Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-09-08

[aerozol]

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Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki

Agenda

• Reviews
• Next meeting date

Last meeting: 2025-09-01
Next meeting: 2025-09-29 (skipping two meetings for the 2025 summit)

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
I’m on holiday but mayhem got sick so I’m covering up for him covering up for me!

Reviews

@rob

[mayhem] [mailed in] Feeling under the weather today, no can’t make it to the meeting, sorry.
Last week there was much summit prep, and then finishing the first pass
of the CAA backup! \ö/ Then I worked a bit on the new mapper and found a
new approach that let me solve all the tricky artist alias issues.

@_Junaid

[fettuccinae] [mailed in] Nothing much from my side
worked on the review given by monkey and started looking into mb-mail-service functionality.

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] as I had announced in the last meeting I’m travelling and won’t be available at all for the first half of the week. Not much from last week, either: Some Picard code review, also dealt with vandalism on Weblate.
Looking forward to meeting the team soon in Barcelona!

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[ApeKattQuest] [mailed in] Had a super productive meeting with monkey
worked on the edition page of the doc
created norwegian language style page on https://github.com/metabrainz/bookbrainz-user-gui… (people are invited to open PRs to add their own languages!)
anyway I’m super busy now which is why reo is posting this

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week as mentioned I worked with MonkeyPython on the BookBrainz user guide
Making it a lot more usable
Also merged in our work in progress on two important pages
Also reviewed PRsfor ListenBrainz and kept up with feedback on the new listens importer. It’s great to see users excited to import theirs
Also worked on the user stats, both redesigning the current stats page and keeping up with feedbakc on the new user stats from holycow23 's project
And fixed a couple of small issues in-between

@yvanzo

Last week, I further debugged the branch MTCaptcha.
Proposed another color scheme for MB DB schema dev docs with aerozol’s help, as requested.

@julian45

this past week i took a first stab at converting our wordpress blog to something manageable with a static site generator (hugo in this case) and a git repo
and to my surprise, it worked kind of easily and didn’t suck!
(much)
still a good deal of work to do on getting useful features like rss feeds and coherent theming in place but it’s a start
i also talked with yvanzo a bit about what to do re: jira since the end of life for our current version series is coming soon; we’ll hopefully take some hacking time during the summit to put something serviceable together

@bitmap

last week I worked on updating [pull 3612] based on review feedback to use a recursive query for getting all sub-events in the web service
[MBS-13963: Add web service support for browsing events by event(s) #3612]
I fixed a race condition in our autocomplete component which seems to have been causing a lot of our selenium test failures
also tested/reviewed some PRs and started preparing a patch to have sir read changes from dbmirror2.pending_data instead of rabbitmq

@zas

Last week, I set up a dashboard to visualize CAA backup progress (based on stats we improved the week before)
I also resynced ansible & oum (I forgot to commit some changes I made from my laptop), fixed now.
I spent a lot of time on Picard new PRs, testing & reviewing, notably [pull 2714]
[PICARD-2103: Add UI to manage custom columns #2714]
And usual stuff, system upgrades, supervision, user support, MB edits.

@suvid

Was busy with college mostly.
Tried to fix the issue with skipped listens in importer
Though majority of work was done by lucifer and monkey
But it was a crucial fix

@lucifer

reviewed the remaining GSoC PRs last week, i think all should be merged this week completing all LB GSoC projects.
also, worked on adding a Libre.fm archive importer to help users migrate from the shutdown libre.fm service to LB.
did some stats debugging on the spark cluster as well.

@kellnerd

Last week I had to fix Harmony’s Tidal provider again because of another small, but breaking API change…
Plus the usual Harmony support, a few MB edits and providing feedback for the LB Spotify importer.

@reosarevok

Last week I worked on finishing (hopefully) the code to display though what release’s relationship editor edits were entered, and on getting a couple smaller things ready to merge.
This week I’m on holiday in Valencia and I expect to just deal with some mails every once in a while and that’s about it. If someone needs an urgent ban hammer, feel free to apply some hammering, mayhem, bitmap or aerozol .
And on Saturday I’m taking a train up to BCN

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week was fun. We organised a hackathon at our college. Apparently being an organizer is much more fun.
Working on some improvements in login screen along with option to submit logs anywhere from the entire onboarding process.
also made some minor UX tweaks.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I continued worked on the new musicbrainz homepage.
And reviewed some PRs for LB.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] Not much to report this week, fixing some bugs and starting to work on history import
(postgres primarky keys and thirty thousand log lines lmao)
lots of IRL appts and sorting out stuff for next year’s project, too!
Talking with uni supervisors, etc

@holycow23

So over the last week I was able to improve the Artist Evolution Activity Visualization
Got it merged today as well

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was dealing with google’s bull****
Google thinks listen submission is not a core feature for our app and hence they rejected our app (we requested a perm)
Thinking on how to get around their process

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] [late] Last week nothing much i’m little busy nowadays as my midterm is approaching , i’ve just fixed some funkwhale side bugs and tried to improve playback

Reviews

@reosarevok

Clearly we’re not having a meeting next week, since it’s the summit
Since a lot of people are still traveling the next Monday, we’ve generally skipped that one too - so I’d suggest having the next meeting on Sep 29

No complaints, next meeting September 29th!

Absent: Nobody