Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-07-10

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-07-10

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Agenda

• Reviews
• OpenSCORE dedication
• Changing the default font for MeB websites

Reviews

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

I’m hopefully offline in a car between Madrid and Asturias
This week I dealt with the usual support issues
Additionally, I started a vote for the first classical cleanup of the month (in August). So far Leftmost is ahead (wait, no, Debussy, that was it)
[VOTE] Community cleanup for August
I also closed some very old style tickets, mostly but not only as wontfix

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

Fixed a few bugs for LB, didn’t get the time to work on the BigQuery stuff, I was just a bit hesitant to continue without reviews on the current work first, will continue this week if there’s not much to do on the beta.
List of fixes:
Remove retries from insert_to_listenstore in influx-writer by paramsingh · Pull Request #221 · metabrainz/listenbrainz-server · GitHub
LB-187: Add NOT NULL constraint to the last_login field by paramsingh · Pull Request #214 · metabrainz/listenbrainz-server · GitHub
LB-188: Check if we need to stop before getting next timestamp by paramsingh · Pull Request #217 · metabrainz/listenbrainz-server · GitHub
LB-189: Raise 400 Bad Request when artist_name is not a string by paramsingh · Pull Request #218 · metabrainz/listenbrainz-server · GitHub

@samj1912

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@samj1912

So this week I am back to full time gsoc. Worked on a huge pr refactoring the picard webservice module. It is now possible to add various parsers and it also adds support to easily implement api calls. Also wrote a tests for the same.

@Freso

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@Freso

Upstream Discourse fixed the bug we discovered on our own instance, so I went and got that merged in.
And then they released a new version, so I also updated to that.
Spent some time on getting the MB User Survey pushed out on Wednesday.
Which seems to have gone really well, but I’m sure Leo_Verto will talk more about that if he’s around.
Spent a bit of time on reported editors, but I do have some backlog that I plan on getting dealt with this week. (Sorry people who have reported!)
Also spent some time on IRC and forums.

@ferbncode

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@ferbncode

This week was quite productive :). I worked on extending the presently written functions for fetching multiple entities.
Also, completed the work for the release group info. And started out (and close to completed) work for fetching info of releases.
Other than that, worked on the broken spotify integration in CB (CB-261), since spotify now requires OAuth tokens. Also, fixed some minor bugs in the browse release group pages.

@Rob

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@Rob

do you all remember paper checks?
most the world never used those, so i wouldnt be surprised if you’ve never seen one.
but in order to setup electronic payments we need to provide a cancelled paper check.
wtf?
anyways.
Quesito and I did a bonzai run accounting bit, pretty much finishing our transition to synchronized quarterly billing.
and we’re nearly caught up with getting all current invoices out.
we find ourselves in a curious situation.
we have money in the bank.
and supporters owe us the same amount again.
once we get the next invoice in, we’ll get a final tally, but we have enough money to run for a year at the current burn rate.
which is incredible.
clearly, we’re doing something right. congrats to everyone.
then on the LB front, we keep pushing out pre-betas and asking people to do imports and people keep breaking it. which is good.
but a wee bit frustrating. we’d had hope to push out the beta today, but due to a bug over the weekend, we had to postpone that.
today was all meta stuff for me, tomorrow I hope to get back into LB stuffs.

@Quesito

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@Quesito

Lets see - ruaok talk the accounting part of last week
nice to see the quarterly system in place and working–and in one day we really rocked it!
I helped org the roll out of the survey with Freso Leo_Verto and reosarevok and we have a bunch of graphics for the reminders I’ll tend to in the upcoming month
I’m excited for results
and dealing with some other ORG stuff with ruaok

@Leo_Verto

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@Leo_Verto

Well, we launched the user survey last wednesday and so far it’s been a great success
we have 438 responses already
There are already a bunch of really interesting results, for example a lot of people apparently weren’t aware of some more niche entity types and the other MeB projects, so hopefully they’ve learned something new
We’ve also gotten tons of feedback from the free-form text questions
The general consensus seems to be that MB is at a 4 out of 5 right now but getting started can be quite difficult (so nothing new there)
Anyway, we’ve also found out a whole lot about our user demographics, for example that the median age seems to be somewhere in the thirties
With quite a lot of users being in their fourtiers and fifties
But I’m planning to write two blog posts on the survey, one on the general feedback and one on the demographics

@Gentlecat

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@Gentlecat

most of the work was on the CB again. helping gsoc students, fixing, and deploying stuff
discussed some issues in SIR with mineo, hope to make some progress there soon
overall didn’t get much done since I’ve been sick all week (and still am)

@psolanki

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@psolanki

I continued my work on data access modules to accumulate rating system
Also, wrote tests for them
And finally merged the schema changes

@ListMyCDs.com

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@ListMyCDs.com

On tuesday I got huge headache and body temperature started rising. Influenza. 4 days in bed. During the weekend I improved UI and wrote code constructing and making queries to search server. Today I started to include components (by bitmap & ruchiranga) to actually show results for these queries. I’m behind the schedule so this will be extremely busy week.

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I was moving/unpacking and took the week off for the most part. nothing really to report (sorry). back to normal this week.

@zas

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@zas

Nothing much to say, mainly usual maintenance, upgrades, minor fixes
and samj1912’s PR review
i also restarted variours services and reported related issues

@LordSputnik

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@LordSputnik

So I started this week by switching bookbrainz-site from using npm to using yarn
Two days later I switched back the other way
Turns out that neither have great lockfiles at the moment (for exact dependency versions between environments)
Anyway, after that, I got some useful work done and upgraded a couple of dependencies, which pretty much finishes the dependency upgrade work for another few months
Then I reverted the change that enabled the new entity editor for creator entities, and made the first BB release for about 10 months
In the process I ditched Docker for BookBrainz in production because it adds a ton of unnecessary complexity for no real benefit in our situation
And at the same time I also added https://bookbrainz.org/monitor/
so BookBrainz is now logging requests and the response times in InfluxDB
I’d like to work with zas to set up something integrated with the other MeB projects on the shared Grafana, so this is just a prototype really
[@Freso: I feel like ditching Docker is the wrong way to go, if we’re using Docker for literally everything else.]
Everything else is a lot more complicated to deploy without Docker
BookBrainz is about 5 steps
It was a tricky decision but one that can always be unmade when we decide another way
Anyway next I’ll be looking at improving our select inputs across our editing pages

OpenSCORE dedication

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@Rob

right, so we need to provide some text as to to whom we wish to dedicate our sponsoring of the openScoring of Beethoven’s fifth.
given that we’re quirky and a bit troublemakers, I wanted to get a quick feel for how y’all feel about this:
“MetaBrainz will never give you up, never let your data down. We will never run around and desert your privacy. Our UX will assuredly make you cry, but we’re never gonna say goodbye!”

Too much? about right? I think we can all work on the exact wording to be better, but…

1 vote in favour, 1 abstain vote, and 1 vote against the proposed dedication. Due to the lack of feedback, @Rob and @Quesito will come up with something on their own.

Changing the default font for MeB websites

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@samj1912 notes that i’s render weirdly on MetaBrainz sites under Linux in some instances.

It was suggested that @samj1912 made a more clear case with an alternative and files a ticket on Jira. @LordSputnik suggested to also get @samj1912 hooked up with BrowserStack to get screenshots of issue and proposed fix(es) across several browsers and platforms.