# Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-03-13 **URL:** \ **Category:** MetaBrainz\ **Tags:** metabrainz-meeting-notes, brainzbot, critiquebrainz, irc, musicbrainz\ **Created:** [March 20, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2017-03-13/233149 "2017-03-20T18:14:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/freso/32/25_2.png) [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2017-03-13/233149/1 "2017-03-20T18:14:15Z")
# #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-03-13 Meeting start: [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856086/) ## Agenda - Reviews - DR: MBS-9271: Prevent usernames from being reused - BrainzBot brain+gh plugins - DR: CB-244: Implement a rating system ## Reviews ### @iliekcomputers [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856089/) > [@iliekcomputers](#): > > I worked on my GSoC proposal for LB this week. > Also, worked with ruaok on some stuff, helping to get the beta deployed > some bugfixes etc. > not much else ### @reosarevok [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856101/) > [@reosarevok](#): > > I had a cold all week (thought I was ok now, but then I got dizzy and had a three hour nap and still feel crappy, sigh) > So I didn’t get much done > Support (more MBID mail, mostly…) > Also at some point we ended up talking Wikidata, so I threw together some example queries for MB use: [User:Reosarevok/Wikidata Example Queries - MusicBrainz Wiki](https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Reosarevok/Wikidata_Example_Queries) > Which will be more useful once MineoBot is up and running properly ### @Freso [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856114/) > [@Freso](#): > > [I put out a blog post](https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2017/03/08/metabrainz-foundation-board-meeting-minutes-september-15th-2016/) with the meeting minutes of the 2016 september board meeting (where I became secretary of the board). > There’s not much interesting happening at the board meetings that are not otherwise communicated, but it’s been one thing that’s previously been happening “behind the veil”, so to speak. > So hopefully this will help to make the MeB operation a bit even more open/transparent. > I’ve done a number of assorted miscellaneous tasks relating to jira and discourse too. > And responded to some MBID queries on the forums… > Until I said “enough is enough” and just passed those MBID questions on to reosarevok. (Soz… not soz. 😇) > I created [https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/ORG](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/ORG) earlier today. > To have a more organised (pun kind of not intended, but not unwelcome) place for Quesito’s and my own tasks to get tracked. > And besides being around/about on IRC and forums, I think that about wraps this week up. > Tomorrow morning I’ll be headed to DK/Sweden. > And I’ll give a presentation on Saturday about open data and \*Brainz: [https://opensourcedays.org/community/talk?speaker\_id=31](https://opensourcedays.org/community/talk?speaker_id=31) ### @Rob [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856165/) > [@Rob](#): > > I spent a lot of time working with alastairp and iliekcomputers to get the LB beta up and running: > [https://beta.listenbrainz.org](https://beta.listenbrainz.org) > [ListenBrainz](https://beta.listenbrainz.org/current-status) > shows the status of the system. a bit cryptic, but you can see data flowing, which is pretty cool. > I also spent time moving two supporters forward. > met Quesito for 6? 5? hours and going over lots of stuff. including getting huffy over a faux-gantt chart. 🙂 > we were productive, even if a bit tipsy. > and the other, really exciting thing, is that I worked to get @yvanzo hired! > I had been working numbers to get that to work and our two prospective cust^H^H^H^Hsupporters put us over the line. > welcome to the team, yvanzo! > this is quite noteworthy – we’ve never had 2 engineers dedicated to just hacking on MB. > we’ve had 3 people, but with many more duties spead across many things, including hosting. > now we have three devs and me as a part time dev of sorts. plus all the volunteers we have now… I’m quite proud of how much ass we’re kicking right now. > and I’m off tomorrow. Not telling where I am going. I’m leaving some clues behind – some more useful than others. > if anyone wants to follow along and guess where I end up, follow [mayhemcha0s on instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mayhemcha0s/). > however, if you have access to our servers and check the login logs and look at my IP addresses if I have to log in, I ask that you not spoil it. > I’m not going to go as far as installing tor, ok? > I’m back on to work on the 23rd. ### @zas [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856229/) > [@zas](#): > > i helped Quesito on a mail in french, upgraded servers, created a bunch of new graphs for new LB on lemmy > i continued on piwik, and i have found new isssues i’m trying to solve, for now, doesn’t work reliably at all > but the sync is ok, piwik parser sometimes stops on weird log lines ☹ > i reduced the size of mb log dropping 403 on ws, dividing by 3 the actuall number of lines to parse, but piwik is still on the slow side, whatever i do > plus Picard PRs reviews/forums and of course a bunch of new releases in MB db ### @bitmap [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856245/) > [@bitmap](#): > > I deployed the sentry PR to beta, seems to be working > did more code review > commented on schema change tickets and the sir google doc > submitted a PR to check mbs code with Perl::Critic, since we’re getting more PRs now and it saves me from having to comment on stuff > (maybe I’ll look at Perl::Tidy in between schema change work too) > started looking at the alternative tracklists UI branch again, so it doesn’t miss yet another schema change > fixed some style errors in picard-website and very briefly helped with LB docker issues ### @Gentlecat [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856271/) > [@Gentlecat](#): > > I started implementing new trigger generator for the indexer, since we mostly figured out how it should work > set up welcome topic on the community website in the critiquebrainz section (thanks, Freso) > and created [a topic for a discussion about ratings](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/rating-system-in-critiquebrainz/226343/) > reviewed a bunch of code > and some gsoc proposals ### @Quesito [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856289/) > [@Quesito](#): > > I continued my MeB education > Mid-week I welcomed a new supporter to the bronze tier! > then continued my MeB education with ruaok over 5 hours… > MeBeercation > my gantt chart did get the ax…but my plan for MeB world domination continues on… > _[@Rob: now Quesito, that was not against world domination. our flavor of world domination just works without gantt charts.]_ > yes @Rob…so now my world domination plan will be carried out via JIRA ORG thank to Freso setting it up this am > I am now between verbiage and getting organised in ORG ### @Leo_Verto [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856325/) > [@Leo\_Verto](#): > > Okay, I had a surprisingly productive week > Worked a lot of BrainzBot (am in fact even working on it during this meeting) > I signed up to help with MineoBot and improving crosslinking with wikidata ### @yvanzo [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856339/) > [@yvanzo](#): > > I have been formally hired by some foundation as you might have guessed from [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2017/03/13/) > FYI, I unified my various nicknames on \*Brainz, Freenode, and GitHub to match my BookBrainz account, yvanzo. > For the rest, my first main and still on-going assignment has been to extend dynamic attributes, currently for Work only, to all other primary entity types, but URL, and secondary entity type Medium ([MBS-8393](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-8393) for next schema change). > In case MusicBrainz development would not make expected progress, I will immediately blame gcilou who just stepped out. ### @ferbncode [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856358/) > [@ferbncode](#): > > I worked on my gsoc proposal and sent a couple of bugfixes to CB related to ISEs on event and place review pages. nothing much. working on improving the proposal. 🙂 ### @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856364/) > [@ApeKattQuest\_MonkeyPython](#): > > last week a wonderful thing happened; loujine created for me an “batch add aliases” script [https://bitbucket.org/loujine/musicbrainz-scripts/issues/27](https://bitbucket.org/loujine/musicbrainz-scripts/issues/27) > it’s still in an early stages, so anyone using it must be careful! > but I’ve been using it and it’s fantastic, it’s made adding aliases for instruments a dream! > so: everybody, it’s completely ok to request aliases for instruments now; or any instruments where the WD/wp has a list of linked languages with names? make a ticket with lists or links \<3 > as such I’ve made a great headway in adding instruments from the hybrid ticket: [https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/STYLE-723](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/STYLE-723) (as always anyone who knows of any other hybrid instruments, existing or just ticets themselves, please link them) ### @LeftmostCat [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856379/) > [@LeftmostCat](#): > > I had jury duty during the meeting last week and family since, so I’ve just been brainstorming and not writing any code. And I’m out of town right now. > When I get home this weekend, though… you just wait and see. I might fix some whitespace. ### @samj1912 [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856387/) > [@samj1912](#): > > Hi everyone, can’t make it to the meeting since I have an early morning flight to catch. > So Freso should most probably be posting this instead. > Worked on lots of picard PRs and fixed tickets and did PR reviews this week. Was at home so lots of free time. > Also finished up my Gsoc proposals first draft, those interested can see it here - Picard v2. 0 [https://community.metabrainz.org/t/gsoc-2017-pi](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/gsoc-2017-pi)… > Also setup things for a 1.4.1 release. > Will be afk next week since going trekking. Might be in a region with poor network connectivity so sadly no irc and definitely won’t be able to code. > Will try to catch up with irc stuff once a day though. Will be back on 19. ## DR: [MBS-9271: Prevent usernames from being reused](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9271) [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856406/) > [@bitmap](#): > > we need to decide if we want to disallow people from taking usernames that were previously used There was a brief discussion about how other sites handled this (only Facebook and LiveJournal was mentioned). @Bitmap noted that the answer to this question might also possibly resolve [MBS-9275](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9275). > [@Rob](#): > > let me sum up: “We should prevent re-use in general and implement 9271. However, if someone contacts an admin with a request to re-use and that request is reasonable, it will be granted” This was agreed on unanimously (with 9 people “voting”). ## BrainzBot brain+gh plugins [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/3856504/) > [@Leo\_Verto](#): > > Okay, so @samj1912 did most of the work editing the existing github plugin to fit our needs > the desired use case was looking up PRs similar to how we can currently look up JIRA issues > so assuming the repo is part of the MeB org, you can add an abbreviation using `@gh:abbreviation=repo_name` > and then get commits using `gh:abbreviation#PR_number` > for example `gh:P#642` > it’s still in beta and subject to sudden data wipes 😛 > the brain plugin is currently disabled until I finish rewriting some backend stuff ## DR: [CB-244: Implement a rating system](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/CB-244) Deferred to next meeting, due to time constraints. ---
**Author:** ![jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jesus2099/32/36_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2017-03-13/233149/2 "2017-03-20T21:37:55Z")
@Freso, it should be March (3), not April (4). 😉