Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-09-25

[aerozol]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-09-25

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

Agenda

• Reviews
• Summit Agenda

Last meeting: 2023-09-18
Next meeting: Summit 23 next week, then a break, back 2023-10-16

@reosarevok: Welcome to the pre-summit Monday meeting, where we all talk about how we have to have a flight and it’s THIIIIIS long

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] Made some playlists, did socials, prepped stuff for the summit
I’ll make some overlays for the livestream tomorrow - let me know if you have any requests/ideas. At this stage it will be a space for ‘On now: abcd’, ‘Up next: abcd’, and the IRC chat. Perhaps also a ‘back in xx:xx’ timer for breaks.
Also, and you’re going to say “that’s not possible”, but I think I bought too much NZ chocolate and candy

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I deployed a new version of BookBrainz, promptly found a regression that I’m working on
Also deployed a new beta version with the admin panel and some good quality of life improvements
Also did some general upkeep
Had a good chat with ansh
Worked on some LB PRs
And a bit of GSOC discussions with kellnerd

@yvanzo

Last half week I catched up with some things I have been missing.
Resumed working on captcha replacement and spam stuff.
Started to gather info for prepping the summit.

@snaekboi

[Pratha-Fish] This week, I tried forcing the complete MusicBrainz database on my laptop that has like 5GB left on it’s drive.
After realizing the size of the MB database, I decided to stick with importing necessary tables instead : /
I also worked on writing some scripts to import various types of areas from wikidata : D
And then I fell sick and ended up back home

@CatQuest

[ApeKattQuest] Closed INST-109: charumera
however I’d still love if anyone japanese could translate the text on both [link 1] and [link 2] properly for me, it’s relevant to this and also shawm which still needs updating.
that’s it for me last week. this week I will be busy/away

@reosarevok

Last week I looked into some spammers, and into [MBS-13275: Do not send subscription emails to spammers] to stop spammers from following whether their spam gets removed
Also a bunch of user page improvements (like not allowing nominating an unverified beginner for autoeditor)
And I started looking into both [MBS-13132: Make all beginner editor edits votable] and [MBS-6741:Include subdivision and country in the webservice when returning an area] which seem useful
This week I’ll be taking a flight and it will be thiiiis mid
And hopefully finishing some of those things : )
I also bought a couple kg of chocolate

@kellnerd

I’ve successfully held my research project presentation last Thursday before I returned to my GSoC project.
By improving the ORM types, I found yet another small issue: There is a property naming conflict between the (undeployed) 2018 importer project and the 2021 series project (where entityType is the type of the series items and not “Series”).
That’s why unambiguous property names should be used!
The rest of my time I was busy with summit preparations: Buying chocolate, selecting a small gift for aerozol, buying more chocolate : )

@bitmap

last week I mostly did code review for MBS and worked on getting the standy server on jimmy up to production use. updated configuration to ensure compatibility with existing consul-template files
hopefully today I’ll head to one of the fancy grocers and clean out their chocolate aisle

@lucifer

last week i worked on some testing some MeB Oauth stuff, and closing multiple pending LB PRs . also had a few discussions with ansh to help him get started with LB dev.

@rob

[mayhem] as you might imagine, there was a lot of summit prep for me.
but I also worked on making LB radio tag queries more scalable.
then the usual background stuff and… onboarding Spotify for the 3rd time. yay, have a unicorn!
this week will be an odd one, not expecting a lot of real work to get done.
I will be taking wednesday off, to recharge before the insanity. I need to work all day sunday to do our quarterly finances.
because without when I won’t be able to get a start of metabrainz address at the beginning of the summit.

@akshaaatt

I have been buried inside docs and research these days. Learning new stuff everyday. Other than that, I cleansed our repos and did some code reviews
We have also made a decision to move android components to the design system soon ( after nov )
Just dev stuff
Also, packaging and closing out on a few things because I go on a small vacation after the summit, yay!

@zas

Last week I finished the setup of new server hendrix (preliminary stuff was started by atj, mainly zfs)
it is now up and running, and looks ok, it will be one of the main database server soon
apart that, I was preparing Picard 2.10rc1 release, we planned to release it tomorrow
plus usual user support, supervision, upgrades, minor fixes.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week I started working on re-designing the fresh releases page. I have made a significant progress on that.
I had discussions with lucifer and monkey regarding these.
And I spent some time figuring out how listenbrainz spark works, in order to fetch other relevant information.

@atj

Last week I bootstrapped Hendrix, so it’s now ready for postgres to be deployed.

@jasjeet

[jasje] past week i was fixing stuff again
removed unused params optimised some stuff
and its exams so slow rn

arsh excused themselves from this meeting
absent: ShivamAwasthi (1)

Summit Agenda

@yvanzo

The summit agenda is here: MusicBrainz Summit/23 - MusicBrainz Wiki
It is nearly empty except for a few big topics I added.
Please add some big topics - right now - to allow people to know a bit what to expect.
Thanks for having added some hacking sessions already.

See the chat log for more chatter on this topic.