Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-06-23

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-06-16
Next meeting: 2025-06-30

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] Still nothing design-wise on the go, just keeping the socials turning over and keeping an eye on everything.
I’ve been trialling an unofficial “community meeting” on the Discord video channel (video and audio optional), 3 hours after the dev meeting, for a few weeks now.
A year or two ago I sat in on a NZ Wikipedian meeting to take notes and inspiration and I finally had the time and inclination to set something up.
I know not everyone likes Discord, but it was easiest to set something up there and this is a low-effort trial.
If it gains interest I am open to suggestions for more accessible video/voice channels.
Don’t worry, so far it has not gained much interest - but these things take time, and I am a patient man
I also had my first foray into AI, to create “my” first userscripts. I hope that “added data fasterer” outweighs “used AI” on the scales of justice, when judgement day comes.
While I have your attention, I want to again mention the new wiki page I made a while back: Picard Resources - MusicBrainz Wiki
It has grown to be quite useful for searching for niche plugin and scripts. If you ever deal with Picard queries take a look, perhaps it will be helpful for you too.
Of course any more ‘formal’ information and guides should be stored in the Picard docs - this wiki page deals with the outliers.

@_Junaid

[mailed in] [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.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] Have closed INST-590
[INST-590: Radhika’s Mohan veena]
I’m currently working on INST-436 so expect that closing asap
[INST-436: VM Bhatt’s Mohan veena]
I sorted out flight tickets but the airbnb fell through, so now working on it
Today I’m at a special function, which is why reo is posting this instead of me : D

@JadedBlueEyes

[jade] I’m back from holiday now, back at it
Last week we arranged this : )
[mayhem: everyone: I just wanted to let you know that I made a deal with Jade to come to our summit and be in charge of our live-streaming. this way we have a dedicated person doing this job. I think that will improve things a lot.]
And I released v0.5.0-rc.6 - continuwuation/continuwuity - Ellis Git

@julian45

worked on my rust chops a bit last week, did routine maintenance on SSO servers, unfortunately got sidetracked on other projects due to weather-induced datacenter outage at $dayjob and knock-on effects
(fun fact, it’s 95°F out in the middle of june )
also booked flights for the summit!

@bitmap

last week I updated the artwork-indexer and artwork-redirect services to python 3.13, and submitted a PR to update those plus mb-solr and sir (which was still on the python 2 version) in the MBS tests: Update test services by mwiencek · Pull Request #3579 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub
opened another PR to update the supported browsers in MBS, which is on test.mb right now: Update supported browsers by mwiencek · Pull Request #3577 · metabrainz/musicbrainz-server · GitHub
made a lot of progress on the external links editor code refactoring too, but didn’t quite finish that yet…
also submitted a couple other minor PRs for MBS/sir to update and/or remove dependencies, and did a bunch of code review for the release today

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I worked on rewriting some code from class based components to functional components. And rewriting tests for them
And migrating the brainzplayer context to Jotai to fix re-rendering issues.
Had a syncup call with holycow23, and really happy that we’re on track to launch our first stat soon.

@holycow23

This week, I opened my first draft PR #3308, which includes the UI with hardcoded data, along with the actual code for generating user stats.
[User genre activity #3308]
The backend code isn’t integrated with the frontend yet — I’m running tests separately to make sure everything works before connecting the two.
Also had a sync-up meeting with ansh to align on the next steps. Hopefully we can launch the first stat by the end of the week.

@outsidecontext

sorry for missing the last two meetings. but today I’m back : )
last two weeks it was quite some code review and ticket handling for Picard. Also did some code cleanup and general code maintenance.
Also finally made some real progress in my branch for CLI handling for the new plugin system

@lucifer

last week, I mostly reviewed PRs from various GSoC students working on LB related projects.
tried to debug an issue with spark stats but no success so far.
a little work on MLHD similarity API data. and fixing a couple of small bugs here and there.

@rob

[mayhem] last week I started summit prep and buying plane tickets for volunteers and invited Jade to join us as well – and Jade has generously agreed to look after our live streaming for us!
then I spent quite a bit of time working on listenbrainz-local and now I am trying to get it to a first release so that other people can start helping out with more of the dev work. there is still lots to do.
we also held a board meeting, which went well – we have a great team doing a good job looking after us.
also, I had looked into seeing if we could move MeB to belgium. Beligum is a great place for open source non-profits, but sadly the EU and its VAT rules pretty much break any possibility of us moving to the EU. It would cost us at least 21% more and I am not willing to do that.
so for now, we stay put and hope for the best that the US/California doesn’t totally melt down.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week i worked on the Libre.FM backend importer, specifically looking at the UI portions and replacing the now-empty manual imports page with a placeholder, awaiting the file importers being developed over the course of this GSOC.
I looked into improving our error boundaries for thye ListenBrainz player after a suggestion by
bitmap (thanks!), but there is more than meets the eye. I found one improvement but looking into it deeper.
I refactored some front-end tests from enzyme to testing-library (ongoing work)
And some PR reviewing to top it all off.

@yvanzo

Got worse last week, skipped it too.

@kellnerd

Last week I had to fix Harmony’s Tidal provider again because of a breaking API change.
The change wasn’t announced AFAIK, so I had to hotfix this by temporarily losing cover art from Tidal.
Since the API query parameters have changed, I finally had to implement support for legacy URLs in Harmony’s caching logic (in order to avoid breaking old permalinks).
Seems to work as expected and Tidal images are back, but I should do some more tests (and write unit tests) before releasing this.
And after more than two years, I’ve released a new version of my Guess Unicode punctuation userscript, which integrates new rules for Hebrew contributed by dvirtz.

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week, I mostly worked on implementing Listening Apps Selection Screen and opened a PR for the same.
[Feat: Listening apps implementation #569]
Also, I fixed a bug in the User Playlist Screen where cover arts were not being fetched due to the large number of parallel Api calls.
[FIX: Fetching cover Art in User Playlist screen #570]

@suvid

I restarted my GSoC project again last week Figured out most of the stuff already and kinda back on track This time it looks more organized and I understand it better
Implemented the file upload part and background tasks part
I will make the new schema and test things after that I will move on to zip file processing for spotify and then make functions that process files for other services as well

@reosarevok

Last week I worked on updating my PRs for extra genre data in the API, since now that we have a new search server those things are unblocked and just need to slowly arise from their sleep
Also worked on a couple small improvements, such as MBS-14065
[MBS-14065: Show artist credits in release editor duplicates tab]
And updated some outdated or just wrong flags
Plus a bunch of code review, adding areas, banning evildoers or at least meh-not-cool-doers, etc

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week I’ve added a delete_user function which will earse the user credentials if user disable funkwhale
And also refractor backend
And last week I’ve finally integrated fw in BrainzPlayer and pushed the changes for review
And also fixed some of the issue like changes refresh method from get to post and worked on fw css as well!

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week I’ve added a delete_user function which will earse the user credentials if user disable funkwhale
And also refractor backend
And last week I’ve finally integrated fw in BrainzPlayer and pushed the changes for review
And also fixed some of the issue like changes refresh method from get to post and worked on fw css as well!

@zas

Sorry, I had an emergency to handle, nothing special this week anyway; usual stuff, system maintenance, upgrades & fixes, Picard, MB edits, user support.

Absent: Nobody!?