Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-04-25

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-04-25

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995683/

World Malaria Monday

Omawumi - Mortein World Malaria Day Theme Song

Agenda

• Reviews
• Summit
• Design Guidelines
• Securing MeB infrastructure - part 2

Last meeting: 2022-04-11
Next meeting: 2022-05-02

Reviews

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995688/

@lucifer

previous 2 weeks was lots of work on recommendations and related stuff. other than that some LB bug fixes, helping GSoC applicants with applications. and also participated in the secrity meeting.

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995696/

@rob

last week I personally had a rough week so, I didn’t really get as much done as I had wanted.
most the usual BS for metabrainz as well as gsoc application triaging.
we had a slow start to GSoC but in the end we recveived a lot of good applications.
and the WTF applications were extra WTF this time around.
fun to read certainly.
@lucifer and I have been working on recommendations and trying to get them to improve with loads of tuning. we now have better tools, better understanding and our recommended tracks are improving quite a lot.
I hope to write troi-bot part this week that will give all users who follow troi-bot daily playlists so we can all start complaning about them.
its been a really long road to get here, but now we’re days away.
stellar job MeB team!

@aerozol

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995713/

@aerozol

Kia ora! It’s been a slow few weeks/months for me, buried in other work
but also partly because I’ve been trying to tease things apart in a design sense
so it’s been slow going, but hopefully important stuff
mainly standardising all the logos, so that we now have a library of logos in the logo repo
that all match and are ready to go
if I catch anyone using an old one…
Also putting together some guidelines for MetaBrainz design and MusicBrainz design
Initially I was hoping to have one doc that covers all projects but I should have realised they were too different already
It would be great to get feedback on the design docs after, because the timings good with GSOC applicants lately
They all ask very similar questions and some docs might help!

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995730/

@akshaaatt

For the past few days, I have been learning loads of new stuff.
I have finally made the integration of ListenBrainz in the MB Android App at https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-android/pull/116 and it is superb! The app is gonna get 5 times the users if things go as planned
also spent a lot of time debugging issues and resolving them.
The best news I have so far is that https://test.musicbrainz.org has been made responsive and things look wonderful and I’m enjoying it like crazy.
Do check it out!
That’s about it for me. Coordinating on some GSoC stuff and yeah the usual!

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995744/

@alastairp

very quiet week for me last week - we had family at home plus the short week I didn’t get much done at all
I did some back-and-forward with people to finish gsoc proposals, wd to everyone who submitted those, I reviewed some CB PRs, and responded to a security bug in CB
I attended the MeB security meeting
I did some planning after discussion with monkey on what was going to be our next dev sprint - to introduce react server side rendering to LB, let’s see if I have time before the end of the month to make progress on that

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995751/

@reosarevok

I worked on implementing a bunch of stuff for genres that is allowed by the schema changes (annotations, URL relationships, boring aliases that do nothing useful yet but at least exist)
And I tried to debug the wikidatabot, @Mineo helped a bit, we might have found the issues (didn’t have time to check yet because I spent today fixing new small tickets)
Hopefully I can have it working properly by the end of the week? No promises yet

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995763/

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

so, this week I was a lot more productive than I was expecting.
did work and
swept outside and planted flower-leeks and other spring things
sadly those things aren’t really brainz related,
But I did infact manage to add a few tickets and test beta Bookbrainz and
!m monkey for the new beta-release routine!
as well as adding some books and releases and retagging and suches.
had some discussion on the community… thanks @kellnerd, indy, @mr_monkey and @aerozol for lots of interesting input.
This week I will also be doing much of the same, but I hope to also be able to squeeze an instrument or two in as well

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995775/

@mr_monkey

For the past two weeks I did a lot of reviewing GSoC applications and PR Reviews. Again congrats to everyone who submitted a proposal !
I continued work on the LB metadata viewer, and investigated some potential BrainzPlayer bugs
Lots of dicsussions in Bookbrainz forums, deploying a new release and continuing fixing issues
Finally, did some admin and database maintenance, ticket triage and such
Oh, and I fixed Korea.
Yes, you read that right
In real life, I’m currently in the process of moving apartments, which means lots of packing, which means less time for work.

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995795/

@atj

last week I worked on an Ansible role to manage /etc/hosts, based on a request from @alastairp. It’s not deployed yet but should be real soon ™.
I also hacked up a script that queried all the servers, pulled information on running Docker containers and then rendered a web page.
aside from that, just a few other minor Ansible related bits and bobs, and then watched @zas deploy several new servers in a matter of minutes
I think @zas and Ansible are becoming a single entity

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995811/

@zas

apart usual supervision, user support, Picard PRs reviews, I mainly worked on migrating a bunch of servers to Ansible + OS upgrade
the process is now smooth (thanks to @atj’s work)
in the Hetzner physical servers set, only aretha remains (and frank, but we’ll see when AB API will be down)
I’m starting to plan migration of virtual servers

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995820/

@bitmap

last week I worked on the area containment schema change PR
I’m still working on addressing the review feedback there
(though now I’m hitting MBS-12131 after Arch updated PG to v14, so I’ll probably spend time today addressing that first)
I also helped move metabrainz.org and musicbrainz-production-cron containers from hip to trille. thanks a lot to yvanzo for helping document the instructions for that
and I submitted some fixes to the mb2wikidatabot Dockerfile and consul-template config while reosarevok was debugging it

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995830/

@yvanzo

Last week I helped with preparing a few servers (serge, hip, trille, zappa) to be moved to ansible.
Also upgraded our Jira server after the security advisory CVE-2022-0540.
Fixed the search server at test.mb.o thanks to @lucifer’s help with debugging.
Successfully tested and merged a patch to SIR by ta264 that will decrease the load on both the primary server and mirrors.
Also updated the Docker image for SIR (and its base image) to fix syslog warnings.
Addressed security issues with development setup in MB Solr and MB Docker.
Plus PR reviews and support

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995839/

@Freso

Had someone reaching out to us about having their name disconnected completely from their “del editor #” in forum posts etc. that I dealt with. Security meeting last week. Other than that, the usual dealing with reports, flags, being around/about etc.

Summit

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995845/

@rob

GSoC isn’t going to hold a summit, but I think it might just be time to have one.
given that we have FOUR team members that most of us haven’t met.
there is still a lot of travel uncertainty (I haven’t restarted my personal travels yet) so we shouldn’t go overboard.
given that, the whole team is invited, except for @reosarevok.
But I am not ready to include our GSoC students into that list yet.
who wants to come to barcelona?
no one is required to come, of course.
I propose the weekend of 8/9 octover.
any objections to october 8/9?

@Freso noted that he does “not feel comfortable travelling with how the world acts like COVID is over when it very much is not”, but most others who spoke up were fine with going.

No objections to the proposed dates, so MetaBrainz Summit 2022 will be on October 8th–9th “unless something changes and we hear objections about this date in the next week or two”.

Design Guidelines

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995923/

@akshaaatt+aerozol

Thanks to aerozol, we have some design guidelines available now
https://github.com/metabrainz/design-system/blob/components/guidelines/component-usage.md
https://github.com/Aerozol/design-system/blob/master/guidelines/MetaBrainz%20design%20guidelines.pdf
https://github.com/Aerozol/design-system/blob/master/guidelines/MusicBrainz%20design%20guidelines.pdf
We want feedback from everyone/anyone on this
It would be really good if everyone could take a look. Some of this will bite you in the ass later if you don’t, I promise
I believe we should be including more sections in the design guidelines. Please let us know the topics that should be included
I also put some sneaky changes in there - for instance, there isn’t really a text style consensus in MB, so I made something up from the direction akshaaatt is heading in. We can edit as we go, but eyes would be good, these are big changes
Also, accessibility guidelines, minimum font size, etc…
These docs are more like guidelines, it lives alongside akshaaatts fancy component library for css etc
Also, I am realistic about making all of you follow guidelines loool
Anyway, I believe we need to head in the direction of following these guidelines in the future because I faced an issue understanding how to design something new
It’s really apparent with the GSoC students too I think. I think new devs need it, and it will have the side effect of maybe helping all you old hands align

There was some discussion about the use of PDFs for these and how to suggest, implement, and track changes (since PDF does not lend itself well to traditional code-based version control systems like git). No definite resolution, aerozol and akshaaatt will discuss more how to go about this.

It was also decided to merge the logo repository into the design repository.

Securing MeB infrastructure - part 2

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4995982/

It was decided to do a separate security meeting the next day, Tuesday April 26th at regular meeting time.