Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-01-06

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2024-12-16 (then Christmas break)
Next meeting: 2025-01-13

@reosarevok: Hi, and welcome to a long awaited (right?) MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
It’s been a while but hopefully we remember how to do this communicating thing

Reviews

@derat

[mailed in] [reo: says they did nothing of use but then links to [bookmarklet for bulk editing track titles] which seems like it might be of use to some]

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[mailed in] Looked into BookBrainz tickets, and topics, there are a lot of very good things discussed by our community members.
This will not be an endeavour where I just go in and work from bare bones, the community has laid down a lot of discussion which is fruitful and useful for me.
I agree with most of what is said (most :D)
In that vein, I created a new bookbrainz relationship: [introduction work type forum thread]
I’ve also done some translating, but general I’m enjoying my holiday : D

@reosarevok

Last two weeks I mostly tried to relax and have some downtime, so I just kept up with support, reports, and submitted fixes for some issues found in beta
This week I looked and triaged the accumulated tickets from that time, and solved a few easy ones to begin with
And fixed some classical stuff, which made me add more tickets

@mr_monkey

My main projects the past few weeks has been Year in Music. I think the team did great this year, between our decisions, implementation, few improvements. The ratio of team work to results is very positive.
And so are people’s reviews! I only saw positive feedback online, and lots of people saying that LB’s YIMM is better than all the other yearly reports
So, good job us !
I also worked on improving playlist imports and exports to other music services, as well as monitoring the creation of our recommendation playlists
And of course a good long break over X-mas and new year’s as some family was over.
That’s it for the most part, lots of small tickets and discussions on the side but nothing of great impact.

@bitmap

since last meeting I submitted [Migrate tests to GitHub Actions #3430] to improve our tests and started working on an alternate way of sharing the docker image between builds, since the current way doesn’t work for pull requests
I also contacted the IA again about copying images being broken, and they eventually fixed the issue, so I was able to fix all the cover art that’s been broken for the last few months on our side too
also did a bunch of code review and updates to other PRs, probably other things I’m forgetting…

@yvanzo

During the last week before the break, I worked with reosarevok on SIR testbed (using Prometheus/Grafana).
Also debugged MB beta OAuth for Weblate with bitmap.
Took part in the MeB OAuth meeting launched by lucifer.
Plus a few things here and there, that’s all otherwise!

@rob

[mayhem] not much from me – I mostly kept up with emails and continue to monitor cron jobs to make sure they check-in an all that. lots of weird debugging but most of them are happy now.
this coming week is going to be super busy for me. but that is it.

@zas

The week before Christmas I spent some time analyzing web logs and blocking some abusers that were ignoring rate limits
Then only usual supervision, Picard PRs reviews (quite a lot of PRs opened by outsidecontext upgrades, and enjoying time with family & friends.

@aerozol

Last few weeks were mainly Year in Music
I didn’t quite know what to do so I mucked about, and then we thought about seasons, and then suddenly it became 4x the work
But was very fun tbh, and been enjoying watching the feedback roll in
I think LB is starting to, slowly, gain some mass
Had a lovely break. Did quite a few things but didn’t really keep track
A lot of editing which has been really nice! Been a while

@anshgoyal31

Last 2 weeks, I was working on building a Genre Explorer for LB.
Fixed some bugs In TROI for Apple Music exports.
Worked on Year in Music and created a new Genre Graph this time.
I continued working on improving the playlist page and building a playlist cover art.
And fixed a couple of bugs on the UI front and reviewed some PRs.

@lucifer

in the past weeks, i worked on deploying Year in Music and debugging a couple of related issues. also worked on finding ways to speed up the processing of stats in spark cluster.
and making our apis less prone to CORS errors.

@kellnerd

During the last weeks I’ve only been working on some minor improvements for Harmony.
Mainly solving the issue of merging artist credit arrays and their external identifiers even if they are not in the same order or spellt differently.
I finally started to write more BDD tests for some utilities and looked into creating some helpers to write dry provider tests (without doing network requests!)
And I spent the last two days of the year to submit my missing 2024 listens from .scrobbler log files and handwritten notes to get the best out of YIM : )

@julian45

Hi all! I ended up taking the last couple weeks to spend a lot of time with family - unfortunately this has meant little productivity in both MB and other respects. That being said, I am now back to it and ready to work on the things I said I would work on - apologies for the delays this has created.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last weeks ive been recovering from a viral
So couldn’t do much but review PRs
Gautam Shorewala and Shreyas have been doing some heavy lifting and bringing in interesting changes

@shreyassp002

[Shreyas] So for the past few days I was working on brainzplayer
Implemented couple of features
Solved some bugs
Got reviewed by jasje
He is helping me to implement the features

@Gautam_coder

[Gautam Shorewala] Last few days I have been looking into the listenbrainz player
Fixing bugs
Implementing new ideas
Trying to improve existing features

absent: outsidecontext (1), yellowhatpro (3! removed from regulars, to be re-added when around again), atj (1)