Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-01-19

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2025-01-12
Next meeting: 2026-01-26

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@julian45

pretty quiet last week: upgraded our internal SSO tool, did some patching, made sure our jira license got renewed
as well as the usual MB edits

@bitmap

last week I primarily did code review for the release today (thanks reosareok) and finished the mb-solr relationship JSON changes planned for the schema change

@faizan.akhtar123

[FaizanAkhtar] Last week i focused on addressing the review comments on my pending PRs… I implemented the improvement suggested by monkey: and i also learned a lot while working on these improvements

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week for me was mainly reviewing PRs. We had a big backlog from being busy with other things in December, and with many new contributors joining.
Some great features being added!
I also looked into returning an MSID for no-playing listen submissions throguh the API, to allow third party submitters like pano scrobbler to send love/hate feedback even if you don’t send a full listen
And some admin work looking into reports, and managing tickets.

@yvanzo

Had an MB dev team meeting last week and renewed Jira plugin licenses.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] It’s been another week, another bunch of stuff behind the scenes
I’ve been doing a chunk of writing up for the music server project , got a meeting scheduled tomorrow for that
hopefully I’ll have something more interesting to report there soon
in the meantime
I was just told yesterday that I’ve been accepted to give a talk at FOSDEM!

@zas

Last week, it was mostly about Picard PRs reviews, admin tasks, and sys upgrades.
Picard team just had a small meeting and we decided to release Picard 3 first alpha next week

@outsidecontext

Not much different from last week really. Picard reviews, tickets, and some bugfixes and other PRs. Looking forward to next week : )

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I was mostly busy with PR reviews and working on the new artist discovery tool for LB.
And looked into some tickets

@lucifer

last week, i looked a bit more into the email providers and hosted smtp relays. reviewed a few LB PRs, mostly AI slop.
and made progress on stats improvements.

@rob

[mayhem] last week was mostly recuperation for me. minimal emails, but I am finally picking things up today. slowly.
I’ve got to finish the finances from last year, I didn’t quite finish them before I went down hard.
bitmap: your 1099 is on my radar, should be happening in the next day or two.
hoping to actually gather enough strength (and fuck-its) to make it to brussels next week.

@kellnerd

Last week I’ve improved Harmony’s release merge algorithm to ignore providers with incompatible data.
The Release Actions page now skips all external links from MB which are incompatible with MB data (and complains about them).
Additionally the Release Lookup will suggest to lookup compatible subsets rather than just showing an incompatibility error.
These and a couple of other improvements are almost ready for release, I just want to polish a few things and merge a Tidal patch by outsidecontext first.

@Lioncat6

This past week I’ve mainly been working on polishing up the next SAMBL release (Version 2.3.0 by Lioncat6 · Pull Request #84 · Lioncat6/SAMBL-React · GitHub) The new sorting and filtering system is now finished, and I’ve modularized seeders to allow dynamically switching them off for unsupported providers (ie soundcloud). Additionally, I submitted a couple patches to the musicbrainz-api npm module to allow pulling artist tags to help out with the AI artist popup I’m working on. The new release should be out later today or tomorrow!

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] I am back from t̵h̵e̵ ̵d̵e̵a̵d̵ Brazil!
This week I am going to look at instrument images, mostly Japanese and Chinese fiddles, and make uploads of them.
Otherwise there are a few bits of lose ends I need to deal with, unpacking, dealing with fucked hardrive
Finally the zine I was in is being mailed out, if anyone is interested in a copy, please reach out to me asap! They are about 30 USD

@reosarevok

I fixed a bunch of small issues, had a team meeting, reviewed some code
And am in the middle of a prod server release
Nothing super big, catching back
Also areas, spammers, the usual : )
Adding some, removing the others : D

@anuj990

[anuj_] last week I didn’t work on anything major. I mainly went through KMP documentation
and most of my time was focused on academics. Hopefully, I will do some progress this week

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] mostly college work this week, but I managed to wrap up the search functionality extension and just opened the PR
and also went through some KMP documentation. That’s it from my side for this week

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was ton of work
Reviewed multi-file large diff PRs for migration to KMP
Migrated some parts of the code to KMP myself
Re-thinking my original plan but path is still clear
If we keep up like this, we’ll have an iOS app in about 3 months but timeline is still subjected to unknown conditions
Apart from that
Managed tickets and community questions
Released v2.13.0.0

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] For the past few months i was away afk due to my eyes! Now I’m started again!
Last week I looked up my leftover worked and was going through Spotify functional test I’ll be I’ll be adding functional test for both funkwhale and navidrome!
And was also looking explored a bit about funkwhale v2 so i can enhance funkwhale search!

@failure_san

[failure] i opened a couple of tickets and helped review LB#3498
[LB: Added YouTube listens importer]
i also started drafting a “proposal” on the technical details of adding Tidal as a music source
less of a proposal and more of an implementation reference thingy to be fair; but i reckon it’s good practice either way : D
and more research on the same continuing on from last week’s work
i love doing research : D

@haris

Nothing much from my side, opened my first issue, i think its a good issue but will take some time to fix it
Other than that, trying to fix my other pr that helps in importing starred tracks from navidrome
Will try doing more from next week

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