Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-02-16

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Discord bridges

Last meeting: 2025-02-09
Next meeting: 2026-03-02

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@haris

[mailed in] Was organising a fest at my college, body hurts like crazy, probably not going to stay up till the meeting. Noticed that the music by decade chart is fixed, thats nice. See you all in the next meeting

@faizan.akhtar123

[FaizanAkhtar] [mailed in] I won’t be able to join the meeting today as I’m currently enjoying a wonderful trip with my family.
I took a complete break last week to fully enjoy the vacation,so I haven’t done much work yet.
But I’ll come back on Feb 18th with fresh energy.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[ApeKattQuest] worked on bookbrainz documentation database relationships!
had a very productive meeting with monkey
(I also caught several longcat meowths)
this week i’ll continue that + see if I can start the next miniversion of instruments!
finally I think I’m getting into the groove of things, please ping me if there is any testing to be had!

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I continued with PR reviews both on LB and BB
I started working on updating the very, very, very (very!) outdated version of ElasticSearch we use in BB, trying to achieve parity with the current functionality
I worked on the BB docs with ApeKattQuest (IRC) and fixing some relationships and the editor we have for them on the website
Fixed some security tickets
Some converstations and tips on socials
And fixed the search functionality in the LB docs which has been broken since god knows when
(The docs are a bit messy/disorganized, so the search is actually quite needed)

@aerozol

The usual socials and community stuff, but a few bigger items that I sunk my teeth into
This had been on my to-do list for a ages but a PR prompted me to finally think about dark mode colours. Painful to get right but I think it’s looking okay!
[LB-859: Dark Mode for ListenBrainz Website]
Getting the colours right has always been a bit of a blocker, this should make it easier for MB etc to catch up eventually as well
Also made a snazzy Bookbrainz image for socials, that may come in handy later as well

@anuj990

[anuj_] this week was quite quiet. I did not do much, just browsed some KMP documentation and attended two quizzes

@kellnerd

Last week I’ve prepared Harmony’s Spotify provider for the upcoming API deprecations.
And while the API is still fully working, I took the opportunity to add a few more release lookup test cases with cached Spotify data.
(will make it easier to spot differences in a month)
Finally, I made the entity ID validation more strict. Some bad actors (or stupid bots) were trying to inject full URLs (and other crafted strings) instead of proper entity IDs into Release Lookup URLs.
While this causes no harm for the Harmony web app, it triggers pointless API requests.

@rob

[mayhem] last week i discovered what a monumental pain it is to restart a severely damaged digestion. it doesn’t make for a productive week, that is for sure. I hope to be around more in the coming days.

@zas

Last week we released a new alpha version of Picard, another one should be out this week, so mainly PR reviews
Also tried to mitigate some very annoying bots hitting beta.mb, with more or less success, for some reason they stopped this morning…
Also managed some DNS transfers, ordered a new HDD for oum (increasing size)

@m.amanullah7

last week I was working on funkwhale integrational and functional test and now its successfully merged [LB pull 3538] thanks to monkey for refactoring my codes! xd and also i’m done with navidrome test and created a pr and waiting for monkey to merge [LB pull 3582]
and last was exploring lil about tidal music (LB-1804: Implement Tidal Music as a music source and playlist import/export) and thinking of working on it if it aligns with my schedule, will soon discuss about this with monkey!
Thanks that’s it from my side!

@julian45

did some patching across some servers i take care of
also rapidly updated authentik (SSO) in response to security fixes, and onboarded ansh to authentik this morning as well
besides that, maintaining the github action we use for DNS management, plus usual MB edits

@bitmap

last week I worked on resolving more code review feedback in my external links editor rewrite PR
I submitted a patch to fix some broken javascript bundles for legacy browsers (deployed to production already)
and resolved some dependabot alerts in xgettext-js and artwork-redirect, plus released new docker python images
also resolved some incremental JSON dump failures (+ fixed my monitoring script)

@yvanzo

Last week I worked on security updates for the MusicBrainz Server.
Then I nudged the assigned team members to check pending security alerts.
Also I worked on updating MBS CI workflow with a second Perl version.

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] this week was a little busy, went through some lab exams and worked a bit on the bug pointed out by jasje. I’m a bit confused about the source of the problem, but yeah, I’ll figure it out soon

@jasjeet

[jasje] [mailed in] Really bogged down at work. Couldn’t spend much time other than a few PR reviews.

@lucifer

I was travelling and mostly away last week and didn’t get much done. Will be more active this week.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] This week, discord exploded [aerozol note: the continuwuity Discord, not the MetaBrainz Discord]
Unfortunately that was pretty much the last straw for overloading me, so I’ve been spending since friday figuring out how to get things off of my plate so I can actually focus on the music player / final year project and my remaining module
(our community rooms basically doubled in members and trippled in activity, a lot of it being support requests)
I mean it was half a good thing, new contributors, deployed instances grew by at least 50% in a week
but just way more work than I had capacity for
other than that, not much to report

@failure_san

[failure] i got some mild work done with drafting my proposal
i also left a review on LB#3584
sadly exam week has started for me hence not much code to show for this week D:

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I majorly worked on creating a page dedicated for Genres on LB.
I also spent some time planning out how the experience of the new dashboard would look like.
And reviewed a lot of PRs for LBs

@outsidecontext

As zas already wrote, we had the Picard alpha release. Afterwards PR reviews and issue reports.

@Lioncat6

Last week I finished up SAMBL’s TS refactor and pushed a couple updates fixing bugs (mostly ones caused by the TS refactor). I’ve been looking into possible workarounds for the new Spotify restrictions and had to deal with some issues with the Tidal api that prevents fetching entire albums. Additionally, I’ve dockerized SAMBL to help make updates easier.

@reosarevok

So: I spent most of the week reviewing bitmap’s external links code
Other than that, I worked on one of the schema change tickets (to drop a useless column from ISRC/ISWC tables)
And banned a bunch of spammers, as usual
Plus I reviewed some unofficial changes that had been made in the meantime to the /Style main page with aerozol and we kept a few that seemed actually better while reverting some others

Discord bridges

@aerozol

So, it turns out that if you mention a Discord channel in Matrix (not sure about IRC) the Discord bot will automatically create a bridge and users in Matrix can click the link to reach the channel. If I remember correctly…
[failed links]
OK maybe I can’t get it to work haha. But there are bridges being created
This is accidentally a great feature!
[chaban with the correct link]
I don’t think any action is required, but I am wondering if we want to add these ‘new’ Discord channels to the MetaBrainz lobby rooms, so people can find them.
Not sure if there is a way to organise them into a sub-folder or section so that it doesn’t get too busy?
Some of those channels are very active and would be great to get more eyes on them. I don’t think logs etc are needed, unless it’s also easy to do.
Are there any Matrix experts who want to weigh in?

Not much input on this topic, but @chaban points out that ‘spaces’ can be added to ‘spaces’. Nobody seems to have an issue with this and @aerozol will look into it.

After the meeting some concerns were expressed re. too many rooms potentially leading to ‘dead’ chats and that mb-general should be prioritised. Nobody outright objects to testing adding more bridges.

absent: nobody!