Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-03-16

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-03-09
Next meeting: 2026-03-23

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

@aerozol note:
These notes have been tidied - this meeting was absolute chaos. Anyone who jumped in without being called, and then did not wait to be called properly, has not been recorded.

Reviews

@julian45

[mailed in] last week was mostly the usual patching & general upkeep, but i also met with the team and board a bit, and discussed some infra changes with zas
fyi this time next week i’ll be away from my laptop & several time zones away from usual, so i’ll be absent from that meeting

@yvanzo

Last week I kept pushing more changes for the next MusicBrainz schema change.
Also had another look at the MusicBrainz external links editor refactor.

@teayahx

but the past couple of days i had worked on LB-1898 and opened PR #3645 for it today
[LB-1898: Link listens page shows page 1 when trying to access non-existing page]

@faizan.akhtar123

[FaizanAkhtar] Last week , i worked on the BB-466 initial jsondiffpatch implementation ready.. and i will be opening a PR shortly…
[BB-466: Replace revision diffing library]

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I mainly worked on adding functionality to import XSPF Playlists to ListenBrainz.
And reviewed a couple of PRs.
I’ve also been reviewing reviewing GSoC Proposals.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I was mostly doing some general admin tasks, meetings and some grieving.
I did work a bit on a big ESlint upgrade in BB, required for another big update in progress of ElasticSearch.
And also reviewed some PRs for BB and LB.

@bitmap

last week I mainly spent time on reviewing code, plus a GSoC proposal for IMG-129 from minus_1 on the forums, and finalizing the schema change blog post
[IMG-129: CAA state on archive.org out-of-sync with site]
I wrote up SEARCH-756 and we discussed it during an MB team meeting, where yvanzo made some clarifications
[SEARCH-756: Trigger reindex from dbmirror2 replication data]
didn’t do much actual coding last week, except on [MB server PR3621] where I fixed a test failure and merged in some recent conflicts from master.

@zas

Last week, I finished the migration to a new load balancer, I did some cleanups in relation with that
I also worked on bot-detector improvements, now in prod.
Also worked on Picard, a new version should be released very soon (perhaps this week if we can), likely another alpha (or perhaps beta if we decide it is stable enough)
Plus various admin tasks, user support, discourse was upgraded, and misc. stuff.

@outsidecontext

not so much. Last week I returned from a short vacation and had little time rest of the week. But usual Picard tickets, support, PRs and some coding.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Nothing much external progress wise to report this week. Did answer a few questions in chat, planning on looking at a few of the GSoC proposals.
Also, a more finished poster: [image]
Unfortunately there’s been a fatal meningitis outbreak on campus, so uni’s a bit chaotic.
Sidequest this morning, I deployed a patchset on to my git forge (https://forgejo.ellis.link) which gives it a cute theme, plus a few things like rate limiting, which is nice
Otherwise it’s just been background work and keeping things afloat

@failure_san

[failure] i opened up LB#3548 for review
[LB-1848: Add support for using MB URL relationships in BrainzPlayer]
worked on my proposal
got sick
organized my college fest

@lucifer

last week i worked on reviewing bunch of PRs that were awaiting my reviews for a while. fixed 6-7 small bugs that i found in sentry for LB and MeB.org. closed some more security tickets. genreated a more optimized stats dump for working with stats in clickhouse.
also, debugged mapping and spark cluster issues.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] Last week for the most part I just tagged and edited releases
got a bit of a cold, but it 's over today!
this week I will continue doing that, as well as hopefully work well on bookbrainz relationships

@aerozol

Meetings and socials this week, also finished editing and uploading monkey’s summit illustrations, for merch! Shall we make them live monkey?
I am also keen to make these available: [image]
And have a ‘secret’ 1mil version that we mail to people who hit the 1mil edit mark for free. And ask if we can get a photo of them and do a little bio/post of them. This was schemed with zas a few summits ago!
Would need a bit of budget (though there’s not many at 1mil and redbubble is cheap so it wouldn’t break the bank) - guess I need to talk to reo about that?
P.S. zas thinks the shirt design is boring but I feel that’s necessary for the joke. But please come at me if you have shirt ideas!

@haris

Last week was definitely something…. Wrote my first ever GSOC proposal :o check it out [link] I liked this idea the most. Fun fact: the heartbeat of attendees sync up at musical concerts. Anyways, other than that, opened a PR for LB-1878. Spent too much time staring at the codebase : ) oh and and and planned so many surprises for my girlfriend’s birthday which was today. It went so well, everything went according to the plan :DDD
[ LB-1878: Inconsistent listen history export JSON format]

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week, we pushed some updates to LB Android
Majorly bug fixes and some improvements.
(v2.15.0.0)
Did some PR reviews

@uzman2406

[Uzma Nayab] Last week I didn’t make much contributions as I was mainly focused on finishing my GSoC proposal.
However, I did fix LB-1843 – additional_metadata not being saved when creating a new playlist, which was causing a 500 error : Additional metadata missing.
[ LB-1843: additional_metadata not saved when creating new playlist]
I also completed my GSoC proposal today and posted it on the community forum. [link]
It took several weeks of work spent understanding the ListenBrainz codebase, preparing mockups and implementation details.
I’d really appreciate it if the mentors could take a look at the proposal and share any feedback or suggestions.

@Gopal

This has been a really productive and very meaningful week, in terms of understanding the codebase more precisely (LB).
Due to which I have identified many bugs and UI/UX improvements, and even very tiny UI inconsistencies throughout this week

I have raised the tickets regarding the same, but multiple issues are not being raised yet on the list that I made by spending a lot of time.
Some of them, which i have already raised :
LB-1959 —>The date picker on the Listens page is not working correctly.(need to be reviewed yet)
LB-1953—> In the Art Creator, the right-side settings/advanced panel has inconsistent
scroll behaviour.( Tight observation )
LB-1954—>The Advanced section is visible, presenting settings that do not affect this template.

So these above are the listed tickets to which i have been working along this week.

Raised and fixed, this week by me :
LB-1951—>Art Creator: Designer templates fail to download due to CanvasGradient color parsing error
LB-1955—>fix color mismatch in Designer template exports. ( was sort of confusing, yet fixed accordingly.)
LB-1952—>“LPs on the floor” template downloads without floor texture.

hence, these all are then combined and merged into one PR ,
that is :
#3635
Thanks to MonkeyDO for the concern he showed this week.

Some other requests under review :
LB-1942—>issue with the order of listens based on their respective published years
( progress is really good but MonkeyDo has been busy due to some organisational upheaval recently. )
LB-1651—>Add granular caption options and color customization to Art Creator grid stats
( Aerozol liked the fix, the only thing remaining is code review, but he will circle back to it for sure )

Most importantly, today I received a great opportunity by Aerozol as he noticed my lens towards Art Creator in the Explore. also im almost done with my draft proposal
So, all in all i think really a good week for me and realising why i did not start contributing among these great guys in the first place.
Thats all guys, thanks .

@Atharv

Last week I worked on BB-888 which is about improving identifier matching and validation. I am adding support for optional built in validator functions so that identifiers like ISBNs can be properly validated with checksum checks, not just regex shape matching. Still working on it, will put up a PR soon
[ BB-888: Improve identifier matching and validation]
Also, I explored Solr search more deeply and studied how MusicBrainz handles their Solr setup to figure out the best approach for BookBrainz and worked on my proposal for the Solr migration, which is almost done

@Lioncat6

This past week (as usual) I’ve been working on some more SAMBL improvements
I’ve fully implemented a qobuz provider (which supports barcodes & ISRCs!), and added YAMBS as a seeder
Additionally, I’ve completely re-done SAMBL’s network stack, which allows me to now host an indev instance (https://dev.sambl.lioncat6.com) where you can test all the latest features. You won’t be able to use the APIs on the dev server due to how anubis is set up (this is intentional for now).

@anuj990

[anuj_] I worked on some PR changes and they finally got merged.
Honestly, I learned some new concepts from this. Side by side, I also drafted my GSoC proposal

@m.amanullah7

I’m on vacation enjoying time with family will be available after 25th march : )

@GarvThakre

last week i worked on the remaining files for BB-670 , will make a PR asap, and built a working i18n prototype (working for 2 weeks on this), and also fixed a small bug in the middleware mentioned by ansh in the proposal and also fixed in the prototype.
[BB-670: Rewrite promises to async/await syntax]

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Addressed feedback on a ticket, and I still have one more PR currently under review. I’ve also been working on my proposal for a while now and the first draft should be ready sometime this week!
Apart from work, I organized an MLH-powered hackathon at my college this past weekend. It was my first event ever as a GitHub Campus Expert! We had a lot of participants, saw some really great projects, and met some awesome judges. I’m catching my breath now after such a hectic month, but I’m really looking forward to getting back to learning and resolving more tickets.

@swaimsahay_07

in last week i resolved merge conflict for lb-1701 and also now it fetches all spotify playlist and in lb-1920 removes custom logic that usually hid integer label on stat graph and replaces it with shared compact number formatter
[LB-1701: Import Spotify function only shows 50 playlists ?]
[LB-1920: Listen stats should show only integers]

@minus_one_m1

last week I worked MBS-13545
[MBS-13545: Include related cover art data in sample data dump]
also started to work on my Gsoc proposal for artwork-indexer IMG-129. Shared and discussed my draft with bitmap on forums to further refine it
[IMG-129: CAA state on archive.org out-of-sync with site]

@reosarevok

Last week I kept looking through all our old drive documents and emails to keep increasing our understanding of the whole foundation workings
Getting better at it, hopefully!
I also spent a bunch of time recovering access to yet more accounts, and sharing it with the appropriate team and board members so we have less possible blocks and points of failure later on
(we’ll still have some, probably, but at least less)
And I started looking at the accounting, since accounting period is coming in a couple weeks or three
And I very much would rather understand as much as possible of what I am doing before that happens : )
(also hopefully getting better at that bit!)
Other than that, the usual - support, some reported users, banning some spammers, the works
And we had a (partial) board + (full) team meeting last week for the two sides of the foundation to properly meet, which hadn’t happened really that much before
Which was nice
Oh, and I managed to finally get the team paid, which took a while due to the whole bureaucracy and accounting confusion mentioned above
But now should be more reasonable and timely, I hope!

@kellnerd

[after meeting] Last week I only reviewed Harmony PRs by two new contributors (and did a bit of MB editing).

@mrkomododragon

[after meeting] I worked on a PR for importing tidal csv files into ListenBrainz, and I also began work on my GSoC proposal.

@Akki

[after meeting] Last Week:

• Finalized and submitted my GSoC draft proposal (“Playlists Sorting and Organization” - LB-1302, LB-1374, LB-961) to the community forums.
• Investigated LB-1957 (MAX_MAPPING_QUERY_LENGTH limit in metadata_api.py). Opened PR #3642, but successfully closed it after coordinating with Karthik Ohri(amCap1712) to ensure I wasn’t building workarounds that would conflict with the upcoming new mapper.
• Officially registered on the GSoC portal and uploaded my draft PDF.

This Week:

• Since the team has limited review bandwidth right now, I will be working entirely locally on my machine.
• I plan to start scaffolding the React UI components for the LB-1302 (Labels) and LB-1374 (Sorting) features.
• My goal is to eventually open a Draft PR for these frontend changes later this week to fulfill the GSoC code requirement, without requesting any immediate review from the maintainers.

@reosarevok

Also, reminder for the people in India and elsewhere in the “we really should be asleep right now” regions that it’s okay to mail in the reviews in advance at community-manager@metabrainz.org
So don’t hesitate to do that if you want to have a reasonable sleeping schedule (we won’t penalize you for that in any way)

absent: mrkomododragon (3, removed from list), Akshay Jaiswal (1), op3kay (1), Nirvan Jain (1), kellnerd (1)