Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-01-15

[aerozol]

#MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-01-15

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

Agenda

• Reviews
• Discord bridge
• IRC alternatives
• Summit 2024

Last meeting: 2023-12-08
Next meeting: 2024-01-22

@reosarevok: It’s Monday again! Welcome everyone
Since I just signed a new contract, I don’t need to bother coming up with new jokes. I’ll make an effort again in December

Reviews

@rob

[mayhem] last week was the worst week of the year, as expected. accounting, invoices and lots of cleanup on the accounts from the past year and filing paperwork needed
but I also made a budget for the upcoming year and proposed raises for the whole team.
the board signed off on it and today I sent out contracts.
I also updated the “loss of executive director” document and changed the master password on the password vault
new partial keys have been distributed to 5 people.
and then I started off working on the MB documentation improvement project with rdswift and reosarevok.
oh, and loads of PRs against the lb-content-resolver last week.
that was really rewarding. : )

@CatQuest

[ApeKattQuest] Updated cornamuse and crumhorn
and did INST-1103: cornemuse aka cornemuse du centre (somehow)
Griped a whole lot about jira and general life crap
but in other news I’m working hard on instruments again (nothing else to do now as the temperature is -10 to -18 this week again!)

@reosarevok

Last week I spent a lot of time dealing with user reports
Triaging a bunch of stuff I has left from the Christmas break
Bits of code review
And merging some PRs
Plus we had some discussions with the team about search, but turns out lucifer already did most of what we wanted it seems : D

@lucifer

last week, i tried to setup bridges between IRC/zulip/discord/matrix. only the discord one worked/
rest two hit technical snags, hope to get it working this week.
did some final fixes for YIM. and a little progress on MeB OAuth stuff.
other than the search stuff mentioned already, tested and it works smoothly in development on sample data. need more testing on the full database to confirm
but otherwise we should be ready to move to Java 17 and Solr 9 in prod soon.
Lucifer Morningstar also, got sir working on python3 again. bitmap was able to reproduce that it works

@mr_monkey

[monkey] I was sick most of last week sos didn’t get much done.Towards the end of the week I started going at my pile of PRs to review, and looked into a BrainzPlayer issue on LB.

@pranavkonidena

I started fixing stuff on YIM
Mostly the foxes are done… would love to start picking up on LB IOS for the future
Would get to learn swift so excited for that

@aabbi15

I joined the community two weeks ago and it feels really nice to have people who do genuienly care about the project. Unlike other OS i have contributed to
SO i am working on 2 issues right now one is of Adding a Beta-site cookie to the bookbrainz website
and the other one is to add more units of measurements in the add book menu
I am understanding the codebase right now slowly

@bitmap

last week, like the one before, I worked more on MB pull 3130: Reimplement MBS-7241 without database-level locks
took a while to finalize the implementation, but I think it’s ready now, and should hopefully eliminate certain timeouts people get while editing
I also finished moving the JSON dumps to another server, hendrix, to reduce I/O on aretha and avoid impacting WAL receival there
over the weekend I helped set up running some tests for lucifer’s awesome work on mb-solr / sir. we should test it a bit more but so far seems to work flawlessly
other than that I worked a bit more on the edit types for the event-art-archive and did a small amount fo code review
fin. go zas!

@zas

last week, we released Picard 2.11 RC (Picard 2.11 Release Candidate – MetaBrainz Blog)
I also worked on listenbrainz-content-resolver patches, to add new features and speed up things
I upgraded discourse
plus usual supervision, system upgrades, user support, minor tasks, MB edits.

@yvanzo

Since the last meeting last week, I worked mainly on MBS:
I fixed continuous integration tests and the localization of statistics pages.
I shared issues about upgrading MB Solr deps with reosarevok, lucifer, and bitmap.
Thanks to lucifer for the breakthrough in the class loader issue of MB Solr!
Tried to pass some of the previous research work about docs to rdswift.
I enabled translation reviews for Spanish with reosarevok as coordinator.
Plus the usual PR reviews, Docker support, and tickets triage.

@atj

nothing to report again unfortunately, I’ve been taking a break since new year, just getting back into work today
hope to have some bandwidth next week

@kellnerd

Last week I’ve finally set up my LB account, WebScrobbler and the Kodi addon and started submitting fresh listens.
In order to obtain more fragments of my past listening history, I continued developing my LB API client and wrote a few more parser/importer utilities for TypeScript/Deno.
Now I only have to wait for my streaming listening history exports to be available for import, meanwhile I can deal with a few other potential data sources (which have to be reviewed).

@aerozol

Slow start back into it, mainly a bunch of discussions about various stuff and tickets last week. Quite a bit of stuff on socials, some wiki updates etc
Started work on various figma mockups again but nothing done yet

@jasjeet

[jasje] last week was fun
Reviewed pranav’s work on YIM
Kudos to him for doing a great job
as for me
I have been looking at tickets and decided to squash a demand.
opened a pr for that but it needs more changes as discussed today

Discord Bridge

@lucifer

working fine afaik

@aerozol

Thanks to lucifer for implementing support for [off] messages (not being bridged) asap when it was raised, as well
Well done @ everyone on Discord for being well behaved, as well

IRC alternatives

Topic carried over to next week’s meeting.

Summit 2024

No objections to having the summit in Delhi.
The summit will be on the week of 23 September
Non-India attendees to arrive 3am on the 21st of September, and to fill out a form re. when they want to leave.
Full topic discussion in the log.

absent: akshaaatt (2) Pratha-Fish/snaekboi (1)