Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-10-06

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-09-29
Next meeting: 2025-10-13

*@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] Nobody’s asked me for anything for a while, so I’ve been left to my own devices! Which turns out to mainly involve editing and userscript stuff, next to the usual staying on top of social and community stuff.
I foolishly returned to MB edit voting after a long hiatus and was reminded why it SUX.
I have a few holidays/trips coming up in the next few weeks. I should still be available throughout but if anyone needs anything ‘big’ let’s try do it before the 17th.
P.S. go me! [bluesky link]

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] Last week I was dealing with some Weblate issues, where it was unexpectedly adding a lot of languages to the picard-docs and picard barcode scanner projects. I investigated the issue and reported it to Weblate. Got a direct response, there is already a fix for this which will come with the next release.
As a mitigation I disabled the “add languages” add-on on those projects and unlinked glossaries from related projects.
Otherwise I had little time. Some Picard support as usual.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] Nothing much to report this week, lots of welcome week/first week of uni stuff (spending 6 hours running a tand, and just got out of 4 hours back to back lectures

@reosarevok

Last week I was updating PRs to make them ready to merge - I spent most of my time with the recording form Reactification. Which might finally be ready - that’s what I thought the week before, of course, but it’s at the very least closer to ready now then
I intend to finally put a new beta out tomorrow morning - it’s about time, even Weblate seems to be complaining that we haven’t updated translations often enough

@zas

Last week, I did usual maintenance, upgrades, various minor fixes regarding Ansible, tuned some alerts thresholds
Also spent quite a lot of time reviewing knguyen patches for Picard, some were merged, some still in the queue

@kellnerd

Last week was pretty much the same as the previous one, with more incoming Harmony PRs.
I’ve released the first couple of those now and hope that I find time to continue work on the Discogs provider before more PRs pile up : )

@bitmap

last monday I returned from travels but unfortunately got pretty sick right after and was resting a lot. started to feel better over the weekend and got some work done
mostly doing code review, fixing test failures in my PRs, updating our local CAA setup docs, and adding the remaining MTCaptcha tests

@yvanzo

I did my part of MTCaptcha stuff for MB account registration (MBS-10039).
[MBS-10039: Replace reCAPTCHA with non-Google captcha]
Thanks to bitmap , it is now ready for deployment with the next beta update.
Also had our first restored weekly meeting with bitmap and reosarevok about MB development.
Last, answered to specific questions about Docker.

@julian45

nothing big this week; did some minor patching for auth infra
i’m also starting to ponder the next generation of our monitoring infra given that, for example, our nagios deployment is very out of date
might ping zas with thoughts/questions accordingly

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I continued working on the new MetaBrainz signup and login pages.
I also continued working on our big BrainzPlayer rewrite PR with ansh, it’s been a journey but I think we are finally there!
up on test.listenbrainz.org for those who want
I also finished up a PR adding cover art collages and links to the art creator on the LB stats pages: LB#3373
[LB-1829: Reorganize stats page and show cover art grid]
Finally, did some PR more reviewing and worked on small UI tickets

@lucifer

Mostly away last week, nothing from my side.

@jasjeet

I’ve been out most of the week, nothing to report

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] Nothing much this week. Was stuck with mid semester exams.
Tried figuring out if there are any weired redirects while running script of automation in create account as it would break the flow and may lead to bad ux.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I majorly worked on migrating BookBrainz to typescript.
I continued working on the BrainzPlayer refactoring and bug bashing

@rob

[mayhem] last week was beginning of the month, so accounting and paying people.
after that I picked up working on the mapping, which is moving along very slowly, but its steady good progress.

@_Junaid

[fettuccinae] Last week I was a bit down from food poisoning
Looked into mb-mail service and got a bit lost in the rust ecosystem (kudos to Jade for building such an awesome service)
Worked on integrating mb mail service into metabrainz.org and im almost done there
what remains is some extensive local testing and a few tests for NotificationSender class.

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] last week i’ve worked on monkey reviews, there was some issue to handle trailing slashes for both frontend and backend now its successfully fixed and some duplications i’ve to removed after merge conflicts!
and now finally navidrome playback is available on LB!

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] last week i: added 2-3 books to bb

• Added (actually 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 ) INST-970
• Changed some jantar/kinnari veena images
• Added yazh images
• Decided to 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩 with INST-969 & INST-968 (they should probably be reopened at some point now that they have dedicated wikipedia pages, but as they are ancient, not in use today, still kinda iffy I’m going to wait with these so I can move on) →
• Start work on INST-744 (which is the LAST of the “Veena” miniversion!)
• Started editing author.md to use full links to the docs instead of “see above”
• Wrote the proposal to create a new relationship and with help from reo & posted it
• Predictably it’s got zero interactions (except a couple likes by indy and monkey😅) so PLEASE come and discuss/interact/link what have you!
• Survived the storm Amy!

This week I’ll: Add more books!
Finish adding yazh / yazhoo →
Write the blogpost for the veena mini-version!
Try to finish the author.md page and see how far I get on work.md (monkey can wetalk abt this on wednesday or sometime for just a sec)