Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-07-28

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-07-21
Next meeting: 2025-08-04

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] [image]
[reosarevok: That’s the full review, AFAICT. I guess he is lost in the jungle and that sticker is his only hope]

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Nothing for today

@yvanzo

Last week I deployed a security update for our tickets tracker.
I reviewed and completed updating the database schema diagrams after the May changes.
Also I started to dig in depth the reported mirror issues using a brand new VM.

@bitmap

last week I got the form submission code workin again in the external links editor, fixed more bugs, and improved URLCleanup matching performance by 1,750%
(also fixed a longstanding bug where it runs the URLCleanup against every single link during every state change for no reason)

my todo list now is mostly just related to focus handling, minor bugs, and test fixes

@lucifer

mostly reviewed gsoc related PRs last week and answered some queries.

@rob

[mayhem] last week was a discombobulated week as I worked hard to get an visa application appeal in. that’s now in and I learned an important lesson.
namely, when you a company wants someone to turn up, there is always a way to throw money at it.
and in this case, the.money needs to be thrown at spain, not india.
so, we found a visa lawyer here who handled the appeal for us. lets see how that goes.
we’ve also learned how to write better applications and how to work all this to make it more likely that our visa application will be granted in the future.
aside from that, there was a lot of work on lb-local. PR reviews and other MeB background stuff as usual.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[ApeKattQuest] last week I ended up mostly sleeping, lol
anyway This week really promises somewhat better (actually worse) weather, and it is actually less hot now so now I’m working on Veenas!
hopefully that will continue.

@reosarevok

Hi! I was away in Estonia for the week, mostly chilled, finally found my first Eurasian nightjar
I helped deal with some spam attack on the forums, and dealt with emails and whatnot, but was mostly off
Now back and looking through all the stuff I did not deal with during my time off : )
Also, if people have comments about remixes in separate / same RGs, see [forum thread]

@JadedBlueEyes

[jade] This week has been pretty productive
I funally have (waht should be) all the events handling in the database
[screenshot]
(preview)
That includes edits, redactions, most of reactions, state vs message events multi account and a whole bunch of other stuff
[screenshot]
I’ve also got tracking of media, we’ll see if this is good enough, but it’s def. a start
[screenshot]
Just today I got the timeline integrated into the database - no backfill, but as events come in they’ll be added to the database
that includes, unfortunately, timeline resets for when the sync API doesn’t return all events
luckily that won’t affect the normal usecase of this, just when there’s a sudden spam wave or when you’re running to on a laptop (like me lol)
1On a less libretto related, but still matrix note: I cut rc.7 of my matrix server, with an even longer changelog than last time (and this time it’s not me for most of the entries!)
And then wrote a little explainer on what one of the features is [jade’s blog post]
One of my friends also published a blog post which has now been on the front of HN for nearly 21 hours straight

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] [guess he did have something after all!] Last week, I majorly worked on refactoring BrainzPlayer and PR Reviews for LB.
And started familiarising with the MusicBrainz codebase for the new homepage implementation.

@holycow23

I was a bit stuck with the docker setup
Couldn’t make much progress due to the same
Hopefully that can be fixed by tomorrow and by the next meet we can have atleast one of the stats up

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week was good. I completed the previous PR about Listen Submission and it was merged.
Also made updates on settings screen on a separate PR.
And currently working on Listening Now integration in Android app.

@suvid

I worked on a lot of debugging this week
debugged a lot and the backend is almost complete
the files are being processed properly now and errors are also being handled properly
some basic tests are also completed and pushed to the pr
there is an issue with timescale db that is to be fixed then the backend would be complete

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I deployed the new track page on ListenBrainz that ansh recently finished implementing. Good feedback so far.
I also finished up the t-shirt for the summit and got that ordered
Worked on some small bug tickets and PR reviews
And read some documentation for Jotai (state management) for a PR in progress that ansh mentioned earlier
Helped mayhem make a couple of slide to really sell that we actually have a summit.
That’s most of it.
From this Thursday to august 11th I will be on vacation and AFK, but for pressing matters you can message me.

@julian45

this week i corresponded with Jade about libretto and, while fixing an SSL cert renewal error on the auth server, think i fixed the issue with our CAA DNS records that made us need to create a CAA for every subdomain we wanted a cert for
so that should make things easier for, e.g., zas and i
similarly to monkey but on a shorter term, i will be mostly AFK from this thursday thru next tuesday due to seeing a concert out of the country w/ a friend

@zas

Last week, I removed 2 physical machines (trille & hip) that were used for tests since a while, and nomo (ex-chatlogs VM).
We (with @yvanzo) replaced a VM by another (with more disk space).
I made changes related to this in DNS, checks, alerts
We also had very nice contributions on Picard side (thanks to a new contributor knguyen1), so PR reviews etc…
Apart that, usual supervision, upgrades, user support.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week, spent time on reviewing PRs by Hemang Mishra and publishing a release (2.9.0) based on those changes.
Did some cleanup here and there around the release and spent time on figuring out how to support 16kb page size devices as a requirement for android 15
also, travelling to delhi to re-sell summit slides to embassy of Spain

@outsidecontext

last week I managed moving the python-discid package to MetaBrainz.
The issue with building the docs was an issue at readthedocs with the old project, I contacted their support and they fixed it. I did some general updates and did a release on the weekend. First release of this Python package in over 6 years : D
Also Picard code reviews. As zas already mentioned we had several quality PRs by new contributor knguyen. Using uv for package management now, that’s great

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week I worked on failing funkwhale test
And also worked on a little on navidrome integration
And also discussed the ui for navidrome with monkey and finalised it!

absent: nobody!