Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-04-29

[aerozol]

#MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-04-29

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Telegram bridge
• Summit accommodation

Last meeting: 2024-04-22
Next meeting: 2024-05-06

@reosarevok: Welcome to this MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] I finally had a lull in my workload last week, and tried to find some fun MeB stuff to de-stress.
So I spent a couple of days making nice mockups, in the style of the Picard ‘box’ image.

• Crate images for MetaBrainz dataset downloads (thanks for the idea outsidecontext)
• A ListenBrainz website preview image: [LB-1572: Add preview/social/meta image]
• A ListenBrainz server update image
  And @5225225, on Discord, reported a typo in a LB settings page and I got carried away finding more stuff to fix: PR 2856
  Thanks for fixing the pr for me monkey.
  Otherwise, Lucy-Belle gets back on Saturday, and I bought an airfryer as a surprise (she’s wanted one for a while). I have been testing it out, can recommend!

@snaekboi

[Pratha-Fish] Got nothing much for this week haha
Just exam stuff
But it feels good to be back to the meetings :))
Looking forward to be back to contributing code as well!!
Oh and not to mention, seeing this year’s GSoC applicants :))

@CatQuest

[ApeKattQuest] Have done [INST-1082: mashak] and worked on [INST-912: Mizwad]
which includes figuring out if [INST-924: Zukra] is actually a bagpipe or not, since apparently according to link (which is the source on the wikipedia page, which also mentions the assumed error in Grove*) it ISNT
so if anyone out there in MB~land knows anything about this I’d very much love any info you can give me!
but anyway that’s the end of Bagpipes! once I figure out this and add the last one I’ll be writing a blogpost - look forward to it!
After that I’ll be taking a mini-holiday but after I’ll be back with more instruments (and hopefully, books!)
That’s it for me, other than trying to stave off this throat-cold that wants to put a foot in.

@reosarevok

Last week I worked more on reviewing our eslint rules and updating them, fixing some bugs in the process
I also translated a bit, dealt with user reports, and reviewed code, as usual : )
This week, probably more of the same, plus some more code review and testing for schema change stuff

@rob

[mayhem] last week was about picking up the task of chasing people to pay us more
then I spent a lot of time getting LB radio packages and released back into prod. sadly zero feedback so far.
then there was some gsoc, some PRs, emails a couple of calls and the usual stuff for me.
and talking lots with monkey about LB and about how happy I am that brainzplayer is working well now.
and today spotify asked me a question, so I straight up pestered them for a quota extension for LB. so far no resistance.
we’ll see how that goes, because a lot of spotify errors are because of the quota limit.
still, @mr_monkey and @ansh, GOOD WORK. BrainzPlayer is delightful now.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week was mostly working on the single-page application and other associated refactors with ansh
We merged and deployed our main feature branch, and people are helping to test in the forums, so even better soon :°
And also some PR reviewing and ticket triage

@huhridge

not a lot of updates, just wanted to pop in to say hello!
been busy with exams, looking forward to continuing my work on [LB-1401: Manually add album listens]
and looking forwad to GSoC ofc!

@yvanzo

Last week, I worked on addressing index issues caused by long text filled in recording’s title.
This is the uppermost nonsensical work in a while I have to say.
It should be fixed in production today or tomorrow.
I also kept preparing search upgrades, plus usual support.

@derat

#3191 was merged for [MBS-7646: Show alias next to entity name in search and relations] with refactoring suggestions from bitmap; it’s in beta now (and more thanks to bitmap for creating #3252 to fix a bad beta/prod interaction reported at [MBS-13560: Beta: Artist page not displayed anymore])
i also filed [MBS-13563: Autocomplete2 should italicize primary aliases and sort names] about making Autocomplete2 italicize aliases and sort names, and sent #3248 to resolve it

@zas

last week was mostly about continuing on Picard refactoring, paving the way to Picard3
we finally managed to get rid of annoying stuff we had to keep since years in order to not break plugins, but with Picard3 we break plugins anyway (that’s the upcoming work)
apart that, I block even more bot queries, causing huge load on mb website (one bot alone is using 10k+ IPs)
[@reosarevok asks if those are the dodgy AI bots, zas says yes]
I also helped atj on new solr cloud front
plus usual user support, system upgrades & supervision.

@itachi_0x0

[Tarun_0x0] Not much to report on my end
Last week was full of external vivas, project presentations, class tests, and coping with the soaring temperatures here in India.
and just some failing test fixing on my own PR

@kellnerd

Last week was another Harmony week which started with lots of minor improvements to UI (e.g. sticky navigation bar, color tweaks) and DX (e.g. automated deployments).
Then I finally worked on resolving external URLs to MBIDs, a feature which was long overdue. Looking good so far, only caching is not finished.
In order to have shorter cache keys and canonical URLs everywhere, I made provider URL parsing and formatting generic, which also simplified the provider implementations in the end.
After all that refactoring I wanted to do something more fun, so I did write a Bandcamp provider over the weekend : )
Once MBID caching is ready, it is about time to write an announcement post in the forums I guess.

@bitmap

I mostly continued working on schema change / postgres upgrade tickets, and did some code review
currently I’m working on finishing the PG12 → PG16 upgrade script, along with an additional test script for the upgrade that invokes it on some test containers that mimic the production ones
then I’d like to start performing tests on a copy of the production database this week

@ansh

Last week I worked on BrainzPlayer SPA feature. I worked on refactoring a couple of class components to functional components.
And majorly spent time on the SPA Feature Branch. Merged all the PRs into the feature branch, made couple of final changes.
I’m pretty happy that the branch is finally merged and currently deployed on beta.
I also spent some time reviewing PRs.

@atj

last week i continued working on the Solr 9 cluster set up
I ended up migrating all the nodes to new arm64 VMs after testing a single node for compatibility and performance
now seeing approx. double the performance with much more consistency (Hetzner arm hosts seem to be less loaded than the x64 ones)
and the cost is ~30% cheaper
also worked on the Grafana Solr 9 dashboard to I could visualise the impact of my load testing and work out what area to focus on
zas once again provided a lot of help and assistance throughout the week

@lucifer

last week, i worked on testing the new OAuth provider by rewriting CB login and access token mechanism and it seemed to work well.
some more testing for oauth also. other than that, worked on misc LB bugs.

@JadedBlueEyes

Not that much to say for me this week
[MBS-13263: Add a blank space before Release titles without cover art in RGs] is about done, next up is submitting it xD
all nice and aligned
I’ll be heading back to uni in the next weeks, so I might end up needing to start mailing in my reviews
And a bit nervous for hearing back about my gsoc application

@Ashutosh_Aswal

[yellowhatpro] Last week was chill, enjoyed last uni moments before end term exams
Enjoyed my farewell party (yayy)
Did some research on archival service I am working on

@Akshaaatt

Nothing from my side for last week. Drowning in work!

@theflash

[theflash_] uni exams are all around xD
other than that still working on the playback thing, made a progress in passing spotifyUrl to play track remotely

@kubrimskii

[rimskii] Finally finished my finals ! yay
For the past week, made a progressively much work with my PR
Fixed all minor errors with indentation, apis and etc.
basically it is ready to merge it !
Unfortunately, there is some minor error with some functions (which I have not implemented, but they are clashing with the main) so I am trying to fix it
with the help of @mr_monkey

@pranavkonidena

[pranav] Not much from me last week, my final exams started from this week… will be able to work at full pace from coming Monday… excited and nervous for the GSoC results
Looking forward to wrap up the brainz player revamp asap after exams finish

@jasjeet

[jasje] last week i have been busy with exams and stuff
so nothing much to report here
excited for gsoc results!
best of luck everyone!

Telegram bridge

@reosarevok

ApeKattQuest had telegram bridge. We got in contact with jwflory and got some info about how the bridge is/was run
lucifer said he’d take a look
So probably nothing else about this at the moment?

Nothing else, indeed.

Summit accommodations

@lucifer

only reosarevok had reached out to me about a +1. others please let me know as well
dates of the summit plus the weekend after
because we might plan a trip to taj on that weekend.
but so good to know in advance.

Absent: -