last week I was attending (virtually) the annual ISMIR conference, dealing with all sorts of stuff musicy and researchy
Freso
(Others still up: Mr_Monkey, yvanzo, bitmap, reosarevok, zas, Freso, CatQuest, shivam-kapila, _lucifer, jmp_music – anyone else, let me know ASAP. :))
Mr_Monkey
Freso: See above, jpm_music will not be partaking
Freso
Oh, right.
alastairp
as a result I didn't do any major MeB tasks, though I found that this year there was a really strong number of submissions around recommendations and playlisting, including a number of really interesting ones that included user studies, describing what kind of recommendations people like getting
and that sent me down a rabbit hole in terms of other recent research in the last few years around the same topic. I'm in the process of collating it in a document to share with everyone
also some really interesting research on the accuracy of the data in acousticbrainz, which is really good data to have, hopefully we can use it to improve our data
I also upgrade Discourse (forums), and Grafana (that went smoother I though it would with few breaking changes)
upgraded*
plus usual stuff, supervision, system upgrades, minor fixes, user support, tons of MB edits
that's it for me. shivam-kapila ?
shivam-kapila
Hi
Thanks zas
Last week I worked on some minor feed page prs
Apart from that I moved along some dashboard work
The week was somewhat hectic so couldnt code much
Thsts is ig
_lucifer: go
Freso
(Only ones left according to my list is myself and _lucifer – last call for anyone else who may want to give review tonight.)
(Well, just me now I guess. :D)
(If _lucifer is here… if now, I guess I’ll just take the floor for the next 15–20 minutes. :p)
_lucifer
hi all
CatQuest
hi!
_lucifer
I worked on fixing a couple of bugs in CB and rebased the PRs for Solr. That's it for me.
yvanzo
anyone next?
Freso
Yes
reosarevok
Thanks for helping with our less-loved projects, _lucifer :)
Freso
Oh, I didn’t see the "That’s it for me."
Freso: go!
🙋♂️
CatQuest
:D
Freso
So, last week, I finally managed to dig in a bit to my work, so that felt good. Still slow-going, but, yeah.
CatQuest
!m Freso
BrainzBot
You're doing good work, Freso!
Freso
I also attended part of the (virtual) GSoC mentor summit (I got to "sneak in" via someone who gave me links to the things 👀 🕵️♂️ ), which I’ll touch on in a minute (or less).
fin!
shivam-kapila
Meee
yvanzo
Go shivam-kapila!
Freso
… What? You already went?
yvanzo
You already went!
shivam-kapila
No
_lucifer
lol!
CatQuest
go sivam go shivam
shivam-kapila
I vave links
yvanzo
Go again!!
shivam-kapila
Gave*
Okay I go again
Freso
Oh. You weren’t the one who gave me links. 😂
shivam-kapila
F
_lucifer
lol 🤣
shivam-kapila
I sent ot here though
Anyways sorry guys for confusikn
_lucifer
i managed to sneak through shivam-kapila 's link
Freso is in a channel with some other current and/or former GSoC and/or GCI mentors and/or org. admins and/or
shivam-kapila
For confusion*
_lucifer
!m shivam-kapila
BrainzBot
You're doing good work, shivam-kapila!
Freso
Anyway.
This! Concludes reviews then.
(Hail Eris.)
Thank you everyone who gave reviews :)
CatQuest
but shivam-kapila didn't actually go yet?
Freso
They diiiiidd!
CatQuest
oh? ok!
sorry
Freso
17:22:21 <shivam-kapila> Last week I worked on some minor feed page prs
17:22:32 <shivam-kapila> Apart from that I moved along some dashboard work
17:22:49 <shivam-kapila> The week was somewhat hectic so couldnt code much
shivam-kapila
I did
CatQuest
huh i didn't see that
well ok
Freso
But for anyone that missed it ^ :p
😂
omg
CatQuest
thk, lets goo to the topic
Freso
Anyway.
Freso!
GSoC changes!
Hi!
I’m Freso!
I’m going to talk about GSoC changes!
CatQuest
hi freso!
reosarevok
Hi Freso!
_lucifer
nice to meet you, Freso !
reosarevok
Are you going to talk about GSoC changes?
*?!
CatQuest
reosarevok: kutt ut XD
reosarevok
Ok, let's let Freso actually speak :)
Freso
So as someone mentioned during their review, they spent some time in the (virtual) GSoC summit last week… And one of the big announcements (besides GSoC 2021 being a thing 🎉 !) was some fairly big changes to how GSoC is going to be done going forward (or at least for 2021).
So main takeaways are that…
From previously GSoC projects targeting a time-size of ~350 hours over the summer, it’s being halved to ~175 hours.