#metabrainz

hey

i think he's not no

I was working on a new parser for our translation source strings which can handle embedded html

I can go after bitmap, concert just ended

(quite a few of our strings in mbs contain html, and react doesn't make that possible to work with without wrapping the text in a <span/> or other element)

(sidenote: that was one of our security issue for i18n.mb.o)

also made some fixes to and merged a couple prs: converting the area search results page to react, adding selenium tests for the release editor

otherwise, did some code review. fin, reosarevok!

Hi!

hi!

So, this has been a busy uni week, so mostly just support and standard editing

There was a discussion on the forums about cover art that could use some more opinions (Freso, can you link it? I'm on mobile)

oh?

And I helped samj1912 a bit with solr stuff

Fin, zas?

Hey$

hey€

i set up 3 VMs on Hetzner Cloud, and configured them as a SOLR cloud so we can start to experiment

I'm guessing https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artwork-scan... is the discussion reosarevok referred to.

Yes!

apart that, i set up a bunch of alerts related to CPU temperature, and tuned them

Also worked on Postgresql stuff a bit, mainly digging documentation

plus usual upgrades etc...

fin. LordSputnik ?

Oh hey

This week I helped bukwurm out with GSoC

He'll give more info about that

Also worked on the BB editor removal endpoint to allow editor deletion on MB to propagate to BB

That's done now, and just needs testing /github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-site/pull/196

Err... https://github.com/bookbrainz/bookbrainz-site/p...

I think that's about it

(People still up: rsh7, bukwurm, Leo_Verto, kartikeyaSh, drsaunder, ruaok - anyone else, please let me know explicitly ASAP.)

fin. bukwurm!

Hi everyone!

hi!

This week I worked on schema related work for imports

It has been reviewed and I am working on the changes

I worked on functional query based methods to access the methods

Had a discussion in my weekly meeting with LordSputnik regarding bb-data interface for this setup

I am a bit behind my schedule for this week, trying to catch up. :)

That's it for me.

rsh7: ?

rsh7: Ping?

ruaok: Go while we wait for rsh7 to appear.

k

i will go after ruaok. :)

last week was prepping for the board meeting and another convo with y-vonne, and finally the board meeting.

then I started doing research for finding alternative to spanish banks...

because, the bank wants to re-open our account, but their computer systems won't allow it.

sigh.

yay

who knows if that will ever get taken care of. so I asked around a bit and got very posittive referrals for transferwise. I dove in and we now have a EUR account and will soon have an INR account.

pretty neat, still more expensive than a regular bank account, but for now, it is ok.

next month's invoices will be paid through that. we'll see how that goes.

I also caught up the accounting that was piled up on having a valid EUR account, so I did all that.

and then some GDPR stuff and PRs for iliekcomputers and samj1912. sadly, another week where I failed to review kartikeyaSh's PR.

!m ruaok (beasue all that shit *is* a pita)

You're doing good work, ruaok (beasue all that shit *is* a pita)!

thanks to iliekcomputers for picking up the slack.

fin, rsh, go!

hi!

hi! This week I worked on direct connection scripts for artist and release entity and opened the PRs in BU.

I also added the test script for helper function.

And a separate MB direct connection setup PR in AB.

Updated the AB documentation for setting up MusicBrainz server in AB.

and worked on removing caching from release, artist and recording entity in BU.

That's all for this week!

fin. kartikeyaSh ?

hi

(Only Leo__Verto and drsaunder left on my list. Last call for others who want to give reviews.)

I did some work on creating recording clusters waiting for some discussion with ruaok .

kartikeyaSh: mail me please. this week is going to be rough.

I worked on the reviews by iliekcomputers in BrainzUtils PR for musicbrainz db and I plan to complete the requested changes after the meeting.

fin!

Leo__Verto:

?

Thank you!

ruaok: okay

I started working on the website and management part of SpamBrainz, helped samj1912 testing and tweaking newsearch (which works extremely well already).

I've also been looking into data science stuff to run on the spam data, I'll probably end up making a couple jupyter notebooks (and hopefully a bunch of cool graphs).

Oh and I also found a great location for our 2019 summit :D https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/vermietung-el...

fin.

drsaunder, go!

the time has finally come to say

...its time to remove the probation from the KEXP editors

:O

Leo__Verto: https://www.musikakademie-weikersheim.de/ :)

drsaunder: 🙌

🎉

they've stop forcing all their volunteers to edit

🎆

yay

those were the really crappy ones because when you're forced to do something you don't care

Mhm.

yea

so we are left with 3-4 kexp editors, but they were the best, they actually care about the database and take suggestions are involved etc

yay!

!m drsaunder

You're doing good work, drsaunder!

so i'm officially lifting my probation i had on them, they don't require watching anymore

Thanks for all your work and time dealing with them.

🙌

hurrah!

no worries...someone had to do it

and because i'm a masochist, i've started another SXSW festival...yikes!

and i hope most/all of you had a chance to read the mentorship doc

fin

i'e read it!

drsaunder was last on my list of people.

I did too :)

Thank you drsaunder and everyone else for your reviews!

Let's see how many of the agenda items we can make today. :)

drsaunder: Mentorship Program

so me again...ll

lol

well i like the idea. evne if it seems i missunderstood a bit..

It is well written! :) I had just one feedback on it.

I think we can use how GSoC specifies expectations from mentors and mentees. Listing some practical expectations might help us onboard more mentors. Something like this

having a guide to help you will always be good

+1

agreed on the guide

always good to have doc to back up... i will look into "borrowing" what is relevant from GSoC

thanks chavi for that one

:) Will be happy to help with final draft and proof reading as well. let me know!

:D

perhas you could take this feedback and revise the proposal a little?

now as a general question, do you see yourself volunteering to be a mentor, even if its just for one editor?

ruaok: of course i will

if i can work *together* with other mentors, absolutely

nope :D

I also shouldn't :P

lol y?

Too many things, not enough time 😛

aha

catquest: i don't know if we want too much working together

yea that's my problem too. i'v go so many things. but I'd definitly pitch in

drsaunder: not sure if that is a good question. it puts people on the spot and you might not find your target audience here as muhc

think about it from the mentee side...its one thing to have a dedicate person you know critiquing your edits...its entire different to have a group of people doing so

to make sure that the "mentoring process" is cosnistent

we don't want to scare off or overwhelm them either

drsaunder: what would you like to see as the next step for this program?

drsaunder: Maybe make a role call on the blog and possibly also poke potentially interested mentors personally?