Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-09-11

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-09-11

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Summit t‐shirts

Reviews

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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still editing debussy because I never half-ass anything,
still scanning booklets…
aaand finally did some instruments
anyone who has any feedback on Acoustic guitar and classical guitar - #13 by ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython would be much obliged so I can consider that *done﹡
Addendum: i forgot to mention: today norway has election!

@paramsingh

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@paramsingh

I officially joined the MeB team this week, so signed contracts and made PRs to add myself to the team page and similar stuff.
Again, thanks ruaok for the opportunity
other than that, I worked on making LB work with clients using an old version of the last.fm API.
back to LB, we’ve got spotify working and I have a PR up for some bug fixes and it should get VLC working with LB too.

@Freso

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@Freso

I dealt a lot with reported editors this week.
A lot of editors who’d created spam entities were reported, so I spent some time clearing out those.
Which also led to an MBS ticket.
The May MetaBrainz Foundation board meeting minutes finally got published on Friday:
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I also spent a wee bit of time doing Twitter stuff and looking over blog comments.
And kept an eye on IRC and the forums.
Outside of work news, I’ve also started doing streams of me editing MusicBrainz on Twitch. Twitch if you feel like watching someone edit MusicBrainz while you edit MusicBrainz.
Addendum: I also added samj1912 and iliekcomputers to a couple of things in my domain (e.g., elevated them on the forums and added them to the @MetaBrainz group).

@samj1912

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@samj1912

This week I joined the MeB team
There were papers and lots of smiles
Apart from that I have been reading up on solr and browsing though our existing code on the same
There’s a lot of tech involved. Trying to piece it all together

@zas

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@zas

We had an issue on the webservice related to consul / consul-template
not sure yet what is going on, but i’ll work with bitmap this week to upgrade consul & consul-template, and if it persists we’ll dig further
it happens sometimes, some template variables are unset, even though related service is working
this time it was causing an abnormal high rate of 500 errors
a restart of containers apparently fixed it
more on this this week
apart that, i elevated privileges of our newcomers
also upgraded all servers
fixed ssl cert on nagios machine (this one expired, it was forgotten when we renewed it)
added a graph to grafana related to those 500s errrors to ease detection, and tuned related alert
plus usual bunch of MB edits

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I did a new mbs release for the first time in a while
fixed more issues in the json dumps pr, I think it’s ready for merge
fixed various bugs: MBS-9455, MBS-9458, MBS-9459, MBS-9019, MBS-9462
created some l_event_url triggers in the production database which have been missing since 2014 and explain why some URLs don’t get removed (but isn’t the only reason)
submitted some prs to improve our js, by starting to add flow types and enabling async/await transforms in babel
helped fix some other weird mbs issues related to consul-template (temporarily at least) and DateTime caching

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

Support, plus I added the option to order recording work relationships
And broke the site
Which someone has already written a fix for I think

@Rob

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@Rob

last week, I dealt with team stuff as you all know. fastest time ever to hire two new people.
I also kept working up on VMs, and the one that is currently up looks quite promising.
I should’ve done a blog post today, but I was out enjoying the catalan holiday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_A-mlW0Lv4
I also did some work with LB compatibility API tweaking/testing. It is exciting to be able to record listens from spotify now.
thanks iliekcomputers and zas for making this happen!
this week I’m going to shift into summit prep mode, which will involve a lot of office related stuff.

@chhavi

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@chhavi

So I attended the Flock to Fedora summit. It was my first open source summit (also first trip to the US). Met a lot of nice people there, who were kind enough to ignore how little I knew about the FOSS world.
I helped Quesito with the tshirt mockups then

@Quesito

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@Quesito

Last week I dove back into work and getting re-organized from pre-vacation time. Which meant a few emails here and there.
I continuously sign up more Stealth users who contribute a smaller, but important support amount to us!
I am also diving back into some conversations with a few unicorns.
Ruaok and I had a catch-up about upcoming events as well as the summit. And discussed some office decor…
And then chhavi_ and I worked on summit tees–of which–we will present this evening for decision making!

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Mostly reviewed brilliant pull requests by bitmap.
Coded for small issues and extended attributes UI/WS (to be in beta at least before the summit).
Glanced at ruaok’s brand new VM.
Back to voting on MB edits, made me hope for doc i18n.
Thanks to CatQuest for having processed about 40 Norwegian aliases.
Last but not least, welcome to Sambhav and Param!

@ferbncode

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@ferbncode

This week I worked on my first PR ( \o/ ) in acousticbrainz-server, for adding docker support for development (AB-297).

@LordSputnik

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@LordSputnik

So this week I mainly worked on the new entity editor
and can now say it’s done for two entities out of our five works and creators
Now just editions, edition groups/publication and publishers to go
But progress should be fairly fast now, since I’m just reusing a load of common base components that I wrote as building blocks
I also added some BookBrainz topics to the summit page
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Hopefully we can make some progress on those

Summit t‐shirts

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To finish up the decision on designs for the summit t-shirts, @Quesito and @chhavi has been working on some suggestions:

MeB Tees 2017

We had a vote for the front design, the back design, and the t-shirt base colour. The back design in particular sparked a lot of conversation, so be sure to check the actual chatlogs for details. In the end, the votes were distributed as follows (note the usage of the design number in the upper left corner rather than the slide number):
Front: 1 vote for #2, 1 vote for #3, and 9 votes for #4.
Back pt. 1 (overall): 3 votes for #1, 3 votes for #2, 2 votes for #3, 3 votes for #4, and 4 votes for text over #1 with alignment of #4.
Back pt. 2 (“revote” between #1 and #1/#4 combo): 3 votes for #1, 2 votes for #4, 4 votes for #1/#4 combo.
Colour pt. 1: 1 vote for black OR white, 1 vote for green, and 4 votes for off-white/natural white. (@Quesito then stated that black and green would not be considered, since they’d clash with the chosen front/back designs.)
Colour pt. 2 (white vs. natural): Unanimous agreement on natural white/off-white.

So final result is that the summit t‐shirts will have front design of #4, back design with the text of #1 but layout of #4, on a natural white t-shirt.