Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-05-22

[aerozol]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-05-22

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

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2023-05-08 (2023-05-15 meeting: skipped for a schema change)
Next meeting: 2023-05-29

@reosarevok: After a break for last week’s schema change, which went, as the song goes, surprisingly ok
We’re back with a standard meeting

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] The main thing I worked on was templates and systems re. making noise about news/updates/events - putting in the time now so we can quickly and confidently get news out in future.
Still in progress, with mayhem and Rassami having input, but in the meantime could you all please have a look at this fillable template?
Can you imagine quickly filling one of these out if you have done something cool (or see something cool)? If not, how could I tempt you or make it easier (including ideas that don’t involve a form)?
I also finally did the first round of mockups for the ‘proper’ rollout of the LB recommendations/jams feature!
Other than that, I did the usual, some guideline updates, and helped drag a Picard ticket to the seventh level of hell. Good times.
In nicer news, my other work deadline has passed, so I am able to do more on MeB again! Woooo

@lucifer

last week, i did some more experiements to process MLHD on the existing spark cluster but no success
so had a discussion with mayhem on adding more resources to it.
also did some progress on MeB Oauth stuff.

@bitmap

last week I helped with the schema change release (thanks yvanzo and reosarevok for doing most of the work) and upgraded the json dumps DB on aretha
I also did code review and spent time profiling the JSON dump script to better document the performance bottlenecks

@zas

last week was mainly about preparing the consul upgrade, and testing what we have now in this regard
Basically we’re taking consul out of docker, deploying it with Ansible instead, and it will use the vlan (10.10.10.x) so all nodes can access it
I modified and updated gitzconsul & serviceregistrator
we’ll run 2 instances of serviceregistrator for a while to ensure both consul clusters are in sync (the old one and the new one)
the switch will be done with consul client agent so we should be able to switch without any change to containers
apart that, I investigate the traffic issue we had on Saturday, related to excessive number of queries for recordings of the [unknown] artist → for now, blocked
plus usual supervision, user support, Picard PRs reviews.

@yvanzo

The last two weeks were mostly about the MusicBrainz database schema which went out pretty well,
both because it was pretty small, has been better anticipated, and had more pair of eyes on it.
For the first time we did delay releasing the corresponding UI changes by one week as it wasn’t readyish.
Actually that might be a good thing to do again because it gives one week of beta test which we don’t have otherwise for database schema change release.
Anyway it’s been fully released as of today thanks to reosarevok.
Thanks also to ShivamAwasthi for his first patch to MBS.
Otherwise I got good news from Weblate team so it’s hopefully getting real in the next weeks.

@reosarevok

I worked on getting the schema change code ready, then on improving a few things in the note changing code, then we released the schema change
Fixed a couple of beta bugs for today’s release of said code, and other than that mostly been working on small tickets again, plus now improving a bunch of our tests for JS functions since we found a bug (well, ShivamAwasthi found and fixed a bug) that we really should have caught with tests
But we had no tests at all for that file
(fun)
Small bug, but still, it’s the principle of it
The plan for this week:
More test improvements, for now, not sure later on
Also, hopefully a MB team meeting to properly plan what’s next now the schema change is out (yvanzo, bitmap: let’s schedule post-meeting?)

@catquest

Did jack shit except eat a lot of icecream and drink wine : D
it was Norway’s constitution day on the 17th!
Did do a little bit of testing and wikiediting today…
anyway I’ll be adding more instruments this week and then add more instrument images with reo
Summer is coming with stormsteps to Norway, so I will be afk more in the coming weeks (june/july)

@snaekboi

Nothing much from my side this week
Done with exams, now busy with shifting and a few visits
Should be back to work ~June beginning!

@mr_monkey

Two weeks ago was a ListenBrainz week, lots of small UI bug fixes, working on the MBID mapping modal, some talking about the redesign next steps.
I also spent a good chunk of time finishing up a PR opened last summit! It’s for designing a new login page for MetaBrainz, related to the oauth work lucifer is on.
Last week was a BookBrainz week. I worked on implementing a whole bunch of new work types after the community came up with a nice list. Also a good occasion to test a design that was originally mocked up for MB for showing hierarchy in dropdown lists.
I also took up an open PR for adding reverting in BookBrainz; we got our first ugly merge recently brought up on the forum, and a simple DB query won’t fix it, so it’s definitely time to have reverting capability !
A bit of GSoC-related discussions

@atj

last week i refactored the consul role, got it added to the main ansible playbook and deployed it on a few servers
spent some time investigating and fixing issues in the shorewall roles that zas identified
also finished some work on GitHub actions to test roles against multiple python and ansible versions after zas experienced some weird issues that i couldn’t reproduce
i think i’m missing out on some other bits and pieces but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

@akshaaatt

We received some feedback for the LB app and decided to incorporate that to our roadmap.
I also decided that we will follow jira in a more focused manner from the app side from now on
Other than that, I’ve been brushing up some ML skills alongside and learning more things.
That’s pretty much it, we should look forward to implementing more cool stuff on the app and fix bugs in the coming few days

@rob

last week was writing marketing guff that aerozol and rassami are running with now.
I also worked with reo and the byta team to release the first article in the article series on metadata
then I worked on artist-radio and then created tag-radio.
and in an effort to get more feedback on these, I shoved them into the dataset hoster

• https://datasets.listenbrainz.org/artist-radio
• https://datasets.listenbrainz.org/tag-radio

the UI is crude, but they work!
besides that, I did the usual background stuff to keep the org moving

@kellnerd

Last week I was helping mayhem to optimize some regular expressions to clean recording metadata, which will hopefully improve the MBID matching rate in LB soon.
Also reviewed the BB PR which was mentioned by monkey (not that there was much to review )
And finally I did my first auto-editor nomination which attracted a surprisingly high number of votes during the first 24 hours!
(The election is going very well so far, if that tiny spoiler is allowed.)

@pixelpenguin

I started working on the project [LB: Dataset Hoster Improvements] itself last week
I added some some test in dataset hoster repo
yes, thanks reosarevok
I will create a pr tomorrow, it’s bit late now
Other than, I hope to discuss with lucifer any particular feature to start with this week

@jasjeet

last week was xams
: (
But i still took time out to look around the MeB tickets and community
got my pr on LB server reviewed by lucifer
will be resuming my work on that after exams
plus get started with SoC project [LB Android: Feed Section]
apart from that
I did some community work for rest of GSoCers
people were having problem with ID stuff related to payments
made a step by step guide and posted to github