#metabrainz

alastairp: herding cats.

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waling out the door very soon

wailing too.

Freso: thanks for the link, I've already read that somewhere though I think? lol

was there a draft or something linked?

KodeStar: The blog post itself is mostly an edit of a reply/post on the forum, yes.

ahhh :)

so no point doing the lottery whenever the next one is then :(

But it's neater to point people at a blog post than the Xth reply of some of some topic.

Well, that's entirely up to you to decide. :p

agreed, it is neater

well you stole my powers of premonition, so no point :(

:P

;)

ruaok alastairp, FWIW, it seems like they're referring people back to the "federated open libraries" and asking people to "remember to contribute" to those.

I'm unable to create an account on the wiki (i.e. wiki.musicbrainz.org). The "Create your account" button is resulting in an alert asking for login credentials, which I don't have already.

Can a person with existing account only create a new one there?

rahulr: The pop-up should tell you the credentials to enter.

The list and order of reviews for tonight's meeting is: Freso, reosarevok, bitmap, Gentlecat, zas, ruaok, chrisskye, LordSputnik, Leftmost, Leo_Verto, stanislas, alastairp, chirlu, rahulr, QuoraUK, armalcolite, hellska, kartikgupta0909, cetko - let me know if you think you should be/not be on the list.

rahulr: And if you are using Chrome, you are out of luck. :)

rahulr, what browser?

Yes, Chrome.

I think Chrome works, but it doesn't tell you what to do.

rahulr, try entering "NOTSPAM" for both fields.

Exactly.

(at least, it works for me in Chromium)

ah, dang, did I miss a chance to give somebody a hard time? (like on construction sites, when you ask the new helper to go get a board stretcher)

CallerNo6: Bingo! Thanks. But what's up with the workaround?

rahulr: Prevents spambots.

rahulr, it's a makeshift spam-bot defense. For some reason, the alert window doesn't give the right message in Chrome/Chromium. In FF it tells you what to enter.

Here is the bug report for Chrome/Chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/det...

(I hate to see traditions die out. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=... )

Project musicbrainz-server_master build #402: STILL FAILING in 5 min 34 sec: https://ci.metabrainz.org/job/musicbrainz-serve...

Project musicbrainz-server_master build #403: STILL FAILING in 4 min 49 sec: https://ci.metabrainz.org/job/musicbrainz-serve...

Seems Jenkins uses one shared database for the master and schema-change tests. The master failures are due to the PL/Perl function already having been dropped.

fwiw, I find the color scheme at https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2016/05/16/state-o... pretty aggresively hard to read

soooo briiiigggghtttt

I think it's one of the default WP themes.

*colour schemes

that's dark grey on white, literally the most common color combination on the internet :/

Freso: do we have a meeting today?

Yes.

Oh okay, add me in todays order

kartikgupta0909: You should already be. :)

<BANG>

Hi people. :)

cool

Is ruaok, zas, bitmap, Gentlecat, alastairp even here?

Anyway, order of people for review tonight is: Freso, chrisskye, reosarevok, bitmap, Gentlecat, zas, ruaok, LordSputnik, Leftmost, Leo_Verto, stanislas, alastairp, chirlu, rahulr, QuoraUK, armalcolite, hellska, kartikgupta0909, cetko

So, Freso, go ahead.

Roger.

Over the last week I have…

Spent some time reaching out to other communities (Mixxx, Quod Libet, VLC), which has resulted in a couple of non-profit sign-ups as well as MeB being listed on VLC's website: https://www.videolan.org/videolan/partners.html

Been around and about.

And earlier today I finally got around to finishing up the HTTPS announcement blog post as well as helped ruaok out with a reviewing some other blog posts.

And with that, I'll pass the word on to chrisskye:

> I’ve been suffering from a chest infection more than a week, so a bit sluggish. That said, managed to do a lot of correspondence. Lots of new sign-ups. A few are paying supporters, some non-profit and community orgs and numerous start-ups. Rob and I continue with the usual run-around trying to get service hook-ups to the new office and dealing with the new Spanish bank account. I’m off to

Calgary, Canada tomorrow. Will be working from there. So closer to Pacific Coast time, than European time.

And with that, reosarevok, go! :)

Dammit, that was quick

So

reosarevok: ;)

I dealt with support, including delegating some stuff to chrisskye (yay!)

And I got tired of not being able to set user emails when they didn't get our verification, so I wrote that code

It's in beta now, and I already had to use it once, so I'd say it was a success :p

👍

Then I spent the second half of the week worrying about opening the museum I volunteer / intern at, which means https://community.metabrainz.org/t/2-in-1-relea... still needs me to decide stuff which gah I'm sorry I'll get to it :(

(it's not very straightforward at all so I need to consider it carefully and I just haven't had enough peace and quiet to think about it)

But that's about it

So, next?

bitmap: Ping?

Let's pass the word to LordSputnik until bitmap or Gentlecat or zas or ruaok let us know they're alive.

So LordSputnik, go.

wait. wait.

we are alive...

bitmap wasn't up until 21:06 at the earliest!

I asked five minutes ago if any of you were around. :)

Since I didn't hear back, I figured we'd not wait for you.

bitmap: Go!

I added new customers to meb.org page and reviews GSoC work. fin

well, I did schema change stuff fin

zas: Go!

mostly hacking on new rate limmiter

plus search servers

fin.

ruaok: Go!

ruaok: Well, you shouldn't be doing an important task you can't put aside during the one hour a week we have a meeting. :)

apparently quickbooks never thought of having an invoice in USD and payment in EUR.

that is going to be a real headache for me.

so, I spent way too much time on that. then zas appeared in town and we've been catching up.

we threw a really awesome house party, but I guess that is OT.

:)

more seriously we've been putting serious amount of time into the search server.

Old and/or new?

we've discovered two particular problems. we've fixed them too, but we're still possibly battling some deployment issues.

old.

part of this is motivated by the fact that we need to move to NewHost soon.

and zas and I are looking at ways to try and reduce the time we spend in order to get to NewHost.

so, we've been researching NewHost and making good progress on that.

🙌

We've got figures for OVH and Hetzer and awaiting others.

not going to the full SOLR route, but keeping the search servers might shorten the time to NewHost by a few weeks.

but, there is hope for fixing the current search servers.

now we're focusing on the schema change release, which we had to postpone for a week... because reasons.

(More about that in a bit.)

I don't think that any of us felt really comfortable with where we were.

so, rather than push and make life even more miserable for the jet-lagged bitmap, we decided to postpone it a week and make sure we get it right.

the plan now is to go to PG 9.5 tomorrow morning. and then the schema change release in a week.

fin.

chrisskye: Go ;)

(Sorry LordSputnik :))

I just wanted to say...I received an email from SiriusFM just now...asking a lot of questions...but basically wanting to sign an agreement for Unicorn Tier.

🙌

SiriusXM?

yes

Nice.

Are you sirius?

LordSputnik: Go!

I think Ruaok was copied. I’m travelling the the next day...but I will answer asap...and forward on the tech questions.