Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-06-19

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-06-19

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Social media banner contest

Reviews

@zas

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@zas

i was very busy this week: new servers, wetton & cage
i updated syswiki scripts etc, and now we can set up a new server in less than 1/2 hour at hetzner
we had issues with those new servers based on AMD ryzen, one was replaced,
wetton, but cage shown same symptoms
not sure, but those new cpus still have issues, and require fairly new kerneles
ok, i also worked a lot on our traffic, and it is now much lower, i used my uzi against abusers.
also update mb top stuff script & page, plus tons of grafana graphs
fixed minor issues around, did security upgrades, working since today on backups

@Rob

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@Rob

I have very little to report since I was on holidays.

@Quesito

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@Quesito

I’m back in action, although feeling the heat and still my sleep is a bit messed up from the time change. I’ve been pretty busy catching up, reading anything I may have missed.
Last week I also had 2 new supporter sign ups and and managing new invoicing for about half a dozen new supporters, of which ½ are unicorns! I’m also in discussion with another possible unicorn–so fingers crossed!I also still have several new sign ups that are still in the discussion stage, but are in the wings! So juggling a lot of possible supporters and supporters right now!
Had a meeting with a member from Deezer and a meeting with Bas. While several items were discussed–the focal point out of both my weekend meetings was Classical Music metadata.
I think that maybe we should gather our classical enthusiasts together, maybe make a channel for specifics and/or further discussions in order to grow our classical music metadata and the interest in it. If folks are interested in doing so, I think it’d be really beneficial for us and the public.
ok so that needs some discussio, etc…
This is where you can find Bas; and has a music newsletter you can sign up for:
http://www.musicxtechxfuture.com/bas/
I had a few meetings as this weekend was Sonar in BCN
so people wanted to meet us and chat.
ok last topic for my review----the social media banner contest
we have no submissions. so 1) we extend the deadline 2) we cancel or 3) something else?

Editor’s note: Social media banner contest discussion was added as a separate agenda item to the meeting.

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

was at a festival and swimming in lakes and generally enjoying that it’s finally summer here
Caught up on things last night, had my graduation ceremony today, and should have more time now going forward (at least until I leave for Spain in mid-July)
I’m going to try to use this week to concentrate on looking at that DRAM database (which comes in hand with the classical thing), some actual style, and whatever comes out of Quesito’s classical thing I guess
I guess while having these classical discussions we should also discuss Sophist-UK’s request for work structure levels

@Gentlecat

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@Gentlecat

I continued work on solr
we deployed test instance of MB with it, so
it’s kind of working
I also reviewed a bunch of stuff today
and merged some of it

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I fixed some bugs in the json dumps related to deletions / compression
and switched to pixz so we can compress things with multiple cores
downloaded the VM and came up with some steps to schema-upgrade it, though the guy I was helping never emailed back to say if it worked
if it does I guess I’ll write a blog post since others were having issues
also helped set up test.mb for the solr stuff
debugged these transient ArtistCreditEditor test failures in mbs
got to the bottom of the recent replication packet breakage, which is an issue in dbmirror
which I think we should fix since replication is kind of important
I think we should also probably write dbmirror in pl/pgsql, but we need tests for dbmirror first (there are none currently) and then evaluate performance
but that can theoretically be done in tens of lines in a vastly safer language, rather than hundreds of lines of C

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

For one thing, I did not wreck MB server, not yet.
Next server update is scheduled for today with bitmap.
Last week, I get wrongly prepared to it and it took most of time.
Besides, I pursued my work on overdue features (spammers and work attributes).

@ListMyCDs.com

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@ListMyCDs.com

I’m currently writing UI components and hopefully soon able to make some simple queries to my search server.

@Pinank_Solanki

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@Pinank_Solanki

wrote sql scripts for the schema changes for CB rating project
currently working on db queries and its test scripts
Also, started learning parallel computing past week
And played a lot of football

@samj1912

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@samj1912

was busy with some IRL stuff this week so nothing much to report

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

So I spent time this week on two things.
One, I spent a day or two trying to fix LB-158. There’s some weird behaviour in influxdb-python that made this a bit hard to solve and the bug was open for like a month, but we have it working now. \o/
Two, I spent some time writing code which is able to run queries on Google BigQuery. No Pull Request yet, but I’ll have one up as soon as the schema in which we store statistics gets merged.

@ferbncode

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@ferbncode

This week I worked on changes to CB dockerfiles and documentation for setting up dev env with direct database access to MB.
Also worked on using database for entity ‘place’. Opened it but the work in still in progress :P. More on it tonight

@Freso

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@Freso

I spent a bunch of time on IRC and forums, helped with the OpenScore blog post, prepared a blog post with the meeting minutes of the last two MetaBrainz board meeting (waiting for ruaok to look it over, but it’ll probably get published this week).
I subbed for reosarevok in support@ over the weekend and I also did a PR for MSP-3 which got merged and Gentlecat pushed live earlier!
And I did a Discourse upgrade.
Oh, addendum:
I had a meeting with Mickäel from Deezer together with Quesito and Gentlecat where we talked about many things, as Quesito has already talked about. I felt it was a good meeting. Nice to meet people from outside our little “circle”.

@alastairp

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@alastairp

I’m not sure exactly what I’ve been up to the last few weeks
mostly code review for ferbncode and iliekcomputers (and slacking on reviews for ruaok)
every time I get my head above water, LB has more PRs
I still have many outstanding AB PRs that I would like to get to, not sure when that will happen
otherwise, I’m always around

@LordSputnik

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@LordSputnik

So this week I worked on getting a number of BB PRs merged
We now only have one outstanding PR so I’m quite happy with the progress
I also fixed our coverage reporting and started upgrading some dependencies
Once that’s all done, it’ll be release time

Social media banner contest

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@Quesito

we have no entries.
we can extend the deadline till EoM and do a few more adverts (option 1)
option 2: cancel it and call it a day.
Option 3: another idea? please voice here

Anyone who chimed in gave support for option 2, with additional mentions of this being a good task to keep in mind for Google Code-in (making new/replacement social media banners) and that community members are welcome to submit suggestions for banners any time.