# Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-08-13

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2018-08-13/403740
**Category:** MetaBrainz
**Tags:** metabrainz-meeting-notes, instruments
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2018-08-13/403740 "2018-10-31T15:37:50Z")
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### Author: ![Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/freso/32/25_2.png) [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2018-08-13/403740/1 "2018-10-31T15:37:50Z")

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# #MetaBrainz Meeting 2018-08-13

Meeting start: [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235102/)

Song of the week (“The weather here suggests we’re having a bit of a”):

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FYH8DsU2WCk/hqdefault.jpg "New Order - Blue Monday") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk)

## Agenda

- [Reviews](#reviews)
- [Membranophone discussion outcome](#membranophone-discussion-outcome)

## Reviews

### @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235110/](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235110/)

> [@ApeKattQuest\_MonkeyPython](#):
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> I said quite a bit [last week](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2018-08-06/399556#reviews) about what i was gonig to do  
> so  
> This week I’ve given @chhavi feedback, I had a meeting with @freso and @reosarevok ang the drums and I finished the last GCI related instrument ticket! yay!  
> Therefore I’ve also released the gci version!  
> Now I’m working on [OTHER-327](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/OTHER-327 "Write a blog post about added instruments") , there are 2 blogposts that will eventually be added also I’m really sorry it’s taken this long, but well, stuff happened™  
> also, I seem to be uhh. still ill so I feel pretty crummy :C  
> //hopefully/// (omg) I’ll get properly better this week!

### @reosarevok

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235132/)

> [@reosarevok](#):
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> This week I did the drum talk and otherwise enjoyed the slightly better wetter weather.  
> Dealt with support, edited, and went cycling and camping to disconnect a bit

### @Freso

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235138/)

> [@Freso](#):
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> I was generally catching up on things and being around and about.  
> Reading lots and lots of spam, following Freenode’s discussion about the situation too (not much is new).  
> Reviewed GSoC blog posts and added GSoC students to the blog so they could post them.  
> Talked with @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython and @reosarevok about instruments (if you hadn’t got that one yet :)).  
> Oh, I also got an e-mail from Google.  
> As GCI org. admin I can send one GCI mentor to the GSoC mentor summit. See the Hangout for more information.

### @Rob

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235157/)

> [@Rob](#):
>
> just traveling, fixing mum’s house, BBQs in the bay area and just a modicum of actual work this week.  
> but, the work that was done was pretty cool.  
> we signed both QNAP and Microsoft as unicorns in the past week.  
> which is a pretty big deal in the grand scheme of things. QNAP took almost a year to land, but we finally did it.

### @iliekcomputers

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235166/)

> [@iliekcomputers](#):
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> Last week, I started going to the library for set amounts of time to work on MeB things  
> 🙂  
> But then, I got stuck on a few things  
> I’m working on two things rn, setting up spark for LB and moving AB to hetzner  
> Hit blocks on both of them, but I think I’ve got enough now to move forward.  
> Other than that  
> I’m sitting in my aunts house in delhi  
> Applying for the visa for the gsoc mentor summit  
> Interview tomorrow, I have loads of documentation, let’s see what happens.  
> (oh and I reviewed @little_rsh PRs and work product post

### @Bitmap

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235187/)

> [@Bitmap](#):
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> spent more time futzing with react, finally managed to submit a pr for the artist merge forms and finished support for html in translated strings  
> looked more at @chhavi’s work and merged some this morning  
> probably more of the same this week

### @yvanzo

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235192/)

> [@yvanzo](#):
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> Last week, I pushed a new beta for MusicBrainz Server (with small bugfixes and templates converion to React mostly) to be released on tomorrow.  
> I pushed another beta for MusicBrainz Slave Server Virtual Machine, final version (with old search server still) to be released on tomorrow too.  
> Plus usual stuff

### @little_rsh

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235199/)

> [@little\_rsh](#):
>
> This week, I’ve opened a PR for evaluating both the MB database access methods ([AB-357](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/AB-357 "Evaluate both MB database access methods to decide which one is more efficient")).  
> Right now, I have completed the GSoC project work from my side and 2 PRs are left for review.  
> I am planning to work on more integrations of AB with MB after gsoc.  
> So, last IRC meeting before GSoC ends.  
> Thank you @iliekcomputers and MeB team for the help and support throughout the gsoc program. Looking forward to work with you all again 🙂  
> I am still gonna work on AB and looking forward to work on other projects as well.

### @zas

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235233/)

> [@zas](#):
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> Usual stuff, pr reviews, editing, Picard release

### @Leo_Verto

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235239/)

> [@Leo\_Verto](#):
>
> Last week I finalized the SpamBrainz model and wrote [a Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/LeoVerto/spambrainz_ml/blob/master/lodbrok_evaluation.ipynb) to evaluate it’s accuracy on data it hasn’t been trained on and I’m happy to say that it is 99.9% accurate in identifying spam editors while only misidentifying 0.2% of real editors as spammers!  
> I’ve also been working on my GSoC blog post which I’m a bit anxious about after seeing the great two ones that already went up. 😛

### @shivamt

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235249/)

> [@shivamt](#):
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> This week I finished off most of the code on the bookbrainz site and related chunks on bookbrainz data  
> I am completing finishing off the blog post, which I will hopefully be able to get reviewed tonight

### @kartikeyaSh

[Making sure you're not a bot!](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235259/)

> [@kartikeyaSh](#):
>
> This week I created PRs for [LB-385](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-385 "MessyBrainz: Create indexes to speed up clustering"), [LB-356](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-356 "Add more documentation to the spotify importer code"), and [LB-388](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-388 "MessyBrainz: Fix initial logging level") and worked on reviews of [LB-381](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-381 "MessyBrainz: create clusters using fetched artist MBIDs.") and [LB-382](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-382 "MessyBrainz: Create clusters using fetched release MBIDs.").  
> I did write [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2018/08/12/gsoc-2018-a-way-to-associate-listens-with-mbids/) for the GSoC final submission. And completed the final evaluation.

## Membranophone discussion outcome

[https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235287/](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metabrainz/msg/4235287/)

> [@reosarevok](#):
>
> Basically, everyone’s been using the wrong “drums” for years  
> So, we have a huge mess  
> @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython recently changed our drumset instrument to actually say “drums (drum set)”, in hopes people will actually select it when they mean that  
> But all of our existing “drums” credits are stuck in the old instrument called “membranophone” now, which is confusing people, because wtf is this membranophone some famous drummer plays and whatnot  
> So @Freso will write some bot stuff to change the instrument in those rels to either drumset (and the few wrong ones that were meant as some generic bunch of drums will need to be moved) or drum[s], generic (and then the drum set ones can be moved to the specific instrument by people who know for sure)  
> We’re planning to ask the community which one they’d prefer with some poll, and then let FresoBot deal with it, maybe even slowly enough that people can review them and see if they make sense, but we’ll see 🙂  
> Anyway, we’re hoping to make most of those odd membranophones disappear
