# Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-05-07

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2018-05-07/379342
**Category:** MetaBrainz
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**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 9:01am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2018-05-07/379342 "2018-05-10T09:01:59Z")
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# #MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-05-07

Meeting start: [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4172856/)

## Agenda

- [Reviews](#reviews)

## Reviews

### @dragonzeron

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> [@dragonzeron](#):
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> I have been adding a lot of ISRCS on Japanese recordings however when I go to the releases and they have a Amazon link the picture that is for the album does not show up I was wondering if somebody can look into that and see what is the problem cause it has not been woring for hte past few month unless someone is working on that which I dont know about so I hope you guys can look into this

### @chhavi

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> [@chhavi](#):
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> This week I worked with bitmap to set up the design system.Still in progress, hopefully we will have something nice to show next week. 🙂 that’s all.  
> Also, samj caught a bug so he won’t be able to make it meeting tonight.

### @kartikeyaSh

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> [@kartikeyaSh](#):
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> Still busy with the exams stuff. Created a PR for [LB-352](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-352).

### @Leo_Verto

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> [@Leo\_Verto](#):
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> Last week I built a MusicBrainz server from source for my work on SpamBrainz, started working with Flask (which is also relevant for SB)  
> I also continued researching papers about machine-learning-based spam fighting.  
> Oh and I made a spambrainz repo which is still mostly empty  
> [GitHub - metabrainz/spambrainz: Spam detection for MusicBrainz · GitHub](https://github.com/metabrainz/spambrainz)

### @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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> [@ApeKattQuest\_MonkeyPython](#):
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> First half of this week had been busy with all the kinds of RL crap other than musicbrainz instruments D:  
> However! at the weekend I added the treble viol and the tenor viol, and I’ve also edited Viola de gamba a lot to fix credits.  
> added the Alto Viola, so now I have only have left the pardessus \o/  
> Pestered @reosarevok to add a wikidata item or two

### @reosarevok

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> [@reosarevok](#):
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> I did support, and helped CatQuest with a couple things, and otherwise enjoyed the first few days of decent weather in the north

### @Freso

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> [@Freso](#):
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> Caught up on a bunch of meeting notes, looked into some Jira issue that @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython reported as a result of @yvanzo’s experiments, which he ultimately reverted. ☹ Oh well. We’ll find something even greater!  
> Dealt with a number of flags on forums and otherwise spent time keeping up with forums and IRC.

### @LordSputnik

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> [@LordSputnik](#):
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> So this week I worked a little on moving entity editing logic into bookbrainz-data-js  
> I’m still unsure how I want to refactor it  
> But I’m pretty sure ImmutableJS Records will be involved  
> I also had a project kickoff meeting with @shivamt which was pretty productive

### @bitmap

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> [@bitmap](#):
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> mostly spent time investigating pg perf issues. worked on [MBS-9708](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9708) to improve one source of abnormal cpu usage (Area containment queries)  
> other than that, did code review and made some bug fixes to my open PRs

### @yvanzo

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> [@yvanzo](#):
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> For the past week, I have mainly been looking into DB intensive services/queries.  
> I also moved old replication packets around, updated system documentation, continued to answer to the community on MB development forum.  
> I worked on gathering spam data into consistent dumps for Leo\_Verto.  
> And started debugging [MBS-9709](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9709) which is blocking the next MBS release.

### @Rob

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> [@Rob](#):
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> I helped a little with DB stuff, replication packets (mostly being useless on these topics). some bizdev, a tiny bit of code review and a tiny bit of GDPR stuff.  
> then wed afternoon → fri I was out in the mountains playing with hippies, being silly and weird.

### @iliekcomputers

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> [@iliekcomputers](#):
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> Finals seem to have pseudo-increased my MeB productivity. 😉  
> re LB: Did some work on restreaming data to BigQuery,  
> almost done with making the restreamer less “loosey-goosey” as @rob put it.  
> Will finish that and move to GDPR LB requirements tomorrow.  
> CB: I sat for an entire day and a half and finished off the comments on reviews PR.  
> Waiting for some reviews from from @ferbncode on that, but I’m excited to do schema changes and push that to beta.CB  
> I also poked @ferbncode to review a PR that I had been wanting to merge for days.  
> AB: got poked by @little_rsh to review her pull requests on AB, so did that.  
> Gonna do more code reviews soon, there’s like 4 PRs that I think we could merge soon.

### @little_rsh

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> [@little\_rsh](#):
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> This week I was busy mostly with my exams and today I did some refactoring in [AB-21](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/AB-21).  
> and I would work more on [AB-298](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/AB-298) and [98](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/AB-98) this week.

### @shivamt

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> [@shivamt](#):
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> This week I cleaned up, made some changes and made a PR for user warnings.  
> [BB-259 : Add measure to warn users is an entity they're entering already exists in the database by shivam-tripathi · Pull Request #195 · metabrainz/bookbrainz-site · GitHub](https://github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-site/pull/195)  
> I also cleaned up schema additions and made another PR for it.  
> [Postgres FTS Migration by shivam-tripathi · Pull Request #7 · bookbrainz/bookbrainz-sql · GitHub](https://github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-sql/pull/7)  
> I worked on improving top entity collector  
> [Add queries to extract the most recent entity type revisions by shivam-tripathi · Pull Request #116 · metabrainz/bookbrainz-data-js · GitHub](https://github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-data-js/pull/116)  
> Made some new commit, upgrade old ones. Still a WIP.  
> Few more to come this week.  
> I worked on documenting the architecture to be used for data imports in BB  
> Had a productive meeting with @LordSputnik yesterday on details about the projects etc.
