Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-12-02

[aerozol]

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

Agenda

• Reviews
• Blog woes

Last meeting: 2024-11-25
Next meeting: 2024-12-09

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@jasjeet

[jasje] I looked into reducing code duplicacy on some common items
Which increased the quality of low effort dupes to match the apps standard
These are hardly noticeable
An urgent update was pushed to beta which fixed a bug reported by mayhem concerning android 15 devices
All thanks to google for creating the problem in the first place2. 2. 2.

@rob

[mayhem] today I worked with outsidecontext on getting a bunch of M$ bullshit settled. (DUNS number and shit like that)
super fun.
last week I worked on fixing the release color sync which had been broken for a while, still not done.
also the cron job monitoring, which may have turn a new turn given the sentry cron suggestion. we’ll see.
mostly LB hardening work, trying to make everything a bit more stable overall.
then there was the usual background non-sense, talking to customers and the like. hopefully we’ll have a new paying supporter soon. that would make me quite happy.
also, paying people, thanks for most of you getting invoices in snappy!
and some work on deciding the wording for a revamped MeB homepage – I’ve been working with Rassami on that.
pretty productive week, overall.

@zas

Last week, I had interesting discussions with julian45 about possible improvements of our infrastructure
This week-end I took care of an SOLR cluster instability, solved after rebooting 3 of 8 nodes, I didn’t find the reason of the problem, but it happened after some network connectivity loss during Hetzner maintenance round
Plus usual supervision, upgrades, Picard PRs reviews, MB edits, user support.

@yvanzo

I have nothing to report from a sick leave. As a reminder, it’s unlikely that I’ll be working full time again for a long time.

@kellnerd

Last week I was busy with other stuff and was AFK most of the time, so I didn’t get to work on the BB importer.
Only managed to do a bit of maintenance for my LB tools.

@bitmap

last week I worked on some artwork-indexer bugs/tasks:

• fixed a sql performance issue causing the queue to rise
• fixed a bug causing certain failed events being stuck in “queued”
• updated the project to require python 12 (and released a new metabrainz/python image for this)
• opened a PR to manage dependencies with poetry
  other than that I figured out what was causing SEARCH-732 but haven’t submited a patch yet
  [SEARCH-732: mb-solr mvn package sometimes fails with compilation error in MusicbrainzTokenizerImpl.java]
  and did a bunch of MBS code review

@outsidecontext

Today I got together with mayhem to do some needed updates to the Microsoft account used for publishing Picard. Also we set up Azure for MeB and I will work on configuring Azure Trusted Signing for Picard’s code signing next. Hope this works out as expected.
I also fixed Picard macOS builds on Github Actions, did code reviews and opened two PRs for bug fixes. I feel like I’m back in the flow, which is good.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I mostly worked on finishing and polishing ericd’s GSOC project adding Atom feeds to ListenBrainz. mostly some good feedback from beta testers and some final changes
I worked with mayhem on a blog post following Spotify’s terrible decision to cut off a bunch of their APIs to new and in development apps, leaving a trail of disgruntled developers.
And I worked on a bunch of small tickets, cleaning up the backlog on task at a time.
Some PR reviews, and that’s about it for me

@julian45

This week I was AFK a lot due to 'murican holidays, but I had some good discussions with zas about server infra improvements. I drafted up a research doc for one such sort improvement, which is currently between zas and I for review but may eventually get shared with the larger group
Besides that, I worked on the MeB Ansible repo a bit with an eye towards bringing it up to date. I finished one round of checks, then pinged atj with a couple of questions; waiting to hear back on those before proceeding further

@reosarevok

Last week I fixed a couple bugs, including one which was blocking me from banning a spammer (now in beta and spammer ban-hammered as needed)
And worked on updating some JS class code to React components
A lot of discussions about karaoke too

@aerozol

Immediately after the last meeting’s decision I made new accounts for our main projects on Bluesky and Mastodon, and did goodbye/welcome and blog posts etc
A pretty big task. But I’m feeling very happy about the shift. We definitely have more engagement on those platforms
Only downside: Mastodon does not yet allow switching between multiple accounts on the fly. It’s a pain in the ass. But survivable
I prepped two blog posts and socials for upcoming LB updates
Did some review of a couple of changes (sorry for making you wait for the homepage review @ansh!!)
Was away for a conference for a couple of days for other work and lost the will to live, but it’s largely returned now
reosarevok also did a bunch of work on changing links etc to the new socials

@lucifer

last week, i worked on per user on-demand listenbrainz stats and looked into a couple of low hanging bug fixes in stats art creator. also, coordinated with zas on deploying oauth stuff to prod.

Blog woes

@mayhem

honestly, I haven’t thought much about what do with the blog.
has anyone else?
I guess we need to find an alternative to wordpress. I think we all dislike WP and with the recent drama around WP, it would be nice to move away from the whole shit show.

For context/the problem with WP see: The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunch

Quite a bit of discussion on the topic, please see the logs.

The decision is that we want to move but there are concerns about how and when. In other words, if you have a specific concern about the blog being moved, it was probably raised by someone in the meeting, don’t worry! @julian45 has put his hand up to drive this and will put together a proof of concept.

Absent: akshaaatt (2)

[UltimateRiff]

@aerozol

Only downside: Mastodon does not yet allow switching between multiple accounts on the fly. It’s a pain in the ass. But survivable

you might be able to on a third-party Mastodon/Fediverse app/web interface. not too familiar with them these days so I don’t have any recommendations, but I do know there’s quite a lot of them, lol

[aerozol]

Thanks @UltimateRiff! Flakey already recommended me the Elk client and it switches accounts like a dreeeeaaaam

[UltimateRiff]

I was thinking about tagging them actually, good to see they already got you one tho, lol~