Bob Swift, derat I had this also yesterday. I don't exactly now what I did, but I reloaed, navigated back to translations.metabrainz.org or such things and eventually I got in.
But weblate has become rather slow. So probably they have some technical trouble.
<outsidecontext[m> "But weblate has become rather..." <- That could have been it. I just tried now and was able to get in okay.
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Jade[m]
Hey all! Assignments are done, half term has started and I now have much more free time!
I'm writing up my GSoC proposal right now and wanted to ask which [BrainzBot plugins](https://github.com/metabrainz/brainzbot-core/tree/master/botbot_plugins/plugins) people used?
The ones I see the most are GitHub, Jira and !m
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mayhem[m]
lucifer: ^^
lucifer[m]
Jade: not sure. but i think the three you mentioned are probably it.
fwiw if this is about the Matrix archiver, I think you won't need to implement any plugins. the archiver itself would be enough.
Jade[m]
Yeah, I've just posted my proposal, sans-timeline.
<lucifer[m]> "fwiw if this is about the Matrix..." <- Those the Jira and `!m` plugins are pretty simple! `!m` is about 6 LoC. There's a pre-existing GitHub plugin. Might as well go for a complete replacement, given that!
And maubot is pretty easy to host, too. It uses sqlite, and has a web interface you can use to upload plugins and manage bot accounts.
Of course, a secondary priority compared to the rest of the project :)
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lucifer[m]
Jade: I think doing this project in rust is a bad idea. There is no benefit to it than doing it in python. and doing it in rust making maintaining it in future hard.
Flask + React for frontend is the preferred tech stack for this project.
as that's the common tech stack between most of our projects.
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<lucifer[m]> "Jade: I think doing this project..." <- i would counter that there is at least some benefit to doing it in rust: as far as sdks from the matrix foundation itself go, `matrix-rust-sdk` is [considered production-ready](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk?tab=readme-ov-file#status), esp. as it backs prominent client implementations; on the other hand, `matrix-python-sdk` seems to be [effectively
unmaintained](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-python-sdk?tab=readme-ov-file#project-status), though there is a [separate library referenced in the readme](https://github.com/matrix-nio/matrix-nio) which seems to see more maintenance
Jade[m]
<lucifer[m]> "Jade: I think doing this project..." <- I went into more detail on the justification in the pre-proposal, but julian45 has the main justification for not using python
julian45[m]: (One person I know working with matrix-nio is very much regretting it, too)
julian45[m]
may i ask how so?
because i do think lucifer's point that python is already used a lot across our projects' stacks is important to consider
* because i do think lucifer's point that python is already used across a lot of our projects' stacks is important to consider
Jade[m]
julian45[m]: It's also relatively unamintained and has multiple bugs with handling state. Apparently the sans-io design makes it very difficult to maintain and fix these bugs, too
julian45[m]: Absolutely
lucifer[m]
julian45: Jade: we can use the http api directly if the python sdks are unmaintained
Jade[m]
lucifer[m]: That's... a bad idea. The Matrix API is complex and changes steadily over time in both significant and subtle ways.
I didn't really consider React, because the aim was to create static HTML files. React's not really intended for that usecase, although it can do it
But the ideal with picking Rust is it would be very low maintenence, like the mail service has been
lucifer[m]
if static HTML + jinja2 suffices then its fine
Jade[m]
MeB also has quite a few Rust projects, and that + Rust having a far better SDK situation + me personally knowing the Rust ecosystem better was enough for me to chose it
lucifer[m]: Yeah, that would have been what I chose
The most maintained Python SDK is the one maubot uses
