Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-09-09

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2024-09-02
Next meeting: 2024-09-16

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] Still been sick and having to work like crazy
Starting to get worried that I won’t be better by the summit, but surely that’s far enough away (knock on wood!!)
I’ve basically been doing my best to keep my head above water with MeB work - a bit of GSoC design checking, staying on top of socials, wiki updates, and some brainstorming and mockups for the upcoming LB donator feature.
Getting really excited about the summit now, see some of you very soon!

@yvanzo

[mailed in] Weblate authentication is experiencing issues at the moment.

@reosarevok: That might be his review, or he might have accidentally pasted an error message instead
I guess we’ll never know

@rob

[mayhem] last week was a whole lot of meb nonsense. chasing after people to give us more money, dealing with invoice, payment portals and all that sort of stuff. we’re still running a deficit, so I’m working hard to try and close that gap.
progress is slow, but I’m at least making progress.
and our accountant informed us to we’re getting dangerously close to not demonstrating “public support” as per the US IRS.
failing to do that, could put our tax-exempt status into jeopardy. and that is very much not good.
to that end, I’ve started a hasty project to create a new donation page for LB.
and, gasp, I set a deadline for getting it done: we should release it during the summit, just prior to the beginning of Q4.
the idea is that we have three months to try and collect more donations from lots of people in order to bolster our public support test.
and the overall goal is to get more serious about donations – this is something I never really wanted to do for MB. being too strong in asking for donations on a project where people are helping you collect data.
but, LB is different. while people give us data, albeit passively, the average LB user doesn’t give much back to us.
so, the goal is to having LB donations cover our hosting costs, which are rising… mostly because of LB.
lots to do on this front.
we’ll pick this topic up at the summit in detail.
also, summit attendees: make sure to bring some chocolate to the summit. and pack it well insulated into the center of your suitcase – delhi is hott. once you get to the hotel, make sure to move the choco to a fridge.

ListenBrainz donation Google doc link - feedback welcome!

@Jigen

[CatQuest] so this week I’m STILL working on fixing the internet, the new internet has not arrived, the internet fixing dumbasses who was supposed to come today didnt’, in short AUGH
Anyway, started moving over links for the work environment
rearrange a bit of Piano instrument links to order things better and for dipping my toes into editing again. I’m hyped for instrument work!.
(The https://beta.musicbrainz.org/instrument/4d256d6… is living dangerously ಠ_ಠ)
other than that I’m fullup with online AND offline junk and summit stuff

@reosarevok

So, last week I spent quite a bit of time improving a PR we got to convert some more form components to React
Now that event is converted and seems to be working, hopefully we can move on with most of those
Additionally, I updated our eslint deps, found out eslint or the parser we use is borked, sent a bug report upstream…
I released prod after a long-ish pause (tiny update, mostly all by derat but it’s good to not keep stuff waiting)
And I dealt with libera so we can have the newly in use again ListenBrainz channel running all nicely
Plus some Spanish translation, fixing some broken Wikipedia links, and adding a lot of missing music so I can clear more of my missing data page in ListenBrainz

@reosarevok

So, last week I spent quite a bit of time improving a PR we got to convert some more form components to React
Now that event is converted and seems to be working, hopefully we can move on with most of those
Additionally, I updated our eslint deps, found out eslint or the parser we use is borked, sent a bug report upstream…
I released prod after a long-ish pause (tiny update, mostly all by derat but it’s good to not keep stuff waiting)
And I dealt with libera so we can have the newly in use again ListenBrainz channel running all nicely
Plus some Spanish translation, fixing some broken Wikipedia links, and adding a lot of missing music so I can clear more of my missing data page in ListenBrainz

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I worked on the summit t-shirt design, and happy to say they were ordered today, in the nick of time.
I talked with the LB team about making donations more prominent on LB, and how to entice our users to donate. Started work on that today.
Had a good video chat with ansh to organize upcoming work on LB, and after that looked a bit into query caching to optimize cover art loading, as he suggested.
And finally did some more bug testing on LB and BB and closed some SEC tickets

@kellnerd

This week I got back into BB, basically finishing what I left two weeks ago after the basics of the combined pending/accepted entity pages were working.
This involves trying to follow older code (including my own from last month , before I got distracted by uni) and eliminating unused code blocks.
Some of them being eight years old and unused since four…
I also reviewed aerozol’s first userscript PR - we may still succeed in turning him into a coder in the long run
And finally getting quite a few things prepared and organized for the Delhi summit and traveling.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last Week, I worked on adding Music Neighbourhood Web to Artist Page and worked on fixing the ordering of albums.
I continued working on stat page tickets, and also fixed some bugs on the Fresh Releases page.
And had a great discussion with monkey regarding the upcoming work on LB.

@lucifer

last week, i reviewed rimskii’s GSoC PRs and blog post. worked on user data exports, setting up LB bridge, discussed LB donation stuff.
also, some MeB OAuth stuff.

@Ashutosh_Aswal

[yellowhatpro] last week was nothing much, fixed some code to make things work for bitmap to run the mb archiver app
added a script that I can use later to push images to container registry, although it is for dev image now, but will make it work for prod as well

@bitmap

last week I was doing code review for the beta update and [pull 3264] for the React-ified forms
Convert form_row_text_list to React #3264]
was also working on setting up a mb-exurl-ia-service test container for yellowhatpro’s project…ran into a few tiny issues which he fixed, so plan to test those today
other than that, was trying to debug test failures in the React 19 PR again, and started looking into MBS-13715 late yesterday (sorry, I know it’s annoying to people)
[MBS-13715: Pressing enter on tracklist AC search dropdown moves to next track]

@zas

Last week, we released yet another Picard dot release
I also spend some time on adjusting upstream servers weights for MB, still not perfect, ludwig is very slow for mb website prod, which also runs mb eu
I also renewed MB wildcard cert
and configured a new server (randy) for lucifer to play with
plus usual stuff, general supervision, system upgrades, tons of MB edits (artists like to release albums in September…)

@pranavkonidena

[pranav] Nothing much from me the last week… mid semester exams are going on in my uni
I hope I survive antenna theory tomorrow…

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] Retrying again after the renting chaos, have found yet another place (with about two weeks before term starts back aaa)
My parents’ company SocialOptic had their 15th birthday, which was fun but pretty exhausting.
I merged some new French translations from ‘Nom d’utilisateur’
(Great name haha)
And dealing with dependency maintenance, everyone’s favourite

@atj

Last week I started working to resolve some issues that zas encountered when deploying a new server with Ubuntu 24.04.
In practice this meant updating the telegraf role to work on the new version, and then wasting lots of time trying to get the Molecule test library working on my MacBook.
Due to the usual python library nonsense…

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