Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-04-14

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Easter meeting break

Last meeting: 2025-04-07
Next meeting: break for Easter, then 2025-04-28

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@RustyNova

[mailed in] Last week I redesigned the mock server for Melba’s API tests. The previous crate was nice but it didn’t offer a way to set the responses dynamically, and thus no “pending” responses
So I made a small rest server to fetch against that is able to delay success/error responses like IA, as well as way to “seed” its behaviour to check every possibilities.
I still need to finish implementing the actual tests
In other news, I released a new update for Alistral, and now it’s possible to get the top listened entities by amount of time listened instead of listen count

@derat

[mailed in] I started working on MBS-13980 and sent a PR adding missing documentation bubbles to the artist, label, and place forms.
[MBS-13980: Add more doc bubbles to user-facing forms]
I also started looking at [YAMBS: Update podcast support for new guidelines #51], updating yambs to follow the newly-published podcast style guidelines. I’m still not sure how feasible it’ll be to reliably generate titles, given the creativity that people demonstrate when deciding how to store metadata in RSS feeds.

@aerozol

[mailed in] Still no big MeB design projects on my end, but I ended up doing quite a bit over the last few weeks.
I finally finalised audio drama + podcast guideline changes (with reo’s help), and drafted a blog post on the topic.
Spent quite a bit of time in socials and in tickets, doing misc mockups and discussion, a bit of PR review.
Finished painting a cassette release cover for band #2 (RIP), and recorded a rehearsal demo for band #3.
And had a lovely catch up with our simian co-worker

@julian45

[mailed in] Last week, yvanzo and I attempted to migrate our production Jira server to a newer version and environment.
Although we made significant progress towards Ansible-ification of the full process and got considerably close to a complete success (e.g., Jira booted and we could log in), there were enough issues present (such as some data and extensions missing) that we ultimately considered the migration a failure and put the old server back into production. : /
I’m hoping we’ll be able to figure out what didn’t work, and address it for a future migration. (We still have some runway before the Jira version in production goes EOL, but not a whole lot)
In other news, I have made some progress on the SSO front after collaborating with zas. Folks in the testing group may hear from me later this week with some requests for testing : )

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I finished helping and reviewing the last GSOC proposals
Also worked with LupinIII on the BookBrainz user guide. We merged our work until [this point]
I continued reviewing the bootstrap migration PRs
Had a good LB team meeting
And took up again an old PR for embedded widgets, now live for testing at [embed pin] and [embed playing now]
And continued fixing some issues in the user feed with the new thank you events.
And some community outreach / ticket triage

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[lupinIII] Last week I did a few bits of work,
as Monkey mentioned, we merged ou work up until this point.
Finally, made a community post about examples
[Help Suggest Examples for our updated [Work-in-Progress] Author-page user-documentation page!]
(everyone, PLEASE check it out, we’ve only got o̵n̵e̵ two suggestion so far!)
This week is easter! so I will be afk, doing plants in my plantbox, making food, and watching LotR as I do.
Next week (whence monday is a day off so I assume we are not having a meeting too)
I’ll be afk too

@zas

Last week, just usual stuff, Picard PRs reviews, hacking, and user support
Plus system upgrades, general supervision, cert renewals, and that’s it for me

@bitmap

last week I worked on schema change tickets and the usual code review
also worked a lot on the [github actions PR] and got it merged after working on it on-and-off for months
in the process of fixing test failures there last week, I may have also fixed a few rare/hard-to-reproduce bugs in production
after that I started looking into the [React v19 upgrade] again. that triggers some issues in the external links editor related to how it handles state, so I was workin on refactoring that too
I think that’s about it for me

@JadedBlueEyes

[jade] I made the train journey home on Friday (barely, my trains got delayed enough that I missed a connection not once but twice!)
British trains are great lol
First part of the week was mainly catching up on admin
Unfortunately the maintainer of conduwuit (the Matrix homeserver I run) quit, so I’ve been spending a bit of time since Saturday figuring out a path forwards on that
This week I’m going to be doing a bit of prototyping for the Matrix archiver!

@rob

[mayhem] last week was all about gsoc and getting the proposal sorted. I think we have a pretty clear path forward there.
also the usual background nonsense running the non-profit and dealing invoice issues after sending the latest batch.
the rest of the time was spent working on the mbid mapper and the index creator is finally finished. now onward to the searching functions, which in theory, fingers crossed, should be much easier than what has already come.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was GSoC discussions
LB Android PR Reviews
plus picked up slack on LB iOS
mimicking the same design system onto iOS with slight twist here and there.
Overall worked on LB iOS to bring it upto least bit of standard
Keep an eye out ios folks!

@lucifer

last week i helped out on reviewing the GSoC proposals, looked into chatbrainz upgrade (postponed so that i can understand some of the issues better), and some work on the similarity data front.

@yvanzo

Last week, I made progress towards Jira update thanks to julian45, and towards Solr backup update.

@outsidecontext

I had little time last week. But managed to catch up in Picard PRs, managed tickets and did some maintenance on translation files
Also updated my golang libraries for MB web service and libdiscid a bit

@reosarevok

This week I worked on finishing fixing some stuff now on beta (and on prod, but not yet announced there, will finish releasing after the meeting)
And then I spent most of my time on picking up MBS-12761 again which is half-done
[MBS-12761: Convert recording edit form to React]
Converting the guessFeat code is being a bit of a pain but it should be the last bit left
So once that’s ready, it’ll hopefully be one less form to convert!

@Gautam_coder

[GautamShorewala] This week worked on huesound hopefully will be done by this week

Easter meeting break

It is decided to skip the next meeting, continuing again the week after (2025-04-28).

absent: Ansh (sick)