Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-12-06

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2021-12-06

Meeting start: Making sure you're not a bot!

Mitten Tree Monday

MittenMan

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2021-11-29
Next meeting: 2021-12-13

Reviews

@bitmap

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@bitmap

last week I did code review and finished converting most of the release editor .tt templates to JSX
I still have to convert the actual events and actions to React though, which will take a while, so that when you click on stuff, stuff happens

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

I mostly worked on MBS-11312
Plus I helped @alastairp a bit more with genre stuff

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

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@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

has been afk

@zas

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@zas

I upgraded discourse & grafana instances + usual system upgrades
We also release Picard 2.7beta3, so I handled a bunch of post-releases bug reports & associated fixes
We expect to release final version in 10 days or so
apart that, I’m preparing a docker server configs patch to handle the deployment of new consul cluster

@lucifer

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@lucifer

i worked ahead on the pinned recordings api last week. reviewed troi and LB prs. worked on progressing the PR to replace username with user ids in LB.
i also looked into the summit document and created the remaining tickets. all topics now have tickets!
i also speant some time on BPM and AB stuff in the start of the last week.

@alastairp

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@alastairp

I did more genre import stuff, thanks reosarevok for your detailed notes on what changes we should make to map more closely from these different sources to musicbrainz
this is now ready to actually import - I’ll speak with zas tomorrow about seeing if we can get some API limits raised in MB to perform the actual import, it’ll still take 2-4 days to do anyway
I also open a few LB PRs - fixed an issue with pinning recordings that monkey and I had spoken about the week before, and as a result of that opened a few more PRs to fix some small niggles that I found - improvements to test.sh and the listenbrain-mb release submitter
I helped @lucifer get up to speed with the open PR for LB-866, and tested some of the changes that he made
I opened a few tickets based on the summit notes
I helped someone with a broken spotify import (there was an error during an import so we had stopped), but that raised a few open questions about how we can improve the import and associated tools, so I opened LB-1026 and LB-1028
while talking with @lucifer about user-ids in listens table, we came up with some thoughts about listens with invalid listen dates: LB-1025
finally, we had some discussions about AB data and how to improve it

@mr_monkey

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@mr_monkey

Lst week on the LB side I worked on the year in music PR
Making some good headway there
Also reviewed and helped in a few PRs
On the BookBrainz side I onboarded new contributors, and with their help found and fixed some issues with local development setup and docker image building
I also moved our CI setup to use Github actions
Bye bye Travis !
I also reviewed many PRs from said new contributors
All the activity is nice to see
And some well needed cleanup of the BB repo, issues, dependencies, etc.

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

For Picard 2.7 beta 3 previously announced by @zas, see Making sure you're not a bot! thanks to @outsidecontext!
Last week I mostly coded and deployed a patch to lower the I/O load due to MB dump builders.
But no significant improvement has been observed on Saturday, so that failed.
(The only positive outcome is it allows for more flexibility in deployment.)
It seems that offloading may be the only solution.
Otherwise I reviewed a few pull requests.
Also fixed another small bug in MBS deployment script.
Updated BrainzGit to the latest version of irccat.
Finally, I planned to update Jira server this week.

@akshaaatt

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@akshaaatt

My week started really strong with work on the brainzplayer, lb redesign stuff and year in music
I also made quite some progress resolving issues with my mb PRs
Last part of the week was not so good due to some medical reasons at home.
Hopefully things get better and my work goes as I’ve planned this month! Excited for the work upcoming

@rob

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@rob

last week was the usual MeB stuff and paying people…
I also finished my playlists for YIM, but I still need to delivery the previews to the YIM datastore on the LB server, but I hope to finish that tomorrow.
I spent a lot of time making troi improvements – I’ve now written a lot of the core functions needed to build this playlist tool.
so I spent 2 days trying to work with the annoy indexes in AB, but it didn’t work out so well.
there is one more thing I can try, but I am not that hopeful at this point.
what disturbed me the most were my realizations about AB.
we knew the high level data was crap and that we needed to run all that data once the algs were updated.
fine. not a good place, but recoverable.
then we found last week that the BPM code is rather quite unreliable. it was promised to be reliable.
and then digging deeper into AB with the annoy stuff, I strongly suspect that the low level data we have in AB is worthless.
which is a really sad note to end the week with.
not sure how to proceed with that yet, looking forward to a chat with @alastairp this week.

@Freso

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@Freso

On less sad news, it looks like theless has gone away? Or taking a break at least. I spent some time dealing with them last week, including one day where we happened to be online at the same time, so I spent a few hours whacking their mole accounts as they popped up.
Other than that, looking at general flags/reports and had my brain eaten by reosarevok about the edit note editing.
And being around/about-ish.

[aerozol]

@alastairp

genre import stuff

Ooh this sounds exciting! What are the sources gonna be?

@rob

finished my playlists for YIM

YIM?

[Silver_Skree]

@rob

I strongly suspect that the low level data we have in AB is worthless.

Oof, that really sucks. Like, ouch. I’m a big fan of AB as a project, and always take time out to scan anything I’m matching to MB entries… Having to toss all the extant AB data as garbage would be quite painful… But, on one hand, such is the nature of new, experimental projects, eh? And OTOH, once that’s resolved, you can certainly count on me to set aside a computer off in the corner of some room, re-scanning me and my friends’ entire collections for days on end!

[rdswift]

@aerozol

YIM?

Year in Music. Reports in ListenBrainz.

[aerozol]

Ah, a reply to Spotify’s Wrapped I hope!! Very nice!