Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-10-27

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-10-20
Next meeting: 2025-11-03

@reosarevok: Welcome to another Monday MetaBrainz Meeting, winter edition !

Reviews

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] Not much to report. Some small Picard code review.

@jasjeet

[mailed in] [jasje] Last week I took the liberty to refactor and improve existing Profile tab UI and all its sub sections.
Added a nice transition to view all listens + added infinite paging to view all listens
Looked into miscellaneous things on parallel small tid bits in parallel
Reviewed PRs as usual

@aerozol

[mailed in] I was on break! Feeling very relaxed and also very stressed about all the catch up I have to do. Relassed? Strelaxed?
I made a start on some YiM 2025 ideas to discuss with Monkey later this week, but still a bit of work to do there.
Otherwise I enjoyed working on our socials and community stuff. Did you know that the MeB community is amazing?? r/MusicBrainz hit 1,000 members this week and Discord isn’t far off
Released band #3’s first half decent recordings/‘proper’ release, and I also found some break time to buy some records and do some MusicBrainz editing which was very nice. Can recommend.

@zas

[mailed in]

• I mitigated multiple waves of AI bots crap hammering our servers
• I did research about Cloudflare and their program Galileo
• I fixed a build issue with Picard and PyQt-Qt6-6.10.* (it doesn’t provide tiff format for some reason, breaking some of our tests)
• I upgraded discourse
• plus usual stuff, supervision, upgrades, minor admin tasks, MB edits.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I was sick and in bed for a good part of it, so short week for me again.
I worked on the Arc Creator page, adding a long forgotten image template, fixing issues with others, and moving the Art Creator tile on the explore page out of the beta section
Worked a bit on an interactive onboarding wizard for LB, thinking about how we can make it easier for users to start submitting their history from various places.
Looked at some PRs and prepared for deploying a LB release today

@rob

[mayhem] last week was working on the mapper a bit, but also moving the cron jobs. then on thursday I flew to München for the GSoC mentor summit.
and that was GREAT. a great collection of people, good venue, good food.
amazing chocolate room too!
I gave my usual Funding Open Source talk, which normally draws a crowd of 10-15 people. this time it was 50-60 people!
nice for me, but overall it points to a lot of open source projects struggling to make ends meet, which is overall quite sad.
but the most significant part was when I met up with Evelynne from the Mixxx project – Mixxx is DJ software for live DJ performances.
Mixxx already uses MB, but they have been frustrated about the lack of reliable… BPM data.
have we heard this before? yep, we immediately connected on this data issue and then met up several more times and hammered out a basic approach where Mixxx users can annotate track for high quality BMP data and send that to MB.
MB can do its usual magic of storing and managing this data, being responsible for the back-end, while Mixxx does the front-end.
we see this as a win-win for our communities. to start with, we’re writing an intro document that outlines out thinking, so that we can present the idea to both communities. so, look out for that later this week hopefully.
sadly, I manage to come down with a cold and that combined with my still lingering sleep issues, is making me super slow.
hopefully I can return to fully present next week when everything should normalize.
sorry for the long update, but this was a rather exciting summit!

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] This week I reviewed fettuccinae’s PR to the mail service, and I’ve been experimenting more with the music player
I’ve also sent the email to my project supervisor, hopefully will have more progress next week
overall nothing too exciting

@_Junaid

[fettuccinae] Last week was a slow one
Worked on adding personal recommendation and troi playlist noitifcation email templates
currently working on integrating user timeline feed events to use the new mb-mail templates and waiting for the design reviews

@lucifer

last week i finished up webhooks implementation and updated some login parts for upcoming user migration from MB to MeB.
will do local testing with LB using it this week.

@bitmap

last week I worked on optimizing subscription emails processing after we hit some recent cases where they took longer than a day
I managed to find a much faster query to batch things together (will submit a PR for that this week)
I deployed some fixes to the JSON dumps container to improve some reliability issues reported on the forums
and worked on adding validation to the ArtistCreditEditor component to move the React edit form PR along
also did a bunch of code review and banned many more spammers

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython]
last week I:

• Made 3! BookBrainz Tickets!
• that’s about it lol, I’m was not feeling so good so I took most of last week more or less off
• I’ll be on and off this week too because stuff is happening.
• but I’ll be looking at Bateria Samba!

Also hopefully we can add the new BookBrainz relationship soon! ref monkey let’s talk abt that later this week/at your conveniance

@kellnerd

Last week I continued reviewing Harmony PRs and we finally got the “open all links” button released (which was the most wanted ticket apparently).
Over the weekend I also made a tiny bit of progress with the Discogs provider, I hope to find more time for that soon.

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] 1This week I worked on an important issue related to Write External Storage permission in API 29. That was an edge case missed while development
Also worked on a few UX improvements in the Settings screen
and added better logging for consent screen.

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last week nothing much just was refactoring the funkwhale and navidrome code base to make it more generic to use and trying to remove hard coded duplicates! Rather hardcoding same thing for both I’m making it generic so even other self hosted platform also can use that in future!
That’s it from my side

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week i was mostly travelling for Diwali
And then for the GSoC Conference in Munich
It was pretty fun meeting people from various organisations and got to learn a lot from them
I’m still travelling as we speak
Don’t have much to report

@julian45

last week i continued working on testing out successor monitoring solutions to ye olde nagios (while we use prometheus/telegraf to cover a lot of things, current nagios is still good for some basics)
i also put in a bit of work on making our internal docs/tools for jira server management match production, with help from yvanzo
as well as prepared for an update to our staff SSO tool and did my usual MB edits all the while

@reosarevok

Last week I worked on some more React stuff, mostly MBS-12742 / MBS-12744
[MBS-12742: Convert Split artist page to React]
[MBS-12744: Convert Edit artist credit page to React]
Plus I worked on fixing URL handling for 45cat, which was messed up
And on MBS-14144 which makes edit templates a bit more efficient, hopefully
[MBS-14144: Refactor getEditDetailsElement to use an object lookup]
Plus today I put a bunch of stuff on beta : )
Oh, actually, I also reviewed and merged a bunch of small PRs by op3kay (thanks!)

absent: yvanzo (on holiday)