Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-10-04

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-10-04

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World Habitat Monday

Mudslide

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2021-09-27
Next meeting: 2021-10-11

Reviews

@yyoung

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@yyoung

• Last week I opened MBS-12001, fixed [MBS-12000](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-12000 “Beta: “This URL is not allowed for works.” when trying to add a Napster (track) URL to a release (single)”) and implemented MBS-9752.
• Also did regular editing on MB, have added over 100 releases up to now!
• That’s all, thank you.

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Last Monday and Tuesday was business as usual at the office: MBS PR reviews/updates, support, tickets triage, and search indexer maintenance.
Also had some useful in-person discussions with Barceloners.
Thanks to @alastairp, @mr_monkey, and @rob for their welcome!
I will be fully back by the end of the week.

@mr_monkey

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@mr_monkey

Last week I deployed this summer’s GSoC project to beta.bookbrainz
A few things left to tweak but it’s already working nicely
I refactored a bunch of ListenBrainz components with a view to make more pages playable
It’s going well ! For example charts pages are playable on test.LB:
ListenBrainz
I reviewed PRs, worked on the summit t-shirt a bit, helped a contributor get started, and helped on a few ongoing PRs
I took Friday off to celebrate my birthday, and that’s the end of the week!

@bitmap

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@bitmap

last week I mostly worked on fixing flakiness in our Selenium tests, which fail quite often, and also testing / making fixes to my dbmirror2 PR for musicbrainz-server
for the latter I wrote some automated tests which found a few minor issues, then deployed it to a slave instance for test.mb on aretha, which is replicating fine after some minor fixes
other than that I mostly did code review

@rob

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@rob

last week was data gulag time, working on adding artist_mbids to the MBID mapping. that work is done, but needs to be released, which is going to be tedious and tricky.
then I spent time accounting and paying people (accounting gulag).
thankfully I got that done earlier today, so it wasn’t too bad.
I’m just a bit stunned that we have more than half a million in the bank. turns out a lot of people paid us this year, inflating this years numbers, when the next year is going to be a bit thinner.
still, nice to not be in money trouble, allowing us to focus on our work.
I reviewed some PRs too and am still working out how to deal with the LE cert expiring and how to get tests to pass. good fun.

@zas

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@zas

I did usual upgrades, supervision, user support
also made few alerts quieter
Picard PRs reviews
I also analyzed CAA redirects logs, since that’s half of our hits
still, that was to be expected. but its a sign that the CAA is a success
I just deployed a microcache using ramdisk, that improve things nicely
it reduced load on backends by 50%
also reduce load on pink postgresql
and reduce load on kiki too while reducing internal network traffic by 30%
it shouldn’t have any drawback

@Freso

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@Freso

So, last week I most dealt with reports/flags and was around and about. I also provided a bit of feedback on @reosarevok’s MBS-11986 PR.
As you know, I was also a bit under the weather, so kept activity a bit low. :x Hopefully able to crank up activity more again this week.

@alastairp

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@alastairp

Last week I continued work on converting JS to TS in Acousticbrainz, and got some advice from monkey on how to improve the integration of js frontends in AB to be more like LB
I reviewed @jdaok’s PR on CB for bulk get of reviews
After a quick discussion with @amCap1712 we found that there was a good functionality in sentry that would allow us to trace how much time was spent in DB access in our views, so I took a look at upgrading sentry to a newer version compared to my upgrade of a few weeks ago.
I did some academic paperwork, then for the end of the week I took a holiday and rode my bike for a bit

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

I mostly worked on improving our Perl code, getting rid of unused variables and stuff like that
And then I had a couple days of rest at the end of the month
Because rest is important
And then I released the server today. Not quite sure yet what else on this week’s schedule

@akshaaatt

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@akshaaatt

I had an amazing week working on mb stuff
GitHub - akshaaatt/musicbrainz-web: Web App of MusicBrainz · GitHub made quite some progress here
Hope to get out of this in the next 1-2 days
I have a draft ready and will have a review from everyone soon
On the community forum
I was even brainstorming ideas for LB and contributing some little changes there
Other than that I had an amazing conversation with aerozol this weekend
You can watch it when you find some free time at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry5M2PE6m4