Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-02-20

[aerozol]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-02-20

Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs

Agenda

• Reviews
• GSoC ideas pages

Last meeting: 2023-02-13
Next meeting: 2023-02-27

Reviews

@aerozol

I had my first go at meeting notes, which took ages but I’m getting the hang of it. Updated the meeting wiki to specify that we do them within 24 hours of a meeting
Lots of monitoring twitter, reddit, CB and Discord
And google alerts which I finally managed to filter to be useful
Apart from that I got majorly sidetracked doing guidelines
If anybody has missed it, @derat has some remix guidelines up for proposal
And my broadcast overhaul
If anybody is waiting on design stuff nudge me please, as always

@riksucks

hey! no updates from me, thanks a lot

@lucifer

last week i worked on misc LB bugs and adding release support to the mapper.

@rob

last week I ordered parts for more disk space on our backup system for zas. installed those today.
[a few people commented with jokes relating to us having a backup for zas]
the usual back-ground stuff for MeB, accounting, chasing up customers.
I also worked on the content resolver and various other little tasks here and there.
did a security upgrade on metabrainz.org.
mostly stuff like that.

@mr_monkey

Last week on the LB front I worked on merging PRs for the first steps of the redesign (nothing too visual yet, just merging some of our pages), and deploying that
Also worked on bending to Youtube’s will, I hate what they make me do, but hey, having some features is better than none
On the Bookbrainz front I worked on guidelines with pbryan and some other community members, the improvements are now online. A single step better but it feels good. Good job pbryan !
Also prepared for deploying a new version of the website, which I did today
And on both fronts, lots of reviewing PRs !
And that’s me in a nutshell. bitmap go !

@bitmap

last week I worked on a bunch more issues with the relationship editor reported on the beta server (probably too many to link)
and reviewing issues fixed by reosarevok/yvanzo too
it looks like we’ll be delaying the MBS production release by at least a day given that several more issues were reported since friday, at least one being a showstopper (page freezing on android devices)
it’s also presidents’ day here and very nice outside, so I don’t want to be stuck at the computer today if something were to go wrong with the release : )
I worked quite a bit on MBS-12871 too but it’s difficult to fix properly, so will likely be postponed until the next release

@reosarevok

I mostly worked on fixing and reviewing fixes for several relationship editor issues
Plus I reviewed all of our relationship types to check the cardinality settings made sense, which took a while
And I made a few changes to make it a bit easier to community-manage MB, although there’s a lot more to improve there
Other than that, the usual: dealing with reports, fixing a couple small bugs

@CatQuest

Not much, been working on aliases. bagpipe aliases are kinda tricky, the word for specific bagpipes are also the word for generic bagpipes in many languages (ex “gaita”) so I gotta juggle that alias wize♒

@zas

last week, I handled the backup lack of space issue, asking mayhem to order new HDDs (2x8tb)
I’ll rework borg setup a bit this week, and set up the new backup storage
I deployed a new version of picard website (sec fixes)
plus usual stuff, user support, monitoring, restarting sir-prod, etc…

@yvanzo

I mostly worked on the same topic as bitmap and reosarevok: beta relationship editor.
Also reviewed two batches of unrelated small PRs most of which now reached beta.
And the SEC Award of the week goes to both mayhem and zas who handled new security alerts right away!

@akshaaatt

I have been working with jasje on the LB android app. Kinda excited with the work ongoing
I have come to the stage where I actually use the app on a daily basis, which is great! Didn’t feel this with MB android before
I also have been documenting some stuff and putting clarity to things. Guess I’ve grown into a corporate person who documents stuff more lol
Looking forward to public announcements of the app and working with jasje towards more features. That’s it for me.

@jasje

Been fixing alot of stuff in the app
Mostly brainzplayer and began restructuring the whole code some days back
more work on restructuring after im satisfied with bp
The good thing i feel about the app now is that i can see the path it’ll probably go to.
ideas popping and ill make sure yall start using the app aswell by the end of this year.

@jivte

So in the past weeks I mainly worked on my previous pr’s
Also me and monkey brushed up our backend skills
learnt a lot of things in past week

@pratha-fish

Just sending a few new folks to the MeB IRC/Docs every now and then.

GSoC ideas pages

@rob

just a reminder to all gsoc mentors: are your ideas pages filled out yet?
if not, please get on that very very soon!

Absent regulars: yellowhatpro (2), vibhoo_24 (2)