Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-06-30

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews
• MBS-14035 (Remove unused editor accounts)

Last meeting: 2025-06-23
Next meeting: 2025-07-07

@reosarevok: Welcome to a MetaBrainz Monday Melting!
I mean, Meeting!

Reviews

@suvid

[mailed in] Completed the background tasks and file uploads for the importer
Discussed the plan for Spotify importer with lucifer and will be implementing it soon
I plan to finish the Spotify importer this week end to end

@aerozol

[mailed in] Still not much happening here, keeping on top the socials and taking part in some chats. Hermiting for winter…
P.S. You are all welcome to join the community meeting on discord in 3 hours, where my sleepy head will be visible. Again, don’t panic about discord being used. As noted last week, if it ever ends up taking off I will look at more ‘open’ video chat options.

@rob

[mayhem] [mailed in] Greetings from Lisboa, normally cool, but this weekend was the hottest
corner of the EU!
Last week I worked a lot on LB-Local, working hard to get a
developer/alpha release out so that other can start looking at the
project. Not too long now, thankfully.
I also did the usual MeB tasks, belatedly reviewing fettucinae’s PRs and
various other shenanigans.
Back in BCN and back to work on Wednesday.

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] I’m traveling today and likely not available at the time of the meeting.
Last week it was the usual Picard PR reviews, tickets and general maintenance. I made sure the 2.x branch is ready so we could make a new release.
Also continued the work on the CLI part of the new plugin system. I could successfully install a new Picard plugin from CLI and have it run. But uncovered some shirt comings of the plugin hooks.
I hope to finish an initial working version sometime next week so we can finally get closer to merging Plugins v3.

@zas

So, last week, I did usual tasks, system upgrades, user support, Picard PRs reviews
Also I tried to debug a tricky issue leading to a crash in Picard, I’ll provide a fix soon
I also fixed some telegraf configs after last upgrade

@bitmap

last week I worked on MBS-14075, but I discovered it requires a schema change (so it needs more changes (to the schema))
[MBS-14075: URLs with open edits can be auto-removed]
I wrote a script to have ModBot insert edits for MBS-14049 which reosarevok ran
[MBS-14049: Unset primary for locale when marking alias as ended]
did some code review, and worked more on the external links editor refactor for react 19…
worked on [PR 2585] and flagged some 425k spam accounts (mostly by script, not one by one, don’t worry)
the # of valid editors fell by over 50%: Stats (but there’s still a ways to go)

@reosarevok

Last week I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why containing areas didn’t show on place searches
Only to find out I broke it
insert Steve Urkel picture
And I updated and ran the script bitmap mentioned to remove tons of useless spammy accounts
I worked a bit more on converting the recording form to React, and I’m refactoring our switch statements to use some new fancy Flow syntax
Plus a bunch of other important stuff, like making sure people get congratulated for their anniversary the right day and not a day early or late
(I hate timezones)

@kellnerd

Last week I’ve held the final presentation of my research project, so I didn’t have much time.
For relaxation I’ve been learning a new programming language, by playing with the MB API of course
Over the weekend I’ve implemented some long overdue improvements for elbisaur’s Spotify history parser.
And found out that my eBook reader has an internal DB with reading history back until 2012, so I’m ready for ReaderBrainz

@julian45

currently melting due to… lackluster (read: might as well be nonexistent) AC from my landlord but am persevering
in the meantime, i’ve done some patches for auth infra, started IaC-izing authentik’s configs with terraform, and have been improving rust chops

@lucifer

Last week I worked on similar artists data and improving the existing similar recordings data. Reviewed a bunch of PRs by Gsoc students and helped them progress.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I worked on migrating BrainzPlayer Context to Jotai. The performance is pretty good now.
I had a discussion with monkey regarding the recording’s page, and now we have a pretty clear idea on v1 and v2 for this.
And I also had syncup call and debugging session with holycow23 and we’re on track for our stats. I’ve reviewed his PR and overall looks good, however we’ll have more clear idea once we have the PR on test.LB
And reviewed some PRs.

@holycow23

Last week, I worked on both the Era stats as well as the Genre stats
the PRs for both are up
Hopefully both can be merged by the end of the week

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week, jasje: and I had a meet regarding the current onboarding experience. I got really good feedback on improving login ux and listening apps screen.
I worked on introduction screens, introducing a new screen for bug report, and also improved navigation with some transition animations.
Also added pager to navigate between introduction screens without button press. And worked on some PR reviews.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was better
As Hemang Mishra, we had a chat regarding the current onboarding ux and discussed things around it.
Lots of PR reviews
And messed around with iOS 26 liquid glass effect on our LB iOS app

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week I worked on lucifer: review. Before we are using one one db schema for funckwhale now we are using two db schema one to store host_url, client_id/ secret etc and other one will store tokens!! I’ve successfully updated the backend with updated sb schema!
I’ve also removed sqlalchemy orm model and now I’m using directly sql query!
Also fixed some errors in frontend side and removed harcoded styling for fw icon and updated it with a fw icon class!!

@JadedBlueEyes

[jade] Still absolutely melting - no AC or pools here
Last week I added development docker containers and set up all the infrastructure around postgres databases. I set up a migration system and a table for keeping sessions, but not the timeline yet.
Unfortunately due to some dependancy shenanigans (conflicting sqlite versions) I can’t keep both e2ee and migrations enabled at the same time until sqlx update their sqlite version. However, not much of an issue for now given the intended purpose
Overall, I’m still not as far along as i’d like - this week I’m going to transcribe the tasks from my timeline up to the midpoint into github issues, so I can mark them as I go along and collect thoughts. I think it’s possible to catch up by the midpoint, still, though.
There’s also some security nonsense going in in the background that should be coming to a head next week, which is slowing progress for now.
also, my mouth is still numb from the dentist

MBS-14035 (Remove unused editor accounts)

@reosarevok

the only other topic today is MBS-14035
[MBS-14035: Removed all unused editor accounts that haven’t logged in since 2013-03-28]
As in: we want to do that, can anyone see any reason why we shouldn’t
But ideally that’d also include people missing today such as mayhem so maybe I’ll ask again later : )
If anyone is against, or has any comments, please say so in the ticket : )