Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-04-11

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-04-11

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986651/

International Louie Louie Monday

Louie Louie

Agenda

• Reviews
• Security Meeting
• Next meeting (Easter Monday)

Last meeting: 2022-04-04
Next meeting: 2022-04-25

Reviews

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986655/

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

I was mostly working on BookBrainz tickets. This week will be spent preparing for Easter.

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986665/

@akshaaatt

Last week I continued work on MusicBrainz.
@bitmap and I were also discussing how we could automate the release process, hence I started to understand jenkins and how we could potentially migrate to github actions.
This involved some research work.
Other than that I reviewed yellowhatpro’s GSoC proposal and continued some work on the android app.
I also fixed some work in the Listenbrainz revamp work.

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986672/

@reosarevok

Last week I worked on a bunch of tickets, including MBS-11178 (to document entity types and whatnot)
And finally getting @Freso’s requested MBS-11866 hopefully in a reviewable state
Once that works, a lot of that can also be repurposed to not only delete but also flag as spammer or whatnot, hopefully
Also spent some time helping @akshaaatt with MB things
And a fair bunch of smaller tickets
I ran a test schema change update with the few bits we’ve merged already, found one issue and put a fix up
This week I’m planning to work more on schema change stuff

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986685/

@yvanzo

Last week I finally updated and merged MBS release instructions, it makes the release process more transparent to community members.
I also updated another MBS PR that might help with mitigating the I/O load issue we have in production.
On SIR, I fixed building Docker images and integrated more changes by ta264, currently being tested.
Spotted an issue with search indexes dump, @zas identifed and fixed the issue that was with our NFS setup.
Helped with maintenance operations by moving RabbitMQ instance to another server, @lucifer did the move back.
Plus MBS PR reviews and support, that’s all folks!

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986693/

@lucifer

last week i discussed various gsoc related ideas and applications with @rob, @mr_monkey and @alastairp. this including deciding the direction of the MLHD related exploratory work, how to handle timezones in ListenBrainz. various new features like Release radar, send a track etc.
i helped @alastairp with some long standing CB PRs and also progressed on the ListenBrainz mini reviews feature. its been pending since last GSoC but i think we may be able to get it done this week.
other than that helped with MeB infra maintenance.

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986700/

@alastairp

for me, most of the “I did stuff with alastairp” comments from @lucifer lots of discussion about SoC projects, and reviewing some proposals
in CB news, finally finished some of the really old pending PRs that we never got around to. also reviewed and released some new PRs from Ansh, thank you for that Ansh
some upgrades for CB and LB to python 3.10 and flask 2
some planning with @mr_monkey how to go about this month’s task to move template rendering in LB from jinja to react server-side-rendered (like MB does), and some LB work on automatically updating the metadata cache
I also helped on the, uh, “infra maintenance” with @lucifer

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986712/

@mr_monkey

Last week i continued work on the LB metadata viewer. React component is almost done, now it’s time to connect it to the API !
I worked on fixing some regressions in BookBrainz with the latest version, and deployed that to beta
Investigated and made a plan for how to handle, format and store ISBNs, because it’s complicated.
Reviewed PRs and GSoC applications, and did some issue triage

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986718/

@bitmap

last week I was mostly doing MB code review and working more on schema change tickets
have everything submitted except the area_containment one which I hope to submit early this week. fixed a bunch of test failures in the others
worked on MBS-12297 which surfaced when I was fixing test failures
also helped move MB Redis services off of rakim and onto patton yesterday

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986725/

@rob

last week was moving the mb metadata cache to the bulk insert table and also picking up the similar artists work…
for similar artists, I just want to generate one batch over our whole dataset so I can replace the very old can decrepit artist similarity data we have now.
lots of gsoc thiking and planning as well as the normal background Meb BS tasks.
had a conversation with a possible uniforn with great strategic value, that that was nice too.

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986732/

@zas

I continued to work on new gateways, I did a bunch of benchmarks to evaluate current limits
basically rudi alone is able to handle 15k https requests per second
I also helped @yvanzo on an NFS issue on solr cloud
plus Picard PRs reviews, and usual maintenance
last two days were very busy, trying to fix a misconfiguration that was leading to unexpected open ports
I’d like to thank everyone that helped on this
today I set up a port scanner to ensure it doesn’t happen without being noticed
we still have to coordinate to reboot pink, floyd & gaga

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986759/

@Freso

Dealing with reports, forum flags, forum stuff, etc. The usual stuff.

Security Meeting

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986766/

@lucifer

can we schedule a meeting to review the security measures we have in place, how to enhance them and related stuff?
ideally all people with access to MeB infra would be around for it.
i have started a document at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCRswB0eLn8JUigm7aWHn-BRd70tLd7GuBzBnIfeNBk/edit?usp=sharing for possible things to discuss.

Meeting was scheduled to happen on Tuesday 19th at regular meeting time.

Next meeting (Easter Monday)

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4986810/

@alastairp

just a comment that next monday is a public holiday in many countries where we are from. mayhem has already mentioned he’ll be away, and I will too

It was decided to call next week’s meeting off. Next meeting will be on Monday the 25th of April.