#metabrainz

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

1. 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

(Only anshuman73 left. If anyone else wants to go, now's the last chance to chime up!)

2. 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

!m drsaunde

You're doing good work, drsaunde!

:p

anshuman73: go!

hey

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.

brainzsplaining. :)

!m anshuman73

You're doing good work, anshuman73!

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 :/

more work for me 😆

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.

fin

naiveai: There'll be plenty for you. Don't worry. :)

Alright. No one else has spoken on, so... onwards!

Freso: Google Code-in!

As evident from the reviews, Google Code-in has fully kicked off.

The first day was kind of slow, but then students started flooding into the BookBrainz task, esp. data entry ones.

👯‍♂️

all hail BB !

MB data entry tasks are also rather popular.

Which created some tension since a couple of mentor are/were mentors on both sides and BB+MB data entry tasks were too much to keep up with.

Luckily I managed to convince two senior editors (drsaunde and MajorLurker) to join as mentors as well for the MB tasks, so CatQuest and Leo_Verto can focus more on the BB ones.

(And frees me up to properly administrate the org. instead of spending all the time mentoring as well.)

Freso: o7

although i might have food in my fridge as old as these gci students

I feel like we're in a good place now after the initial student rush and things are going well.

drsaunde: XD

A number of students have also found their way to IRC, though it seems only naiveai is a regular so far. :)

fin!

Freso: been trying to help out some others but :P

actually i think i may have a jarof rownajam that' older than 13 yeras :o

naiveai: Yep. Well done. :)

drsaunde: well, it's good they aren't as old as the GSoC ones XD

naiveai: OTHER-77 !

ok, think it's me next

OTHER-77: Unify all markup syntax to simple markdown syntax https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/OTHER-77

Right, so this shouldn't be too long

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.

yes

naiveai: you got that right :)

ok

that's all for that topic

Oh, okay. That was easy. :)

ok, this one is a bit more involved.

I wanted to contribute some stuff to BrainzBot

🙌

and I know some GCI tasks exist

however I wanted to ask you guys what you think you need for BrainzBot

some things I was thinking of:

better syntax for linking github PRs

gh:LB#310 is too much typing :(

LB-196: Remove duplication of RabbitMQ connection code: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv...

1) something to automate this meeting stuff that Freso is doing right now

let's just say you may not want to start work on that just yet :P

2) a way to store messages for people who aren't online yet

naiveai: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org

2) is already covered by MemoServ

wait really?

Yes.

what is that?

3) a IRC faq for new guys - auto linking

!recall gci

1) +1

1) -1, I like Freso's human touch to an online meeting ;)

4) and finally, linking to PRs

that's my ideas.

1) - yep, Leo_Verto and I have been talking about that before, but it kind of fizzled out. He sent me some pseudo code that should still be somewhere.

Leo_Verto: why shouldn't I do that right now?

4) already exists

4 already exists, although it could have better syntax imo

OTHER-123

OTHER-123: Add meeting management to BrainzBot https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/OTHER-123

also just linking https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-serv... should work too I guess

Is there an issue we can comment on??

For 3), do you mean some kind of message automatically sent to people that the bot hasn't seen before?

Freso: yep

Hm.

hm

naiveai: I'd suggest you work on the BrainzBot tasks first, but feel free to make tickets for all your ideas :D

we get a lot of random people tho

it would go off fairly often

CatQuest: true.

It would need to check nickserv registered status too, or at least hostname in addition to nick.

Freso: shouldn't be too hard

3) https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Communication/IRC#B... is all the doc we have

and i dunno aobut you but, if i start lurking in a chan i get a bit wigged out if a bot suddently talked ot me

IMO, 3) is well done by the topic tho

Anyway, they're all reasonable ideas, so for the ones that don't have tickets already feel free to make some! (In project OTHER using "BrainzBot" category.)

I agree with this being better discussed on tickets.

Freso: iliekcomputers: K. that's it for this issue then.

Alright then!

huh, topic used to have something about feet up :/

anshuman73: That's the join message. :)

and drink a cup of tea

anshuman73: If you /part and /join the channel, you should get it.

Anyway.

Freso: ah

That message could maybe have a link to some IRC welcome page.

Anyway anyway.

Still 18 minutes to go and we've made it through the entire agenda. 🙌

go us!

Thanks for tonight everyone! Keep rockin'!

nice!

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!m everyone

You're doing good work, everyone!

:D

\o/

thanks Freso

i got 'em so its time to smoke 'em

iliekcomputers: please do mark the LB-196 task as completed

LB-196: Code duplication in rabbitmq connection setup https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-196

will appreciate it very much :)

naiveai: Can you send me a link to the task instance in a PM?

Leo_Verto: reason for not making plugins for bot-bot ? Are you still working on the new plug-in making method ?

I'm pretty sure I broke brainzbot by renaming the repos (we're doing a total rebranding now) and there's a GCI task to fix that

Leo_Verto: nice!

so if you feel like working on that naiveai, there's a bunch of tasks waiting for you :P

Leo_Verto: hmm, alright.

sigh.

well, that's life i guess

thanks for the help guys

iliekcomputers: fixed integration tests, was a stupid mistake by me.