Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-11-29

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-11-29

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International Monday of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Agenda

• Reviews
• theless/insolite
• aretha load
• Follow up on Summit Notes → Tickets

Last meeting: 2021-11-22
Next meeting: 2021-12-06

Reviews

@bitmap

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@bitmap

I was sick last week so was mostly resting and didn’t get much work done. feeling a lot better today
not much to report otherwise.

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

Reviewed some MBS pull requests
Fixed a small bug in new MBS deployment script
Investigated load issue with dump builders on aretha

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

I did quite a bit of work on updating old PRs and improving them, and finally improving our autoselect support for Apple Music links now that we can use multi-types (thanks again @yyoung)
And I also spent quite a bit of time looking at a ton of genre lists and whatnot for @alastairp
Currently preparing for a prod server release, and that’s about it from me

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

Did several more summit tickets!
but ya’ll cna do the rest now, I’m done
The next four weeks I’ll be busy doing various preparations, baking cookies, etcetra, so you’ll see less of me :3

@zas

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@zas

I continued my research on new gen gateways, started to write this down
I also worked on Picard, mainly code cleanup, we should release another beta tomorrow
Saturday there was an issue with github, and I noticed gitzconsul was creating zombie processes
(btw, this issue was also existing with git2consul)
so I investigated and patched it. The issue was very tricky, some subprocesses of git weren’t properly killed on timeout
I also investigated aretha load issue with the help of @yvanzo, solutions are on the way

@lucifer

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@lucifer

i worked on htmlifying the dataset hoster results, took some time to figure out but was a single line change in the end so that was nice
I also picked up the write a mini review feature PR, applied feedback on PR and extended it to show reviews on timeline.
btw its up on beta.listenbrainz.org currently if anyone wants to try out.
i also worked on adding more stat ranges for LB - this_week, this_month, this_year. the stats are available through api for now, work on the UI in progress.
also fixed some misc LB bugs. that’s it for me.

@rob

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@rob

last week was finishing some mapping improvements that led to some much improved match rates that should be clearly visible to everyone.
and then I started working on the last two playlists and I finished that task today.
The latest one is the top-missed tracks – tracks that similar users to you listened to, but you didn’t. seems interesting so far.
then the usual background stuff and some gateways ponderings.
(if anyone else wants me to generate this list, ping me)

@mr_monkey

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@mr_monkey

Last week was a bit slow, but we did a good job finishing up and merging old and new PRs
Spent some time debugging a mystery NaN
Worked on the design of the upcoming year in music page
Helped debug some of the MBID mapping
And helped welcome and onboard new users
Who is turn helped me debug some issues with local dev setup
Everyone learns !
Some more PR reviewing on BB and LB,and that’s about it !

@akshaaatt

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@akshaaatt

I made some additions to year in music PR and had a design ready for it
I was also making improvements to my old PRs for future work
And I helped a lot of new commers get started with meb and making contributions!
I covered 400+ students last week through informal sessions!
Expecting a lot to join in
Other than that I’m so happy since my semester ended today!

@Freso

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@Freso

A lot of time spent on playing whack-a-mole last week (more on this in a minute) and also try and keep up with other flags/reports. Also dealt with my birthday, so wasn’t around as much, but I tried to be around and about a bit at least.
Also made PRs against Kodi’s addon repository to include service.listenbrainz, so hopefully you’ll soon be able to submit listens to LB from Kodi without having to manually get the addon and installing it:
[service.listenbrainz] 0.2.1 by Freso · Pull Request #2160 · xbmc/repo-scripts · GitHub
[service.listenbrainz] 0.3.1 by Freso · Pull Request #2161 · xbmc/repo-scripts · GitHub

theless/insolite

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@reosarevok

So, for the last… not sure, tbh - Freso, how long?
Anyway, at least a month, we’ve been dealing with a childish user who keeps vandalizing the database, mostly to try to make Freso and lately I feel bad, I guess, with homophobic attempts at fun
Also, for some reason, Lorde (?)
There’s also been plenty of issues of vandalism on Jira, the forums, IRC at some point, etc
@Freso: Yeah, at least a month with these attacks, but they’ve been a nuisance for quite a bit longer.
Yeah. The whole thing started as users theless and insolite, who some of you might have seen (and reported) before, since they made decent edits but were completely unable to behave like normal human beings towards the rest of the community
Once those got banned, they started getting agitated and vandalizing and generally behaving like kids
(funnily enough, they seem to still think the problem was somehow with their edits, not their behaviour)
@Freso: (theless is insolite, in case the above formulation lead to confusion. They’re not multiple people, just a single one.)
Anyway, we’ve been playing whack-a-mole, which while a nice source of paid hours for us (thanks for paying for my latest boardgame, insolite) is quite a waste of time for MeB and the MusicBrainz project
So, if you see any sort of vandalism, and the editor hasn’t yet been deleted, please do let us know
And if you see edits removing it, please do vote for them
Same goes for Jira, IRC, etc - do get in touch
Oh, and they apparently have recently started vandalizing Wikidata too, for some reason, so if you see something there, you can let me know and I can get someone to deal with that
@Freso: (Which might also mean they’ll try and spread to other adjacent projects. So keep an eye out.)
A lot of the vandalism is in Russian, but if you see Рео (Reo) or Фресо (Freso) that’s a good sign the whole thing is probably vandalism, so do report in case maybe
Worst case scenario, we figure out it was not and do nothing

aretha load

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@zas

we have problems with this server, as the load (mainly due I/O) is quite high during some cron jobs
it leads to a non responsive server, ie. I tested log in to ftp taking > 10 seconds when it happens
so, please, take care about what’s running there, this server was meant for file storage mainly, it has huge but slow HDDs, and software RAID
we are working on a potential solution for mb dumps
but I also noticed barman is putting some pressure on disk I/O
if we can’t stabilize things, we’ll have to offload some processes

Follow up on Summit Notes → Tickets

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@lucifer

firstly thanks @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython for all the tickets!
i’ll list the talks that don’t have any tickets yet and ping relevant people individually to make tickets for those when they have time.