Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-07-14

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-07-07
Next meeting: 2025-07-21

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] As I had said on the last meeting I’m on vacation and not much available till end of the week. But I managed to do some Picard ticket support.

@aerozol

[mailed in] Not much MeB stuff, but a few nice chats with people in the community via socials and our own channels.
Got well distracted getting some more MB userscripts written…
On a family holiday from this Friday! Going to do my best to keep my phone off.
Should be back by the meeting on the 20/21st - meaning that the meeting notes for the next meeting will be a week late.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[Jigen] ok, not much on the work department, I’ve been looking at work pages and I plan on finishing the other mohan veena this week

@rob

[mayhem] last week I spent a lot of time on lb-local, which is going well. I even tried to get some community help before I was overwhelmed by bugs, lol.
I’ll get back on that tomorrow, and see if I can push to an early release.
lots of MeB Background tasks, especially with accounting matters, since second week after the quarter start.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I was mainly working on refactoring tests, finishing up just in time for the 2 year anniversary of starting that refactor, sometime next month. Finally rid of the abandoned Enzyme test framework. Phew.
Other than that, reviewing PRs and helping out GSOC participants make sense of BrainzPlayer and other aspects of the codebase
Also close a few security tickets after a poke by yvanzo last week
we also had a LB team meeting online

@suvid

I was mainly waiting for some reviews
Got review from lucifer today and had a gmeet with him today to discuss further course of action
Will be working on review now
Also waiting for review from monkey on the frontend part (have some issues there as well)

@_Junaid

[fettuccinae] Last week was a relatively slow one
I spent time understanding how cron jobs are implemented in the listenbrainz repo
,worked on adding cron jobs for notifications
and fixed some bugs in the earlier implementation

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week I mainly worked on the recordings page. The PR is ready for review.
I also spent time reviewing another enormous PR by monkey rewriting the tests
And reviewed the GSoC PRs by holycow23 . I’ll deploy the PR to test.LB shortly and add more comments.

@holycow23

Was a little under the weather this past week so couldn’t do much
Worked on final touches of the frontend and addressed the comments on the PRs

@julian45

did some more patching & upkeep on auth
coordinated with Jade a bit re: libretto (good news about that soon, i think :])
speaking of auth, will be reaching out to yvanzo and lucifer about onboarding to authentik in hopes of integrating sentry for SSO and provisioning soon
also worked on learning rust some more per usual and discussed AI scraper mitigations with zas

@JadedBlueEyes

[jade] Continuing to make progress this week!
[screenshot]
I finally have rooms getting inserted into the database properly! Testing with this account reveals more shows 1400 rooms getting successfully inserted into the database in one transaction.
It’s got all the metadata I think is necessary, although a couple of things might need to be added later
Unfortunately I misunderstood what one API was for – I thought it would provide updates for when rooms are modified but it’s only useful for the partial synchronisation (sliding sync) mode and instead reveals when new rooms are synchronised, which doesn’t do anything for the full sync mode I’m using. My code’s still good for getting updates whenever the server restarts, I’ve just got to find the actually correct API there lol : )
I’ve also added basic media support!
[screenshot 2]
Or live [Room - MetaBrainz]
Nothing fancy, it’s just proxying via the local media cache, but it’s allowed me to make sure that the profile & room avatars in the templates work. I’ve also now got a solid idea for the actual media system - encrypted media has to be linked to a specific event for decryption, and I need to track media for deletion anyway, so we get a composite PK (account_id, room_id, event_id, MXC). Serving media as an octet stream seems to work for images whilst being secure enough, we’ll see if that has any problems in time
Overall, progress is going steady although still not caught up. Next week is one of improved media, events ingestion or having further scrollback in the timeline
And the midpoint review I think?

@kellnerd

Last week I didn’t have time to do much MeB-related stuff, this will probably continue for the rest of the month.
I’ve only finished the Tidal release lookup tests for Harmony over the weekend and finally released the backward compatible version.

@reosarevok

Last week I worked on a new report (MBS-14080 to make potentially odd primary alias situations more visible)
[MBS-14080: New report: Entities where none of the primary locale aliases matches the entity name]
I spent a fair amount of time updating our schema diagrams after the schema change (because that process is a bit of a mess)
I got rid of 100k Wikipedia links on areas (all of them already had Wikidata links)
And mostly the usual small tickets, banning people, adding areas, etc : )
I’m in the countryside in Estonia now, semi-chilling for a few days
And I’ll be fully back only around the end of the month, but I’m not fully gone so I’ll deal with some emails, reports etc, just might take a bit longer than usual

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Nothing much lask week!
But yeah finally refresh_token one solved thanks to lucifer
I’ve worked mostly on reviews both frontend and backend updated fw to use global context rather using locally! and some refactored both frontend n backend!
That’s it from my side!

@lucifer

last week, did some reviewing PRs for various GSoC students and answering queries. also, participated in LB meet.
other than that mostly worked on migrating brainzbot setup from a super outdated (ubuntu 14.04) gcloud vm to a modern hetzner vm.

@zas

Last week, I upgraded discourse (there was a very small downtime, as it failed and I had to rebuild the container)
I also handled yet another wave of rogue AI bots requests, as usual, I had to block a lot of IPs, unblocked now
Plus usual supervision, system upgrades, user support, PR reviews, and minor tasks. I also deployed a new VM to prepare the migration of chat logs (lucifer on it).

@bitmap

was ill last week, but did some code review/testing for the MB beta, some minor sysadmin stuff, and worked more on the external links editor refactor

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week was good, I completed the changes on the listening app screen and fixed bugs related to login automation.
Also worked on requested changes related to UX in the onboarding PR and finally it was merged this week.
Started researching on App updates which is the next half of Gsoc project.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was mainly PR reviews and product testing + feedback around GSoC project.

absent: yvanzo (off work)