Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-06-16

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-06-09
Next meeting: 2025-06-23

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@mr_monkey

[mailed in] [monkey] I spent most of last week working on moving our CSS preprocessing from Less to Sass, following our migration from Bootstrap 3 to 5.
It is not complicated, but a lot of details to go through.
Also had a team meeting with the LB team discussing work and goals for the coming month or two.
Some miscellaneous tasks and that’s about it for me.

@zas

Last week, mostly worked on Picard, patches & PR reviews, Picard dev is quite active at the moment : )
Plus usual stuff, system supervision & maintenance, various minor tasks & fixes, user support, etc.

@julian45

wasn’t able to get much done last week : ( had to support 2 high-impact go-lives for $dayjob
did usual system maintenance on auth servers though, as well as some peering at arcane jira docs

@kellnerd

For the last two weeks I’ve been working on a couple of Harmony improvements which I really wanted to get done.
Recording link types are now properly detected for Bandcamp tracks (thanks to arsinclair!) and Apple Music.
I finally did the massive refactoring of the MBID resolver to make use of MBS-13943
[MBS-13943: Lookup multiple URLs at once with the API]
Usage of the MB API went down from up to a few dozen requests (for compilations) to one request per release lookup on average.
Only very few releases need more than 1 req (100 URLs included) and as a bonus I could finally implement a search for release links as well to detect potential duplicates (without any additional requests).
Today I submitted a PR for PICARD-2828 because I was still annoyed by it forcing me to change Picard configuration between releases sometimes.
[PICARD-2828: Separate options for standardized instrument and vocal credits]

@suvid

I improved the foundation for main importer for listening history files importer
Updated the PR and its ready to be reviewed (and hopefully merged) now
After this I’ll start working on processing the uploaded files and making JSONL files from it
I’ll mainly be focusing on spotify zip files as of now and would complete for it before moving on to other services

@_Junaid

[fettuccinae] Last week ive worked on adding authentication for notification endpoints and spent too much time writing tests.
This week ill work on adding cron jobs for sending and deleteing notifications.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I worked on refactoring the routing to improve the load times. And rewriting some components to handle promises better
Apart from them, I’ve been working on fixing re-rendering issues on the website which might cause performance issues down the line.
And had the LB team meeting discussing our current progress and work for the coming month.

@holycow23

This week, I worked on debugging and configuring Spark on Wolf
I spent time understanding the logic and workflow of how Spark fits into our system with HDFS and other database and stats components.
I also finalized the mockups and am preparing to include them in a draft PR soon

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] I’ve already opened up the PR for the revamped onboarding screens.
Also fixed some navigation bugs in these screens and made a small PR for style changes of Switch composable in the app.
Parallely, I’ve been working on app selection for Listen Submission. I have found out a way by querying app through some specific intents.
For this, we don’t need QueryAllApps permission. I’ll be discussing the same and implementing it this week.

@lucifer

last week, i worked on helping out LB gsoc students on their projects, had LB meet with rest of LB team, did some looking into timescale/postgres updates.

@bitmap

last week I mostly spent time on code review, helped with some hairy Flow upgrades, and and working more on the external links editor, should have a PR for that this week. taking a while since it’s thousands of lines of hacks atm

@rob

[mayhem] I made serious progress on the new mapper, before it ram my machine out of ram. got more ram (working locally is much easier than on wolf). but I took a detour and started working on lb-local again – I really want to get that out where its usable for people to play with. so I’ll spend more time on that this week before going back to the mapper.
also PR reviews, LB team meeting, board meeting (tomorrow) prep and emails.
tomorrow I am going to be buying plane tickets for the europeans attending the summit. I’ll be pinging a lot of you tomorrow.

@yvanzo

Last week I was under the weather but I should be back this week.

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week i tested funkwhale backend and made some enhancement for better error handling!
Also worked with frontend and make frontend more informative
Last week most of the time i spent on learning the existing codebase for integrating fw in BrainzPlayer

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[Jigen] Have worked on instruments, expect to finish the Mohan veenas (2 stk) today/morrow
well now it’s June and summer and the summer season is so short in Norway that for the upcoming weeks I’m probably going to be a lot more afk and not work on instruments or docs a lot
gonna be around and such, but alas, there is just a few weeks before it’s all rain rain rain again : D

@reosarevok

I’ve been working on dependency updates, but also a couple smaller changes (such as making aliases non-primary if ended) and a bunch of URL patches and URL patch reviews
And I’m hoping to release a beta update after the meeting

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was busy as well
PR review + merge

absent: aerozol (1), outsidecontext (2), gautam_coder (2)