Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-09-18

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-09-18

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Supported browsers

Reviews

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

did support, and sent a PR for
https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9469
(an entire line!)
I’ll soon add some more attributes for work-work part-of rels as per classical discussion on the forum, once orderable relationships are no longer borked

@Quesito

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@Quesito

Last week we finalized the t-shirts first off! Woot!
This of course was promptly changed, so apologies in advance as I know the community voted for white/natural color tee shirts, however we had some vendor issues and the compromise is heather grey tees.
https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/KL6IT9Jw/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-18%20at%2018.58.10.png
The quality did not change. And they look pretty cool, in mind opinion–so I do hope this change suits all.
I really appreciated samj1912 helping ruaok with airbnb–while i dealt with the tees changing!
Other than that, I reopened one unicorn conversation and opened up a second unicorn conversation. The later has been a bit tricky, but clean minds will prevail.
I have also continued to bring in 2 more stealths last week. The developer program I have implemented is working really well and it’s a really great way to start off supporter relationships that will hopefully lead to long term data-mances…
@chhavi and I are also trying to touchbase and organize UX. We will continue to try to do so–in hopes for some awesomeness and discussion at the summit!
Summit-wise: I await confirmation for our ‘night-on-the-town’ dinner (saturday 30th) reservations from Copesetic. If they are unable to seat us we will turn to Flax n Kale. Either have a variety of foods for all palates (although the later does not serve carne).
While we are planning presentations (the typical I‘ve been told–casual) is there any interest in a projector?
As I’ve been preparing my presentations–I’ve figured lots of data images as most think what I do is a bit boring….so projecting would be useful to me–does anyone else have interest in this?
I can bring mine to use–it’s also super easy to rent a set up in bcn. Let me know!

@LordSputnik

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@LordSputnik

Mostly just worked on entity editor, edition UI now done, just gotta write the form processing code which should take about an hour. Then onto the last two really simple editors Hoping to release a new site version just before the summit

@Freso

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@Freso

Spent quite some time on reported editors again this week.
Did a Discourse upgrade (and had one Discourse upgrade done for me by zas :p).
And otherwise spent time on forums and IRC.
Off-clock, I also continued my MusicBrainz editing (and not a wee bit of programming) streaming.

@paramsingh

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@paramsingh

I’m currently traveling to the city of Chandigarh to collect my passport from the visa office.
Worked on two issues this week: LB-208, LB-209
Only kinda sorta MetaBrainz related but I gave a talk on GSoC for SFD this week and I did some MeB promotion there as well.
Other than that, busy with exams.

@LeftmostCat

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@LeftmostCat

I am in the process of sourcing root beer and whiskey for the summit. If anyone wants anything else from Montana, now’s the time.
Quesito gets root beer if she’s very nice. Alastair gets some anyhow. If anyone else wants some, also let me know that.

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I fixed some compression issue with the json dumps…
after we started including isrcs in the release dump, the file size ballooned from 2+ GB to 9+ GB for some reason…I got rid of pixz and am using a compiled xz-utils now and it’s back to 2+ GB
(didn’t use xz-utils to begin with because xenial’s is old and doesn’t support threading)
worked on some PRs to add static types to our JS and port more things to react
relatedly was trying to fix MBS-8453 again by porting bits of the relationship editor to react
helped with the server upgrades on thurs and fixed some stuff in the aftermath
some of the hourly scripts broke because bzip2 was missing from the new images, including the one generating replication packets, but I was able to recover those from the temp dirs fine

@zas

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@zas

Start of week was about preparing a series of upgrades on all servers: docker, consul, consul-template, and important cpu firmware upgrade on intel machines.
we proceeded with bitmap on thursday, it went pretty smooth until last upgrade …
we messed up main postgres server upgrade by forgetting a simple health check binary in the image
it was fixed as soon we figure out what it was… but the blackout was much longer than expected
after that we fixed minor issues related to upgrades, now everything is fine
some of our servers were lazy at reboot time, it slowed the process
but overall, all servers are now in sync (same docker version, latest consul, and firmware fixes done)
apart that, i did a bunch of MB edits, and usual supervision

@samj1912

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@samj1912

Most of my week was spent on midterms
Learnt about our server deployment setup from zas an read on about solr

@chhavi

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@samj1912

Chhavi says she is a bit caught up with the mid terms, but has on her mind a teeny presentation on design buzzwords/flow which she will like to present at the summit , if everyone is up for it.
Apart from that, Quesito and I will touch bases on UX. Chhavi says bye, and see you again.

@Rob

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@Rob

last week was a lot of summit prep stuff.
I made an office sign. hung lights. ikea trip. interior design.
I hired a cleaner who is finishing up as we speak.
did some contract renegotiation work.
pushed some LB features live.
and a bunch more things I can’t even remember.
I’m happy to finally get the office to a space where we should all be comfy and well situated here next week.

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Last week, I reviewed more PRs, fixed more small tickets, getting started with deleting spammer accounts.

Supported browsers

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@bitmap

we haven’t updated these in a while, so I calculated new ones
safari dropped to 9.0
chrome stayed at 44
edge bumped up to 14
ie stayed at 11
firefox stayed at 44
opera isn’t anywhere above 0.5% but the version with the most share is now 43

No one objected to having the supported browsers be updated to reflect this.

[jesus2099]

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Supported browsers

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@bitmap

we haven’t updated these in a while, so I calculated new ones

• safari dropped to 9.0
• chrome stayed at 44
• edge bumped up to 14
• ie stayed at 11
• firefox stayed at 44
• opera isn’t anywhere above 0.5% but the version with the most share is now 43

No one objected to having the supported browsers be updated to reflect this.

Do we have any Vivaldi browser version yet, @bitmap?

[Bitmap]

No, I don’t see a single page view from Vivaldi in the past 6 months. I’m not sure why; it’s possible Google Analytics doesn’t recognize it, though there are a ton of browsers I’ve never heard of in the list (and I’ve heard of Vivaldi).

[WovenTales]

Isn’t it based on one of the more popular browsers? Firefox, I think? It might not distinguish itself from that base browser.