Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-03-14

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-03-14

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970522/

π Monday

Pi Day Music Video

Agenda

• Reviews

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

Reviews

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970527/

@zas

Apart usual Picard PR reviews, edits, general maintenance and user support, I configured new server rakim
and ordered another one to replace yehudi, we just received it
yehudi is now retired, and new server was configured, welcome to rudi

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970538/

@mr_monkey

Last week was quite busy, with more refactoring on LB and deploying/ announcing the new BrainzPlayer on beta
https://community.metabrainz.org/t/introducing-the-new-listenbrainz-player/
And many many PRs! Both on the LB front and on BB
Mostly the continuation of ongoing work, but new PRs, new fixes, new features also
It’s all quite vague, but it ended up beign a mountain of work

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970545/

@yvanzo

Last week I helped with maintenance by moving some MB stuff to a new server and documenting this migration for the next time.
Made a few small changes to MB Docker.
There is one in particular that should be made to other projects as well:
Replacing the use of apt-key which is deprecated since last year.
Also started to integrate into SIR changes coded by ta264 from Lidarr.
Plus MBS PR reviews, tickets triage, support.

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970554/

@atj

last week I helped @zas deploy rakim. This didn’t really require me to do very much at all, which is a good sign as it indicates the Ansible playbooks and roles are working consistently.
I also added a new role to manage the Shorewall6 IPv6 firewall and deployed it on aphex, floyd, gaga and rakim
then I began the process of creating new metabrainz git repos for each role, complete with CI for lint and functional testing.
that process is still ongoing but I’m getting there.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970562/

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

Have been creating tickets for bookbrainz, and having many fruitful discussions with @mr_monkey and shubh about bookbrainz and tabviews and so on.
Have with help from @reosarevok, updated
ütőgardon
and Appalachian dulcimer
as well as continuing work on recorders, pictures and adding aliases

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970569/

@reosarevok

I did a lot of test improving and documenting, finally merged the PR for porting edit lists to React, and worked on a few smaller things
Also started implementing small schema change tickets
(which I’ll keep doing today / tomorrow)

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970576/

@Freso

Spent a bunch of time dealing with reported editors and also spent some time with forum admin’ing related to GSoC, such as hiding old applications and also updating the application template on the forum to reflect the newest one in the wiki/docs.
Other than that, being around and about etc.

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970587/

@lucifer

In the first half of previous week, I worked with @alastairp on upgrading our Postgres/Timescale installation on gaga. It was mostly smooth. After that, worked with @rob on some tuning Collaborative filtering parameters for LB recommendations. other than that misc bugfixes and a couple of small UI PRs.
also, misc discussions with LB team on various upcoming features.

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970591/

@alastairp

I merged a few of Ansh’s PRs to CB and deployed them, thanks Ansh!
I also worked on some upgrades and bug fixes in CB, during the process I found a few bits of templates that had stopped working due to backend changes so I fixed them again and also made some changes to BU MB database access to add some more data which is needed by CB and is currently missing
then as @lucifer said, we upgraded postgres on gaga. it mostly involved waiting for things to finish and then either breathing a sigh of relief or panicking
I learned a few things about the upgrade process that we can keep in mind in case we have to do this in the future
thanks also to @atj for helping me find a fast compression tool!

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970601/

@akshaaatt

Last week I continued work on the MusicBrainz revamp work and made quite some progress by fixing PRs and adding new sections.
On LB side of things, I continued work on the bootstrap v5 PR and made updates to get the changes made.
I worked on implementing a new look to the android app to welcome Jetpack compose and introduce bottom navigation.
I discussed some new ideas for LB and MB Android App, most of which have now been added to the ideas page.
Also, I connected with prospective students over the week and guided them on getting ready for GSoC.

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970612/

@rob

last week was super hectic in real life and that took huge amounts of my time.
so, I did PRs and the usual background MeB work and other things…
I did create a postgres based fuzzy artist_credit recording lookup, which might be a good way to simplify our mapping. I’ll continue on that.
then I also worked with @lucifer on tweaking our collaborative filtering and the results are much better already. there is much more to be done, but the results are no longer :facepalm:

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4970622/

@bitmap

last week I worked on migrating the redis store on yehudi to rakim, & implemented some changes to MBS to allow us to make the move without any downtime
this will also be useful if we want to move to a new redis/keydb cluster without downtime
I also did a fair amount of code review and worked a bit more on the new artist credit editor code I mentioned last(?) week - still trying to integrate it properly in the current release editor so it keeps focus and doesn’t flicker when you move between tracks, but javascript is being annoying