Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-03-02

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-02-16 (skipped a meeting due to rob’s passing)
Next meeting: 2026-03-09

Reviews

@mr_monkey

[mailed in] [monkey] Obviously didn’t do much last week apart from some emergency account recovery, mostly grieving and being a zombie. That’s pretty much it.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[ApeKattQuest] Last week was weird ya’all
Today I have edited bookbrainz relationships more, I’ve also created a “how to add JIRA tickets” how to.
otherwise didn’t do much, but added releases.
The previous week I:

• Worked on bookbrainz documentation database relationships.
• Added and tagged Old releases working up to replace all the mess the HD crash had
• Went to a Collective Bioorganic Food meeting with the Oslo Orgianisation : O
• Drew some stuff (https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:…)

Hopefully this week I’ll get more done! I hope to:

• Work on more bookbrainz relationships
• Tag more Releases + update and scan more coverart for said releases
• Hopefully have a meeting with monkey on.. Wedensday?
• reosarevok, nag me about adding atleast one new instrument

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Spent some time working on my project poster this past week. Not done yet, but looking decent
Also travelled home

@zas

Last week, grieving… also worked on Picard, preparing next alpha
tried to figure out the SSL errors problem, mostly due to reaching max connections on our load balancer, thanks to AI bots…
plus a bit of user support, working with core team to handle things after Rob’s passing.

@bitmap

not much from me in the past week. I took over GSoC Org Admin tasks, banned a ton of spammers, did a small amount of code review, and attempted to work on MBS-14276
[MBS-14276: Encode session data in JSON instead of the Storable format]

@outsidecontext

as zas already said, we did another alpha release of Picard, after the previous one had a couple of issues. The current alpha feels really good, I think we can move closer to a beta and final release soon.
writing the blog post for this felt strange just after the announcement about Rob. But in some moving forward also helped me personally to cope with the situation.

@uzman2406

[Uzma Nayab] Been making progress on the dark theme implementation this week - working through those contrast ratios and making sure everything’s easy on the eyes for night owls​
Also encountered that UI bug in the decade of music …a little layout issue but now it’s all sorted ..
And still plugging away at my proposal - not quite finished yet ..but aiming to get it posted on the community forums this week

@Atharv

Last week, I worked on these issues and opened PRs for the same. BB-805 - I added support for creating multiple works, BB-831 - fixed parsing of WorldCat IDs from search URLs, BB-854 - improved editor behavior by enabling Enter key submission for Author Credit and adding a right click context menu in entity search fields, making it easier to paste BBIDs in the Author Credit field. I also made changes based on monkey’s suggestions on a few PRs.
[BB-805: Add a way to easily create multiple works]
[BB-831: Parse OCN/Worldcat ID from search URL]
[BB-854: Streamline Author-credits addition]

@failure_san

[failure] i wrapped up my finals this weekend and spent most of my time setting up my old tablet to work as a kindle and loading it up with pirated books
for related work i continued reviewing LB#3584
for partially related things i wrote this: Robert Kaye
i encourage everyone to ignore the domain name, because it was much funnier to me when i registered it two weeks ago; the funny-ness is wearing off especially in the context of what i have written about

@aerozol

A rough week, I did a bit of writing and posting and re-posting about and around rob’s death. I think it has been helpful for me to have something to do and to be able to write, though
Drafted a memorial post with a bit of rob’s history with MB, that I encourage staff to check the draft of (in the blog, let me know if you need a copy/can’t log in) to see if I missed anything
rdswift suggested a slideshow and collected a bunch of photos - I probably won’t end up making a slideshow, but will try share the pics in the blog post. There are some excellent ones that will make anyone smile
Not sure if I shared this ticket but would love to get some onboarding into MB via this avenue MBS-14269
[MBS-14269: Utilise messages/popups for good: friendly, encouraging, community]
Set up the Matrix Lobby ‘ChatBrainz+’
Which bridges almost all of the Discord channels, for those who wish to see them
Thanks Jade (she/her) and julian45 for doing all the work
Did a quick Youtube tutorial about how to set relationships as ended, and edited and uploaded a Harmony video tutorial by lioncat6

@haris

Soooo i have two tickets im working on (forgor their number) ill probably be pushing some code for that, just got done with exams, ive decided the project im gonna go for, for gsoc this year, its the events idea from listenbrainz uhhh i think monkey and ansh were the mentors. I didnt know rob much, although i stalked him when i was going through this one publication him and lucifer did in ISMIR. Crazy work. Still cant believe hes gone, denial sucks. Uhhh i think thats about it

@faizan.akhtar123

[FaizanAkhtar] Last week i completed my bookbrainz set up for internationalization proposal .. it took over a month of hard and smart work and i put my 100% into it..
I initially had trouble submitting it bcz of it was too long , but i managed to shorten it and successfully upload it..
I really appreciate it if u can could review it.. please point out any mistake, missing details, or area for improvement so i can learn and make it the best possible
Link: [GSOC_2026 ] Set up BookBrainz for Internationalization

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Not much updates from my side. I’ve been slowly picking up things again. I’ve been mainly busy with PR Reviews on LB. Did triage some tickets as well.

@lucifer

hi all, slow and sad week. only reviewed a couple of PRs.

@julian45

didn’t get much done last week for obvious reasons, but was able to do some housekeeping like cleaning up the wiki server to free up some disk space, some patching here and there, etc.

@teayah

[teayahx] this is my first time in a community meeting here
i am kinda new, i’ve been lurking around for a while tho but i haven’t done anything yet </3
as much as id like to asap, i have exams starting rn right after a fest at uni and only ending next week :')
so i hope id get whatever i wanna get done immediately after because i have a few things in mind i wanna look into

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] finally done with mid-sems and slowly finding the flow again, got a PR merged and got a PR for playlist sorting ready once assigned
Also went through the GSoC projects recently
at last, found an open issue i would like to take on, so i have requested the assign

@jasjeet

[jasje] Managed to review and merge a few PRs
Small changes here and there
And documentation around project

@Lioncat6

Last week(s) I’ve been working on some SAMBL improvements as usual.
New things I’ve added include the ability to share links to individual albums, and the ability to directly lookup release/track URLs from the find page, and switching to using MagicISRC. I’ve also added a attempt to get ISRCs from the green music streaming service come march 9th, so hopefully that works. Also implemented a Naver vibe provider.
Theoretically, after march 9th, SAMBL will be able to get ISRCs and UPCs like normal, but that remains to be seen.

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] The past week has been hectic. I had my mid-semesters; they went fine… kind of, anyway. Built a crazy side project (a game, lmk if someone wants to learn/play) for a hackathon only to end up having to accept that what I learned was a win in itself lol. My birthday was yesterday, and it was great!
I had this whole script in my mind prepared about what I was going to talk about in this meet, but I just read failure’s blog post and realized Rob was Mayhem. Now, I’m not going to say I knew him any better than I did just from seeing him reply to texts and talking in meets over the past few weeks, but all of this has definitely changed my brain chemistry to some extent. I live in a hostel, and someone nearby ended up passing away here too. I didn’t know him well. He wasn’t a close friend or someone I talked to much, but it feels weird knowing that I won’t be seeing him again. I used to joke a lot about “how bad could it be to die?”. I don’t think I’ll be doing that anymore, considering this past week has made me realize exactly how bad it really is.
As for work-related stuff: I finished up some last changes on LB-1889 and am waiting for approval. I was also reading about how LB has been going down a lot recently, especially this past week, because of AI scrapers. I’ll try to look into that. I doubt I’ll find out anything the maintainers don’t already know, but I’ll do my best!
[ LB-1889: Import loved tracks from librefm]

absent: yvanzo (excused), mrkomododragon (1), m.amanullah7 (1)