Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-05-01

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-05-01

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Agenda

• Reviews

Reviews

@samj1912

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@samj1912

nothing much to report this week, fixed a high priority bug in picard, and reviewed PRs, had exams (still on, 2 left)

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

This week, I fixed up the PR I had sent fixing LB-152 and it got merged
But… It seems like there is something more wrong with the schema changes we’ve done, which I found out as I wrote a test for users with special characters in their names
That is not ready to be shown yet, because I haven’t investigated what causes the bug (finals and all, started today).

@Freso

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@Freso

This last week of April I mostly focused on getting the Community Recap series started again. And this morning at 10 AM UTC, it was published: Community Recap Q1 2017 – MetaBrainz Blog
Lots of research and digging for that, but hopefully the April one should be less work. Or at least only a third of the work…
I also took a bit of time pruning comments on the blog, dealing with a reported editor, and kept up with IRC and forums.
Off hours, I spent some time on GitHub - whipper-team/whipper: Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed - going through reported issues and making a couple of PRs. (whipper is the successor rip to morituri, a command-line ripper that exclusively uses MusicBrainz for metadata.)
And morituri/whipper’s code is also used as basis for the Internet Archive’s CD ripping code.

@zas

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@zas

i updated certs for mb.o, and fixed a cert renewal issue on discourse (by the way, both were unrelated)
i fixed an issue with recordings indexation on search servers
also fixed a disk space issue on prince/boingo
and started the process to move from ntp we used to install by default in favor of timedatectl stuff that appeared in 16.04
reviewed a bunch of Picard PRs
and, of course, added a bunch of releases/artists to MB

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

This week I dealt with support, and helped Freso review and improve his latest post. Plus a lot of keeping up with subscriptions. Other than that, I’ve been kinda busy trying to write my end-of-school paper so I can graduate

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I finished the UI stuff for work languages, mostly, just need to do the web service bits and write tests
took longer than I estimated though
also, need to look into modifying the current search server to handle it too
probably won’t be too hard

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Last week I have been mostly away. Actually April has not been my very best month.
Besides entity attributes, I worked on MBS-9304 and various small recent issues.

@Rob

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@Rob

uhm, I did stuff.
after an epic weekend and a holiday today, it seems eons ago that I did stuff.
listenbrainz stuff is starting to look pretty solid, which makes me happy.
I did other banking/taxes/accounting/quesito grooming, but nothing really stands out.
I’m going to the Barcelona Burning Bash from wednesday afternoon (til sunday).
which is conveniently 90 minutes from Barcelona, but who’s counting.
if counting, don’t count on me those days.

@Quesito

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@Quesito

my grooming last week…I learned a lot about MBIDs and the 7 other numeric identifiers used for music. It is quite fascinating, and intricate–and I also reviewed the Tower of Babble.
I wrote and continued some correspondence with supporters and potential supporters and we have a few more in the wings.
I also had a meeting with ruaok, we reviewed accounting issues, discussed MBIDs, messaging and some follow ups. It was a very productive 2 hour meeting, I was pleased-I hope ruaok was too…
I worked on rewording and coming up with verbiage options for the UX portion of the User Survey.
I worked with Gentlecat on the payments view of the MeB admin web.
I also spent time to put the social media banner up for a vote on the forums, and got a lot of responses and critiques–which is great! I think as we are a week past the beginning of the vote, we should continue with this vote and proceed with quarterly social media banner contests in the future to ensure the voice of the MeB community is being heard–this is only my latest suggestion, so we see…

@Gentlecat

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@Gentlecat

this week has been quite productive
I finished implementing EUR payment stuff on the metabrainz website
paypal is still painful to work with, their own testing stuff is broken
but it should be working now
I also reviewed another set of changes for CB
made some updates to brainzutils package
will probably get back to working on the search indexer next

@CatQuest

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@CatQuest

still not much from me, I’ve been ill this week, and I had a (just talking) dentist appointment on friday, I’m hoping to finish up ngonis and show off a good few instruments this week

@Sophist

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@Sophist

Working on the paper we discussed last week. A couple of Picard PRs. A Picard-Website PR. And my first MBS PR.
A tiny one - to fix a minor CSS issue. So not sure it really counts.
The paper is mostly done - just tidying it up.