Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-05-23

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2022-05-23

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009958/

International Monday to End Obstetric Fistula

FISTULA Official Video - Kidole Kimoja

Agenda

• Reviews
• Congratulate GSoC students
• MeB-wide Oauth
• Securing MeB infrastructure - part 4

Last meeting: 2022-05-09
Next meeting: 2022-05-30

Reviews

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009962/

@reosarevok

Last week I helped put out the schema change, wrote a couple small PRs, then went on a break and did nothing else of note. Still doing that right now. Doing nothing is neat.

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009969/

@bitmap

last week I helped with the schema change release and was mostly working on PRs related to that
afterward I fixed some small remaining issues. one causing the JSON dumps to hang and was hot-fixed, others were minor

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009976/

@mr_monkey

Last week was a bit slow, but I did continue reviewed my giant stack of PRs
With @alastairp we tweaked some things on BrainzBot to allow us to write PR review ids like so: LB#2000
I continued working a bit on the LB metadata viewer, and did some debugging to figure out some issues with listening on LB with Spotify (some listens don’t make it into the listening history)
Worked a bit on the bootstrap migration
And finally started a document to explain what the goal is for moods on MB and LB

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009985/

@lucifer

i helped a bit in the schema change by working on unifying our mbdata fork with upstream and updating the models for schema version 27. also worked on some sir tests.
reviewed some PRs, helped in debugging mbid mapper issues and added an initial version of rechecking old unmatched msids (further improvements to come). worked with LB team to get the long standing mini reviews PR merged, with that all of jdaok’s work from last GSoC is now merged.
some work on recommendations, like adding a new category and timestamps of when those were listened last.

@CatQuest

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009992/

@CatQuest

Hi! I’ve done plant things this week, but also had time to do INST-1053 & INST-1052
also been looking into fixing up a few abandoned recordings. there are quite a few.
finally working on some bookbrainz editions, hoping that updates will make things better

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5009998/

@zas

On Monday, I moved aretha to ansible, during the new schema deployment
On Tuesday, we released another RC of Picard, stable version will be released tomorrow
I was off the remaining of the week, just keeping a distant eye to our infrastructure, thanks to @rob & @atj I had nothing to do

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010010/

@akshaaatt

We have made explosive updates to MB Android App with the addition of the Spotify SDK to play tracks. Also, the tagger functionality has been updated to feature better results. A release has been deployed on the play store for you to try it out
Other than that, I worked on our docker containers dashboard, thanks to @atj! I need to add some plugins to react bs datatable for which I was looking to connect with the actual dev and make PRs there
Plus the work on Design system, MB and LB revamp has been ongoing simultaneously

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010021/

@rob

last week I was mostly on vacation, except for being around for the schema change and having nothing at all to do.
thursday and friday I got back into the swing of things and looked over the gsoc situation and immediately acted on a suggestion on how to improve one tricky situation.
so, there is a seekrit project in the wings that we hope to unveil wednesday after the board meeting tomorrow.
I also created a PR for adding release_tags to the mb metadata cache only to realize that that was pointless and that I should be returning release-group tags. lol. one step forward…
and today I spent most of the lining up the ducks for the board meeting, collecting financial data and writing up notes for the agenda for tomorrow.
ready to roll!

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010035/

@yvanzo

The two past weeks were mostly dedicated to the MB database schema change.
After that, search indexes have been rebuilt, setting recording’s first release date, and catching up with missed updates.
Unfortunately it made search to be barely usable for a long time.
But there could be a way to avoid this in SIR and MB SolrCloud: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/SEARCH-674
Plus some maintenance tasks with sir, trille, and MB website 5xx.

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010044/

@alastairp

I helped with some LB functionality to keep it up during the musicbrainz schema update
I reviewed some of Ansh’s PRs for BB, and updated some missing functionality that I found (thanks @lucifer for helping debug this). I also released a new version of the BU test database that uses the new schema release
I started to write some docs for LB for the data mapping and to answer some deployment questions that I had that I wanted to write down for future me
as @mr_monkey said, we made some improvements to brainzbot, and also broke some other things (sorry about that). We’re going to have a pending task soon to upgrade this, as the server and dependencies are quite old and sad.

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010051/

@atj

last week I didn’t get a great deal done due to work and life keeping me busy
I managed to progress the docker dashboard page a bit with @akshaaatt, and anonymised the data to make it safe to publish on the internet
(for testing and development)
I fixed a minor issue with the netplan ansible role that zas uncovered when deploying aretha

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010058/

@Freso

I did a wee bit more of trying to coordinate about the tg/#mb bridge, other than that been dealing with flags, reports, and being around/about.
And this weekend I helped out with a 3-day fundraiser for three trans rights organisations actively fighting the on-going genocide of trans kids in the US and UK. Still recovering from that.

Congratulate GSoC students

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010066/

@alastairp

I guess we’ve done this a few times over the last few days
but welcome skelly37, Ansh, yellowhatpro, riksucks , PrathameshG and Shubh to MeB for GSoC this year!
you’re welcome to stick around for the meetings, that happen at this time every week. if you want to say anything, let @Freso know
once gsoc starts properly, we can get you on the regular rotation for the meetings

MeB-wide Oauth

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5010076/

@lucifer

for the past few years, we have been discussing moving the Oauth stuff over to MeB from MB.
here’s a brief ssketch of idea, some of us prepared last year.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Doi5s99PjryEncKrcjwMmp07bt62QkN2u0WZgjijLho/edit?usp=sharing
(edit to all @meb.org accounts)
the intent is to move over both user accounts and oauth applications to MeB. users create an account on meb.org and then all other projects can then communicate with MeB Oauth to create that user’s account inside that project.
the greater benefits are on the Oauth side though, as it allows us to implement OAuth once and add project specific scopes instead of implementing oauth in each project again and again.
@alastairp: and also allow for someone to sign in once (for example on LB) and be able to add tags to MB or reviews to CB without logging in again
yup that too, also to enable some BrainzPlayer use cases iirc.
thoughts on how we should go about this?
we have 2 things to do: 1) implement OAuth apps on MeB.org 2) move users and oauth apps to MeB.org from MB.

Discussion ensured about various project specific cases and general rumination about OAuth and how to go about this. @alastairp also made a call for help:

@alastairp

if anyone else feels that they are knowledgeable in oauth then please let us know and join in these discussions, as I have a bunch of general ideas about how I think oauth works and how it could work for us, but I’m not sure if any of it is actually grounded in truth

General consensus was that projects should add notes to the document about specific needs/requirements for them and it will be revisited at a later meeting and possibly have a month set aside for all projects to work on transitioning.

Securing MeB infrastructure - part 4

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/4999037/

Continued discussion about securing our infrastructure, mostly around “Reducing docker container capabilities”. Please refer to the IRC logs for details.