Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-11-10

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-11-03
Next meeting: 2025-11-17

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@_Junaid

[mailed in] [fettuccinae] Last week, I worked on integrating the new email templates and fixed a few bugs during testing
And I also started exploring the BookBrainz repository.
This week, I’ll work on integrating the notification system into BB

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] This week I physically went and tracked down my supervisor, turns out he’s quite busy right now
but we have a meeting scheduled for tuesday
I’ve also done more work on the prototype player, hopefully I should have something useful in the next couple weeks, if minimal
Also touched libretto again, although just maintenance stuff, not finishing backfill yet
Oh and the final note here is upload://gbFiYBAzqdII1KKN2xyL96b7Ree.png corresponds with serving challenges to every client matching ‘(userAgent.startsWith(“Chrome/”) || userAgent.startsWith(“Firefox/”)) && !(“sec-fetch-mode” in headers)’ from september 19th

@kellnerd

Last week I finally obtained SoundCloud API credentials to do more thorough testing.
As it turned out, the API doesn’t return the tracklist for most popular releases that I’ve tried : (
It doesn’t seem to be related to their premium Go+ subscription, so we have to investigate how to solve this…

@bitmap

last week I submitted fixes for MBS-14179 and MBS-14188 and also helped a bit with [MB docker PR #326] (thanks adhawkins)
[MBS-14179: include browse item if it is the same as the entity item]
[MBS-14188: Artist Area search doesn’t open]
[Add support for local copy of artwork redirect #326]
other than that I did a bit of code review and worked on [PR #3668] + some additional JSON dump fixes which aren’t ready yet
[Retry requests for replication-info in incremental dump code #3668]

@reosarevok

Last Monday I put out a prod release, and after that I went to France, ate a lot of nice food and listened to some Sibelius
Back from today, which I mostly spent looking at the stuff that everyone else did last week
And dealing with emails and the like

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] last week I:

• worked hard on bookseries
• added morebb tickets lmao
• so the zine I was a part of FINALLY is in preorder! check it out! https://playbohz.bigcartel.com/ (warning: it’s very 18+ lol)

This week I’ll:

• add 2 (music)releases!
• work on a bookseries+ the big book project (this is why I’m adding so many bb tickets)
• continue work on the instruments!

@julian45

last week i was unfortunately bogged down by $dayjob so work was generally limited to minor maintenance
BUT! i have today and tomorrow off so i’ve been doing a bunch of MeB things and plan to do more tomorrow!
for example, just as this meeting started, after consulting with zas et al i decided to give anubis a test run on our jira instance
so far pretty decent, i made sure to add rules allowing legit bot traffic like our monitoring tools through
it doesn’t have as much configurability as e.g. go-away (for example, respecting session cookies issued by jira) so i may give that a shot as well
also on the hopeful docket for this coming week includes getting around to some backlog tasks like updating jira deployment/maintenance playbooks

@rob

[mayhem] last week was a lot of busy work, admin stuff, more accounting headaches, chasing payments.
some PR reviews, talking and reading what the Mixxx team is up to wrt to BPM.
had a nice LB team chat, where we discussed YIM and other things. good to see everyone again.
not super productive, but I am sleeping better and hoping to have a more normal week this week.

@zas

This week, I was traveling a bit, but I worked a lot on the bot detector app
Current status, not yet production ready, but heavily tested already
apart that, usual supervision (we have very bad traffic atm, many alerts)
Plus Picard PR reviews, admin tasks, etc.

@outsidecontext

I got back to some Picard tasks. I looked into updating the Github Action builds due to deprecation of the macos-13 image. It’s getting more difficult to support the older builds, though. We really need to move forward. I had some time put into the plugins v3. Also some code review and ticket investigation.
Also had some brainstorming with Evelynne from Mixxx about use of chromaprint fingerprints for the BPM features she and mayhem have been planning.

@yvanzo

I’m back since last week but met with a few issues so took more time to be actually back.
I’m planning to move to a new place in about two weeks.

@ansh

Last week, I mostly worked on finishing up last bits of musicbrainz homepage.
Worked on bookbrainz for creating a new endpoint which was required for the new auth profile page.
And reviewed some PRs on LB.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I continued working on BrainzPlayer and debugging issues thanks to our very helpful LB beta testers <3
I finished more improvements for the art creator feature on LB
As mentioned, had a good LB team meeting catch-up
Reviewed PRs for BookBrainz and did some ticket triage
Finally, I tested the new OAuth and reviewed the UI parts of that big PR.
And a couple of other random tasks and that’s about it.

@lucifer

last week, I worked on testing out OAuth stuff more and implementing OAuth clients in LB and CB based on MeB OAuth. also attended LB meet.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Been inactive last week (mostly)
Helped new folks assign some task to themselves
Comms but not much code
(its wedding season)

@aerozol

Just comms/socials last week, and things I can’t remember.
Recovering from a bunch of travel + played a show + recorded an EP + pretty full on with other work. Possibly getting burnt out? Looking forward to xmas break
Checking out https://forum.subvert.fm/, a collaborative artist-focussed Bandcamp ‘successor’. I am very impressed so far and will see if there’s anything that MeB can help/work together with
This week I’ll bug ansh to let me review the MB homepage design
ansh: can I review the homepage design?
This week I bugged ansh about reviewing the homepage design

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] It’s been a busy week, but I finally got the captcha to show in Create account by hiding the unnecessary DOM elements and aligning it properly.
So now we can show captcha with compose UI.
I am planning to do something similar for GDPR policy in the login flow.
But this changes entire flow of create account and login behind the scenes
So lots of work for this week…

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