Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-05-26

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-05-12
Next meeting: 2025-06-02

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@rob

[mayhem] last week was a mixed bag for me – I was feeling a lot better, but there were a number of really pesky things that I had to deal with.
the internet at the office was changed and then our backup servers couldn’t be reached.
took a few hours to get that resolved with our ISP.
there was the GSoC meeting, arranging a board meeting, reviewing PRs and the usual cadre of metabrainz tasks that needed doing.
and then on saturday morning we got on a train and took literally 3 stops and travelled nearly 1,000km in the space of 5 hours. spanish trains are awesome.

@yvanzo

[mailed in] For the last two weeks, I worked on the MusicBrainz database schema change and search upgrades.
I released new versions of MusicBrainz Solr, bringing SolrCloud 9 to Docker, then search schema changes.
I released new versions of SIR, bringing both Python 3 update and search improvements, then bugfixes.
I released a new version of MusicBrainz Docker with the database schema changes only.
Another version of it should be released next to actually carry the search upgrades to mirrors.
Then Solr 7 will be officially deprecated and our Solr 7 cluster dropped one month after that.
The database schema changes of this year are fully taken into account through the search changes.
That is a premiere in years and the hope is that it will continue for the further schema changes.
The dependency upgrades (Solr 9 and Python 3) allow to consider the numerous much needed search improvements (downtime-free reindexing, dbmirror2 live indexing, SIR/Solr performances…), bugfixes and new features (related to the previous database schema changes, such as genres).
Those upgrades only happened thanks to the sustained teamwork, and the same is needed for further improvements.
Also thanks a lot to the volunteer julian45 who helped with the Ansible playbook of our Solr cluster.

@bitmap

[mailed in] Last week I helped deploy the schema change release and fixed one issue affecting a small number of people in the upgrade script, MBS-14032
[MBS-14032: The schema 30 upgrade script for MBS-13966 requires release_first_release_date to have been built]
I also deployed lucifer’s PR to move MB to Sentry cloud, and fixed some of the userscript error spam there

@julian45

[mailed in] this past week was spent packing my things and moving to a new apartment! a little more cramped than my last one, but i have some much-needed flexibility now, plus i’ve gained the experience of driving a large moving truck
i still have to wrap up the move and put some things into storage over the next couple of days, but i’m looking forward to:

• expanding the SSO pilot
• code-ifying the SSO tool’s configuration since it has a terraform provider
• kicking off the matrix archiver GSoC project with Jade

@aerozol

[mailed in] Just the usual! Hope everyone is doing well

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[LupinIII] We opened a new pull-request on bookbrainz documentations so we can get previews of our ongoing work.
(after some faffing back and forth, I’m still learning this monkey is a good teacher :D)
Still plugging away at this and also tumbi (almost finished with INST-978)
[INST-978: Improve tumbi aka ektar]
tomorrow I have a dentist appointment, but they’ve scheduled me to a NEW PLACE I have never been at before and it’s super early😓 so wish me luck!

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I worked on designing the summit t-shirt for this year
I continued finishing (yes) the Bootstrap5 migration and put it on beta for some wider feedback, and implemented said feedback
Worked on the BB user guide with LupinIII
Author page should be close to finished if anyone is interested: BookBrainz User Guide
met up with GSOC participants and mentors over a video call, nice to meet everyone and put a face to a nickname : )
And finally some PR reviews on BB and LB

@zas

I fixed an issue with DNS CAA records vs community subdomain that prevented proper cert renewal
I worked on few big patches for Picard 3, fixed few old bugs in internal search dialog in the process.
Over this weekend I debugged an issue with solr cloud performance after the schema upgrade (actually after the upgrade to solr 9.7.0), identified the issue, and deployed a quick fix for it (=response times back to normal, that is 100ms not 1s)
Plus usual user support, server upgrades, supervision, etc.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I started with my initial review on BS5 Migration.
Had a Zoom Call with hholycow23 on his GSoC Project to quickly get started and align on the project goals and timelines.
We’ll be setting up recurring bi-weekly sync - up calls to discuss the progress.
Met with the GScC Students on a Zoom call, and excited to see what everyone builds over the next month.

@lucifer

Last week, I helped out on search stuff for MB release and in fixing the issues discovered in SIR post release.
on the LB side of things mostly worked on sample dumps.

@kellnerd

A week ago I’ve bootstrapped a new project for which I had concept drafts for years (and which might be of interest for the Brainz community once it has matured a bit).
It’s a database project in its early stages, so I’ve mainly reworked the SQL schema and started to implement helpers which query the DB, together with unit tests.
Apart from that I’ve finally released a new userscript by Dr.Blank which adds Harmony release action links on various MB pages: GitHub - kellnerd/musicbrainz-scripts: Bookmarklets and Userscripts for MusicBrainz.org

@reosarevok

Two weeks ago I worked a lot on preparing and testing search bits to make sure all my schema change stuff had working search bits attached
Last week I was in Spain visiting a lot of nice places
This week I’m in Spain melting
Since temperatures went up by like 10C in a few days
Back home at the beginning of June
I’ve been keeping up with emails and the like and banning some people, with some help from aerozol

@JadedBlueEyes

[jade] Hey everyone! I had my last exam on Friday, so I am free!
I received an award on Thursday, which was unexpected and pretty cool : )
I also wrote a blog article about my experience dealing with AI scrapers Actually stopping AI scrapers from taking down my server
That gained some traction on lemmy, which was pretty cool
I missed the last meting because it was my birthday haha, also went to a friend’s birthday yesterday
Of course went on the GSoC call with everyone and introduced myself
I’ve been working on a restructure of the libretto timeline to remove logic from templates and instead have a data structure matching what needs to be displayed passed in. (because originally I thought all the data I would need would be prefetched by the SDK, which was not true), mostly done now
also need to set up a call with julian to go through all the code later this week
Looking forwards to getting this project on the road!

@outsidecontext

several different topics last week
I did a maintenance release for libdiscid last week. This was overdue, there was a cmake build issue that was already fixed two years ago. Updated the Picard build to use this new release.
Also I did a pull request to python-discid to modernize the build, and started a discussion of moving this project to MetaBrainz with jonnJD, author of python-discid and former maintainer of libdiscid, and mayhem to ensure the project stays maintained, as Picard depends on it.
Apart from that I updated my musicbrainzws2 golang library for the MB web service after the MB server release and also did code review for zas’ Picard pull requests.

@Gautam_Coder

Last week nothing much from my side since exams are going

@jasjeet

[Jasje] [only slightly late!] Did PR reviews
But mostly busy with work + travelling

Absent: Nobody