Notes from #MetaBrainz meeting 2018-03-05

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-03-05

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Release “variants”
• Summit date

Reviews

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

Could not get much done this week, last holi with friends in college, celebrations yada yada yada.
Have gotten some more work on the stats request PR in LB done, would like to get it merged this week and release beta this week, we got to 100M listens now.

@Rob

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@Rob

last week was more of the same, but with things looking up.
the banking situation is looking up and I’ll try and open a new account with a decent bank tomorrow. we’ll see how that goes.
I paid people, did other foundation sort of stuff.
did some LB reviews and tinkering.
spent the last 24 hours with zas and we did a lot of chatting.
slowly my enthusiasm is getting back and if the bank bit tomorrow works out, that will be huge.
iliekcomputers, chhavi_ samj1912 and ferbncode are all planning to meet in Delhi later this month, which should also be a lot of fun.
quite possibly even productive.

@zas

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@zas

usual supervision, kicks in container’s balls, reboots
Pull requests · metabrainz/picard · GitHub
worked on few PRs, we target Picard 2 beta this week
final release planned for the start of April

@chhavi

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@chhavi

Wrapped up Artist page mockups. Can’t fake my relief, it’s huge
Starting with Release groups now. Already seems to be going smoothly.
Apart from that, wrote a few pointers for our redesign blog and drafted my GSoC proposal.
Still a WIP. Can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DEvl1pQCsg3oIEgR8JW_GgI30bnZ4ch2ExNUDvkrBwg/edit

@samj1912

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@samj1912

spent more time on MBS react porting stuff this week, apart from that fixed a weird multi-threading bug in picard that caused it to hang
and picard review/2.0 planning as usual

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

still working on hyperion backlog, but also working on instruments!
Since the damn windows machine broke a lot of my already ripped music (debussy) when it wanted to “fix” that exh, I’ve had to re-lend a lot of releases from the library and re-rip and re-tag those. kinda pita but alas.
chhavi showed me some upcoming work, so I’m looking forward to more chhavi mockups in the future!
in general I’m getting up to speed.

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

So, remember what I said about doing style stuff this week? I didn’t do much style stuff this week
I was busy with school stuff, mostly
So, support, editing, and school stuff. Hopefully this week is better in that regard!

@Freso

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@Freso

I got sick again! Or regressed or whatever. But I still feel much better than two weeks ago.
I got annoyed at our MetaBrainz YouTube channel frontpage, so I poked at that to have it actually show something instead of “this channel has no content”.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClC89t81khDKLCVs45prLqg
Looks much better now IMO.
I did a fair bit of forum catching up, and also trying to keep up with current/new posts.
And I responded to OTHER-77.
And Y-Vonne, the consultant that the Foundation is hiring to help the organisation figure out various policies and procedures etc., finally reached out to me for setting up a meeting.

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I submitted a pr to convert the area search results page to react. which required porting a lot of our form_/form_row_ components
other entities are mostly done too but I’ll submit a separate pr
was doing code review and rebasing/fixing test failures in my other prs
worked more on the webpack pr; hot module replacement is working but I’m trying to tweak the optimization stuff to make the bundles smaller. unfortunately it’s less advanced than what we were using previously
in some aspects at least
so part of that involved trying to remove global variables and inline script tags so that our dependency map makes sense and the optimizer can do its work. I opened a PR to fix our timeline code in that regard
and also spent a bit of time fixing our lodash usage to only import the functions we use. currently we are bundling the entirety of lodash yet likely only use 10% of it

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

I mostly worked on spam, react, vm dev env.
Also investigated bowie high load issue.
And reviewed PRs

@vishichoudhary

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@vishichoudhary

i posted my initial gsoc 2018 draft this week
which can be found on
GSoC 2018: Redefine Picard Plugin Structure
now working on some issue in picard

@akhilesh

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@akhilesh

This weak I worked on adding a table to BB stats page who has the total count of master revision for all five entity with all time added and last month added.
I created a PR to fix a small issue of converting Musicbrainz JIRA to Metabrainz JIRA with replacing text as well new URL at BB
I have invested plenty of time to make my proposal for GSOC.

@kartikeyaSh_ircc

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@kartikeyaSh_ircc

i worked on LB-309 and LB-198 this week
after PR for LB-309 get’s merged the Last.FM compatible api will be good enough to submit listens(if proper metadata is submitted) still have to work on LB-310 to make it return proper error codes
and i’ve started gathering information on the GSoC ideas for LB and i’m planning to discuss about it in a few days

@bukwurm_

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@bukwurm_

So this week my parents came over to visit me
So I was busy the entire week
But I was able to put together the code to detect existing data in this week
I’ll be opening a PR most probably tonight

@uditgulati0

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@uditgulati0

This week I fixed a couple of tickets.
Created and started progress on LB-322.
Wrote unit test for part of listen_writer.py

Currently working on LB-255. Will hopefully make a PR tonight.

@little_rsh

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@little_rsh

I am working on my proposal for SoC’18. I have already started working on first part of the project which includes testing the MB database access methods and deciding which one turns better for us.
I started my work with direct connection of MB database with AB and have setup the image in AB and worked on fetching the data for an entity. I have opened a pull request for the same,
AB-334: MB database image setup in AB and fetch data for recording entity by rsh7 · Pull Request #262 · metabrainz/acousticbrainz-server · GitHub
I also worked on one more PR in AB which enables the feature of getting high-level data for multiple recordings with one request.
I made a post on discourse asking some doubts, now waiting for community’s answer on that.
How should we test the methods of MusicBrainz database access?

Release “variants”

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@zas

In Digital releases we discussed about handling of digital formats
the current policy on MusicBrainz is we don’t care actual digital format, we manage “digital media” support releases
during this discussion, i had the feeling we were missing a tool to manage this
So i had the idea of release “variants”
Basically that’s a release based on the data on another release.
It would fit things like: colored vinyl releases, digital formats releases otherwise identical (mp3 vs flac vs ogg …)

A fair amount of discussion ensued; comparing “variants” to alternative tracklists, some questions about current practices, some discussion about when a new entry would be a Release vs. a “Variant” of another Release.

Ultimately, too many unanswered questions and concerns, so @zas agreed to try and make a more “formal”/in-depth specification of it or similar and post that on the forums in its own topic for further discussion before bringing it back up at the meeting.

Summit date

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@Leo_Verto

I think we started planning the '17 summit around this time last year (at least according to the wiki history) so I’d like to get started talking about this year’s summit.
Is there even going to be a summit this year? Is it going to be in Barcelona again? Do we have any date in mind? (Maybe there is a convenient referendum again :P)

@Freso said that the summit would most likely be in Barcelona again sometime in late Summer or early Autumn, but that it would probably make more sense to discuss this with @Rob present (@Rob had to leave the meeting due to travel during Reviews), so it was ultimately decided to decide nothing for now and bring it up again at the next meeting.

[mmirG]

Get well wishes to Freso.
(Don’t want you beating my record for that damn fluey thing coming back.)

And the rest of it looks good.