Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-02-14

[Freso]

#MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-02-14

Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs

V‐Monday

Lady Gaga - Til It Happens To You (Official Music Video)

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2022-02-07
Next meeting: 2022-02-21

Reviews

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953741/

@reosarevok

Last week I mostly worked on tests (both adding a few missing ones and adding documentation for a bunch of existing ones).
I also updated a bunch of PRs for the next MBS milestone, and released a new MBS version.
Also, I’m finally done helping @CatQuest document instrument adding, and I think it looks quite good now:
User:CatCat/INSTwave - MusicBrainz Wiki
It would be great if someone else who wasn’t used to instrument work could check and see if they see something missing, because both of us know how it works and we might have overlooked something that is not obvious for others
This week I expect to mostly write more tests and update / improve more PRs.

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4948983/

@atj

Last week I had a meeting with @zas who explained the MB infrastructure and its history as well as the challenges that need to be resolved in the short to medium term. I created a syswiki page based on this information for future reference. I also spent some time reading various documentation on the syswiki to try and familiarise myself more with the infrastructure and how things work etc.

@zas and I then had another meeting to discuss Ansible and how it could be used to simplify deployment, configuration and maintenance of MB infrastructure going forward. I created a simple playbook to run against a test VM to demonstrate some of the concepts and functionality. @zas’ feedback was positive and we plan to use Ansible to deploy a replacement server in the near future as a real world test.

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953762/

@yvanzo

Last week I installed a Jira add-on to help @Freso with pruning spam in tickets.
Also merged an utility script to collect container logs, can be useful to: @akshaaatt, @alastairp, @bitmap, @lucifer, and @rob mostly, but also to: @atj and @zas.
Completed the deployment of an MBS mirror instance for VolumIO. It helped with debugging a few issues in musicbrainz-docker and sir.
Reviewed many PRs, and updated my PR on improving log’s timestamps in MBS.
Plus documented sysadmin (container logs, SolrCloud alert, MB incident log), and tuned GitHub settings for some repositories.

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953771/

@zas

I did upgrades on grafana & discourse (security fixes)
also worked on Picard, PR reviews mainly
Plus usual infrastructure supervision, minor issues handling
As said by @atj, we had very constructive meetings, we are thinking about deploying Ansible to help us deploy & maintain servers
I reviewed possible candidates for real-life tests, I’m thinking about cage first
We will order a new server (if @rob agrees), and set up Ansible to fully deploy initial stuff, up to docker
I think Ansible could help a lot to maintain containers

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953783/

@mr_monkey

last week I helped O’Yvanz debug the new remote log collector script
I reviewed a bunch of PRs for ListenBrainz and BookBrainz
Continued helping Shubh work on the server routes and userscript to import entities from other websites
I continued my homework reading up on and thinking about mood classification, and had a good discussion with @alastairp on that
I spent some time fiddling with Webpack, because that’s what JS developers do.
On Friday I helped mayhem hack on a new endpoint to quick make a playable page in ListenBrainz from recording or album MBIDs.
I made a simple userscript that makes MusicBrainz playable that way. It adds a “Play on ListenBrainz" button in the sidebar on MB pages (release, release group, recording and collection)
I’ve been waiting for this since I learneed about MusicBrainz, so it’s really nice to play with it
To try it out visit this link:
https://gist.github.com/MonkeyDo/6b919302e97dc979f8277b9c71ff82ab/raw/9fabd667b79a939805cd4396a1406383ee280b6f/lb_play.user.js
(currently in testing phase)

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953801/

@lucifer

I made some progress on moving the delete listens stuff to a periodic cron job according to the discussion I had with @rob.
that led to some scary realisations about postgres transactions.
i also worked on artist/recording similarity and spent much of the week on helping debug that. due to some reason, using user_id instead of uesr_names for this is creating worse results. still not reached to the bottom of that issue.
Reviewed some CB PRs for Ansh and worked with @alastairp on a CB release.
also, worked on some BU improvements. and finally worked with @rob to restart the Yotube Quota verification process.

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953813/

@alastairp

I reviewed some of @lucifer’s PRs on LB, which simplify some of our underlying connection handling and we merged them
I fixed a bug in the checking of out-of-date dumps in LB and added some new functionality.
@lucifer finished some work on some old CB PRs and we tested them, merged, and deployed. I spent some time with @mr_monkey talking about ideas for capturing genre annotations from users in LB
I also started upgrading some dependencies in LB - python 3.9, and flask 2 to fix a bug with caching of static items in LB during development

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953821/

@akshaaatt

I continued my work by revamping MB further.
Also, focused on LB as we are refactoring the frontend codebase. We have successfully updated the LB homepage and some other sections!
I have also been designing some cool react components for us to use in our websites! Let’s see how that goes.
Other than that our colleges have reopened and I was busy adjusting back to hostel life and visiting the campus daily!

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953835/

@bitmap

last week I mostly did code review and worked more on schema change branches
we plan to decide on tickets for that tomorrow
I also documented deployment stuff related to StaticBrainz in syswiki

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4953850/

@Freso

Dealt with some reported editors, looked into client-side image optimisation for the forum after the upgrade, got rid of some spam on Jira, dealt with some flagged forum content, and broke out some discussions into separate topics, etc.
Got @kellnerd a MetaBrainz IRC cloak.

[aerozol]

@reosarevok

done helping @CatQuest document instrument adding, and I think it looks quite good now:
User:CatCat/INSTwave - MusicBrainz Wiki

What a fascinating doc! Can’t wait to have time to read through properly - this would make a good blog post btw

@akshaaatt

updated the LB homepage

ooh, is the stats box new?

[akshaaatt]

We’ll be doing the release next week I suppose! The work has been merged but is yet to be live in production!