#musicbrainz

But yeah.

I'd be fine with removing mailing lists if we replace them with NNTP.

the 90s called... :P

That'd be great, actually.

Freso: gmane…

nikki: I was IT-raised in the 90's. :p

I just don’t understand why Nabble thinks its a good idea to allow people to edit their local copies of emails

I mean, they know they’re a mailing list gateway thing

UseNet was my first contact with the internet.

http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mb... is something I threw together on the plane for layout ideas.

It’s terrible!

looks like discogs :P

kepstin-laptop: The login doesn't work?!?!??!!!1

I approve of the miniheader. obviously

kepstin-laptop: I’m not a big fan of that box across the top…

(the “here are the three things you can do with MB” one)

not the actual black header

kepstin-laptop: heh, Columbia :p

kepstin-laptop: Also, you forgot to mention that you should make an account on the site because it's free.

I think you want Colombia there, different things ;)

account and free?

... I had no internet when making that :)

kepstin and laptop?

different and things?

:p

Columbia and Colombia?

what hawke_1 said

kepstin-laptop: "Create an account no ads and it's free!" - discogs.com front page

Eh.

reosarevok: ^

You mean they don't say Create An Account No Ads And It's Free?

How un-discogsy of them

Yeah.

"Community-selected releases" heh, do we vote for those?

I mean, what are you saying? The page has "Colombia" on it...

Or would it just show HQ staff?

reosarevok: by setting them to high quality :)

*stuff

(presumably it will be random high-quality releases that have album art)

kepstin-laptop: anyway, aside from the general looks-like-discogs bit, I like it

nikki: styles subject to change; it'll be fit into the general current musicbrainz styles rather than default bootstrap styles ;)

just look at the basic layout, contents.

yeah, as you said :P

also tbh, it's not too hard to improve our current page, so liking it doesn't mean that much XD

kepstin-laptop: it needs more orange and purple :p

I like it as long as that nasty box is hidden if you’re logged in.

hawke_1: yeah, for sure.

hawke_1: alternatively, it could redirect you to a dashboard page when you're logged in :)

kepstin-laptop: It feels like it blocks the actual useful interesting eye-catching stuff that’s further down

it doesn't necessarily have to be that big, either :)

but I wanted the first thing people to see to be "what can I do with this site?"

I'm kind of missing that "what is this site" bit, which could possibly just be a one or two sentence "preface" to "what can I do with it".

I would think it better to have the first thing be “look at the cool shit we have”

kepstin-laptop: Just got a crazy thought:

Freso: that blink tags are a cool idea?

+1

How about having that "What can I do" gray blurb as vertical list.

nikki: Yes!

^ surrounded with <blink>gray box</blink>

kepstin-laptop: That way, you could have both the awesome data display stuff and the "what can I do with this" at the top horizontal level.

Though obviously only one of the two would be able to go first vertically.

(And also one of the two will go first in the code/displayed first with no CSS.)

Eh.

Eh.

Eh.

now you're sounding canadian :P

nikki: Well, I'm trying to relay my thoughts to one. :p

I see XD

correct use at that point is 'eh?'

:D

get the rising tone at the end so it sounds like a question

Yeah.

The above eh's was me being dumbfounded though.

I'm not sure whether I used horizontally/vertically correctly.

I think horizontally may have been the right one in both cases, but meaning different things.

Hello Rob.

Got my e-mail?

gah. got hit by a proverbial truck today.

Can I make one more message before :01?

I could!

Freso: yes.

oh

nikki: yours too.

I thought you meant you were looking up the word confusedly in a dictionary >_<

sorry about that.

could've been worse :)

but flickr no worky over this tether

reosarevok: ping

ruaok, pong

had the board meeting today and reported on the lack of caa media coverage.

brian thought that the real meaning wasn't readily apparent to the media which is why they didn't pick it up.

but cory said he'd post it to boingboing

and another member said he's send it to another site. forget the name right now

we need to write a blurb for BB about the CAA and why its important. and that people should upload to it.

care to take a crack at it?

warp: Speaking of, what's the status about non-JPEG uploads?

:D

ruaok: hmm, can look into it tomorrow I guess. But I'm unsure I'm great for that, since the main things I love it for (pure archival and data verification) aren't the most exciting for most people :p

So, other people, please throw reasons why the CAA is awesome and important at...

18:04 < Freso> warp: Speaking of, what's the status about non-JPEG uploads?

reosarevok: lets go find someone to write that blurb.

my understanding is "we don't mind accepting them, but there's plumbing"

I can't wrap my head around it right now.

ruaok: oh, I'm willing to write it

derwin: we need someone to fix the upload form to allow it, and that person is warp :P

I just want to hear others' opinions of why it's great :)

derwin: ^

reosarevok: So you can tag your music files with good-quality images instead of random crap that amazon has.

reosarevok: because looking at cover art is cool and with the caa you can do it anywhere!

Oh wait, people upload amazon images to the CAA

and then those get trumped

hawke_1: hopefully not the ones that are pure crap though! :p

if possible

if you're in the mood to replace small images, I have an url for you :P

reosarevok: yeah, I was kidding. Anyway, I assume it’s only if they’re the best available.

nikki: Is there a way to see the most voted on tickets?

yes

There is!

\o/

Link/description/magic incantation?

png is #7 :P

Oh, there's not a global one?

hm, it's probably possible somehow

but that page is pretty easy to get to

derwin: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-4115 - did you vote already?

Wait... I hadn't. >_>

http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/secure/IssueNavi... is across all projects but doesn't display the vote count

Well, looks like all the top ones are MBS anyway. :)

nikki: Should MBS-4116 be closed?

why?

nikki: Because it'll be fixed by MBS-4115.

how will it?

nikki: By warp allowing non-JPEGs uploads, we'll support whatever IA supports, won't we?

I have no idea if IA supports thumbnails for pdfs yet

plus pdfs would require more than just changing the uploader, since we'd need to change the lightbox too

Can PDFs even work at all?