Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-03-31

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-03-24
Next meeting: 2025-04-07

@reosarevok: Welcome to our MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
We’re on summer time in Europe again, so meetings will be at this time for the next 6 months or so!

Reviews

@anshgoyal31

[mailed in] [ansh] Last week I mostly spent time on Bootstrap Migration and Reviewing GSoC PRs. I was not well this week so couldn’t work much.2.

@aerozol

[mailed in] I’ll try make it, unless daylight savings has already made the time brutally early again (5am…).
If that’s the case: this week I was mainly away at a wedding! I also tried to progress a podcast guideline that has stuttered and puttered for a few years now - almost there I feel

@mr_monkey

[mailed in] [monkey] Last week I worked on a bundling/typescript/ESM module issue we’ve had with a couple of libraries (finally fixed!) and looked into updating Typescript (major point version), and did some dependencies cleanup.
I spent a lot of time reviewing PRs and GSOC applications for LB and BB. I worked on a small LB API fix, but since it’s python it took me forever. Happy to report no change required, though.
I also did a bunch of ticket triage on Jira and Sentry, as well as opening new tickets to balance things out.
Also spent the week being anywhere between irritated and outraged at LLMs and AI companies, on multiple levels: GSOC proposals with LLM filler, AI scrapers attacking our servers, and the steep decline of search results usefulness.

@julian45

This past week, I spent some time wrangling Atlassian support to confirm a viable upgrade path for Jira. Good news is, they approved the one I thought they would!
I’m planning to spend some time this week doing non-disruptive prep for the upgrade. I would like to take an outage window next week to do the upgrade since the safest upgrade possible will require stopping all activity on the old server before data export and cutover
Open to discussing specific times as needed.

@lucifer

last week, i reviewed various gsoc proposals, answered queries from gsoc contributors. did some work on similarity data, reworked the deadbeef listenbrainz plugin and submitted it upstream and approached navidrome team for adding oauth support to it.

@rob

[mayhem] last week was gsoc proposal review time… or rather, guess who used AI for their proposal. lol.
other background stuff for me as well, the usual metabrainz stuff.
I also spent some time thinking about how to deal with the evil AI scrapers that are overloading our site. I’ve proposed a solution, but we’ve not yet agreed no a way forward. we’ll see.
but I spent the most time on the C++ version of the the new MBID mapper, and I finally got one module written in… 2 weeks.
took about 3-4 hours in python, lolsob.
but now I can actually finish porting the rest of the code.
that was it, loads of quarter stuff/taxes/paying people for me this week. should be a fun week. not!)

@reosarevok

I spent most of the week working on schema change issues, primarily MBS-13768
[MBS-13768: Add MBIDs to mediums]
In order to make sure the stuff is ready as soon as possible so we don’t have too much stress about it, hopefully : )
The other main thing I did this week was to add some relationships that can be used to properly document audio dramas, with the help of kellnerd
And the usual banning people and whatnot (why do people make up entirely fictional bands and add their “albums” to MB and their “concerts” to setlist.fm? I will never understand some people’s motivations)

@Gautam_coder

[GautamShorewala] Last week I continued my work on huesound in LB Android
Also spend time writing the gsoc proposal

@jasjeet

[jasje] Just to make it clear, its very critical to post your GSoC proposals by 3rd april. (For LB Android and IOS)
I will need time to go through any proposals. Any later, it will be less probable to get selected : )
Last week
Did PR Reviews for LB Android and IOS.
Did GSoC proposal reviews on LB Android and IOS (currently on-going).
Also very busy with work.

@yvanzo

Last week I digged up my patch for using MTCaptcha.
Thanks to bitmap for rebasing it and looking at CI tests.
Otherwise I continued my work about MB search updates.

@bitmap

last week I worked on MBS-13969 (to be deployed to beta today or tomorrow) to fix an issue users were running into while importing ISRCs via MagicISRC/Harmony
[MBS-13969: Preserve isrcs and iswcs when missing from POST request]
did a bunch more work on pull 3457
[Optimize webpack bundles #3457]
and a bunch of code review/testing/fixing test failures in various PRs
re: GSoC, a couple of people were interested in the “Implement a daemon that corrects out-of-sync cover art and event art metadata on archive.org” project, but neither proposal contained any technical info and I haven’t heard back from the students

@derat

My changes for MBS-13711 to warn about miscapitalized ETI and titles went in (with a lot of test-fixing help from bitmap and reviews from reosarevok and aerozol!).
[MBS-13711: Prompt beginner users about likely track title capitalization mistakes]
I also started working on MBS-5944, adding missing documentation bubbles for inputs on the release editor’s information tab.
[MBS-5944: Release editor: add documentation bubbles for extra fields]
I updated yambs to look up relationships for multiple URLs in parallel (thanks to MBS-13943), and started on another change to make it detect and warn about releases that are already in the database. Still need to think a bit about the UX.
[MBS-13943: Lookup multiple URLs at once with the API]
afrocat_ also suggested making yambs preserve locale components (e.g. /us-en/ ) in Qobuz URLs. I’d previously stripped these in an attempt to canonicalize URLs, but Qobuz handles this poorly and MBS preserves the components, so I updated yambs to keep them.

@Ankit_Matth

Last week, I worked on my GSoC proposal, posted it in the community and created a PDF version of it.
Also submitted two PRs to BookBrainz: redesigned the footer (pull 1163) and fixed a minor bug (pull 1162).
[BB-843: Implemented new footer design #1163]
[BB-842: Display full BookBrainz logo on Home Page #1162]
Currently, working on refining proposal as per mentor’s feedback.

@kellnerd

Last week I finally started to work on having a few Harmony seeding options on the client side instead of everything being pre-computed on the server.
For example giving users the choice which additional data should be added as an annotation.
I’ve also looked through GSoC proposals on the forums and the website. Surprisingly many look useless, most of the better ones already got review comments.
Only for few I thought that they would benefit from a closer review by me. I will try to do that this week when I find more time.

@zas

Last week, I continued to block rogue AI bots, improved few tools I use to identify those, we are now blocking more than 750 /24 networks and 600k IPs
But that’s just a temporary measure, as we are thinking about better options
So I also spent time to unblock people due to false positives or because they are unlucky enough to use a suspicious IP set.
Apart that, I upgraded Discourse, there’s a plugin that still need to be updated in relation of obsolete theming code, but this should be fixed soon (it doesn’t prevent the plugin to work, but display might not be perfect)
I applied system upgrades
I also reviewed and worked on pull 2613; which is a nice new contribution that will provide copy/paste of multiple tags in Picard3
[PICARD-2287: Copy and Paste multiple Tags #2613]
We are currently testing it, the goal being to be able to copy/paste inside Picard but also to/from external apps.
Plus few Picard refactoring & minor patches.

Absent: Nobody!