Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-12-08

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-11-01
Next meeting: 2025-12-15

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting

Reviews

@julian45

[mailed in] last week, i prepared and executed a major upgrade of the mediawiki software used for wiki.musicbrainz.org, bringing it all the way to the latest stable version (with a lot of quality-of-life updates along with it).
as has been discussed in a couple of venues, there are still a few bugs here and there to work out, but overall i’d like to think it’s in good shape there are also some improvements under the hood to help make future updates & upgrades easier
besides that, i also did some patching & upkeep, as well as the usual MB edits

@bitmap

last week I finished the UI for refreshing the metabrainz login session in musicbrainz, and implemented it in the relationship editor (now just the release editor remains)
also started working on some changes to get local accounts working in development & am hoping to finish that by wednesday
the WIP branch is at Commits · mwiencek/musicbrainz-server · GitHub
otherwise I spent some time reviewing the homepage PR, and a few other MBS PRs from reosarevok

@reosarevok

Last week I worked on a bunch of smaller PRs, then did some code review
And I finally looked at a couple old style issues
Plus I added a way to browse events by series, for festival app people and the like : )
Btw, next weekend I’m off to Spain, but I should be working normally the week after, just from further south

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] As predicted I did not get much done last week
however I did finally get the printer (printing an scanning a lot of stuff to upload!)
I also 𝑑𝑖𝑑 get the 2TB usb-stick.. just in time for the extHD to fail completely, I managed to move over the already tagged music and that’s it
We’ll see if I can move anything else but that has to wait until next year I think ..
Anyway! Tomorrow is my birthday! I will not be doing much work but I will try this food monstrosity: Hot Dog Focaccia (not that recepie, I got my own for focaccia)
also, but also next week I will possibly not be here as I’ll be Travelling! and the next meeting after that (are we having a meeting on the 22?) i’ll be in the same timezone(ish) as bitmap, so that’ll be fun!
last minute addendum: actually got some instrument work done today

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I focused on the Year In Music redesign which has moved along quite well.
I also reviewed PRs and welcomed some new contributors to the community.
some ticket triage to find more good-first-bugs
Also did some community outreach (read: answering people on social media)
Had a good team meeting with ansh and lucifer to chat about YIM and early next year projects
And finally, started editing an AI usage policy. Discussion is ongoing in that PR, so I removed the topic from today’s meeting as I think this asynchronous communication is better.
I also have an entry named “Spotify URI” but I don’t remember what that’s about…
[mayhem: localhost vs 127.0.0.1?]
Oh yeah, thats it thanks : )

@rob

[mayhem] I’m slowly returning to the living, though last week was equally as unproductive as the previous weeks.
so, I did the usual MeB background tasks in the moments where I felt well enough to do so.
onward and upward, hopefully with less poop!

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I worked on understanding and improving the YIM Genre Calculation.
Worked on some LB Tickets
And continued fixing the Tests on my MusicBrainz Homepage PRs

@aerozol

Other work has finally settled down knocks on wood intensely
But just intermittent stuff, a bit of time on social media, nice to see an uptick in chatter there
Nothing individually of note

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Nothing to report from my side too! Rn I’m just making report and a presentation of my summer work with mb! Hoping not to get a strict panel else have to answer them a lot!

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] Nothing much notable I can think of this week
Just exams, final thing tomorrow AM

@kellnerd

Nothing new to report because I was busy IRL, only a bit of Harmony discussion.

@hemang-mishra

[Hemang Mishra] This week was on a slower side. Went through a few PRs and queries from contributors.
Also exploring an important bug related to webviews in some devices.
Anyways it’s weeding season here and have been traveling most of the time.

@lucifer

last week, i worked on some improvements to MeB OAuth as proposed by MB team. remember session, optional refresh token and some minor fixes etc.
also, worked on debugging issues with dumps. it was failing due to taking up lots of space before compression.
now it takes much less space.
updated the importers for libre.fm csv after multiple complaints on support.
some other fixes to make background task processsing more robust and some work on this year’s yim testing.
also looked into LB downtime earlier today.

@zas

Last week, I did some tuning in rules related to bot-detector, fixed few bugs in it too
but most of the week was dedicated to the new plugin system for Picard
We did a lot of progress, rdswift outsidecontext are around to test & patch
the whole thing looks quite good now, even though we still have a lot of to do. I think we are getting close to an alpha version (perhaps without plugins manager GUI, but now we can manage them in CLI)
registry is working, registry tools too, so one can now install/update/remove/etc… plugins from the registry (which only contains few test plugins for now)
if someone is interested to help to test and improve a pre-alpha version, that’s in Picard master branch, start with docs/

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was PR reviews
Not much code
Since still in process of getting used to my new place
Released v2.12.0.0
Critical bug fixes + contributions by new people

absent: outsidecontext (with family)

[jesus2099]

@zas

some tuning in rules related to bot-detector, fixed few bugs in it too

So much time wasted because of AI hype.