Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-01-09

[Freso]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-01-09

Meeting start: https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106408/

Agenda

• Reviews
• Docsprint - Qualifiers
• Online digital release

Last meeting: 2022-12-19
Next meeting: 2023-01-16

Reviews

@CatQuest

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106413/

@CatQuest

so I had holidays, and this week I will be throwing jul ut (christmas is over)
haven’t done shit :d
I still found a few bugs here and there so I will be making tickets
Next week will have new instrument tickets done. i hope to be able to close atleast ONE ticket a week

@rob

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106422/

@rob

besides YIM, I didn’t do much over the break.
and once back I focused on doing our finances (we had a $13k loss, boo) and working out the budget for this year.
@alastairp was helpful in making some space in the budget and then I renewed the contracts for people and overall everyone got what they asked for or a bit more.
but hopefully soon I can get some more technical work done, but more planning is in store for the rest of this week.
also, next week is our annual doc-sprint week, but with @alastairp’s change in plans (which he will explain again in a minute) we may elect to do some hacking instead.
we’ll see.

@alastairp

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106432/

@alastairp

In the week of the YIM release I helped to clean up a bunch of loose ends and bugs that were reported
prior to that, I spent some more time on the MLHD dumps, the key focus for those has been to identify more correct recording MBIDs for items in the dataset that are currently represented by non-album-tracks, almost certainly by error
I also upgrade python docker images to python 3.11
I worked on the manual mbid mapper in LB in support of YIM, but I’m not sure if that was before or after the last meeting??
finally on a personal note as I mentioned in the LB meeting earlier, from Feb I’m taking a small break from MeB dev work, with the plan to come back around the end of summer with batteries recharged and ready to get back into it

@akshaaatt

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106447/

@akshaaatt

So this week has been SUPERB for LB Android app!
Looking so good!
I’ve been reviewing absolutely stunning PRs from jasje
@yellowhatpro has also returned and BP in android is being updated further
One key benefit I think which BP on android has is, we can use intent to open up apps like youtube and play songs there directly
I have worked with the youtube android apis and I’m sure we will be able to do it
So LB android is and will be even big in future

@mr_monkey

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106464/

@mr_monkey

The last couple of weeks I’ve been mainly working on year in music.
I did review some ongoing PRs and helped out with a few others, but the gist of it was YIM and celebrations.

@yvanzo

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106471/

@yvanzo

I reviewed and helped with deploying ListenBrainz play button in MusicBrainz website.
Also pinged the Weblate team about our setup since v4.15 implements the needed option.
Triaged tickets, including security alerts as the number of SEC tickets is rising up again.
Plus support and Jira app updates.

@yellowhatpro

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106479/

@yellowhatpro

So long!!
I’ve been busy with my intern so didn’t get much time
Last sunday decided to give time to LB-android and tried fixing a couple of BP bugs
Rest LB is going stonks, thanks to jasje . Nice!!

@Pratha-fish

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106489/

@Pratha-fish

Had a nice catch up meeting regarding MLHD
^ With alastairp last week
I am trying to wrap my head around my own code lool
Worked on getting some features added in the MLHD cleanup code

@bitmap

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106497/

@bitmap

last week I worked on MBS-12787, updated and merged a few older rel editor PRs from before the holidays, and helped review a couple new ones from @reosarevok
I also worked on implementing @Aerozol’s design suggestions for the dialog in MBS-11847
it’s not totally finished but I’m deploying the current changes to test.mb right now

@reosarevok

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106517/

@reosarevok

I tried to mostly chill during the break, but I’m bad at it
So I helped @bitmap with some relationship editor improvements, and worked on the play on LB button
Now more back

jivte

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106544/

@jivte

I just spent the week working on LB-1157 and implementing the add track feature and made a pr
now will work on add album feature

jasje

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106552/

@jasje

This and past week
ive been developing Year in music in listenbrainz app
The work is almost complete and everybody do check your year in music in the app!! @Freso if you can, do prompt everyone to try it!

@lucifer

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106565/

@lucifer

last few weeks, i worked mostly on Year in Music stuff. other than worked on adding cover art to playlists and helped @alastairp with the manual mapping stuff.
also, met with @riksucks, @anshgoyal31 and @akshaaatt!

@atj

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106577/

@atj

Happy new year everyone. First day back after an extended Christmas break so nothing to report.

@zas

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106582/

@zas

I did usual supervision, user support, upgrades, etc…
We (with @outsidecontext) released first version of Picard 2.9 (alpha)
I also started to work on possible solutions to integrate J5 servers with others physical servers
We decided with @atj to work on it tomorrow
apart that, I had quite a lot of friends at home for NYE so still … processing

@Shubh

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106597/

@Shubh

last week, i finished writing dynamic tests for the revert feature.
Did some testing for the same, nothing much though

@Freso

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106604/

@Freso

I’ve been off since last meeting until ~half an hour ago. Nothing MeB related was done in this period.

Docsprint - Qualifiers

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106609/

@yvanzo

It’s just a reminder to the team to get ready for next week doc sprint!

Online digital release

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/msg/5106613/

@yvanzo

The backlogs (tickets + community) about this issue are huge, so I tried to split it.

1. Better defining release event for physical release.
2. Defining digital release (which has less distinctive features than physical release)
3. Finally defining digital release event

Yvanzo asked reosarevok about 1) which seemed to come down to documentation with some outdated links, but also a request for describing why we store release events, saying that while it is true we don’t have that explicitly noted for many, if not most, other data points, most of those are things printed on or otherwise part of the actual release while release events often are not. (Additional discussion happened immediately following the meeting, so feel free to check the IRC logs for that.)

[yindesu]

I guess the question is “why do we care about this”?

There are still region locked digital releases; here are two within the past 12 months:

ZUTOMAYO's Playlist for U.S. Vol.2

ZUTOMAYO’s Playlist for Mainland China Vol.2

As I’ve said before though, from a maintenance standpoint, people want to be able to say “Worldwide except for these 4 countries” instead of “These 220 countries”.

But what people tend to actually care about is organizing their music library based on country of origin, not country of sale:
MBS-12170
MBS-12171

As far as country of sale goes, it would be great to store price tags and currency (MSRP, not import/resale numbers), which adds value to a collection of releases.

[chaban]

There is this old ticket:

STYLE-1034

I intend to add a couple links to related discussions to it. (there are many however, might be a bit too spammy )