Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-09-02

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Summit

Last meeting: 2024-08-26
Next meeting: 2024-09-09

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Because nothing hits just like a monday

Reviews

@bitmap

[mailed in] Hello, it’s Labor Day in the US so I’ll only be semi-around today.
Last week I continued testing some performance improvements to /release/ pages, although they’re less urgent now that zas and atj blocked a significant number of bad actors.
I also finally continued working on a prototype for WS3 based on previous discussions and tickets: only /area/ requests to start with, to show how it might work and get feedback from the rest of the team.
Other than that I did code review, mainly on derat’s PRs. I made a small improvement to one of them to support advanced query syntax in /ws/js searches (so perhaps we can allow those in our autocompletes at some point).

@aerozol

[mailed in] Synergies in the US markets! SELL SELL SELL!
SELL 50% of the Skronk shares, then BUY 60%!
Oops, wrong meeting sorry everyone…
Not much to report, I’ve been extremely busy with other things. The usual stuff plus a couple of easy GSoC reviews, made and tidied tickets, looked into some userscript code for the first time.

@akshaaatt

Hi everyone! Back again after having a neck breaking Monday
Last week I completed the gsoc evaluations for our app superstars
Other than that we already have the android app in beta. Go check it out!
The ios app for LB is also up to date with the latest updates on Beta
Will prepare a proper blog post to invite user feedback to push to have atleast the android app in production soon. Aiming for this month end

@rob

[mayhem] last week was getting caught up on all post-vacation things.
mostly boring stuff.
but I managed to fix a bug in troi and do a lot of supporter/biz dev related stuff.
today was more summit/travel planning with lucifer – I do feel that we’re pretty ready and have a good plan in place for welcoming the team as it trickles in.
then I paid people today and did some other faff with banking stuff.
oh and I finally finished reviewing ericd’s excellent work – just needs a final UI check from aerozol and then we can merge.
and I hope for more technical work this week!

@reosarevok

Last week I spent quite a bit of time working on a decent fix for MBS-9063 (which causes ISEs when editing relationships)
[MBS-9063: ISE when changing from reltype with dates to reltype without them]
I also refactored some crappy code to make it easier to maintain, updated some deps, reviewed more of derat’s summer patches
And worked on the Spanish translation
Plus the usual banning of evildoers and whatnot

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] I added some documentation this week and merged the new translations
Gateway31 added 100% Lithuanian translations!
Other than that I’ve had a little chaotic disaster with renting for the next academic year
always fun
Published a new blogpost!
And started looking for a placement for 2025/26 year in industry

@pranavkonidena

[pranav] Last week was pretty hectic
I was busy doing practical examinations and deploying app in our college
I just want to say
Thank you to the entire Metabrainz team for an amazing experience this summer
Gsoc was super amazing and I learnt a lot
Will keep contributing post gsoc as well

@kubrimskii

[rimskii] This past week, I’ve been focused on finalizing my project, addressing feedback from lucifer and ansh. Mostly it was fixing SoundCloud import on troi, and refactoring the code for better readability
Good news, all PRs for troi are merged, so were almost there!
Also I started working on my final submission form, I’m currently creating some fancy diagrams to make the explanations clearer. I’m hoping to wrap it up by tomorrow so I can ask lucifer (and maybe mayhem too hehe) for a final review. :>

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I resolved some security tickets for BB
On LB I did some PR reviews, tested the new brainZplayer and its mobile version
And a bit more finilizing on the missing data page, which people seem to like a lot
And a bit of summit t-shirt design
And looked at some new OAuth pages

@kellnerd

I have absolutely nothing to report. Last week I was completely absorbed by university work and am now very relieved that I’ve handed the final results in.
This week will be resrved for BB again.

@zas

Last week I resume normal course of operations after a bit of holidays, so usual stuff: system upgrades, grafana & discourse upgrades, MB edits, etc
We released a maintenance version of Picard (2.12.2), another one will happen this week
I also had a look at a long standing issue: we had bad load peak on MB website servers since a while, I finally identified the source (a sneaky one), and use the hammer, sorted, at least for now.
I also ordered a new server for lucifer to play with
[rob: who was it?] Hard to tell, a very wide range of IPs, but likely some chinese bot

@outsidecontext

zas already mentioned it, we did the Picard release last week. As often reports of older bugs came in afterwards, so I did some bug fixing and we will do another release this week.
Likely on Wednesday, if everything goes according to plan.
Also I tweaked picard translation string settings on Weblate and added some screenshots, after feedback for the Polish translation by Echelon666

@Ashutosh_Aswal

[yellowhatpro] last week was mostly writing docs, refactoring and re-refactoring
Can’t wait to test mb-ia-exurl-service (we should change the name) soon in test environment

@yvanzo

I mostly discussed breaking changes for MB mirrors to occur in November.
Likely requiring Docker Compose 2, Solr 9, Python 3, and possibly dropping the need for RabbitMQ.
Detailed announcement will be made through a blog post this week.
Plus a bit of reviews and support.

@atj

Last week I investigated the MB performance issues and identified some unusual looking requests coming from the address space of a Chinese cloud provider.
After blocking their entire address space things returned to normal.
I also spent some time investigating a couple of performance issues with the new Solr cluster but haven’t identified a specific cause so far.

@lucifer

last week, i did some work on user data exports and making the process more robust. some debugging soundcloud metadata cache and reviewing PRs for rimskii 's GSoC project. that’s it for me.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last Week, i continued finalising work on new Brainzplayer UI
I spent time reviewing rimskii 's GSoC PR. Great Job on that!!
And worked on couple of tickets.

@theflash

[theflash_] This week I was indulged with Uni tests
Did some refactoring too
GSoC’s complete, now looking forward for making the app to prod
Looking forward to contribute at same pace

Summit

Lucifer reminds people to get their India Visa ASAP, if they don’t have it yet.

@rob

[mayhem] lucifer and I will work out where everyone is going to sleep and send out details for people. likely those details won’t arrive until shortly before everyone leaves the EU/US.
so, to make sure all goes well, get yourself an esim before leaving and then make sure your mobile is charged when you land.

@reosarevok

I understand we’re supposed to print out the emails we received and take them with us on paper?
The ETA with the Granted info

@outsidecontext

you can generate the actual visa PDF on the website with the details from that e-mail. print that out as well. I was told to better have two copies of that, because customs might keep one.
after you got the confirmation you can use “Check your visa status” on https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html . There you can use “print” to get an actual PDF to print out. That’s not really clear from the confirmation mail they send