Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-01-31

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MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-01-31

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Street Children’s Monday

"I am Somebody" Street Child World Cup (ft. London Elektricity, S.P.Y and Diane Charlemagne)

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2022-01-24
Next meeting: 2022-02-07

Reviews

@lucifer

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@lucifer

i mostly worked on migrating various parts of LB to use user ids instead of user names. we’ll hopefully deploy it all this week.
also discussed some stuff about listen counts and timestamps with @rob and worked on that.
other than that follow up on existing PRs.

@alastairp

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@alastairp

last week I reviewed some things for @lucifer - documentation stuff from the previous week + the user id stuff, and a bit of the timestamps things too
I did some further digging into automatic computation of the “mood” of audio recordings
although this turned into a few different discussions with @rob and others about how we can use our commumity to help us get better annotations for content in MB without resorting to automatic classifiers
I also spent some time preparing classes and teaching them at the uni, so was away for a bit in the middle of the week for that

@yvanzo

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@yvanzo

I mostly finalized scripts to repair indexing MB in Solr when broken.
Resent 880K search index requests to the indexer, most from previous failures in 2021.
Also reviewed a coupe of MBS PRs, including the spammer flag’s PR.

@reosarevok

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@reosarevok

I mostly reviewed our Perl tests
And wrote docs for them
As in, added descriptions of what they actually do
Other than that, some code review and some finally fixing some small bugs that I hadn’t found time to look into before the holidays

@CatQuest

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@CatQuest

I’ve been working
this week I’ll be working more!
today is both clothmass and chinese new years!
I’m also going to work on instrument documentation (with @reosarevok)
finally I hope to add some more instruments

@mr_monkey

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@mr_monkey

Last week I spent most of my time reviewing and merging PRs for BookBrainz and ListenBrainz.
There was (and still is!) a big backlog of PRs from the holidays that I hadn’t got to yet, and a lot of general repo upkeep tasks.
Including fixing the automated linting setup for the github repo
I helped @LordSputnik roll out an update from Boostrap version 3 to v4, now deployed on beta.bookbrainz.org
And as a follow-up, I’m currently reading v4 to v5 migration guides. I think we’ll soon want to use the design-system package that akshaat is working on which uses Bootstrap v5.
I also helped Shubh with a couple of big impact projects for BookBrainz: notifications and import userscripts.
The latter requires creating POST endpoints to pre-fill entities, as those don’t exist in BB yet.

@bitmap

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@bitmap

last week I mostly worked on code review, plus fixing test failures and merge conflicts in open PRs
was trying to fix more test flakiness since circleci often fails for no reason, so pushed a couple changes for that that seem to help
other than that I was working on finishing some pgtap tests for the area_containment schema change I mentioned a couple weeks ago (that would improve perf of the area-related pages)

@rob

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@rob

last week was finishing off more documentation and emails and some more peer learning network calls.
but then thursday evening inspiration struck and I realized we can use listens to calculate something akin to recording similarity. this factors into @alastairp’s update about using LB to generate some of the data we were hoping to product from AB.
and this realization, after doing about 5 hours of work and getting promising results, changes many things about how we should be moving forward with AB.
I hope that @alastairp and I can chat about it more and that I can finish the proof of concept and tune the results a bit.

@zas

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@zas

last week I worked on Picard patches & reviews, many good and big patches from phw (like support for long due eac logs)
I also upgraded discourse in multiple steps (I started on friday, but I delayed to today the rest, and I did well, it failed)
so we are now running discourse 2.8
plus usual tasks, edits, etc…

@akshaaatt

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@akshaaatt

I enjoyed working last week since I got the design system up and sailing!
I think we have some discussions and work incoming for the design system.
I fixed open PRs in MB and LB, and removed the boilerplate code that my past self had added.
Some Android app work is always happening in the background as well.
I’m happy with the way February is looking!

@Freso

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@Freso

Last week I started working on some community management docs, still a way to go on that.
There were a couple of other things too, but I can’t access my time tracker rn.
I’ll be getting my booster shot tomorrow (finally), so I’ll take most of tomorrow and Wednesday off.
I haven’t reacted too poorly to prior vaccines (covid or otherwise), so I don’t expect to be out for long… But we’ll see how I feel Wed/Thu/Fri.