Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-11-06

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2017-11-06

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Google Code‐in
• OTHER-310: Add Jira workflow for design/UI/UX/etc. tickets
• Design Kanban Board
• Get test.mb up before GCI

Reviews

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Last week, updated production servers with a few fixes. Mostly worked on training our spam ninjutsu which should be reviewed and included during this week for beta testing.

@chhavi

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@chhavi

This week, I worked on the “Open Edits” and “Release Page”.
I also opened a few tickets for the redesign so far.
Here is the link to the Kanban board:
Log in - MetaBrainz Tickets
It would be nice if we can have feedback on it.

@LeftmostCat

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@LeftmostCat

I’ve been working a bit on putting together GCI tasks. Turns out, it’s a little fiddly to log in to GCI if your GCI account isn’t your primary Google account, but I’m working around it. I’ll get some tasks posted there in the near term.

@paramsingh

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@paramsingh

I’ve been working on fixing AB high level data dumps.
Finally got my head around the schema and got a PR up. took a bunch of time but okay.
AB-315: Fix high-level json dumps to work with new schema by paramsingh · Pull Request #239 · metabrainz/acousticbrainz-server · GitHub
Now, I’ve been working on fixing rob’s review on LB-224

@ferbncode

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@ferbncode

i didn’t work on much stuff this week. just dumping the ab dumps into old schema for my major project ;). Will be adding GCI tasks this week

@CatQuest

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@CatQuest

last week, because I am full of fail:
actually made progress on instruments again!!!
added the vuvuzela!
added some gci tasks!
submitted some modifications to a loujine script.
futzed about on wikipedia because Akete - Wikidata and Akete - Wikidata are probably the same thing, but have different pages and also Nyabinghi rhythm - Wikipedia (so anyone who edits wikipedia and/or knows about Rastafarian drums, assistance is greatly appreciated! :​o)
and… drumroll plz
finally started working on updating my browser! I’m upgrading one version at the time in order to be able to move all stuff over and such. yaaay!

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

So I did mostly support, because I spent half of the week stressing over the final preparations for
http://www.wikisciencecompetition.org
(science people, send us photos!)
And the other half at a conference being Freso’s spokesman
Which was actually very interesting and got a couple interesting contacts out of it
(Addendum: «Oh, I forgot to announce: we did a great job with Mahler, blog post coming soon!»)

@Freso

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@Freso

I finally got around to doing OTHER-310, after chhavi_'s pestering me about it (but also since not doing it kind of held up her work, which hurts us all, so it good that she kept pestering me). More about that in a bit.
I asked chhavi_ to write a blog post about the summit, and she said yes, and had it done shortly after, and then I did some copy-editing and we pinged a bit back and forth and ended up (after some more proof reading by reosarevok) in the form of:
MetaBrainz Summit 17 – MetaBrainz Blog
I (hopefully) put the last touches on getting DDG to index to MusicBrainz (for now) and gave samj1912 access to the Bing Webmaster account so that I’m not the only one with the “golden keys”.
I dealt a slight bit with KEXP (mostly by reading/listening to drsaunde’s reports of the current situation).
I also spent time on forums and IRC as per usual and answered a couple of support@ mails about GCI.
I also did some GCI coordinating, but pretty much took the weekend off to spend some time with girlfriend before going back to Catalonia tomorrow.
And besides MeB paid things, I also picked up streaming again yesterday, adding a couple of events on stream, and I spent a good chunk of my time on Wednesday and Thursday watching a live stream of this open data conference in Estonia, and made reosarevok ask some questions on my behalf.
Flying midday-ish tomorrow, but will try to catch up once I’ve gotten home.

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I did some code review, fixed some cron mishaps on bootsy, worked on moving important stuff to hip
made some bugs fixes and perf improvements to the sample data dump script
discussed the search schema a bit with samj

@Rob

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@Rob

last week I was getting some motivation back, but still kinda hard.
I was dealing with a lot of board crap. I wrote a contractor conflict resolution protocol and the board will discuss.
finished dealing with 2016 taxes and other metabrainz crap. had a couple of conference calls.
and I did some LB reviews, but not nearly enough.
and now I am getting excited about the massive data dump that McGill dropped on massive amounts of listens. that is a treasure trove. and a very large one at that.

@LordSputnik

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@LordSputnik

So this week I was mainly writing unit tests for the new form validators
Going to finish that off tonight
Also wrote up a total of one GCI task
Gotta get both the task writeups and the new entity editor done before GCI starts
So will be working on that until the end of November

@zas

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@zas

i finished the move of Nagios to gcloud, made a bunch of security upgrades, dealt with few failures (and watched bitmap moving stuff from boingo to hip…)
usual PR reviews, ip (un)blacklisting, upgraded grafana

@samj1912

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@samj1912

Fixed a bug in solr related to some mbs schema updates which is currently not in search server
Discussed other such schema bugs with bitmap a bit
Took a FOSS lecture in my institute this week
150 peoples attended and about 90 joined the iitg specific irc channel
Planning on a live MeB bug solving and hacking session this weekend
Also submit my first mbs ws pr
And a picard bug which I am saving for the live session

@ListMyCDs.com

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@ListMyCDs.com

Little status update. Autumn has been extremely busy with my studies. Thanks to the lack of university funding the amount of group work has been increased and suddenly it’s not only my personal effort that affects my schedule. This madness seems to end for a while and I finally have time to continue my earlier work.
I will limit editing if necessary to free more time for this. If flu isn’t going to kill me I will continue later on this week.

Google Code‐in

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@Freso

Not much to say. People are slowly starting to formular actual tasks now, though they haven’t been moved over to the GCI interface yet. I will hopefully have some good, long days in the MeB office this week, looking over, adding, and editing tasks and getting caught up on our GCI stuff.

OTHER-310: Add Jira workflow for design/UI/UX/etc. tickets

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@Freso

So I did https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/OTHER-310 which means almost all projects in Jira now have a “Design” issue type which has its own workflow, slightly different from the regular ticket workflow.
I’d like people to keep an eye on this and let me know if anything else has gotten disrupted because of it, or if you think of some ways it can be improved. I’ve left OTHER-310 open for now, so comment there.
I’ll close OTHER-310 in a week or two once I’m sure no one is complaining a lot.

Design Kanban Board

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@samj1912

I ended up making a Kanban board for chhavi_ to allow her to manage her design tickets and also provide a pin board of sorts for people to look at active design tickets and provide feedback
Kanban is supposed to be used in an agile env. with rapid prototyping/feedback

@chhavi

I just wanted to ask, how should I ask for feedback on specific tickets. Should I ping people personally, or have a bi-weekly design slot/meeting where I run the team through tickets which need feedback?

There was some discussion about @chhavi’s questions, but no clear consensus, other than the Kanban board probably not being the best way to proceed and most involved parties wanting to be somehow pinged directly or semi-directly instead of having to remember to check the Kanban board themselves.

Get test.mb up before GCI

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@CatQuest

it’s probably a good idea to get test.mb.org up and running before gci starts, it 's a great place to tell newbies to “go wild and experiment” to test things, and not to worry about making an error or mess up data.
it’s much easier to get people to “dive in” and learn what does what, when they don’t have to worry about breaking anything.
this is true regardless, but especially for gciers

@Bitmap said «it should be faily simple» and that he’d work on it.

[aerozol]

@chhavi

This week, I worked on the “Open Edits” and “Release Page”.

I also opened a few tickets for the redesign so far.

Here is the link to the Kanban board:

Log in - MetaBrainz Tickets

It would be nice if we can have feedback on it.

Wow
UX progress? Is this a dream??
Anything in particular you want feedback on? In general though, this looks very promising!

One thing that I think might be useful is some way to mark ‘required’ fields/sections so that new users know they don’t have to go through all of them.

The ‘Edit Page’ button could be big and colourful in the sidebar as well - perhaps just when not logged in and link to the create an account page. I think it’s really important to get those browsers sucked into editing.

Thank you

[Freso]

It’s probably better to leave feedback directly on the tickets in Jira. They will likely get lost here.