Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-03-21

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-03-21

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974552/

International Monday for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Anne Braden

Agenda

• Reviews
• Expiring domains
• Supporting open source
• Next meeting

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

Reviews

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974556/

@yvanzo

Last week I fixed the PR to improve timestamping in MBS cron logs.
Documented moving Redis containers and volumes around.
Looked into updating ER diagrams for the schema change.
Handled a few maintenance operations (SIR, pink, Jira).
Plus the usual MBS PR reviews, tickets triage, and support.

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974565/

@zas

I mainly worked on new rudi server
preparing for next-gen gateway, still a lot to do
plus usual upgrades, supervision and overall maintenance.
Picard PRs reviews & MB edits

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974572/

@mr_monkey

Last week I incorporated feedback on the new BrainzPlayer, fixed some issue and improved the user reports world map (click to see the artist)
Worked a lot on improving the youtube player in particular
On BookBrainz work continues to merge new features, fix some bugs, testing on beta, etc.
Lots of things going on at the same time
And many ongoing discussions for BookBRainz improvements and upcoming GSoC projects

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974584/

@reosarevok

Last week I spent a lot of time releasing the server since we hit some issues
And then re-releasing the server since bitmap figured out a report was broken
Other than that I worked on a lot of small PRs and a couple more test documentation / updating PRs
(we have a lot of tests and many of them are very mediocre)
Also we finally put out the schema change announcement!

@CatQuest

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974593/

@CatQuest

So I have been doing the same things, testing things on bookbrainz and updating instruments on musicbrainz.
Lastly I’ve been celebrating the Vernal Equinox by eating good food and watching BttF♓

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974597/

@lucifer

we had lost most of the spotify access token during spotify’s downtime on 8th. we realised last week we could recover many of those from backups. so with @bitmap’s help, we recovered spotify access token for almost all users (except ~50ish i think). we also discussed ways to make the LB side more resilient to such issues in future
other than that some work/discussion on MBID mapping improvements and prep for this week’s sprint.
also many LB bug fixes and small enhancements.

@alastairp

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

@alastairp

last week I upgraded our python base image to python 3.10 and updated LB to use that, we were running it on test for a while and it seems fine. I also finished the work that I was doing on CB to upgrade its use of BU, and got a PR published for that, but there are still some failing tests that I missed, need to look into that more
I also made a plan with @rob about getting data dumps of the mapping/canonical recordings/canonical releases made, and ensuring that other people are able to easily run this code. I didn’t get very far on actually doing this though, so I want to focus on that this week along with our other ongoing sprint for the metadata stuff

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974609/

@bitmap

at the beginning of last week I helped write the schema change blog post & updated the tickets with proper descriptions of what’s changing
I noticed data was lost from the release_coverart table, and since we were announcing amazon cover art removal in the blog post and pointing people to a report that used that table, I found an old backup from last year I could restore it from
so check Releases that have Amazon cover art but no Cover Art Archive front cover - MusicBrainz if you’d like to save any existing Amazon covers for your subscribed artists
in the middle of the week I updated MBS-9880: Add genre list to the webservice by reosarevok · Pull Request #1298 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub to implement fmt=txt for /ws/2/genre/all, which gets a list of all genre names in a single request, did some refactoring there, and documented it
I also spent some time restoring a barman backup into a temporary pg container, to help recover some data for listenbrainz, and documented migration steps for musicbrainz-redis-store in syswiki
other than that I mostly did code review and worked on schema change tickets

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974623/

@atj

Last week I implemented a couple more Ansible roles to manage haproxy and keepalived, so that zas can get them installed on rudi to progress the new gateways
these were quite challenging due to the configuration formats but they seem to be working ok so far.

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974626/

@akshaaatt

I was caught up during the weekdays following up on college work and life in general.
I mainly focused work on the existing PRs I had and made a few decisions around them. Design System v1.0.6 was also released and from my pov, we are on a good run to get the MusicBrainz revamp pumped now because the standards seem clear to me now.
ListenBrainz revamp is looking good as well after thinking properly about the bootstrap fixes.
I spent time on the android app since I see us being dependent on it a lot in the coming future to have our work appreciated and recognized.
The good news is that the app now uses declarative UI (some parts) to have work done which is a major improvement in terms of code! Hopefully, with the help of yellowhatpro, we can scale pretty quickly and get a lot of work done!

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974633/

@rob

besides the usual MeB background stuff, I finished participating in the ODI peer learning network.
it was fun, met some nice people with very similar missions. also nice to know that it is possible to do open data without consenting adults.
more on that later.
I also spent quite a bit of time finishing up the metadata cache project in anticipation for this week.
And still I missed more pieces of data that need to be in there so the query that runs for an hour will get bigger still. lol.

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974641/

@Freso

Dealt with reports and forum stuff and such, being around+about, etc.

Expiring domains

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974646/

@rob

so, have a look at this list we have expiring soon:

Typo/Org vs com domains:
- musicbrains.org
- bookbrainz.com

Projects that we might do in the future, but will we, really?
- tvbrainz.org
- tvbrainz.com
- foodbrainz.org
- foodbrainz.com

the first one was registered the same time as musicbrainz.org – back then there was no google and search was just starting typo domains were a real thing back then.
also, there was a thought that people might not find a .org (kinda not well known then) and that a .com should be reserved to redirect to the .org
kinda outdated concepts.

Some people thought the first two domains could still be good.

TVBrainz is likely never to be a thing (more likely to manifest as VideoBrainz or FilmBrainz or similar). There hasn’t been a lot of legit community requests for FoodBrainz and Open Food Facts already exists, so FB likely won’t be a thing either.

@rob

so to summarize: keep boobrainz.com, musicbrains.org and ditch the tv and food domains.
we also have moviebrainz,org which is still a possibility.

Several +1’s and no complaints, so motion carried.

Supporting open source

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974687/

@rob

we’ll soon be getting paid for the ODI participation.
and I’ve decided I want to help open source in general a bit, so I want us to lead by example.
I am dedicating a budget of $6000 annually to this cause – at least to start.
the first year is being paid out by Microsoft/ODI.
I’d like each teammember to identify 2 or 3 open source projects that they think should be supported.
I will create a spreadsheet for this in a minute.
propose a project and propose an annual support payment. add a link to where to support the project.
then in maybe 2 weeks we can have another meeting where we talk about the chosen projects and allocate funds, ok?
then, I want to create a page on meb.org that states this.
I’m going to state what % of our income we’re dedicating to OSS and challenge other companies to do the same or better.
let’s make some noise about this, because imagine if someone like Google did this as well?
OSS developers are burning out, so lets see if we can help a little.

Next meeting

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4974711/

@Freso

This is just a PSA that Europe switches to DST on Sunday, so for Indians and USians and others that do not follow Europe’s DST schedule, note that next week’s meeting will be an hour earlier for you.

(Thanks @lucifer for helping me with the difference!)