Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-06-26

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-06-26

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Agenda

• Reviews
• MB User Survey
• Spam review
• Picard meetings
• Classical

Reviews

@ferbncode

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@ferbncode

This week I worked on the PR for using direct database for place entity. Updated the PR to use the mbdata project
Also, worked on showing external links and related place on place pages on CB.
There were also a few misses in the ORM work which I fixed this week.
will try and fix the errors incoming in mb setup

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

A bunch of bug fixes and a cool feature addition to LB by me this week, also we have a community beta up \o/
dunno if it’s officially named that though
LB-20 - Incremental imports are now how LB imports data from Last.fm
some other issues were LB-180, LB-183.
Also, opened a PR for running queries on BigQuery although that is on the backburner for now until the beta

@Freso

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@Freso

I pretty much only spent time on IRC and forums last week, but also preparing for moving again.

@Rob

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@Rob

last week was a common theme: LB.
mostly chasing iliekcomputers with endless bugs and things to fix.
we’ve been damn fussy over getting things right and I think i tis paying off.
I’m pretty happy with the state of the codebase and think we can soon call it an official beta.
that said, Quesito and I got together and did some planning.
both short and medium term – in particular we started talking about the summit.
Quesito always planning MeB World Domination…
the only interesting thing that we agreed on so far, is that we should have a team meeting on thursday before the summit and then a community “break-out” day on friday.
during the breakout sessions we can have longer sessions on things like visualizations, ws/3.4.3, genres and other deeper topics.
the other thing we’re realizing is that with so many new customers coming on, we really need to hire a part time UX person.
and to have this person really be integrated into the daily workflow of our projects.
some of the motivations behind this are interesting, and I’ll let Quesito share those.

@Quesito

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@Quesito

Last week I did a bunch of follow up accounting work. Got a few new supporters (although stealth so not public) into the QB system & invoiced. Also negotiated and finalized our renewed deal with BBC.
I finally (after a month)–finished the last of the accounting transition to following the fiscal calendar! So while we have about half a dozen accounts that still need a bit of clean up–our financial system is really organized and ready for the quarterly system of ease (I hope!).
Other than that another unicorn has galloped through the door! And while the accounting side of things slows down, I’m turning my focus to data vis, user survey and our home page, and our classical music enthusiasts!
If we can conquer some of the more complex UX matters of classical music–perhaps the rest will be solved for, it an idea at the moment–and a lively discussion is happening on the forums!

@zas

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@Rob

he was busy. with loads of interesting stuff that can’t really be public yet.

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

Ok, I guess I’ll go
Mostly support and editing, but
I also finally took a good look at the data from NWR/CRI / DRAM
It’s good. Worth looking into importing it. loujine: would you be maybe interested in looking into that?
If so, let me know post-meeting
Other than that, I started my mini-work for the BBC, taking a quick look at how their classical editors are doing and improving anything they mess up
So far, not too awful, thankfully
A couple mistakes but nothing too bad

@Gentlecat

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@Gentlecat

done a bit of gsoc reviews and helping in the past couple of days
looked into indexing issues a bit more

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I wrote a bunch of tests for dbmirror
including one for the issue that broke the replication packet a few weeks ago
and a few other tests the C code fails with (but not really issues we’d hit in practice)
also wrote a test implementation of pending.c in PL/pgSQL which passes all the tests, and did some benchmarks
on my machine it runs within 91.5% of the performance of the C code, so I think it’s worth testing further
especially 'cause it’s 1/10th the size and in a safer/strongly-typed language
I’m looking to narrow that gap further
other than that I fixed some issues with the template renderer going haywire (lsof was missing from the containers) and helped with other small sysadmin things

@ListMyCDs.com

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@ListMyCDs.com

Still my main focus is on writing UI components and refactoring some of my earlier code (identifying potential stateless functions).

@Pinank_Solanki

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@Pinank_Solanki

Continued my work on db queries and testing
It is close to completion

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Made first release of MusicBrainz Server, which mostly fixes bugs for work lyrics languages, that’s about it.
Rescheduled measures against spammers, to be discussed with bitmap.
Otherwise have been very busy IRL.

@samj1912

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@samj1912

Made a PR to refactor the web service code so we can move to a json ws without much problems
Also added some api helpers to support api calls easily

MB User Survey

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Decided to release the user survey on July 5th. Uncertainty of who to write the announcement blog post though. @Leo_Verto was suggested, but not confirmed. Will review again next meeting.

Spam review

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@Rob asking for an update on anti-spam measures. What has been writted, what has been merged, what has been run.

@bitmap noted that some of the spam deterring measures had been merged, though not yet released. @yvanzo remarked that spam account removal scripts would likely be ready to run this week and that some more spam deterring PRs were awaiting review.

@Rob noted that we haven’t received any more DMCA take-down requests from Google. @bitmap notes this is probably due to user collections already being blocked in robots.txt.

@Rob said that he’ll collect more information and @zas is coming up with more ideas and that they should circle the wagons afterwards and plan the next move(s).

Picard meetings

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@Freso asks whether the weekly Picard meetings are still relevant, as nobody showed up to the last one (Tuesday, 20th of June).

Agreed to put Picard meetings on hold for now. Discussions can either be had on the Monday meetings or we can decide to organise Picard meetings again at a later date.

Classical

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On behalf of users on the forum, @reosarevok asks whether we have any plan for classical.

@Quesito outlined a plan:

1. Form group, if interest
2. Appoint leader
3. World domination

@Rob and @reosarevok agreed to have a talk during the week to get something more concrete, but basically it still seems what is wanted is improved UX rather than schema changes.