Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-08-18

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-8-11
Next meeting: 2025-08-25

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@_Junaid

[mailed in] [fettuccinae] Last week I worked on implementing the endpoints for user’s to set their digest-preference.
Also, worked on the frontend for the same.
This week, I’ll implement the changes requested by monkey for a notifications page and will add more notification sending instances in LB.

@aerozol

[mailed in] Where did the week go… checks notes
Looks like I did a fair bit of homepage mockup work, socials, userscripts, and a bit of ticket discussion.

@julian45

[mailed in] i’ve made some progress on static site-ification of the blog but unfortunately there is some cleanup to be done before it will be useful : /
in the meantime i’ve kept an eye on Jade 's progress with the libretto project, discussed a few things about anti-scraper measures with zas and mayhem , and patched the SSO server as usual.
the SSO server software (authentik) will have a minor version update later this month, but these are very quick to handle, often as quick as patches : )

@zas

[mailed in] I ordered and deployed a new server “oum” in order to host MB test containers (they were interfering with prod on selda, causing too much load sometimes), and CAA backup (huge HDDs in addition to system SSDs).
a lot of Picard PR reviews, some of the patches were already merged, some others still in queue, but a lot is happening on Picard 3 front these days, good thing : )
usual supervision, system upgrades, DNS updates (a domain was moved to Porkbun), etc.
also, investigating a technical issue related to one of our paying supporter devices, still unclear what’s the core problem, we’ll get more details this week.
user support

@bitmap

last week I worked on MBS-14125 and MBS-12524 and and made some fixes to selenium tests to ensure failures are reported correctly
[MBS-14125: If the “Recent Items” contains merged (to another) entities, JS try to load that entity infinitely]
[MBS-12524: Improve performance of cover art uploader]
also moved test.mb services to the new oum server and did a bit of code review

@rob

[mayhem] last week I worked on the caa-backup which is why we got those massive TB drives. that’s running and approching 1M files downloaded.
bitmap: part of the code for this is to scan the existing files, so I’ll add a size checker so I can hand you a report of file sizes later.
then some business stuff, some new users signing up, emails, that stuff. can’t wait to get back to lb-local and make some more progress there.
but this week I am not taking work “very seriously” and next I am actually going to be off, at the beach, then the mountains.

@outsidecontext

hi, last week was a lot of Picard code review. As zas said, a lot currently happening
Also some general testing and build maintenance

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I was sick, so I couldn’t work much.
I had a look at the homepage designs by aerozol, and read the musicbrainz codebase to understand the scope of the project.
Reviewed some PRs, and picked up some tickets.
And Helped holycow23 debugging an issue causing the frontend tests to fail.

@holycow23

Finally the first stats PR has been merged
Hopefully the further work on the Era stats can be done by this week
Thanks to ansh for helping me resolve the bug
Been facing that for long

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week I mostly worked on improving the current implementation of listening now screen.
Along with that, I started working on app updates, handling different scenarios when the app is downloaded from the Play Store, fdroid, or even side loaded.

@reosarevok

This week I worked on getting the recording form port finished, it’s working now but we still want to Reactify a couple things still using jquery and the like
Other than that, I worked on making some “unofficial guidelines” official ([Artist Credits: Mixes and compilations] and the next field recordings point)
Fixed a couple bugs, and released a prod update
Plus finally got my train tickets for the summit
Oh, and got threatened with diplomatic incidents and diseases by some disgruntled person at support : 0

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[Jigen] so i’ve been working and
technically closed INST-945 (but working on a lengthy annotation explaining stuff because it’s necessary) and aliases as well
[INST-945: Gubguba aka khamak]
also closed some as wont fix after discussion with reosarevok as we agreed instrument credits are fine for that use case.
otherwise doigg some bits and bobs, I want to talk to you monkey this week
re work page

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I continued reviewing the front-end parts of the ongoing GSOC projects
And some other PR reviews
I also picked a few small but annoying tickets to resolve
And looked into adding album runtime on the LB album pages
Left on Friday for a long weekend of climbing up the side of tall mountains in Andorra
[photo]

@kellnerd

This weekend I’ve added [copy to clipboard] buttons to Harmony’s release lookup page.
The first version is now live, with support for tracklists, external links, region lists and barcodes.
Probably mostly useful for those who already update existing releases with Harmony data until [that feature] arrives (soon ™️).

@lucifer

Last week, reviewed and helped out on bringing LB projects close to completion.
Also did some work on navidrome api key auth support.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] This past week I have:

• Gotten the new account / config format for libretto done
• Replaced the logging impl with something a bit better
• Added support for more right message events - so images, video, audio messages
• Added some support for non-message event types

I am currently in the process of adding support for state event display, too
[screenshot]
Unfortunately libretto.ellis.link is currently down so you can’t see it in action right now
( I seem to have a bug in the account code, and I can’t get into the database to see the issue)
Also no fancy style yet
I also wrote a blog post yesterday that I’ll publish this evening

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was fun
Banged my head into googles requirements
That constituted most of it

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week week I worked on frontend reviews!
And also discussed the navidrome auth flow with lucifer and implemented backend as well
And also added a bit of frontend for testing the backend!

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