Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-02-28

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-02-28

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961247/

Rare Disease Monday

"Save Me" by Alyssa Smith

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2022-02-21
Next meeting: 2022-03-07

Reviews

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961252/

@mr_monkey

Main bit of work last week was finishing redesigning BrainzPlayer on LB.
It’s available on test.listenbrainz.org for the curious
And it looks like this

Had some design-related discussions with @aerozol and @akshaaatt
And the rest of the week was following up on current big PRs for BookBrainz. Not much else to say for this week other than things are moving along nicely

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961263/

@alastairp

this week I’ve been working on CB. I fixed a bug which was causing db dumps to not work (for the last year!)
I started to upgrade the version of BU, but before that had a look at CB-401, which was a dependency of the upgrade
now we’re correctly ignoring reviews/entities that don’t exist in MB
and I reviewed Ansh’s PR and gave a bit of feedback

@CatQuest

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961278/

@CatQuest

Been having winter vacation so didn’t do much
I did however create a few tickets, mb, cb and bb, and have some discussions with @monkey
I plan on continuing that this week

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961284/

@reosarevok

I mostly wrote documentation for tests, wrote some tests, merged a lot of code and released beta a couple times, plus prod today
I spent half the week off since it was a bank holiday here in Estonia

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961289/

@akshaaatt

Last week I worked somewhat with monkey on the Brainzplayer stuff and made the arrangements to have it available as a package, which will be worked on next.
Also, some design changes to LB were made. I also focused on getting a few more components ready for MusicBrainz and tried setting up the sidenav and other cool components for both MB and LB.
I released NewsBrainz in the android app which showcases our Blogs on the app and implements a share functionality as well, which will be continued.
We welcomed @aerozol to the team and I had a long discussion with him which can be found at
https://youtu.be/dL2-Ei95Oss

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961296/

@rob

last week was the usual MeB maintenance and such.
I also managed to work out the problems behind the similarity algorithms that was producing non-deterministic results.
I’ve fixed that and we’re producing much better results, but the results do exhibit a popularity bias that I should really remove.
but the proof of concept is pretty solid.
next I’ll check to see how this does on recording-recordings.
also, loads of work in bringing @aerozol on board and working out the finer details of our working relationship.
PRs and other bits of reviews and that was a pretty productive week for me.

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961308/

@lucifer

i worked on updating BU to fix some incompatible dependencies and later upgrading LB for the same reason last week.
further wrote a few import scripts (mostly modified existing scripts from @outsidecontext :)) to help users on support and community import listen history from different sources.
various misc PRs, some code cleanups, LFM api improvements fixes etc. and triaging LB issues.
also finally deployed the long standing listen timestamps PR. listen counts and loading is much more stable now.

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961319/

@bitmap

last week I focused on finishing schema change related tasks for tags - submitted Fixes/improvements to the MBS-12141 upgrade script by mwiencek · Pull Request #2433 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub to fix issues with the upgrade script for tag.name constraints and https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/pull/2434 for the count triggers
I also worked a bit more on testing the area_containment table changes and preparing that for submission
briefly hacked on MBS-11260 to see how the performance fares with the area_containment table (thanks @reosarevok for pointing me to that)
so far it looks doable
also finally pushed the Flow types for fontawesome I was writing after fixing minor type errors there
was mostly off last monday since it was a fed holiday here

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961329/

@yvanzo

Last week I reviewed a bunch of MBS PRs, worked on SIR and its development setup.

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961333/

@atj

last week I worked closely with @zas to build an Ansible playbook for deploying a new Ubuntu 20.04 server
we made good progress, and after some initial annoying network issues the server was fairly quickly running a production MB workload
thanks to @zas for his patience whilst I frantically wrote tasks and imported roles

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961339/

@zas

well, I ordered a new server and started to work with @atj on the move to Ansible
new server is called aphex, and replace cage
the goal is to ease new server deployment and have a better way to manage the whole infrastructure
we are still far from that, but first steps are really promising
apart that, I worked on usual Picard PRs, maintenance, user support

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4961352/

@Freso

I mostly dealt with a bunch of reports, incl. one particularly tricky one that I’ve kind of put off for a while.
Other than that, forum flags and being about etc.
(I felt like there was something else, but it isn’t in my time tracker, so maybe I got some temporal confusion going on.)