Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-05-21

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-05-21

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Mentorship Program
• MBS-9680 + user renames
• Summit tshirts

Reviews

@iliekcomputers

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@iliekcomputers

Did a bunch of work on GDPR things, user account deletion and notices. Also, did a lot of code review for @kartikeyaSh and @little_rsh, their brainzutils PRs are looking pretty good. I’ll probably merge and release a new version tomorrow if they’re okay.
Other than that, gonna be busy with irl stuff for the last week of May mostly, lots of people going away (and I’m in desperate need for a vacation after this semester)

@samj1912

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@samj1912

Did a lot of solr stuff this week
I basically tried fixing our search and relevance results
and they got as fixed as they could get
@reosarevok and @Leo_Verto and @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython helped me a lot with that
you can test it out here - https://test.musicbrainz.org/
just keep the advanced mode on, since only that has the appropriate boosts
apart from that fixed a few other sir bugs

@chhavi

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@chhavi

Worked on summit artwork with invat (yeah, I know it’s too early, but was excited to get started). A bit on setting up the design system, not as much as I would have liked though. Looking forward to catch up this week.
This one was a rough one (got sick and family mishaps).

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

As expected, I didn’t get much done this week, however it was mostly due to a sudden elevation of temperature!
To our esteemed indian colleagues it is probably not much, but if you consider that a mere month-and-a-half ago there was snow on the ground with minus 5˚, a plus 28˚ is indeed a lot! (in july one would be more used to something like this temperature :​​D)
However, I ​did​ mange to do some fixing of gong and gongs (merge the latter into the former)
Edited a few releases, added a ticket for suggestion of a new report: MBS-9712
Considering splitting up our “mbira” instrument which makes sense since we differentiate between very similar other instruments, but this will be an undertaking, as it will require reorganising a lot of different wikidata pages as well, anyone who knows anything about all lamellophones like mbiras, likembes, kalimbas, sansas and the ilk are welcome to talk about this! Please make some INST tickets with different “thumb piano” instruments that are your pet thing. (yes, people reading the community “Notes from” posts, this means you!)
see INST-647 for the accompanying ticket!

@Freso

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@Freso

This last week I did some board related stuff, including attending this quarter’s quarterly board meeting.
I dealt with some reported editors and some flagged forum content/users.
And generally was around and about on IRC and forums.

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Last week, I reviewed more PRs, reworked my code for reporting spam, updated URL handlers, helped a tiny bit with SOLR.
No release today, but a beta release soon.

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I was working on a new parser for our translation source strings which can handle embedded html
(quite a few of our strings in mbs contain html, and react doesn’t make that possible to work with without wrapping the text in a <span/> or other element)
also made some fixes to and merged a couple prs: converting the area search results page to react, adding selenium tests for the release editor
otherwise, did some code review.

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

So, this has been a busy uni week, so mostly just support and standard editing
There was a discussion on the forums about cover art that could use some more opinions
And I helped @samj1912 a bit with solr stuff

@zas

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@zas

i set up 3 VMs on Hetzner Cloud, and configured them as a SOLR cloud so we can start to experiment
apart that, i set up a bunch of alerts related to CPU temperature, and tuned them
Also worked on Postgresql stuff a bit, mainly digging documentation
plus usual upgrades etc…

@LordSputnik

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@LordSputnik

This week I helped @shivamt out with GSoC
He’ll give more info about that
Also worked on the BB editor removal endpoint to allow editor deletion on MB to propagate to BB
That’s done now, and just needs testing
/delete-user/:metabrainzUserID endpoint for remote editor deletion by BenOckmore · Pull Request #196 · metabrainz/bookbrainz-site · GitHub

@shivamt

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@shivamt

This week I worked on schema related work for imports
It has been reviewed and I am working on the changes
I worked on functional query based methods to access the methods
Had a discussion in my weekly meeting with @LordSputnik regarding bb-data interface for this setup
I am a bit behind my schedule for this week, trying to catch up.

@Rob

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@Rob

last week was prepping for the board meeting and another convo with y-vonne, and finally the board meeting.
then I started doing research for finding alternative to spanish banks…
because, the bank wants to re-open our account, but their computer systems won’t allow it.
sigh.
who knows if that will ever get taken care of. so I asked around a bit and got very posittive referrals for transferwise. I dove in and we now have a EUR account and will soon have an INR account.
pretty neat, still more expensive than a regular bank account, but for now, it is ok.
next month’s invoices will be paid through that. we’ll see how that goes.
I also caught up the accounting that was piled up on having a valid EUR account, so I did all that.
and then some GDPR stuff and PRs for @iliekcomputers and @samj1912. sadly, another week where I failed to review @kartikeyaSh’s PR.
thanks to @iliekcomputers for picking up the slack.

@little_rsh

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@little_rsh

This week I worked on direct connection scripts for artist and release entity and opened the PRs in BU.
I also added the test script for helper function.
And a separate MB direct connection setup PR in AB.
Updated the AB documentation for setting up MusicBrainz server in AB.
and worked on removing caching from release, artist and recording entity in BU.

@kartikeyaSh

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@kartikeyaSh

I did some work on creating recording clusters waiting for some discussion with @Rob.
I worked on the reviews by @iliekcomputers in BrainzUtils PR for musicbrainz db and I plan to complete the requested changes after the meeting.

@Leo_Verto

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@Leo_Verto

I started working on the website and management part of SpamBrainz, helped @samj1912 testing and tweaking newsearch (which works extremely well already).
I’ve also been looking into data science stuff to run on the spam data, I’ll probably end up making a couple jupyter notebooks (and hopefully a bunch of cool graphs).
Oh and I also found a great location for our 2019 summit
Vermietung Elbphilharmonie - Elbphilharmonie

@drsaunde

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@drsaunde

the time has finally come to say
…its time to remove the probation from the KEXP editors
they’ve stop forcing all their volunteers to edit
those were the really crappy ones because when you’re forced to do something you don’t care
so we are left with 3-4 kexp editors, but they were the best, they actually care about the database and take suggestions are involved etc
so i’m officially lifting my probation i had on them, they don’t require watching anymore
[@Freso: Thanks for all your work and time dealing with them.]
no worries…someone had to do it
and because i’m a masochist, i’ve started another SXSW festival…yikes!
and i hope most/all of you had a chance to read the mentorship doc

Mentorship Program

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A bit of talk back and forth and some suggestions about the . @chhavi suggested looking at the GSoC mentor/mentee expectations.

@drsaunde asked for potential mentors to step up.

There were some discussion about working together, with GCI being brought up as a comparison. @Freso noted that GCI’s time sensitivity does not really apply to the proposed mentorship program. Obviously, mentors will be free to ask for advice about something from other mentors, and even community members outside the program, but likely no need to organise in the same way that GCI is.

@drsaunde will revise his proposal and include some initial mentors and return with more updates later.

MBS-9680 + user renames

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@bitmap

@LordSputnik pointed out a problem with the api in MBS-9680, which is that if a user is renamed on mb, the downstream projects won’t have the new name, thus can’t be identified for deletion later
BookBrainz stores the editor row ids, so we can work around the problem there (by sending the row id to /delete-user). @iliekcomputers says the python projects don’t have the ids (and if they relog it looks like it’ll just create a new account?)
3 solutions I see:

1. be careful to hand-update user names in other projects after we rename them in mb
2. add another endpoint to mb’s sibling projects, /rename-user, that mb can ping
3. start storing editor row ids in the python projects

thoughts? I’d like to decide what to do here so I can finalize the /delete-user api

There was widespread consensus that 3. is the way to go, even if it will take a bit longer and be more cumbersome to implement initially. @Rob noted that «this isn’t the critical path for GDPR, so it is fine to let it run out a bit. as long as we stay on it.»

Summit tshirts

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@chhavi

tshirt link:
https://imgur.com/a/wd5adc1
Link to updated artwork for summit tshirts
The idea is to upload this to redbubble on our shop. And we can order a bunch for the summit from there
And maybe cups this time, like we had pillows?
open to feedback on artwork, color and other goodies
Ping for any feedback later, we have a month or two before we order them anyways