#musicbrainz-devel

Mineo bitmap: Ping? Can https://github.com/musicbrainz/picard/pull/189 be merged? :)

hmm. the new one looks better to me :/ maybe you could try adjusting the new one so that it looks better on your screen and tell us what colour you end up with?

heh

maybe I'm just too used to the old one...I'll stifle my complaint for now

Wait, where is the other colour?

(beta and prod look the same to me, if it's inline search)

it's on http://ianmcorvidae.mbsandbox.org/

Oh, ok

Let's see

It looks a bit weird but similarly readable to me

Although I have nothing against the current colour either

Why are we changing it? Is this other green used elsewhere?

I guess we had multiple greens and consolidated them into one for more consistency

and to make the CSS easier to maintain

Yeah, just wondering where this one came from

Since I don't recognise it :)

ah, not sure

bitmap: Cheers. :)

:)

kepstin-work: bitmap just merged the m4v PR. ;)

Hey !! I would like to contribute to your organisation. How should I begin ?

Some link giving the information on the existing bugs or some page for developers would be helpful

If you can already code, and are reasonably familiar with MB, you could go to tickets.musicbrainz.org and pick something that looks interesting.

Maybe lurk here and on the mailing lists to get a feel for the project (if you haven't already been doing so). http://beta.musicbrainz.org/doc/Communication/M...

For non-coders (like me), you could get involved with improving the documentation.

There's the style guide, http://beta.musicbrainz.org/doc/Style

Theres the wiki, including a how-to section, wiki.musicbrainz.org

If you're a student, you might look at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Development/Summer_...

There are related projects on github and/or bitbucket, e.g. https://github.com/JonnyJD/musicbrainz-isrcsubmit

Yes I am a student and I am interested in applying for Summer of Code :)

Where can I get the code from ?

It would be highly helpful if you could post the link where I can clone your code from.

For the server, https://bitbucket.org/metabrainz/musicbrainz-se...

Are there plans to upgrade rika to 12.04 too?

depending on what you'r'e working on, you can install a local db to explore, or the full server

livewire94: GitHub is officially our "canon" repository, but if you're going to develop against it, you might as well use Bitbucket, since we use Bitbucket pull requests and not GitHub ones. (For musicbrainz-server anyway.)

livewire94: Also, for some of the larger, possibly GSoC-worthy projects, the resumes from recent MusicBrainz Summits might give an idea about what we currently are trying to make happen.

(I'll try and dig them up - hold tight.)

Oh, good call, I should add that link to the GSoC ideas wiki page.

livewire94: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Summit

Thanks !! I'll check out the link :)

One thing I've considered possibly doing/suggesting as a GSoC is implementing the Web Service in Python to 1) decouple the Web Service from the Web Site, and 2) move code away from Perl and to Python. :p

+1

(There hasn't been an official decision that Python is the language we want to switch to, but it's the one that has my vote - and the doers' votes usually count high around here, so chances are it'd get accepted.)

Freso: you calling yourself a doer? :P

(But I also have no idea whether I'll actually have time to do a GSoC project this coming summer.)

warp: ^

oh, if you're gsoccing you'd be a doer, certainly.

If Freso does it, I'll document it.

warp: I guess if someone wanted to re-implement the WS in C++ and actually went and did it, it might also get accepted.

(There are a few languages I doubt would get accepted though, even if someone did it. :))

that sounds a lot more maintenaince intensive though

Sure. And I'd definitely prefer Python over C++ too, but hey, who am I to judge?

I say javascript! :)

livewire94: What's your personal interest in MusicBrainz?

warp shouldn't joke about that. those node.js people are everywhere.

CallerNo6: I wonder if I'm one of them.

livewire94: Also, what are you studying? (I'd guess Computer Science, but hey, I'm doing Sports Science, and I'm still considering GSoC'ing - there are weirdos everywhere. :p)

CallerNo6 :)

I am studying Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad

I actually like the idea behind MusicBrainz and yes I would to get a Gsoc project on MusicBrainz ! :)

*like to

So should I begin working on the projects mentioned by Freso as potential Gsoc projects this summer ??

livewire94: Which project(s) exactly do you have in mind? Apart from the Web Service one, I don't think I've talked about anything in particular.

livewire94: What kind of Computer Science assignments do you like the most?

(Ie., what kind of problems do you prefer to work with?)

I like algorithmic problems( I like participating in programming contests)

livewire94: Would you be able to join the channel here on Monday between 20:00 and 21:00 UTC?

Ya sure ! :)

(I don't know what timezone it is where you live.)

livewire94: Alright.

livewire94: We have the weekly development meeting there. We could put you as a topic for next meeting and perhaps discuss a ticket or two to get you started on getting familiar with the musicbrainz-server code.

(E.g., coding style, conventions, organisation, etc.)

Okay

Unless nikki's around and can point you to anything off the bat. :p

Freso has changed the topic to: Firey birthday cake week https://youtu.be/F45enfVnSjc (happy birthday, Hawke!) | http://musicbrainz.org/#devel | Agenda: Getting livewire94 started (Freso/livewire94)

livewire94: If you have some music lying around, you might also want to try and edit some with MusicBrainz to get an idea for how the website/interface works.

Ya sure !

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Contribute is a very general but okay starting point.

And just shoot all your questions about editing to #musicbrainz - they're mostly quite a helpful bunch. :)

So, yeah.

Sure !! Referring to your previous question I guess I like developing more than actually solving algorithmic programming contests

fwiw, coding style doc @ https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-serve...

Once you have some familiarity with how the editing process works and how the code is structured, you might also even have an idea about what you want to work with with regards to MusicBrainz.

Perhaps even something none of us regulars had thought about. :)

Would you be interested to see the projects I have done in college so far ? :)

(Also, if you hang around in IRC enough, you'll get to hear plenty of complaints about all sorts of parts of MusicBrainz.)

Feel free to link them if you want to.

Is this a good time to solicit votes for http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-6516 ?

CallerNo6: :)

See the projects section there :)

No!!! :p Its been quite sometime since I updated that!! :p

You should update it more then. :p

But I see that you've made an "mp3downloader", so you've touched on music stuff before.

(And in Python <3)

Yes I wrote a script

which scrapes the data of emp3world.com

Yep. I read that.

just go to your terminal run the code type the name of the song and the song gets downloaded into the pwd

if it is present in emp3worlds database :p

Yep. I read that. ;)

It could be interesting to try and gamify the voting process perhaps. (I see you've done some game programming competing.)

But yeah. If you spend the next days adding some of your music collection to the database and lurk here and in #musicbrainz, you should at least be more aware about what MusicBrainz is, beyond just the fancy words in the mission statement. :)

Yes can be done !! :D

Sure

And then on Monday we can probably get you started on poking at the MB codebase. :)

I'll do that... :)

Thanks for your help ! :)

Great. And of course, just feel free to ask any questions along the way. :)

No problem. :)

Hello all

Quick question, just created my own musicbrainz server by following this guide: https://github.com/rembo10/headphones/wiki/Sett...

it's talking about the mbcontrol script to start the server, working all fine. How can I use webmin to let this thing auto start at boot ?

I've never used webmin but I'm guessing you could just add `mbcontrol start` to /etc/rc.local

bitmap that gave me an idea; #!/bin/sh mbcontrol start & exit 0

did the trick :) thanks