Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-01-15

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-01-15

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Agenda

• Reviews
• GSoC ideas page
• musicbrainz-cli
• BrainzBot voting

Reviews

@Rob

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@Rob

• Doing finances for 2017/Q4 and doing tax prep work for closing 2017, which took a lot of time.
• Part of the reason why the process took more time than usual is that I am working to automate more tasks, such as account reconciliation, invoice sending and anything that can possibly be automated. The motivation for this is that this way we will never have any need/desire to hire any contractors who cannot be vetted via our community vetting process that we have in place for developers. Clearly the non-community vetting process doesn’t work well, so we’ll obviate the need for it.
• Some PR reviews for ListenBrainz
• Some minor hosting tasks relating to ListenBrainz
• Some tasks related to managing ongoing affairs with our attorneys.
• Heckling our secretary to fill out the doodle for the board meeting.

@chhavi

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@chhavi

I just helped with a few UX tickets. Also, Ruaok and I, updated our Redbubble store with t-shirts and other merchandise. Feel free to request more t-shirt or any artwork to add to the store.

@Freso

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@Freso

This past week has been pretty much all about GCI as well as continuing my moving-to-Sweden process.
I did reply to OTHER-321 with some of my thoughts about it, but I suspect we’ll talk more about that a bit later.
I also poked at reported editors, after too long not poking at them, but I have to say GCI have been taking far too much of my working time this last week.
However, students can’t claim more tasks now, so I hope I’ll have more time to catch up on actual things in the coming week.

@samj1912

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@samj1912

this week I did mostly PR reviews and got an alpha solr search setup running on test.mb.org (I might write a blog inviting testers and bug reporters)
apart from that fixed a couple of schema bugs

@zas

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@zas

i worked on backup system, made good progress, still testing though
usual bunch of code reviews
i’m planning upgrades too, waiting for stable patches…

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Last week, I updated MusicBrainz server with a new version.
Reviewed a bunch of good PRs from GCI students, thanks
Dealed with a few issues and continued work on spam/attributes

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

I’m back in India after a great trip to Thailand
Been working on LB dumps for a bit since yesterday
We should ideally have a release soon

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I mostly worked on
MBS-9599, MBS-9600, MBS-9603: Support other gettext domains in the JS by mwiencek · Pull Request #599 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub
so we can display translated strings from other gettext domains in the javascript
other than that I did a bunch of code review, helped deploy the solr stuff to test.mb
also finally deployed the new caa indexer with the fixes to make it not crash

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

I was waiting for my laptop to unfreeze but eh phone it is
So I did support and some GCI
And I’m near Helsinki airport to go to middle of nowhere, Lapland tomorrow morning
So I’ll be mostly away this week, but still deal with support and such

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

Second week of the year was mad!
Did quite a lot of gci - managed to do a fair bit of editing
(I had rented a lot of releases expecting to be able to do them over the holydays, but between my macomputer breaking and gci it was mad rush at the end)
Had some issues with one student doing a copyright violation, but that seems to have solved itself - super thanks to reosarevok for speedy deletions notices.
I’ve selected my five finalists and I’m looking forward to discussing who we’re going to pick with everyone later in the week!
Mostly today I’ve spent stocking up for mega-sudden cold weather (-11?!) that’s arriving next week, I’m glad I have a fireplace!
This week I hope to get my mac back and/or to start adding all the instruments that where researched by students for gci!!

@naiveaiguy

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@naiveaiguy

Currently working on OTHER-321, which is a pretty exciting little BrainzBot plugin. Did a little work on MusicBrainz, both the server and some editing (thanks yvanzo, bitmap, Major_Lurker!). End of GCI is almost coming up, so I’d like to say just a little bit about it.
Thank you! Thank you all so much for putting up with my confused, clueless, sometimes downright rude, and faceless persona and still helping me learn so much. Thank you all for being as dedicated as you are. I’ve learnt a whole lot, both about raw programming and about the whole craft of software from this little adventure. Really the most important thing I learnt is that I’ll never learn all of it :D. I hope I’ll be a good community member in the future.

@Deleted_Editor_1968048

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@Deleted_Editor_1968048

my name is Hartama I’m 17 y.o rn, so this will be my last GCI experience.
I’ve doing regular data task, designing a badge for BB achievements trough GCI task, adding some URLs relationship to MB, doing some docs task with picard-website.
And this week, I’m have done design task creating vector drawing visually explains differences between Release Group from Release, Track from Recording, and Recording from Work.
Hope i can contributing in other way, out of GCI and hope can helps with design.
And I’m going away for a while as my school held an event outside, stay overnight with no internet connection, see you later

@Ashish_Kamathi

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@Ashish_Kamathi

Practically I have been working on a recording tutorial on how to add a classical release to musicbrainz, learnt a lot of things thanks to Freso & reosarevok their mentoring. I hope this will prove to be helpful : ) & most of all I am just enjoying it. I would really appreciate their dedication & hard work
Thank you all : )

@Leo_Verto

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@Leo_Verto

I did some more GCI mentoring, mostly BrainzBot stuff with naiveai and annebelleo but I also a bunch of data entry ones this weekend (although nowhere near as much as MajorLurker and CatQuest).
In general we’ve made pretty significant improvements to lower the barriers for BrainzBot development (i.e. not downloading and compiling node when npm is already installed) but I’m hoping to get a bunch of other cleanup and housekeeping done in the future.
I’ve also somewhat improved the repo setup with locked master branches and forced reviews which works pretty well.
And we’ll talk about the meeting plugin that we’ve probably spent way too much time designing later

@spellew

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@spellew

I’ve been working on converting Perl templates to React for my GCI tasks. Right now I’m making a few edits to the not_found.tt files and then I’ll work on converting the isrc and iswc pages.
I just want to thank the community for helping me with everything, I’ve learned so much since GCI started.

GSoC ideas page

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@Freso

Development/Summer of Code/2018 - MusicBrainz Wiki has “Ideas page” links for all the main projects, but none of those pages exist currently.
So people (and esp. project leads), please go and create those pages!
Consider looking at the pages from Development/Summer of Code/2017 - MusicBrainz Wiki and copying them—there are probably even ideas there that are still valid for 2018.

musicbrainz-cli

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@naiveaiguy

this is a simple little idea I had based on a discussion with CatQuest
It’s not very fleshed out yet
The idea is that currently, your average editor can’t build queries directly against the database
Now, musicbrainz-cli could be a little CLI app that you can run some custom query language on, that’s simpler than SQL
and create, for example, reports that aren’t general enough to be full-blown reports, but are customized to the editor’s needs
I am not sure at all whether this is remotely useful, so I was looking for some input on it

There was some talk about not doing creating a new language for this, and that SPARQL might be what we’re looking for. LinkedBrainz was referred to as something that does a lot of what @naiveaiguy seems to want, but that project seems to still be down. It was also brought up that a website might be better, with a decent UI (maybe even directly on MB) and concerns were raised about running against production database.

In the end, @naiveaiguy said «I was just looking for some validation on the idea, will research in depth and come back to it later/in a future meeting».

BrainzBot voting

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@naiveaiguy

Just wanted to bring this to the attention of anyone who hasn’t seen this
OTHER-321 is a a little vote plugin I’m working on currently
I’ve got the basic functionality pretty much down right now
The current syntax has examples in this gist:
https://gist.github.com/naiveaiguy/ce79a2e2eecce67699b43db16f91cf67
Freso, Leo_Verto, and CatQuest have already had some pretty extensive discussions on this matter
and I believe they mostly like the syntax?
either way I was looking for wider community input

Anyone who want to chime in are asked to do so on the relevant ticket.