#musicbrainz

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      • warp
        ianmcorvidae: I mean experimenting in the sense of rolling it out on production, and having actual clients use it on real data :)
      • ianmcorvidae
        yeah
      • warp
        whatever we release as the first version, it'll not be suitable for some use-cases, and we won't know the issues until we allow people in properly.
      • ianmcorvidae
        yeah
      • Mineo
        demosdemon: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/580346/ there you go
      • demosdemon
        danke
      • ianmcorvidae
        warp: another suggestion, I think also from kepstin a while ago, was to make some of our current ?inc parameters no-ops -- i.e., include what they would have included in the base request, to decrease the (huge) number of unique WS urls we currently support
      • which would possibly also be helpful here
      • CatCat
        FUCKS
      • protip: check before tasting food
      • I foubnd shards of GLASS in it.. fuck
      • warp
        ianmcorvidae: that is certainly an option, though I'm not sure what benefit that would give us in itself.
      • CatCat
        not ever am i using glass lids any more
      • jesus man
      • ianmcorvidae
        warp: well, this was as part of a conversation on last-modified
      • warp
        right
      • ianmcorvidae
        which at the moment our best idea is "manually keep track of every possible URL"
      • CatCat
        :::::::::
      • ianmcorvidae
        but if we have a set of ?inc arguments that are "default" in some sense, for the editable WS
      • making those actually default might not be a terrible idea
      • CatCat
        uh guys?
      • warp
        ianmcorvidae: yeah
      • CatCat
        I am kinda freaking out here
      • warp
        CatCat: did you eat glass?
      • CatCat
        warp: ALMOST!
      • it scared the fukc outa me :c
      • warp
        CatCat: good, then you don't have to go to a doctor and such :)
      • CatCat
        thing is......
      • i ate soem and cewed it and it was really hard like chewing sand.. but i seem find
      • :///
      • reoafk
        You'll be OK, but yeah
      • CatCat
        my mouth isn't bleeding so i guess it's ok
      • reoafk
        Change to plastic lids :)
      • CatCat
        yea, just really scared me
      • reoafk: or metalic, fuck yes
      • i am seriously doing that
      • jesus
      • .. thanks guys, sorry to interupt your convo about like.. ulrs and stuff
      • ianmcorvidae
        haha
      • CatCat
        :)
      • warp
        :)
      • ianmcorvidae
        warp: I think plaintext's project will also help in this regard, e.g. we can figure out what inc parameters people actually use
      • if 80% of our requests to a given endpoint all include some set, well, may as well make those default :)
      • warp
        ianmcorvidae: I expect a few popular combinations and a long tail which does include all other permutations.
      • nikki was hoping the editable ws wouldn't involve submitting the whole entity
      • nikki: I'm open to other suggestions.
      • ruaok
        ianmcorvidae: great idea.
      • once that project gets going we're going to ask for suggestions for which pieces of data we should mine.
      • ianmcorvidae
        well, there's one :)
      • ruaok
        please suggest that when the time comes, ianmcorvidae
      • ianmcorvidae
        will do
      • ruaok
        thx
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      • oh, if anyone wants a sneak preview of our annual report: http://test.metabrainz.org/doc/Annual_Report/2011
      • CatCat
        ooohhhh
      • ruaok
        any typos or suggestions for what to add would be appreciated.
      • CatCat
        wow I'm not even in the top 24 of editors or voters.. FAIL no my part
      • CatCat must try harder
      • alos..
      • WTF is this" drsaunde is dethroned!!!
      • by.. reoafk !!!!!
      • woa
      • salutations reosarevok!
      • kepstin-laptop
        ruaok: I think you're missing a few 'per million's in the cost per hit section
      • kepstin-laptop doubts that you spent $8.01 per web hit.
      • ruaok
        kepstin-laptop: thx. will go hunt that down.
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      • kepstin-laptop: fixed and transcluded
      • hawke_1
        warp: Would it be possible to just submit the changed portions of the entity, or the changes themselves?
      • ianmcorvidae
        hawke_1: the problem there is dealing with deletions
      • nikki
        hawke_1: heh, that's basically what I wanted
      • ianmcorvidae
        there isn't really a great system for XML diffs, unless you know of one :P
      • nikki
        for deleting an attribute I'd expect an empty string (e.g. <artist><begin-date></begin-date></artist> or whatever the xml is) I guess for deleting whole entities I'd just have an extra section listing things to delete
      • hawke_1
        ianmcorvidae: I kind of wonder if it’s that great an idea to be truly deleting things anyway — it’s potentially a lot of history lost that way.
      • ianmcorvidae
        hawke_1: it'd be for entering "remove" edits
      • CatCat
        all delte edits should stay open until votedon imho
      • ianmcorvidae
        the history's still there, unless we're talking whole entities
      • CatCat
        also merges
      • adds and such aren't so important
      • well i mean, as potnetial wreckers of data
      • hawke_1
        ianmcorvidae: Right, I’m talking about whole entities. For deletions you could just submit the portion you want to delete, as nikki described
      • (presumably <artist><begin-date /></artist> would also work)
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      • CatCat is oww, don't freak out if i am logged of loads tomorrow, as I have to shut down so that fire-inspectors don't freak out about computers beign on :P
      • CatCat
        off not oww
      • anyway, natta
      • hawke_1
        You can’t have computers on?
      • How do you use them?
      • CatCat
        i mean ,on whiel I am not there
      • hawke_1
        ah
      • CatCat
        :D
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      • warp
        hawke_1: I can't think of a good way to describe _just_ changes in xml
      • hawke_1: I can see a fair amount of issues with having to submit entire entities in PUT requests, so I'm not entirely opposed to submitting just changes.
      • hawke_1
        warp: If an element is not included then it’s not changed; if it’s cleared, then it’s a deletion; if it’s included with a value, then it’s updating that value. Or am I missing something vital?
      • navap
      • warp
        hawke_1: you're not able to describe changes to a list in that way
      • hawke_1: and changes to elements where the difference between the element being present or not is significant (i.e. the difference between "" and NULL in the database).
      • reoafk
        navap: I for one like to be able to know what entities I've already visited without needing to highlight each track...
      • reoafk wonders if you should give a shot at the "read-only" MB, since we are interested on that and I kinda feel you'd be too (this would fit there quite OK for example)
      • Although even for that it feels a bit like "suddenly a giraffe"
      • (or in this case, suddenly blue links)
      • navap
        Suddenly a giraffe? haha
      • reoafk
      • warp
        seems I missed another meme
      • nikki loves that one
      • navap
        heh
      • hawke_1
        warp: You mean tracklists specifically, or…?
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      • warp
        hawke_1: lists of labels, isrcs, iswcs, ipis.
      • ianmcorvidae
        navap: yeah, I don't like the black pre-hover; why not some sort of background/shadow/etc. change instead, that's pretty standard?
      • Shepard always imagines david attenborough saying that "suddenly a giraffe" bit
      • navap
        My goal was to mute the amout of blue links in the tracklist
      • ianmcorvidae
        navap: why?
      • reoafk
        navap: but we're a relational database! relationships are awesome! D:
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      • ianmcorvidae
        also, looks like visited links still show up purple, so you get a weird double state (looks like a link when it's visited, but doesn't otherwise unless you hover)
      • navap
        I added those purple things in just now for reoafk
      • navap takes them back out
      • ianmcorvidae
        I think the black is the problem, not the purple
      • nikki thinks the relationships in the tracklist are the problem :P
      • reoafk
        I really don't see the problem with showing the links
      • ianmcorvidae
        now you can't see visited links at all
      • reoafk
        I'm fine with being able to move them to the bottom of the release for weird people like nikki who like it that way
      • But still, showing them
      • navap
        I've gotten so used to not being able to tell visited links from normal links that not seeing purple doesn't bother me
      • ianmcorvidae
        I've always been able to tell apart our visited/unvisited links :P
      • reoafk was able before and is (more easily) now
      • nikki
        navap: we've already established that your monitor is screwed up :P
      • navap
        heh, well I assure you I can tell the difference now that they're purple
      • nikki could distinguish them before too, although it's definitely easier now
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      • warp
        are you ever not allowed to vote or post edit notes?
      • (as a logged-in editor)
      • nikki
        yes
      • navap
        You can't vote on your own edits, unless you're approving your own
      • hawke_1
        navap: Oh, was that fixed?
      • nikki
        you can't vote or add notes to other people's edits if you're a limited user
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      • warp
        ah, right.
      • nikki
        VxJasonxV: btw I was kinda hoping you'd fix that artist :P
      • warp
        thanks.
      • navap
        hawke_1: uh, I don't know about the bug, I was more talking about what /should/ be
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      • hawke_1
        warp: Hmm, there appear to be several “XML data manipulation languages” floating around out there. Maybe one of them would be a good candidate?
      • dubwai
        how to add deluxe edition to album tile?
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