Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-10-30

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-10-30

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4030942/

Agenda

• Reviews
• Google Code‐in

Reviews

@paramsingh

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4030947/

@paramsingh

I worked on AB a lot this week, had a quite productive discussion with alastairp on what we need to do to get AB data dumps working again. I then spent a some time reading AB code and understanding the schema. Working on AB-315 for now. Also opened a few small PRs on LB, but now that stuff is being reviewed again, I’ll start focusing more on LB again.

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4030954/

@Freso

Last week I added the AcoustID category to the forum, as discussed last meeting:
https://community.metabrainz.org/c/acoustid
I poked a bit at the KEXP situation.
The MetaBrainz Foundation had a board meeting on Friday, so as Secretary of the board, I also did some work surrounding that.
We got the news on Thursday that we’re in for another round of Google Code-in, so that also took some of my time. I’ll talk more about GCI later (expect that to be a recurring agenda item for the next several weeks :)).
Apart from that, hanging around on IRC and forums.

@samj1912

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4030969/

@samj1912

So this week I worked with bitmap to complete the rest of Solr project.After 115 commits and 40 PRs this month, We are now at feature parity with the current search server and I have also solved all the blocking bugs and tickets.Atleast the ones Mineo and Gentlecat told me about and the ones me reo and bitmap figured out. Only Just https://github.com/metabrainz/sir/pull/53 Is left to be merged. Apart from that I also learnt a lot of things this week. More info on solr.
And I also learnt perl basics.
I also helped bitmap with creating a test dump
Which involved me going through our entire db
I also worked with zas to dockerize the solr server properly
And also learnt about the way our deployment process works properly.
I also documented the solr project
You can find it here:
https://docs.google.com/a/metabrainz.org/document/d/1ZZfpnXSUhMVWh4FPJgxZbde40jeWDLe2SRdRjrONkIc/edit?usp=sharing

@chhavi

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4030982/

@chhavi

I mostly explored the “release” pages. Edited a personal video about a summit during the weekend. Link is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCzHCOb4NA
For all those who were there, and couldn’t be!
Then started working on the “edits” page a bit. Ran the mockups through Ruoak. Will slice it up for feedback and put it up on tickets this coming week

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4030998/

@zas

i migrated stuff from our old nagios server at ousl.org to gcloud, and set up alerts through telegram, it was involving a lot of small tasks, but i sorted it out, done
i handled few user complaints about blacklist
(@Freso: All of them QNAP’ers?)
most of them
some have dynamic IPs, so …
but that’s very few compared to the number of blacklisted IPs
about that, we are making progress with QNAP team…
they are aware of the issue, and may do something
apart that, server upgrades, minor fixes, server reboots, etc…

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4031026/

@reosarevok

I did support, and spent the rest of the week doing homework and trying to get my project with Wikimedia Estonia ready. I did look at some style related posts on the forum and made some comments though

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4031034/

@yvanzo

Beta-released long-awaited code changes, breaking rels edits display and sidebar tag editor, swiftly hotfixed by bitmap. Next server update to be released within the following hours.
Reviewed and debugged newly reported bugs, inspected bootsy MB containers for unusual activity, still worked on hiding spam and other requests from irc/community.community

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4031042/

@bitmap

I worked with samj to test the sample data dump I made (MBS-8736) and he made a list of missing data that I added in, should be ready to generate a new dump today
helped some more with sir code review
hot-fixed some cache issues with series pages after we deployed something to beta, and some other beta issues people reported (I broke things as yvanzo pointed out)
upgraded jenkins since it had some giant red text about a security vulnerability
submitted a PR to retry the full export → ftp rsync if it fails, since that’s happened a couple times recently

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4031056/

@alastairp

I closed a few small PRs for AB last week and released them
I’m working on a few more that have been open since the last SoC round of students
some of them were left unfinished, so I’ve been catching up to work out what was done/not done and fixing them
more of the same this week

@Rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4031087/

@Rob

doing bizdev & punching bag duties.
after 2 months of punching bag duties, I’m formally over it.
morale and motivation at record lows.

Google Code‐in

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4031066/

@Freso

So! We’ve been accepted for another round of Google Code-in!!
So I’ve been rounding up the last few mentors and getting them into the Google Hangout. We’ll start on getting tasks imported in the next few days.
We’ve got three former GCI winners on the mentor team this year, a number of Google Summer of Coders, a number of staff, and a number of our otherwise awesome volunteers. I’m very happy with our mentor team so far, but if anyone wants to join in, just let me know and we’ll see what we can figure out.
Also, since we’re not supposed to have the task suggestions public between org. announcement and actual start of the contest, the task suggestions page has been deleted on the wiki.
If anyone has suggestions that they don’t think made it to the suggestions page, feel free to e-mail me at freso@metabrainz.org

[aerozol]

@Rob

punching bag duties

What’s this? Hang in there @Rob