#musicbrainz

if you knew of a way how to clone myself :)

I can help.

like in interest, but no time?

i tried to update my bio today, but somehow the wiki behaves quite differently than the public one

asmodai: do you know the WikiDocs concept?

and i'd rather continue working on mb_server, there's less chance anyone doing the work there

isn't you bio on the old wikidocs?

*confused*

donredman: I've done both trac wiki editing as well as wikipedia/mediawiki

donredman: Not sure if that answers your question

check it out on <http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/WikiDocs>;

the point is not to write explicit documentation but to use the one that's already on the wiki. The hard part is the migration from static html to a full WikiDocs :-(

g0llum: which bio do you mean?

donredman: ok. Mmm, should not be too hard.

my entry on /wd/MusicBrainzBio

that one is the OLD wiki docs.

eww :)

i'm stupid

If you want to really update things, do this: #1 go to MBWiki:PeopleBehindMusicBrainz and replace all the macros by the wiki markup that they include

(no includes in WikiDoc pages. Never!)

the /wd/ pages are outdated like hell

#2 check it against the old /wd/MusicBrainzBio page

#3 enter MBWiki:PeopleBehindMusicBrainz into the transclusion table

ok. i understand

if everything works #4 enter a ticket for Rob to make a permanent redirect from /wd/MusicBrainzBio to /doc/PeopleBehindMusicBrainz

That's a lot of work :-(

yes.

and this is only the second worst reason why migration is so hard

the worst being coordination

this is work that is so f***in time-consuming it should be paid work :-|

...well; same can be said about mb_server

asmodai: so actually, yes there is a lot of stuff where you can help. If you want to I can guide you along (and I'll have to do #3 myself, cause you need WikiDocsModerator privs for that)

donredman: Sounds good

mmm, funny how an album I encoded myself scores for like 50-75% 100% matches with PUIDs and the rest doesn't. :)

If you want to you can start with that bio page (i can fetch you the Markup behind /wd/MusicBrainzBio )

asmodai: http://koenigchristoph.dyndns.org/musicbrainz/M...

Apologies for being slow, still at work

and debugging a java tomcat install

:D

np

good, I can always scroll back later :D

[btw, any reason for things to be closed source?]

BTW the MusicBrainzBio page is probably outdated. If there is a respective CategoryBio page in the wiki use that instead.

what is closed source?

g0llum: while you're around, what's the best way to centre things with css?

text-align: center

donredman: programs for which the source code is not publically viewable with a revision control system? ;)

hmm

asmodai: the musicip stuff?

nikki_: i had a share of problems with that, too.

choccy fingers and loo roll just don't sound right in the same sentence

also, are you like me in prefering classes to embedding styles within the style="" attribute?

_mo is now known as catmo

yes. keep the pages as lean as possible

GURT: rolf

yeah, rolf

I always type rolf instead of rofl

goodiegoodie

nikki:

ping

g0llum: the clients for as far I can see.

g0llum: the trac spam deleted

asmodai: the Picard client is GPL and the old windows tagger too, If I am not completely mistaken

hey luks.. you are running ubuntu right? do you have any problems with "ghost" cd/dvd drive icons staying on the desktop and in "computer" after unmounting/ejecting them?

donredman: my bad for not checking further then yet

That would mean I could possibly help out

GURT: nope, I'm using Windows

k

the ubuntu machine I have is only for testing

i'd love to switch to ubuntu/gnome. but i hate linux, so ... :)

Hahaha

Screw fanboys and zealotry.

"linux" as kernel, not the GNU/Gnome/etc. environment

so I ended up with Windows + lots of *nux tools

**nix :)

i start a real job with manual labor tomorrow :/

asmodai: sure. For the client ask luks or ruaok

:_)

stupid computer...

CSR_PEER_UNICOMP is now known as DeimosFawkes

anywho

after driving myself mad for the past week

i have realized that the web services simply doesn't do exactly what i need

i need a track search... but i need the release type data included in the results

i would rather not have to requery the system for every returned release to get that

bastards!

ntl have taken to sending their fucking junk mail in generic brown envelopes >_<

luks: Run while you can

bye

it's snowing here.

on april 5.

!weather 02460

oh, is it gone?

Newtonville, MA (02460): 34°F / 1.1°C, Snow

oh

how do i go about requesting that feature be added to the track portion of web services?

sunny here

oh? bugs? :-)

no, feature request

ah

i'm building an album art fetching script for an internet radio station...

and the web services doesn't return the exact information i need

hi matthias!

without having to requery it over and over

hey nikki

right now, i use the release query

which returns whatever it feels like

the new web service?

I think you have a special magnet which opens xchat or whatever whenever you can help

the track query is far more accurate... but doesn't return the release type

heh

are you talking about the new xml or the old rdf ws?

the new xml

which is really snazzy

the track query uses the lucene track index internally. but it doesn't have release type information

hrm

hmm, ok. what do you enter there?

since it seems to be fairly accurate and also return release type

artist, album, track (all optional)

i have to find the album name from the artist and track

I thought I was a bit obsessive on this site - but how long do you think it must have taken this chap/ess to prove that I had made a mistake. He only had to give me one link and I would have deleted. http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4559023

!weather 12866

Saratoga Springs, NY (12866): 41°F / 5.0°C, Sunny

DeimosFawkes: ah, I see. I was wrong, apparently the index has the release type

hi joan!

hi nikki