Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-05-08

[aerozol]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-05-08

Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs
Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki

Agenda

• Reviews
• Schema Change
• Summit Lodgings

Last meeting: 2023-04-24
Next meeting: Schema change instead next week, returns on 2023-05-22

@reosarevok: Welcome to Mondaying
Hope last Monday was nice and relaxed without having to put up with me here!
Let’s see how the pause has affected everyone

Reviews

@aerozol

[reo: I also have another mailed review from our dear sleeping beauty, aerozol! It says:]
I’ve still been busy with other stuff, so I haven’t done anything long-term in the last couple of weeks. But there were a couple of smaller tasks that I did as they came up.
The most noticeable one was jazzing up and differentiating our various MeB forum/ticket/wiki favicons and logos [MBH-542: Replace wiki favicon with updated MB logo], making them look nice - and hopefully helping me/you navigate our ridiculous amount of open browser tabs. Nobody’s complained yet so I assume that was either a success or not very noticeable (which is also a success)
I got access to our YouTube account (thanks for the help reosarevok and mayhem!) and uploaded about a million (well, 22) walkthrough/tutorial videos. These were made during our last doc sprint a while ago, so it’s nice to finally get them up. Looking forward to posting more on there as needed and keeping a side-eye on the stats/dashboard too.
In similar ‘social channels’ news, I asked for and was given mod access from the three different people that started the various MeB related subreddits out there (that I know of), and gave them a jush.
I’m not positioning them as official MeB channels, just giving them a tidy and made them look nice. And added links between them, and to our other channels (IRC and Wiki, + Discord for the kids). I’ll keep an eye on these as well.
If you want to have a peep you can visit the loneliest subreddit in the world, r/MetaBrainz, or the two that actually see some use - r/listenbrainz and r/MusicBrainz
I did the usual stuff as well. If you’re wondering what ‘usual stuff’ is for me, it’s something like: moderating critiquebrainz, doing some guideline drafting, keeping an eye on a bunch of socials, answering questions on IRC, minor ticket input.
As always please do bug me if you have something you need, or are getting annoyed at me sitting on a ticket forever.

@yvanzo

During the last two weeks, I released a new version of MusicBrainz Server.
Also started preparing the MusicBrainz database schema change.
Resumed testing the search indexer’s performances w.r.t. to settings.
Plus usual PR reviews, tickets triage, and support.

@bitmap

the last couple weeks I was mainly continuing with schema change testing and monitoring replication logs for [2919: dbmirror2 replication fixes]
I was testing some of the changes in that PR inside the production-cron container. a few dbmirror2 packets are missing a pending_keys file, but I figured out why, and that file isn’t required to apply the packets, so I just modified the scripts to check if it exists first and tweaked some warning messages
otherwise I did a small amount of code review

@rob

last week was all about finishing the datasets page, which we did.
week before that was the same, but we didn’t finish, lol.
and of course dealing with GSoC, PRs and MeB Background tasks.
speaking of GSoC: Would anyone like to write a blog post about our students? if left to me, it might not happen… [monkey puts their paw up for this]
and then today I finished three troi patches for our first release of recommendations: daily jams, weekly jams and weekly new jams.
hopefully we can get those released in the next couple of weeks!

@mr_monkey

Last couple of weeks the main attraction was finishing implementation and deploying the new ListenBrainz redesign ! The feedback has been positive so far, most people prefer the new design, so that’s good !
I worked on a few other user-facing features on LB:
A multi-search component to search for a MB recording by track/artist name OR by pasting an MBID of MB url
Tag voting in the Listening Now page — the first step of more tags visible and votable in LB
Some minimal UX changes on the Fresh Releases page
I also helped mayhem push the updated MetaBrainz datasets page past the finish line.
Reviewed PRs and guidelines and did some general admin tasks for BB + looked into some issues reported on the forums.
And a few other bits and bobs !

@akshaaatt

I have been at home for the past few days and spent some quality time with family : )
I helped santiagofn with some MB revamp stuff. Looking forward to continuing on that
Helped review some LB android stuff and worked on some misc things…
That’s pretty much it for now. I’ve been learning cool stuff behind the scenes. Let’s see when I get to use those skills here!

@zas

last week, I was planning to upgrade servers, but options are limited due to lack of space in our rack, so it’s time to retire kiki & herb
but for that we have to move consul to new servers
so we did some work in this field with atj (consul will be managed by ansible)
I updated serviceregistrator in this regard, and did a bunch of tests
I also managed a certificate renewal issue with Gandi (all cleared now)
plus usual Picard PRs reviews, MB edits, upgrades, and user support.

@atj

last week I started learning a bit about consul and then wrote an ansible role to install and configure it. I then deployed it on rex, rudi and mingus so zas could perform some tests.
I also added the vlan interface to mingus and made a few minor fixes and improvements to the various ansible roles.
and probably some other bits I’ve forgotten.

@lucifer

last week i worked on finishing up the listens table migration.
i also added a cron job and related setup to regularly update similarity datasets.
debugged some misc LB issues and had a meeting with rob and SoundCloud contact about integrating it in LB

@reosarevok

Last couple weeks I spent a fair amount of time helping mayhem with the datasets pages
Which luckily are out now!
Additionally, I was (still am) working on testing and improving some schema change stuff
Also I did some triaging and closed a bunch of tickets that were no longer an issue with the new relationship editor
And have been fixing some small tickets I found during that triaging too

@CatQuest

Did BookBrainz testing!!
(added so many tickets).
also am (right now!) finishing adding aliases to the instruments we added uhh… 2 weeks ago?
I’m also working on finding more images and such

@kellnerd

Nothing to report for the last two weeks, I am currently busy with my research thesis.
That has to be finished before the GSoC coding period starts, so I only have little time available this month.
Wait, after all I had continued working on my latest (still secret) MB project the second last week ; )

@jasjeet

last week was going underground and researching on kotlin dsl
currently LB Android uses Groovy DSL, but due to eyewatering advantages
ill be converting Groovy to Kotlin DSl
apart from that
Ive been playing around with some linux distros on vm to make a choice
pop os it is

@jivteshs20

nothing much to report as exam season is going on : |

Schema Change

There is a MusicBrainz database schema change next week [starting at the meeting time], so no meeting.
@yvanzo says that “this year the MB DB schema change is fairly small, so it is expected to be done [within one hour].”
This [also] means that other projects will have to restart or at least check that their stuff is still working.
So [most maintainers] will be around, in case something comes up [after] the schema change.
Otherwise we party!

Summit Lodgings

@rob requests that everyone think about when they might arrive
@atj is editing the '23 summit wiki page - everyone to please fill out their estimated arrival/departure dates
atj assumes “that people would want to arrive on the Saturday or Sunday before the start, so they can get acclimated and be ready to go on Monday”
mayhem wonders “shall we start the summit on tuesday and leave monday open for a hacking/whatever day?”
Nobody is opposed to anything raised.

Absent: riksucks (1)