#metabrainz

You're doing good work, zas!

fin. alastairp ?

he is likely out sick today.

ah yes, lucifer ?

hi!

(People still up: akshaaatt, ruaok, monkey, Freso – anyone else who want to give review, let me know ASAP!)

i worked on htmlifying the dataset hoster results, took some time to figure out but was a single line change in the end so that was nice :D

I also picked up the write a mini review feature PR, applied feedback on PR and extended it to show reviews on timeline.

btw its up on beta.listenbrainz.org currently if anyone wants to try out.

i also worked on adding more stat ranges for LB - this_week, this_month, this_year. the stats are available through api for now, work on the UI in progress.

also fixed some misc LB bugs. that's it for me.

ruaok: next?

heya

last week was finishing some mapping improvements that led to some much improved match rates that should be clearly visible to everyone.

and then I started working on the last two playlists and I finished that task today.

The latest one is the top-missed tracks -- tracks that similar users to you listened to, but you didn't. seems interesting so far.

then the usual background stuff and some gateways ponderings.

monkey: go!

thanks!

Hi everyone !

(if anyone else wants me to generate this list, ping me)

(Only akshaaatt and myself (Freso) left. Last call for anyone else who may want to give review!)

Last week was a bit slow, but we did a good job finishing up and merging old and new PRs

Spent some time debugging a mystery NaN

Worked on the desing of the upcoming year in music page

design, even.

Did it turn out to be a number after all?

The answer is falsey

:D

Helped debug some of the MBID mapping

And helped welcome and onboard new users

Who is turn helped me debug some issues with local dev setup

Everyone learns !

Some more PR reviewing on BB and LB,and that's about it !

akshaaatt: go !

Hi Everyone!

I made some additions to year in music PR and had a design ready for it

I was also making improvements to my old PRs for future work

And I helped a lot of new commers get started with meb and making contributions!

I covered 400+ students last week through informal sessions!

Expecting a lot to join in

Nice PR work !

!m akshaaatt

You're doing good work, akshaaatt!

Other than that I'm so happy since my semester ended today! :)

fin. Go Freso!

🙋

A lot of time spent on playing whack-a-mole last week (more on this in a minute) and also try and keep up with other flags/reports. Also dealt with my birthday, so wasn’t around as much, but I tried to be around and about a bit at least.

Also made PRs against Kodi’s addon repository to include service.listenbrainz, so hopefully you’ll soon be able to submit listens to LB from Kodi without having to manually get the addon and installing it: https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scripts/pull/2160 + https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scripts/pull/2161

fin.

cool!

And that rounds up this week’s reviews. :)

We have a few items on today’s agenda, so let’s get started with…

reosarevok: theless/insolite

Hi!

:|

So, for the last... not sure, tbh - Freso, how long?

Anyway, at least a month, we've been dealing with a childish user who keeps vandalizing the database, mostly to try to make Freso and lately I feel bad, I guess, with homophobic attempts at fun

Also, for some reason, Lorde (?)

?

There's also been plenty of issues of vandalism on Jira, the forums, IRC at some point, etc

Yeah, at least a month with these attacks, but they’ve been a nuisance for quite a bit longer.

they've even started fucking with instruments now

Yeah. The whole thing started as users theless and insolite, who some of you might have seen (and reported) before, since they made decent edits but were completely unable to behave like normal human beings towards the rest of the community

Once those got banned, they started getting agitated and vandalizing and generally behaving like kids

and insult to children i think

(funnily enough, they seem to still think the problem was somehow with their edits, not their behaviour)

(theless _is_ insolite, in case the above formulation lead to confusion. They’re not multiple people, just a single one.)

Oh, yeah, fair enough :)

Anyway, we've been playing whack-a-mole, which while a nice source of paid hours for us (thanks for paying for my latest boardgame, insolite) is quite a waste of time for MeB and the MusicBrainz project

So, if you see any sort of vandalism, and the editor hasn't yet been deleted, please do let us know :)

And if you see edits removing it, please do vote for them

+1

Freso: anything I'm forgetting?

Same goes for Jira, IRC, etc - do get in touch

Yeah, I was about to say that ^ :)

Oh, and they apparently have recently started vandalizing Wikidata too, for some reason, so if you see something there, you can let me know and I can get someone to deal with that

(Which might also mean they’ll try and spread to other adjacent projects. So keep an eye out.)

A lot of the vandalism is in Russian, but if you see Рео (Reo) or Фресо (Freso) that's a good sign the whole thing is probably vandalism, so do report in case maybe

Worst case scenario, we figure out it was not and do nothing :)

Freso: anything else? :) ruaok: any comments about anything I might have missed?

nothing really

feel free to ask me for votes on edits removing vandalism

Alright, I think that’s that for now then. Thanks reosarevok :)

!next

zas: aretha load

we have problems with this server, as the load (mainly due I/O) is quite high during some cron jobs

it leads to a non responsive server, ie. I tested log in to ftp taking > 10 seconds when it happens

so, please, take care about what's running there, this server was meant for file storage mainly, it has huge but slow HDDs, and software RAID

we are working on a potential solution for mb dumps

yvanzo: zas: there was talk of using ionice -- have we tried that/

?

but I also noticed barman is putting some pressure on disk I/O

ruaok: https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-serve...

in progress

^

if we can't stabilize things, we'll have to offload some processes

ok, I'm very curious about that.

we can try it on Wed

perfect.

if that doesn't help, then ping me and we'll circle around and take another look at this.

fin for me, I'll keep an eye on this anyway

Alright.

also zas mentioned staggering the running of various dumps and backups so that those don't overlap.

*mentioned the other day

yes, but that's not easy to do, dumps run for a long time already, and ionice trick may make it even longer

ah ok. makes sense.

Done now? :)

we already made dumps to start at different time, but that may not prevent overlapping.

Freso: yes, next?

I’ll take that as a "yes"…

Fin for me too.

lucifer: Follow up on Summit Notes -> Tickets

firstly thanks CatQuest for all the tickets!

:)

i'll list the talks that don't have any tickets yet and ping relevant people individually to make tickets for those when they have time.

fin.

Thanks for that

Thanks! Happy to help if pinged

Alright.

That’s all for today than.

*then

Note that sometimes, it requires project's maintainer to determine if a ticket is needed or not.

Do not hesitate to ping.

yes sure.

Thank you all for your time!

Stay safe out there!

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Thanks everyone!

Thanks !

ruaok: https://stats.metabrainz.org/d/000000059/rabbit...

Updating beta

i have requested a complete batch of stats with chunks. see how the current peak compares with that 24hr ago.

its not continously risings so that looks good so far.

!m lucifer

You're doing good work, lucifer!

also, this is chunking 5 users at a time because i messed up a back of the hand calculation earlier (somehow i arrived at 100 users stats json size to be 300 MB 🤦) so i thought to start small. will shift to 100 when this run completes.

Updating prod

yvanzo: can you set the prod servers to use the maintenance trick like you did last week for beta ones?

reosarevok: is empty "" a valid artist name in MB?

Shouldn't be

IIRC we trim lone spaces of all sorts

But let's test

Nope, can't submit the edit

👍 thanks!