give a month for the process and have a winner chosen and up by July 1st.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
as it stands, my, (and I believe freso as well heh) voe would be for banner10, since it's not in the voting que, i abstain
samj1912 also likes #10
well that's (technically) 2 votes for 10
3*
Freso
ZaphodBeeblebrox: My vote is already on that one. :)
ZaphodBeeblebrox
banner10? hah
Freso
(Last I checked I was the only one though. ;_;)
Quesito
Freso is the only one that voted for the concept. :)
ZaphodBeeblebrox
I to be voting for banner10 and so was same jsut now?
samj1912
it was added to the poll?
ZaphodBeeblebrox
I am confused really
Quesito: that issimply untrue, I've been saying that banner10 for a while now, but since it's not in the vote I can't "legally" ? vote for it
Quesito
the concept of banner 10 is in the poll--it is banner 5 in the poll. It has a white background. It too can be changed. nothing about this has permanence.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
you mean it isn't *permanent*
well ok yea sure
but uh. how am I supposed to know that *that* was the intent behind banner5? how was anyone
Quesito
all of it is graphics. nothing in the world of socail media banner needs to be permanent.
ZaphodBeeblebrox
no need to get lyrical. but the problem I think is what people associate with banner10 isn't strongly enough comming through on banner5
samj1912
ouch, that white BG kills it
too much whitespace
ZaphodBeeblebrox very agrees with samj1912
samj1912 is off to sleep
ZaphodBeeblebrox
but if banner5 is a stealth vote for banner10, thne i will vote for it
SothoTalKer
samj1912: those 1080 are really all just bugs? :D
samj1912
and tasks and improvements :P
tickets well
anywho
nn people
SothoTalKer
night :)
Quesito
it's clear we need a new--nicely photogrpahed banner 10 and I promised in my forum response to you that I would work on this ZaphodBeeblebrox. But at this moment this is what we have....
ZaphodBeeblebrox
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it's your decision after all, not mine :)
Quesito
we have 20 votes so far in total. Do polls on MeB usually get higher numbers?
ZaphodBeeblebrox
I don't know. i hoenstly don't put much weight to this spesific poll
I was literally unaware (and I do believe others were too, see sam's reaction)
people arel literal minded, even if you say it's "not permanent and can be changed" people will just vote for the actually graphic they liek better