Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-08-05

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2024-07-29
Next meeting: 2024-08-12

@reosarevok: Welcome to our Monday MetaBrainz Meeting!

Reviews

@zas

[mailed in] I’m enjoying summer time in some retired place in the south of France, very bad connection from here.
I didn’t do much this week, just usual supervision, upgrades, Picard PR reviews. That’s it.2.

@ercd

[mailed in] [ericd] Last week I was kinda busy preparing stuff abroad, mostly on renting a room in Hamilton. I experimented with feed for stat art, but not quite workable. Will take a closer look this week. I will also work on feed UI, as previously discussed.

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] I was mostly spending time investigating Picard tickets and especially trying to handle weird segfaults on macOS with Spanish locale (PICARD-2914). I thought I would at least have a workaround, but according to the forum discussion at [forum post] this might still not be enough.
[PICARD-2914: macOS: Crash when opening options with Spanish UI]
I also reviewed a new PR by twodoorcoupe. Excellent work on the GSoC project twodoorcoupe. Thanks a lot.

@aerozol

[mailed in] I made a PR changing a word, which I think makes me a developer!?
Then reo told me I edited the wrong file/the PR wouldn’t do anything. I am definitely still a developer - just a very very very bad one.
A bit of GSoC discussion, esp. with ericd regarding the RSS layout.
A few weeks ago there was discussion regarding if we should have a dedicated ListenBrainz ChatBrainz channel, and I said I would eventually get round to making a report on the levels of activity in all the different Discord channels. Pretty interesting, regardless of if we make new channels or not:

DISCORD MESSAGE COUNT, ~JULY 2024

musicbrainz
---
mb-general (bridged/all platforms) - 1919
questions-and-help - 606
editing-projects - 35
vote-requests - 226
requests - 34
accomplishments - 47

listenbrainz
---
lb-general - 234

bookbrainz
---
bb-general (bridged/all platforms) - 187

metabrainz
---
development (bridged/all platforms) - 4955
news (blog post sharebot) - 3

off-topic
---
general - 267
music-and-stuff - 211
free-or-cheap-music - 2
memebrainz - 5
album-club - 0
scripts-and-coding - 193
bot-stuff (channel created on the 13th) - 99
suggestion-box - 8

Had the second band break up this year, just as we finished recording an EP. Promptly formed the third

@rob

[mayhem] last week was vacation!
I didn’t do a whole lot of work, just the minimum. we were in a beautiful place, but with a heat wave, so it was hard to concentrate on work.
I paid the team and followed up on accounting stuff.
which is what I did for a large chunk of today.
tomorrow I’m off for the UK where the weather has been miserable, thankfully.
so, I hope to be more online in the next 10 days, but still mostly on vacation.

@CatQuest

[MonkeyPython] I am still doing translations, I finished Picard barcode scanner completely!
next I’m working on glossery and will be working on picard proper + some more on actual mb server

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I worked on LB-1281, adding a way to map all unmapped listens from the same album in one go
[LB-1281: Manual mbid mapping: Auto link/match more tracks from the same album/session]
I finished and tidied up the stats graphPR, which is now deployed: [ListenBrainz stats page]
Battle tested the new BrainzPlayer with ansh
And I reviewed kellnerd’s ongoing GSOC PRs, which I will finish tomorrow
And left for a nice long week-end by a river, so short-ish week.

@reosarevok

I spent the first half of the week working on some small tickets plus the beta regression MBS-13707
[MBS-13707: beta.mb: Work table: artist and length columns shift one to the left]
Fixing that one was annoying and required working together with bitmap quite a bit but we ended up with (IMO) cleaner code than before, which is neat
Then I released beta, including one change (simplifying the way we calculate whether someone is a beginner) which had to be also released to production at the same time
Nobody seems to have screamed that we broke everything, so it seems it worked out well
Friday I flew back to Belgium, I spent the weekend (among other things) migrating my setup to a new computer because my old one was starting to die, and today I flew to Estonia
I’m kinda-sorta on vacation until the 18th, but we all know how good we are at vacations around here, so I’ll still be dealing with emails and the like, just more slowly

@Ashutosh_Aswal

[yellowhatpro] last week I was not in the city, and had to travel, so couldn’t do much.
I tried integrating prometheus, grafana in the rust app, which was a success.
Explored how to export metrics, and trying some tools like postgres exporter
Also figuring out the custom metrics

@akshaaatt

Last week just went by for me. I thought I was working on something but that was last week!
Hopefully this week brings in good stuff.

@bitmap

last week I was testing/reviewing a bunch PRs for the beta release, pushing some changes to help get them merged quicker
went on a tangent fixing how we output i18n elements in React, and some React key warnings, which was related to the recent Flow upgrade
then looked at upgrading to React v19, which caused a Selenium failure…trying to debug that led me into another nice tangent fixing more broken stuff: Selenium/runit fixes by mwiencek · Pull Request #3351 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub
was also looking into some MB response time alerts that keep triggering, and opened a PR to start logging request duration in our plackup logs

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] Last week isn’t quite as crazy as the week before, but it was still pretty productive
My main goal working on integrating the mail service with the main application! I’ve got two emails (mostly) working so far
[video 1]
[video 2]
It’s hanging around in [MBS-13719] for now
I made a CI pipeline to automatically build and publish a container image for the mail service
I mostly copied the example from the github docs, so it has all sorts of bells and whistles! Cryptographicly attested builds and automatic tagging and all that jazz
I also got it publishing to docker hub under mb-mail-service (thanks bitmap)
I then got a bit sidetracked and added SBOM info to the images, so security scanning tools can now see all the exact dependency versions in use in each image
I added options to allow setting various email headers, like reply-to, message-id and in-reply-to
And made a new editor message template
I also refactored template parameter names to be more consistent
The main service is now using the version of messageformat I’ve published on crates.io, meaning we have one less git dependency
and as a little side thing I created some example systemd files for the mail service
If course there was a bunch of other misc maintenence bits too

@ansh

Last week, I mostly spent time on final review changes on BP PRs, made some final changes on that.
Other than that spent time on adding stats on LB Page, and some tickets.

@lucifer

last week, i worked on last.fm backend importer and incrementalizing spark stats. also did some misc backend fixes. also, reviewed some LB PRs. that’s it for me.

@kubrimskii

[rimskii] for the last week, i got a bit sick so had to run a lot to hospitals. but feeling fine now
on weekends I tried to catch up and finally finished my Apple Msuic export PR
I updated it in github, only testing part is left
The same for SoundCloud, almost finished it and planning to open PR for it as well tomorrow
Also worked on small tickets, finally closed LB-1599
[LB-1599: Weekly Mix export to Spotify fails (description too long)]

@kellnerd

Last week I executed the BB imports schema change script (which worked, yay) and started to adapt the code in a lot of places.
In addition to the combined import table and entity table I also had to brush up on my SQL skills to combine the accompanying views.
That will be the key change to be able to refer to pending imports instead of accepted entities (e.g. in relationships) in almost all places with minimal effort.
Otherwise I didn’t manage to do much, it was just too hot in my room to work at the computer

@twodoorcoupe

a couple of small prs were merged, one dealt with a “low hanging” ticket
the other dealt with one of the final details of image processing for Picard

@yvanzo

Not much to report about last week as I was on vacation.
I just moved to a temporary place with a standing desk for the two next weeks.

@theflash

[theflash_] last week I integrated and tested all the endpoints in dashboard and stats section
just a few more UI tweaks and fixing the heatmap, then gtg
other than that did some refactoring for using existing components

Absent: Jasje (1), Pranav (2)