Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-10-23

[aerozol]

MetaBrainz Meeting 2023-10-23

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

Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2023-10-16
Next meeting: 2023-10-30

@reosarevok: Monday rolling back again, like a tackling Wooloo

Reviews

@anshgoyal31

[mailed in] [ansh] Last week, I worked on adding the new design changes aerozol made. I opened the PR for Fresh Release page LB#2603 [related ticket].
I had a great meeting with monkey where we discussed some of the blockers for this PR.
Other than that I spent time working on getting spark to work with the new filters, and fixing some frontend tests.

@yvanzo

[mailed in] Last week I worked mostly on actionable tasks following the summit: writing notes, prepping weblate, fixing small issues, triaging tickets, and a bit of support…

@aerozol

[mailed in] It’s a holiday/long weekend here, and Lucy-Belle’s birthday, so I almost forgot it was Monday! I didn’t though. Lucky lucky you.
Last week I mainly worked on other client work, but I did a bit more work on the summit 23 blog post. I will post it Wednesday.
Anyone who wants to proof it, do it now [link to draft]
yvanzo and reosarevok there are no notes for your topics of: Service alerts, Spam, Security audits
Add them to the word doc before Wednesday if they’re important. If they’re not important it’s fine to leave them out. [link to doc]
Other than that I made some changes to the Fresh Releases redesign mockup, that Ansh has made great progress on, and noodled about with some design considerations with monkey
I also added YouTube videos/walkthroughs to a bunch of wiki pages

@CatQuest

[mailed in] [FishFish] Still cleaning up the alter machine, it is too full of rust
Working on adding shawm-aliases and also going to add more double reed this week

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I made some slow progress on old BB PRs, reviewed GSOC PRs for kellnerd’s project, and kdid some ticket triage
On the LB front I started setting up an album page, had some chats with ansh as he mentioned and with aerozol
And I plunged into a bunch of smaller tickets for front-end issues, triaging and fixing small ones as I went
Mainly on MBID mapping and playlists

@atj

Last week I switched the NVMEs in jimmy to 4k sector size whilst the system was running and it came back after a reboot!
Also did some minor setup work on hendrix ready for bitmap’s big migration today.

@bitmap

last week I mostly spent on code review, upgrading Flow in musicbrainz-server, and preparing floyd/jimmy/hendrix for the primary database switchover today. the switch went without a hitch, which is good.
surprisingly only took 5 minutes of downtime this run, so a bit anticlimactic, but did require a lot of prep work

@zas

last week was mainly about testing and reviewing upcoming pyqt6 patch for Picard, handling few user reports related to latest stable release
I also prepared patches in order to retire floyd & pink (committed today), cancel order passed to hetzner, those servers will be removed on 13th and 15th november, I asked for rack space reservation
plus usual supervision, user support, MB edits, and many other minor things.

@rob

[mayhem] last week I traveled home from the summit and did only critical work on tuesday and wednesday. then back to work on thursday, but I came down with a cold. not bad enough to be sick, but bad enough to just feel meh.
quite annoying, so almost nothing to report. here is to hoping I’ll feel normal soon. been 3 weeks now. meh.

@kellnerd

Now that the BBIQ import queue setup and the basics of the import process are finally working, I could start to look into improving the data quality : )
There were still a few undiscovered errors hiding in the OpenLibrary producer and the entity validation code which I had to fix.
I’ve also decided that it’s crucial to have better logging output going forward, so I’ve revisited the issue with the winston logging library which was causing the entire application to hang a few months ago.
It turned out that I only had to remove a single line of config (which was incompatible with winston v3) to be able to use it again instead of my temporary console drop-in replacement : O [commit link]
This week I will continue with improving the data processing and look into making imports repeatable (as long as the old import is still pending and not an already accepted entity).
That will probably wrap up the reduced goals of my GSoC project.

@reosarevok

This week I spent most of my time preparing the MusicBrainz glossary for translation, and reviewing the Spanish translation a bit to find points of confusion
I should do more of that next week since it’s clearly needed, so many things translated in two or three different ways
Also dealing with reports
I set up a docker MB server with search with yvanzo so I can test search updates
And reviewed some code
Finally, I looked into a weird support issue with bitmap which turned out to be caused by someone being able to create a second account of the same name as their usual during a very, very short-lived db upgrade issue, and which bitmap very quickly helped solve

@lucifer

last week, i was touring california and didn’t do any work. but reached back home today and hope to get up to speed soon.

@snaekboi

[Pratha-Fish] Last week was quite productive. Haven’t been as active on the IRC, but the project has been making strides : )

• Worked on some MusicBrainz-Bot code with bitmap and reosarevok
• Wrote services to collect and transform areas from the MusicBrainz database
• Wrote services to collect and transform areas from wikidata.
• Sped up the most time-consuming process in the area automation process (so far) by 4 times using parallelization!
• Had a few talks in Pune where I introduced more students to GSoC and MetaBrainz. Hoping for new talent to arrive in the community soon. (P.S. Thanks for the supportive comments on socials, aerozol :)))
• Got a day of setbacks due to a service person fucking up my BIOS. Should be back on track soon hopefully.
• Last but not least, trying my best to prep for the MeB India meetup

@jasjeet

[jasje] last week i worked on the same project
a lot of stuff that I don’t recall now

@arsh331

[arsh] I still am busy with my studies so haven’t had much free time
This computer graphics course is killing me
I am not sure when but I will definitely start some work again

addendum by @reosarevok: For what it’s worth, this weekend is the end of summer time in Europe. Sooo the timezones will be weird for a week for whoever changes to winter time a bit later

Absent: akshaaatt (1) ShivamAwasthi (3 - removed from regulars, please re-add yourself if you’re planning on rejoining)