#musicbrainz-devel

so cool :)

what can I do for ye, Leftmost?

it's always like that at autechre, everytime I've seen them. but this is the first time I've seen it announced and that the bar is closed.

I find myself in a position where putting in the required work to put together a decent application for GSoC would really screw with uni for me. I've got two exams tomorrow and a major conference presentation next week.

As such, I'm going to withdraw my application.

they didn't do a black out when I saw them, but the lights were certainly dimmed, no strobe or anything

nooooooo

But I'm hoping that you would still be willing to work with me on collections (if no one else does so) during the summer.

Leftmost: of course, but I'd say reconsider :)

I think we could make GSoC work given your constraints and that

Well, I'm just concerned that my application isn't sufficient. (It was never intended to be a final draft.)

hm

and that you don't have the time right now to improve it?

Right. I'd really like to improve it, but at this juncture I just have to prioritize school.

I'm starting to focus on my exams now too, as they are just over 2 weeks away

the application is important, but we don't judge these things solely on that.

for example your participation here on irc also counts, etc..

Leftmost: I would appreciate it if you could try to improve it as best as you can given these constraints

Leftmost: so skip screenshots

(screenshots/mockups tend to be time consuming :)

Well, if you think I should leave the application in, I can edit it with some of the things we've talked about. (Scoping up, etc.)

I've got a bit of scheduling done and some thoughts on the ordering/structure of work as well, which I can add.

Leftmost: yes, if your timeconstraints are just for now.. and you're free to work during the normal SOC schedule in the summer months

Yeah. The semester is over in early May and I'm not taking summer courses.

I certainly wouldn't let some time constraints in the application period put you off and withdrawing

Leftmost: please keep it in, improve what you can.

i'll talk to ruaok later tonight and let him know what's up and we'll see what he says

Alright, thanks.

ok, I gotta get off to uni and make it look like I've spent 2 weeks on this dissertation :P

bbl!

lol

good luck aCiD2

I'll get some of that stuff worked into the application at lunch today.

Reminds me. I need to fix my bike.

hrm, now LWP cannot reach my search server, but curl/wget/browser can.

warp: what would you think about using something like django for the proposal tracking system...?

warp: I'm suggesting that framework, because it's written in Python, and I understand integrating co-ment in isn't that bad on a python framework like Django

somewhat

I know the feeling. I've been hovering in that state for days now.

I am

hi

hi

ruaok: is there anything else you miss or want to be stated more clear in my proposal? you requested a UI mock-up that I added and nothing more, so i am unsure...

gimme a sec, but I think your proposal is complete.

ok

jensl: so the only thing I would love for you to add to the proposal is a quick note:

If my mentor would like to have this implemented in pure java and not use jqtouch g<whatevergluelayer> I would agree to do this in java.

or, better yet. adjust your proposal to simply say that you're doing it in java.

that would actually be better.

we're generally disutrustful of those toolkits that generate code.

ok so you want everything in java, no mobile optimized pages, not even for search etc. where it would be possible?

then we could integrate the pages seemlessly into the java app

yes, no mobile pages and a complete native android app with no fancy toolkits.

ok

then i will throw all the stuff out :)

hi warp

thanks jensl

thanks for feedback

np. thanks for the nice looking app.

I'm looking forward to going over it with a fine tooth comb on the plane tomorrow.

have fun :)

we even do not need mobile optimized pages, once finished with android it is not more than 4 weeks work to port it to the iphone (excluding barcode)

one last thing concerning the proposal, before i came up with the idea of mobile optimized pages, someone suggested the idea on the mailing list to deploy the barcode scanning stuff as an openintent, what do you think about this?

openintent allows others to initiate the barcode submit process?

ahhh, chilli simmering away

so much for burgers

wha happen?

yes allows other to use the barcode stuff

thought it'd be more fun to make homemade flour tortillas and a chilli

at least retrieve information, maybe submit (depends what we want)

jensl: that sounds like fun. :)

student tortillas* no rolling pin, i get to press them using 2 plates

ah, ghetto tortillas

can you actually buy tortillas in a store?

We have a large section of tortillas here. small, big, medium. flour, corn. lard, no lard. tomato, spinach tortillas

its crazy

yea, they are pretty bad though - and no, not a selection like that here - just 5 different ones maybe

that reminds me, I need to eat several more burritos before I leave.

lest I get withdrawals again.

ruaok: ok will state it in my prop

k

melange is annoying.

yes definitely, everything has to be ajaxified and the editor destroyed the whole layout of my proposal

I know that melange is an ongoing source of frustration. :(

apparently the gsoc proposal editor adds arbitrary line spacing and formatting even if you specify the layout in html :/

yep

crazy, they should have a gsoc student fix Melange

jdamcd: there is a TEAM of students working on melange

ahh :)

yes the editor is quite messy.

xiainx: oh, on django. I'm not that familiar with it, but it's popular enough. Seems fine to me.

django is pretty neat

but like RonR, its has is sweet spot of applications.

for sure

I can't find the beginning of the conversation - this is for an soc app?

I dunno what we're even talking about...

ruaok: I got my server up and running again. I used a pre-quality collumn commit to import my data and then I pulled from core.git to update.

ok, good.

But now when I browse a release group page I get quality column errors, but test doesn't have those errors.

ruaok: heh, right

I just see a comment saying "django, yay!"

alter table release add column integer quality;

ERROR: type "quality" does not exist

feh.

swap integer and quality

woohoo! Problem solved!

:-)

iarp: See above, you probably want to do this too

next person that comes in with this problem would you please guide them through this?

heh yeah

iarp: You'll need to run `./admin/psql READWRITE` to type that in by the way.

ruaok: I had trouble importing the database too, earlier this week.

smart.

yeah, the quality commit on master is what kills it.

sadly I don't have time to do another import.

maybe I'll do one monday.