Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-07-21

[aerozol]

Apologies about the late notes - I just got back from holiday! Enjoy all the updates! - aerozol

Meeting logs: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs
Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki

Agenda

• Reviews
• MB homepage

Last meeting: 2025-07-14
Next meeting: 2025-07-28

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@zas

Last week I retired nomo (chatlogs) and with the help of Lucifer we moved stuff to a new VM at Hetzner, system was too obsolete
I also updated discourse (small unexpected downtime)
Plus usual tasks, supervision, upgrades, PR reviews, user support

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I helped GSOC participants finish the UI parts of their projects
I reviewed other PRs too
I fixed a few small issues with LB front-end
Tracked an error for a user with an odd error message, turned out to be a browser extension throwing and breaking the page
And reviewed the MB homepage redesign
Plus some ticket triage.

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Nothing much last week, was travelling back to college!
Due to some technical issue room allotment not started yet and can’t take our luggage’s also and living in common room! lol
Last week I’ve created fw icon with the help of monkey and also implement solution for addition of newly added services in bp and bp settings as suggested by monkey
And was looking at fuzzy logic shared by monkey to improve the track matching!

@suvid

So I just worked on reviews provided by lucifer
Made the required changes and pushed them
Also started writing tests
Realized that there’s a bit of problem with migrations on my local setup
Will resolve them and test the tests soon
After that, slight db schema changes will be left
Then combining backend and frontend together
Spotify importer would be functional then : )

@_Junaid

[fettuccinae] Last week i’ve worked on adding the final feature of phase-1
and the mid-term evaluation was successfull
This week I will start working on listenbrainz repository to implement notification/send enpoint

@rob

[mayhem] last week was a mixed bag for me. working to try and get a visa appeal put in and frantically searching for people to help us do this.
there was also quite a bit of running MeB BS, but that is taping off now the summer is in full swing.
the rest of the time was spent on LB-local, which is super fun and getting ready for more people to start testing soon.

@lucifer

last week, i worked on finishing chatlogs migration and reviewing PRs for GSoC students.

@kellnerd

This week I’ve got nothing to report, I’m busy with other stuff.

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] Week was spent mostly in traveling back to college, shifting hostels and some events.
Along with that, I am working on some PR reviews and an additional feature of giving users an option to add any app from their device to the listening apps list.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I mainly worked on the new recordings page on LB, which has now been merged.
I picked up some smaller issues which were bugging me for long
And was mostly busy reviewing PRs.

@holycow23

So, last week I went through the codebase in depth to understand the functioning of spark
Made some changes after looking at the PR comments
Will soon push the same
Hoping to get atleast one of them live by the end of the week

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jadegone] Last week was a bit of a spread of things, rather than getting any one thing done
the GSoC midterm evaluation, of course!
But also a bunch of smaller things:

• little bit of media improvement (using thumbnails to avoid massive page downloads)
• A couple of style fixes and hiding hidden events
• Allow going further back in history
• Improvements to the sync loop to stop an error halting sync whilst the rest of the program was still running
• Logging newly received events (the first part of processing them for database and search indexing

@julian45

in terms of usual business this week, i did some more patching & working with Jade on libretto
but then in terms of UNusual business, our blog’s host decided to throw a fit about SSL certificates so the blog became unavailable for a bit
it has now been revived on a server we run, with the aim of using that self-hosted install as a jumping off point for converting our blog to a static site generated by something like hugo & managed through standard git workflows
(this was proposed and discussed eons ago in a weekly meeting, but was put on the backburner for various reasons)

@outsidecontext

Last week I was still on vacation, but had some time for MB projects. Did some Picard code review and ticket support.
Also with JonnyJD (who contributed to various MB projects in the past, specifically a lot of libdiscid work) and mayhem I had discussed moving python-discid under the MetaBrainz umbrella to ensure this Python package stays maintained. JonnyJD moved the repo, PyPI package and readthedocs page over last week and gave me access.
Hence I did also apply some modernization to the python-discid repo and investigated the readthedocs builds. Which are currently failing, but looks like a readthedocs issue, I already contacted them about it.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[Jigen] not much at all, it’s like 34 degrees yesterday, it’s really hot even over 20 at night so I’ve been basically sleeping and going to the river occasionally
this week it’s going to be a bit better so I hope to do some actual WORK lol
other than that i’ve done the usual drawing, my apilities are improving!

@reosarevok

This week I was mostly off
Seeing family and friends
Although I did keep up with some basic stuff like area requests, user reports and the like
It’s also been too hot, but luckily not to that level
Flying back on Friday evening so back from Monday

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was fun
hemang’s project is getting closer to finish line and we merged quite a bit last week
This week we will be looking forward to closing it fully and move on to some extra stuff
For my side, PR reviews and testing take up most of my time

@bitmap

I mostly continued working on the external links editor refactoring last week (as a reminder, this is blocking the react 19 upgrade and will fix various bugs, several of which I found unreported). however I still need to convert the form submission code now

MB Homepage

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] This has been on our list for a while — we’ve been wanting to redesign the MusicBrainz homepage, and I think it’s finally time to move it forward.
I had some early conversations with Aerozol , and he’s put together a design mockup based on those discussions:
[forum link]
There’s already been some helpful feedback from the community on that thread, and Aerozol is working on incorporating those suggestions into the designs.
That said, I’d love to get some input from the MusicBrainz team as well.
These mockups are just for the logged-out homepage experience.
monkey and I would be happy to help implement the new page design once we finalize the direction!

Read the chatlogs for the full discussion, the general consensus can probably be summarised with “I see nothing awful that means that we should clearly -not- proceed”.

absent: yvanzo (away), aerozol (away)