Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-11-17

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-11-10
Next meeting: 2025-11-24

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] Similar to last week, some work on Picard CI builds, PR reviews and support.

@_Junaid

[mailed in] [fettuccinae] Last week I worked on integrating MeB-notifications into BookBrainz backend.
And in ListenBrainz, I worked on adding notifications for when weekly playlists are generated.
Waiting on PR reviews for both

@aerozol

[mailed in] This week I reviewed the new Oauth flow by lucifer and the new MB homepage by ansh.
Blown away by both. Really really good stuff - I thought my Oauth mockups had been long forgotten, shot lucifer for staying on task 2 (or 3!?) years later!
Quite a bit of social media chats, posting, support, a couple of tickets.
In other news, today/yesterday the workers union I work for beat multibillion dollar international behemoth Uber in the Supreme Court, after a four year battle. No big deal! A very busy time…

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] last week I:

• started work on INST–1162
• talked quite a bit with monkey about barcodes and regexes
• actually fixed BB-870 myself! (well I made a mistake but monkey helped )
• got a yellow-fever vaccine

[BB-476: Language drop-down improvements]
[BB-870: Issue with linking openlibrary author]

This week I’ll:

• continue work on instruments
• continue work on bookseries (I am finding many bugs and improvement tickets so it’s worth the effort)
• hopefully find time to add those releases, lol

@zas

As many experienced, MB website was very very slow for few days
It was caused by AI bots (ofc)
The question is always the same… how to answer…
So, I went in war mode, coded a bot detector I had in mind since a while
With massive amount of time, new tools (AI-based), I managed to produce something which is actually efficient (for now)

I deployed a very early version in prod (yes…), the blue vertical line separate before & after
So it worked. But I still have to stabilize the thing. And that’s not really a simple thing: it parses logs in real time, identify suspicious bots, block them using stick tables in haproxy, create reports and stats, and is very tunable (to be able to answer to new threats)
and all blocks are only temporary by design (because they use temporary IPs anyway)
Now, I’m focusing on making this really solid (it isn’t right now), so most of my time is on that
plus few minor tasks, but I worked like 15h a day for few days so…

@rob

[mayhem] first a bit of news: last week I resigned my position from the EU open source academy.
over the space of 4 months, they literally GOT NOTHING DONE of the things they promised.
fixing their domain, deploying a nextcloud instance, simple shit. just not getting done.
there is €2M in funding that goes to 6 IT companies and no one in the the outfit can setup a nextcloud instance.
they are so ill prepared for this, the docs they did produce are rubbish.
and we were asked to step in and fix them. despite our commitment being 5 hours a month. suddendly I was asked for 3 days of intense work to fix the docs.
and guess how much money they allocated for open source people?
zip. nada. nothing. fuck all. nix.
and I had enough and spoke my mind and the next day I was pushed out.
lol.
I love metabrainz. I love that we’re focused on getting stuff done. its made me completely intolerant of this type of bullshit where people get paid to do nothing.
so, thanks, to all of your for ruining me. )
the rest of the week was spend doing the usual accounting, business stuff.
and I made much more progress on the CAA cache, which I should return to this week.
currently I am trying to submit a PR for the healthchecks cron monitoring, so hopefully that comes tomorrow.

@lucifer

[mailed in] last week, worked on improving the MeB admin dashboard.
AI is really good with CSS : )
but fixing up multiple versions of bootstrap/jquery etc with flask-admin not so simple, still need to iron out a few bugs but overall looks pretty.
also, looked into usual spark cluster issues.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I put some finishing touches to the Bootstrap 5 migration in BookBrainz. One final check and it should be ready to merge
I also deployed a new prod version of BookBrainz, and reviewed some useful PRs
Also talked barcodes and regexps with ApeKattQuest
On the LB side, I reviewed PRs and implemented a PanoScrobbler importer (for their export format)
Reviewed some details in the new MB homepage and the MeB oauth pages and profile
And finally some ticket triage, welcoming newcomers, and some community outreach

@kellnerd

Last week I mostly stayed on top of Harmony tickets, quite a few interesting ideas have been brought up.
I really hope to make alternative lookup methods (not by barcode) and relationship seeding happen soon, maybe in early 2026.
And I’ve rediscovered an elbisaur ticket which made me investigate inconsistencies of LB’s listen JSON format (LB-1878).
[LB-1878: Inconsistent listen history export JSON format]

@bitmap

I was primarily working on the metabrainz oauth/account changes for MBS last week, continuing that this week
also submitted a small patch to fix some issues setting up MeB locally, helped debug a couple webpack issues in the homepage revamp PR, and reviewed the bot-detector documentation

@jasjeet

[jasje] Released v2.11. It has create account fix by hemang + profile page improvements and some bug fixes

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week I finished implementation of captcha verification for create account feature. [LB Android pull #613]
Had to cover lots of edge cases.
Also opened up some issues for new contributors.

@reosarevok

I mostly worked on MBS-12758 - converting the label form to React
[MBS-12758: Convert label edit form to React]
It’s progressing slowly but surely
All stuff that reuses bits already converted for other forms is done, and I converted a bunch of new bits already, the main missing bits are the area field (so, me remembering how to do an autocomplete field properly) and the check for possible duplicates
The duplicate check being done in React should finally let us be smart and remove the red “SOMETHING IS MISSING” highlights from the form when someone adds a disambiguation, which would be neat
Anyway, that’s about it, other than that some code review, some banning spammers, the usual

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Nothing from my side past few weeks I’m just figging with my eye infection! I’m doing well now! I hope to recover fast so again i can be on screen for long time!
I was looking to the lb issues and will start working something if i find most probably will help monkey to solve bp issues if left any!

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] This week the main thing was actually having a chat with my supervisor that I arranged after tracking him down
Tldr: everything is green, we are making the music player / server
Also set up a bunch of the work for existing music stacks to test them out
And did most of the work for making a website for one of my other projects: #1171 - New website! - continuwuation/continuwuity - Ellis Git
Just got to fix a few minor things on that

absent: ansh (1)