Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-04-03

[aerozol]

#MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-04-03

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Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2023-03-27
Next meeting: 2023-04-10

Today is world Apophallation Day!

Reviews

@reosarevok

I dealt with reports and some support emails, and otherwise enjoyed being on holiday and walked a lot everywhere

@lucifer

last week, i worked on some misc LB bug fixes, reviewing GSoC proposals and PRs.
also, lots of discussions around the same.

@bitmap

last week I was mostly working on [MBS-12826: Anything that would reorder large series causes timeouts] which is preventing some releases’ labels from being edited
I made progress on it, though it’s a tricky issue so I’m still testing things
I also briefly reviewed Pratha-Fish’s musicbrainz-bot PR and GSoC proposal

@zas

last week I traveled to BCN, hosted at Rob’s right now
I reviewed the work of atj related to borgmatic/ansible, and checked the deployment
Today, I updated metabrainz.org certs
I also thought about deploying consul on vlan, started some cleanups in docker-server-cofnigs in this order
apart that, usual stuff, supervision, upgrades, MB edits, user support. fin.

@yvanzo

Last week, I monitored MB website response time, spotted abusive usage.
Also reviewed some security alerts not limited to MB.
Addressed small issues for other databases (DNB and WorldCat) in MB.
Debugged block i/o weight which didn’t prevent disk latency alert yet.
However it likely still made disk i/o more available to other processes.
This has to be proven by testing I/O latency (using dd or fio?)
Plus support, tickets triage.

@CatQuest

Added [INST-879: Biniou] and updated some instrument descriptions
worked with reo and added a lot of instrument images; to cowbell, tubular bells, washboard, washtub bass, triangle and woodblock.
Also updated a few genres with instruments used therein.

@snaekboi

I had a lot of fun this week working on the area management in MusicBrainz project!
After getting a fair idea of the problem statement and how to solve it (thanks to bitmap), here’s what I’ve been able to pull off as of now:

• Worked on completing the PR for updating the MusicBrainz-bot with complete support for adding new areas (still under review tho)
• Created a separate repo for the new AreaBot with driver scripts and a ton of analysis notebooks.
• As suggested by bitmap, if there’s too much spam on Wikidata, we should really take a step back and analyze how much of a problem spam areas on Wikidata really is. Therefore I’ve been also trying to detect and filter out spam areas on Wikidata in some of my analysis notebooks.
• I’ve written and submitted the first draft of my GSoC here
  I’d really appreciate any feedback on it!
  Apart from that, I am working on implementing some of the ideas discussed in my GSoC proposal, to see if they even make sense or not
  especially all of this

@rob

last week was catching up from vacation, which took a while…
then focus on april fools jokes and getting those out the door and tucked away.
I cranked the tunes and danced when daily-jams rickrolled me. : )
but GSoC took a huge amount of time with all the students rolling in super late.
not really fair on the reviewers to have to deal with all this.
tsk tsk tsk.
overall a good week. today I was doing finances will be submitting our taxes next.

@atj

last week i deployed borgmatic on quite a few servers, migrating away from the previous shell script deployment
i merged a pr so that servers in the office can be managed in ansible, currently it’s just the backup server buddy
i also updated a few individual roles to fix some minor lint issues and some other small improvements

@kellnerd

Hey all, not much to report from me for last week, I’ve “only” worked on finishing my GSoC proposal : )
Apart from filling the pages that involved doing lots of research and setting up the tools to build a beautiful PDF from Markdown and draw.io SVG images : D
Today I’ve finally posted it on the forums

@jasjeet

this week was all about gsoc
After an enormous amount of edits, my proposal is ready
didn’t do much this week other then get rickrolled a few times
man didn’t knew there could be such a coordinated attack

@jivteshs20

Last week was gone in improving my proposal and in the general gsoc thing

@akshaaatt

I somehow survived last week…
I reviewed a lot of stuff, including PRs for the LB android app and worked on more misc stuff
We’re also on F-Droid now apparently, thanks a guy who approached the app and published us there!
[some discussion around how one of our libs isn’t f-droid compliant, but general agreement that if they want to accept it then that’s on them]
A blog post is coming soon and we might freeze the app for a while once bugs are ironed out
That’s pretty much it. Gsoc students have eaten up my brain and I might have to start thinking from my stomach soon

@aerozol

[mailed in:]
Hi all! After a week of doing non-MeB work people kind of forgot about me/plates stopped spinning, so I enjoyed another pressure-free week, in terms of MeB tasks!
I worked on some comms regarding the successful launch of AIBrainz, and went over monkey’s LB redesign with a fine-toothed comb.Monkey has done an incredible job! Don’t forget to check it out on beta.
A bit of reading GSoC applications - can I ask mentors to please make sure the applicants have design time in their proposals? Not just signing off a design at the start, but also taking into account that there will be a UI/UX/branding review/s (ideally by me) before anything goes live. So they should include time for a design review at the end, including implementation of feedback. It’s good learning experience for a professional development environment for them anyway… err, not that MeB isn’t professional… we are extremely “professional” (emphasis on quotes!) : P

@mr_monkey

[mailed in:]
I’m away this week, and won’t be easy to join. Do leave your messages and I will catch up when I can.
Last week I worked on the ListenBrainz AI playlist announcement, check it out if you haven’t yet : AIBrainz
I also continued working on the redesign, which you can see in action on beta.listenbrainz. Do try it out and let us know if you have some feedback !
I continued battling with our test suite, slowly making progress.
On BookBRainz, I reviewed GSOC proposal drafts and PRs. It all going quite swimmingly !

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