Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-11-22

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-11-22

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Cranberry Relish Monday

NOBODY WANTS YOUR HOMEMADE CRANBERRY SAUCE

Agenda

• Reviews
• Follow up on Summit Notes → Tickets
• GSoC 2022

Last meeting: 2021-11-15
Next meeting: 2021-11-29

Reviews

@rob

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@rob

last week was mostly working on the mapping to make it allow re-rechecking things that didn’t match.
which cause another general refactoring. All 2021 no matches have been re-run. stats tomorrow morning will be quite interesting.
but, overall a much slower week as compared to the hectic weeks prior.
a nice change.
Overall, I’m on track for finishing the year-end stuff, but there remains a fair bit of work.

@alastairp

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@alastairp

last week I was data wrangling too, with some help from monkey we got almost all of the genres from our dataset (which have mbids) mapped to tags/genres in MB
as I said earlier, about 90% matched, about 5% still to match, and about 5% not worth matching
about 300 distinct tags, over about 1.6m recordings
otherwise, I was around, talking some things over with @lucifer and others

@lucifer

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@lucifer

i mostly worked on LB year in music stuff last week. other than that i worked on debugging missing listens in stats and following up on exisitng PRs.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

I’ve added INST-1042
I’ve also made some tickets from the Summit Notes!
Thanks to @reosarevok and also @yvanzo for some help w/ project disambiguiation
I can also report that the mb telegram bridge has had its spam issues solved. Thanks much to @jflory!
This week i intend to create more summit tickets and work with @reosarevok on instrument images.

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

Started work on MBS-7912
And spent a lot of time on MBS-11910
Other than that, mostly updating PRs and fixing small issues

@bitmap

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@bitmap

last week I looked into CAA-137 and started working on a way to fix these items in the CAA with fail-reasons set
the pages to find items with fail-reasons aren’t working at the moment, but hank at the IA said he’ll work on fixing them
but I did come up with some ways we can inject events for fixing these into the artwork-indexer, in the meantime
other than that I worked a bit more on the release editor conversion to React from last week, and helped with a couple unrelated PRs
I finished a Selenium test for discid attaching and added it to MBS-12087: Fix TT TaggerIcon call by reosarevok · Pull Request #2337 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub with a small check for the tagger icon
that’s mostly it. I have some cold-like symptoms today so might be resting a bit this week (not sure if covid yet, but hopefully nothing)

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Mostly reviewed pull requests, almost the whole MBS milestone.
Worked on improving our communication w.r.t. blog posts and MBS releases.
Also worked on the MBS spam handling stuff (both @reosarevok’s PR and spam reports).
Plus support, issues triage…
I won’t be available on Thursday, moving again.

@mr_monkey

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@mr_monkey

Last week I finished initial work on adding cover art to ListenBrainz
Like this

We’ve still got some improvements to work on but it’s a start, and apparently appreciated (I know I love seeing it)
I also started work on redesigning BrainzPlayer, and made some good headway on that
preview:

On Thursday we lost internet at the office, and so i worked on a lot of very small tickets that I could figure out without the need for any googling
Lots of PRs ensued.
I looked into some aspects of the Spotify API
Learner a lot about Maltese folk music (Għana)
And the rest of the week was finishing PR, reviewing PRs, merging PRs.

@zas

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@zas

last week I joined the online Haproxyconf, many interesting talks & presentations
I also worked on Picard I had a bunch of patches that were piling up, trying to have them in before next beta release
I continued research about the future of our gateways
plus usual sysadmin stuff

@akshaaatt

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@akshaaatt

Last week started for me by adding ways to provide notifications to everyone
In the meantime I worked on some parts of mb android and decided on a few things there
Majority of my time was spent working on some MB stuff where I was fixing small issues on my work and PR
I made some contributions to LB as well and reviewed some great PRs

@Freso

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@Freso

I mostly spent time on our resident harasser last week, but I also did prod some other reports etc. and was around and about. Looks like they’ve lowered their activity quite a bit.
Oh, and also: it’s my birthday Wednesday; I may or may not be around Thursday. :x

Follow up on Summit Notes → Tickets

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@lucifer

let’s add more notes → tickets this week.

@mr_monkey provided link to the notes (again):

MetaBrainz Summit 2021 notes

@alastairp suggested that “maybe we could put an effort into it this week, to stop it dragging out weeks and weeks”.

GSoC 2022

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@yvanzo

After a limited GSoC 2021, here are great news for 2022:
Expanding Google Summer of Code in 2022 | Google Open Source Blog
Briefly, a lot more flexibility.
Everyone can apply, not just students.
Two possible sizes of projects: like 2021 or like before.
The timetable can go up to 22 weeks if needed.
That’s all. I just wanted to share good news, so admins, mentors and candidates can project further.