Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-03-07

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-03-07

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964854/

Plant Power Monday

"PROTEIN" (VEGAN RAP) by TK the Artist, DISL Automatic & Yorkie

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2022-01-28
Next meeting: 2022-03-14

Reviews

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964861/

@bitmap

at the beginning of last week I worked on the primary database switchover from floyd to pink and documented those steps in syswiki
standby service was restored on floyd the next day
I also fixed some bugs with the dbmirror2 ProcessReplicationChanges changes in https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/pull/2248 which I found in the replication logs on aretha, plus did some refactoring/code cleanup
at the end of the week I worked a bit on fixing up my artist credit editor branch that uses the new autocomplete & popover components, hoping to submit that soon

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964867/

@lucifer

last week we found an data corruption in the database, it turned out to be a corrupted index so dropping it fixed the issue.
later in the week @outsidecontext reported a bug due to which listens were not appearing on the website. while working on fixing that we found inefficient quey plan issues in timescale. thankfully those are mitigated in recent versions so we are planning to upgrade the ts databse this wekk
other than that worked on investigating misc tickets and sitewide stats frontend.

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964873/

@rob

last week was Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona, which meant a lot of visitors and requests for meetings.
I tried to hawk MeB to the lowest bidder at MWC, but found not takers at all.
and I had a very nice lunch with Nikalai P who was a very active contributor 10 years ago.
so, a discombobulated week without much technical work.
but I did some reviews and other Meb related work and some coordination of servers with @zas and @atj.
just talking, and talking. maybe this week is more doing.

@aerozol

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964886/

@aerozol

last couple of weeks I’ve been onboarding slowly but surely
managed to navigate time zones to catch @mr_monkey and @akshaaatt for some good discussions
getting to grips with githuf and jira and did my first pull requests (no laughter at the back)
otherwise groundwork that’s taking time but will give us a base later, trying to make a styleguide, tidying up the logo sets as I go
familarised myself with figma as a mockup tool, looking good I think
p.s. thanks for the welcoming words over the last weeks everybody <3

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964907/

@mr_monkey

Last week I did a lot of PR Reviewing again, loving all the contributions !
I published a new version of the website, fixed a couple of regressions and deployed those a few days later
Helped alastairp debug some issue with comments on CB, and even made a PR for …drumroll… python code!
They’re few and far between so it’s worth pointing out
I also did a lot of ticket cleanup after the new BookBrainz deployment
I also finally finished and corrected the GSoC ideas page, with some help from @alastairp (we will be mentoring together a project for CritiqueBrainz integration in BookBrainz)
And finally did a bit of spotify API debugging

@rob (again)

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964927/

@rob

we got accepted for GSoC yet again!
woo!

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964938/

@atj

last week I created more ansible roles to add functionality requested by @zas and also include some improvements from me (like adding SMART monitoring for drives)
@zas and I re-installed floyd on Ubuntu 20.04, and the process went quite smoothly overall, which was a good improvement
I think we’re getting more confident that this is the right direction, and will help to reduce the maintenance overhead going forward
there’s still plenty of work to do, but it’s positive so far
that’s about it, I just wanted to give digress from the usual flow (you can skip this if you want @Freso) and give a few shoutouts
note that if I don’t mention you, please don’t take offence, it’s purely some things I’ve noticed whilst being more involved over the recent few weeks
firstly to @reosarevok for being so damn productive, I honestly don’t understand how you manage it
secondly to @akshaaatt for persevering with learning git and battling with GitHub (I know how frustrating it can be)
finally to @bitmap for being such a wizard and just doing the failover from floyd without a sweat, then saying “I wasn’t sure that would work” afterwards!

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964951/

@zas

Apart usual supervision, upgrades, user support, mostly worked on floyd upgrade with @atj
I confirm what @atj said, the move to Ansible looks good, we still have a lot of to do, but the gain is obvious
I ordered a new server to replace burnside (it should be ready this week, we got no news from hetzner yet)
once it will be deployed, we’ll move yehudi containers to it, and retire yehudi
it will free a spot in our rack, that’ll ease future moves
I’ll order a new server to replace herb very soon, we’ll then start to work on new gateways
plus usual Picard PRs, and edits

@CatQuest

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964967/

@CatQuest

Have been updating recorders, pictures and adding aliases
Wind instrument “soprano recorder” - MusicBrainz
also working on testing bookbrainz-site and adding several tickets/sorting tickets

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964974/

@reosarevok

I worked a lot on documenting and improving tests
And I helped @akshaaatt with his PRs
Also worked quite a bit on changing slave to mirror in MBS
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s the main bits

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964980/

@yvanzo

I reviewed a few MBS PRs and worked on the drafted schema change.
Updated and successfully tested a patch to address the recent failures of SIR.
Also helped with maintenance

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964985/

@akshaaatt

The Design system integrated Figma to now allow us to have the designs(drag and drop designs from Figma) and code.
@mr_monkey and I also had some good discussions regarding the BrainzPlayer redesign and I also made some progress fixing the bootstrap updates in LB.
I also got to review some amazing work from yellowhatpro, who is working on cool fixes and additions for us on the MB app.

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4964993/

@alastairp

last week I continued working on some CB tasks, upgrading BU and making changes related to how we retrieve MB entities in it,
I reviewed some of Ansh’s new PRs, and talked with @mr_monkey about CB/BB integration
I had a few planning discussions with @mr_monkey and @rob and @lucifer

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4965000/

@Freso

Spent time on reports etc. I especially sunk a lot of time into unravelling one sockpuppet(?) web. Not so much a sockpuppet as someone who seems to use throwaway e-mail addresses to sign up and then makes a new account after a few days. :\