Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2024-12-09

[aerozol]

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

Agenda

• Reviews
• Beginner edit limits

Last meeting: 2024-12-02
Next meeting: 2024-12-16

@reosarevok: Hi, and welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@anshgoyal31

[mailed in] [ansh] Last week I spent time building a genre explorer page.
And reviewing PRs for LB.
I have my end semester exams going on right now, so couldn’t get much done.

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] Last week I finally set up the Windows code signing for Picard using Azure Trusted Signing. It’s running well and actually simplified our Github Actions pipeline.
I also set up Windows and macOS code signing for the libdiscid binaries built with Github Actions. And while I was at it I fixed and updated the build pipeline. I’d like to do a new libdiscid release soon. Not much has changed, but there is a fix for the cmake build and the code signing also is useful.
On the Picard side I finally started looking into two outstanding tasks we had been discussing on the summit. I will finalize the changes needed to support the new MeB oauth and afterwards will get back into the new plugin system.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] Been working on Picard translations! hopefully at some point soonish Picard will be fully translated!
Today is my birthday!
Anyway also saying I’ll likely be afk next monday, possibly, we’ll see.
Also been working on trying togt more motivated, things are a bit on the backburner asof late,sorry about that :d

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I deployed the syndication feeds (Atom/RSS) for LB
Worked on playlist imports from Spotify and Apple Music
(some issue)
Worked on a bunch of smaller tickets and deployed another prod version
Had a good call with the LB team mostly about our plan for Year In Music this year
Did a bit of researhc on that topic
including reading feedback on spotify’s wrapped, which are … ambiguous
And some PR reviewing

@aerozol

Made a new explore tile for missing data
(in LB)
A bunch of misc tickets and socials
Biggest item was sorting out a few YIM illustrations. monkey’s picked a fav so I will go into production and draw the rest now

@jasjeet

[jasje] This month is exams again ;(
But still got free time since they are spaced out
Got to review some prs by shreyas
He recently started contributing to LB Android and so far its amazing!

@lucifer

Last week, I worked on improving the import of lastfm loved tracks, fixing sitewide statistics and submitting listens using oauth.

@rob

[mayhem] last week was some work on improving cron jobs using sentry which looks quite promising.
lots of Meb background tasks as per usual
but the most important mission since friday has been: where do you find the best Feuerzangenbowle in Hamburg’s Weihnachtsmaerkte?
bis jezt, ist die am Rathausmarkt die beste, Gerhard Hauptmann Platz is die zweitbeste. yum.
we’ll report complete findings next week.

@zas

Last week I focused on finding why solr cluster was getting unstable, found out it was happening when one node was lacking memory, increased JVM max memory a bit, it didn’t go well, unexplained very high disk reads, which disappeared after a reboot of all nodes…
Cluster seems now stabler, and a bit faster.
Apart that, I spent some time cleaning up influxdb, we had a lot of metrics data from retired servers.
And I upgraded grafana to last 11.x version, I had to fix few dashboards and alerts.
Plus usual supervision, minor admin tasks, system upgrades, user support, Picard PR reviews and MB edits.

@bitmap

last week I mostly did code review, deployed some configuration changes for the new oauth endpoints, and looked into some mb-solr issues with yvanzo
also made progress on fixing github actions test failures (but more cropped up ) and writing edit class tests for the alt. tracklists branch

@yvanzo

Last week, I deployed a security update of Jira for MetaBrainz Tickets.
I nudged people that were at the Solr meeting during the summit.
With bitmap and lucifer, we worked on SolrCloud 9 deployment to mirrors.
This is needed to get rid of the SolrCloud 7 cluster in production we pay for.
See [SEARCH-733]
[SEARCH-733: Initialize locally with Solr 9 in SolrCloud mode]
With reosarevok, we worked on creating a testbed for the search indexer.
This is needed to make performance tests on the servers (hip & trille) we pay for.
Plus MBS dependency security alert, ticket triage, PR review.

@reosarevok

Last week I spent some time working on making prometheus and grafana work with mb-docker (with some results)
I also finished and got merged some code from 2021 to convert a form to React
And to update the code to filter unofficial and VA release groups (about that old)
Which is almost ready now, I think
Other than that, the usual small tickets, and some classical editing

@derat

i realized yesterday that it might be possible to make yambs support merging recordings across multiple releases, so i spent some time implementing that. it seems to be working, so i’ll probably expose it through the web interface soon. i assume that it’s less streamlined than the mass-merge userscript, but it’s nice to have a non-userscript option
other than that, i spent a decent amount of time pointing editors toward style guidelines and cleaning up old releases from editors who didn’t respond to edit notes

@kellnerd

Last week I’ve started to refactor the data flow of the BB import producer and consumer.
There were a few redundant and confusing properties which made it annoying to recursively find and potentially import entities for use in relationships.
Looking better now, I also found another bunch of unused code that could be deleted following SoC.
Other than that, the usual MB edits and a Harmony update to seed edit notes for ISRC submission with MagicISRC.

@shreyassp002

[Shreyas] Last week, I started exploring the LB Android repository and got familiar with the codebase. While going through it, I found a couple of minor bugs and fixed them. Created 2 PRs to sort them out.

Beginner edit limits

@reosarevok

This came up again recently because derat has been struggling a bit with users adding a ton of releases with importers before anyone can teach them to do it better : )
We had had some talk in the past of restricting beginners to a number of edits per day
(and maybe make them all go to vote)
It’s important to limit them to some degree especially if they all go to a vote, otherwise they’ll be overwhelming

Lots of discussion! Read the logs for more.

It was decided that 10 releases (maybe 20, this was not quite agreed upon), 20 images, and 1,000 edits a day seemed reasonable.

It was thought that blocking editing pages once the limit is hit (and leaving a nice image and/or message, with thanks and links to voting and forums there instead) makes sense. We have to be careful not to block people at the “submit edit” page in case they lose work.

Absent: atj (sick), yellowhatpro (1), @akshaaatt (3! removed from regulars, to be re-added when around again)