Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-03-23

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Daylight savings
• Summit dates

Last meeting: 2026-03-16
Next meeting: 2026-03-30

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@Akkii05jaiswal

[mailed in] [Akshay Jaiswal] Last Week:

• Officially submitted my GSoC proposal (“Playlists Sorting and Organization”) via the Google portal!
• Overhauled my community forum post with the final normalized PostgreSQL schemas, execution flowcharts, and React UI mockups.
• Despite some unavoidable offline commitments, I began the local React UI scaffolding for the LB-1302 (Labels) and LB-1374 (Sorting) features as planned.
• Continued refining open PR #3638 for LB-812 (PlaylistItemCard render tests).

[ LB-1302: add a way to categorize playlists, folders or categories?]
[LB-1374: Add sort options for playlists]
[LB-812: Add tests for playlist feature React components]

This Week:

• My primary focus is to finish the local UI prototype (I am currently ironing out some legacy CSS layout overlaps in UserPlaylists.tsx).
• I will open the Draft PR for those frontend changes to fulfill the GSoC code requirement, which got slightly delayed from last week.
• Ready to address any final code review feedback on PR #3638.

@faizan.akhtar123

[mailed in] [Faizan Akhtar] I’m currently spending time with my family for Eid.
I also took a short break last week, so I haven’t made much progress during that time.

@teayahx

the past week i’ve spent a lot of time working on my proposal and I’ll post the draft as soon as I’m done later today

@anuj990

[anuj_] last week was completely focused on academics , so nothing to update

@zas

Last week we released another alpha version of Picard (alpha4)
So I spent some time fixing issues that were reported after the release
Plus usual server maintenance, upgrades, user support, and few other tasks
Also worked on bot-detector
I started an experimental mcp server project using musicbrainz web service

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] did some spring preparation for flowerbox
I’m doing a pinup-april prompt drawing thing! (sexy, but not nsfw)
I have obtained rare cd and tagging/editng database
have edited BookBrainz documentation and hope to lock in and finish some of that this week
otherwise things should be good this week, next week i’m taking a break so that the next week after that I will not be burned out (it’s easter :D)

@atharv002

[Atharv] Last week I completed my Solr search migration proposal for Bookbrainz and posted it on the MetaBrainz forum.
I focused on putting together a clear approach for the migration and spent some time understanding how similar setups are handled to get a better sense of the overall workflow.
I also worked on BB-888, which is about improving identifier matching and validation and have just opened a PR for it
[BB-888: Improve identifier matching and validation]

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] I posted my proposal for the GSoC for the Playlists Sorting and Organization project on the MetaBrainz forum.

Here are the things I worked on:

1. I fixed a problem with the Advanced settings section for the LPs on the floor template in Art Creator this was issue number LB-1954 and Aerozol looked at it and said it was okay this is PR number #3651.
2. I also fixed a problem with a date picker in Dashboard.tsx all the tests work now and I am waiting for someone to review it this is PR number #3640. It is for issue number LB-1959.
   3.I made a ticket for something that needs to be improved it is about making the progress bar in BrainzPlayer smoother and better this is issue number LB-1965.
   4.I had a talk with Aerozol about some new ideas for the LPs, on the floor template we thought about some new ways to make it more customizable, thanks to aerozol for his support along the way.

[LB-1954: Art Creator: “Advanced” font section appears on “LPs on the floor” template despite having no applicable settings]
[LB-1959: Listens Page’s → Date picker sets min_ts instead of max_ts causing incorrect listens to be shown]
[LB-1965: Smooth progress bar animation and drag-to-seek support]

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Did not do much in terms of contributing but my proposal is almost done. Ansh and monkey’s comments and feedback on other’s proposals were really great and gave me quite a lot of insights into what direction I should go in!

@aerozol

This week zoomed past!
I did quite a bit of work on random tickets and community stuff, but wasn’t able to really sink my teeth into any one thing.
We sold a few shirts since making the ‘new’ designs live! If you missed it: https://www.redbubble.com/people/metabrainz/shop
Although reviews were mixed, after sleeping on it I am keen to make the plain ol’ “I made 1,000 edits on MusicBrainz and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” live. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it! Plans are in motion for an exclusive version for people who meet a certain threshold…

@outsidecontext

last week zas, rdswift and myself did another alpha release for Picard. With bug fixes before and after.
Also today I did some updates to the discourse-listenbrainz plugin to address another round of deprecation warnings after recent discourse updates.

@garvthakre

last week i worked mostly on prototype , fixed some bugs and also update the proposal timeline and make it abit more detailed , so yeah that’s it from my side.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I reviewed some GSOC proposals and some PRs, closed a few security tickets and did some general administration

@rdswift

outsidecontext forgot to mention that we (outsidecontext, zas and I) moved the Picard Documentation from GitHub Pages to the ReadTheDocs server, changed the entire automated processing, and moved the processing (including Weblate) to a new branch in the repository. It all went surprisingly smooth.

@Lioncat6

Last week I polished up some SAMBL changes (and inevitably added like six more issues that I’m not going to notice until someone finds them)
The Qobuz provider has now been fully implemented and the next release is live! URLs have been reworked to actually seed URL relations properly using provider specific type IDs for adding artists, and eventually I might add a direct way to seed release URLs.
Probably going to be doing a small rework of deep searching soon since I’m not too happy with the lack of UI and interactability.
The dev server is currently redirecting to prod since there’s no changes to be previewed.

@bitmap

last week we had an MB team meeting where we discussed development priorities, and I spent more time reviewing GSoC proposals
I also prepared a patch for reducing the number of requests we make to the Wikipedia API when loading extracts, so hoping we can fix the reliability of those soon
and started work on a few boring dependency upgrades for the schema change

@kellnerd

Last week I got back to Harmony’s Discogs provider after a few months.
I thoroughly investigated Discogs list of weird country names and categorized them into regions which have ISO codes and “special” categories.
Special meaning stuff like historical regions, continents and those strings which just combine multiple countries because of their one release country limit. (I plan to also open a PR for the userscript with my findings.)
Mapping formats and detecting medium boundaries is still work in progress, I hope that my approach will work better than the userscript (which has many reported issues about wrongly parsed tracklists).
That’s it, I hope to get a first version released next weekend maybe.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] This week I got a little bit of music player prototype code done
Also reviewed a GSoC proposal
But I’ve been trying to catch up with coursework and feeling bad
Hoping things improve in the holidays

@yvanzo

Not much to report about last week, mostly having calls with some team members.

@failure_san

[failure] last Saturday my system kinda broke, and i had to revert it back, and somehow this included my actual files; and i was writing my proposal in Obsidian, and welp, it’s not saved in the cloud (my hatred for the cloud has come to bite me in the ass)
and it’s mostly just been rewriting my proposal for the last twoish days
i am probably gonna post the draft by the end of the day to meet the deadline and keep editing, i suppose
'tis what it is : )

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I completed the PR for adding functionality to import XSPF Playlists to ListenBrainz.
I’ve also been spending time reviewing GSoC Proposals for both Listenbrainz and BookBrainz
And reviewed a couple of PRs.

@haris076

[Haris] I was back home, for eid, spent entire week refining my Gsoc proposal. I think im done with adding all the details from my side. Waiting for monkey and ansh to review em (no pressure btw). Other than that i had really yum food!

@op3kay

this week i spent on writing my proposal for the graphql musicbrainz api alternate.
Ive posted the proposal on our forum and got some feedback and ive been improving it over the weekend

@lucifer

last week, i worked on clickhouse stats migrations, combed through sentry issues to fix some simple issues and reviewed a couple of PRs.
also looked into some deadlocking issues causing LB to become unavailable.

@reosarevok

This week I had talks with yvanzo and bitmap to organize the next few MBS months a bit, with monkey about summit things, with Matthew from the board about restarting communication with new potential supporter sign-ups
Then I mailed all the people who had signed up during the last month and a half
Only two mails bounced, and only one was a gmail individual account signed up as a unicorn!
Not the worst
(don’t worry, I’m not invoicing that poor guy for $2000 a month)
(amusing as it could be)
Other than that, I started collecting documents I need for the US tax process next month
And got most of the team contracts signed - a couple still to go
Late March is only a bit into the year, right? Not very late?
I’m off to Estonia next weekend (28) until April 12, but it’s mostly a working holiday except for the main days of Easter
So I’ll be around

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] this week i mostly worked upon refining my proposal after getting the reviews. Apart from this I also explored spring boot and found it really interesting.

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was proposal reviews
Working around AI usage for proposals and marking them internally as such

Daylight savings

@reosarevok

A reminder for the non-Europeans that Europe changes to summer time next weekend!
I am not even going to pretend to remember if that means the meeting is earlier or later for you
You probably know though : D

Summit dates

@reosarevok

ansh helpfully reminded me that we usually have our summit dates decided by this time so that Indians can start thinking about visas
And yes, in fact last year we had the dates mid February, sorry about that!
So, I wasn’t sure at first whether it would be too much effort to organize a Barcelona summit (an India summit certainly would be, sadly, right now, so if that happens it will have to be 27 at the earliest)
But I had a talk with monkey, our man in Barcelona, and he said he feels it’s doable since we have a lot of the contacts for places and whatnot already from previous years
And also, it would suck for people not to be able to meet in person because of… all this
So! Let’s have a summit
Since we are deciding later, we thought October instead of September
To give people (and us!) more time
So, our first suggestion was October 12 to 16
Still decent weather, not that crazy hot either
Beach possible for those who are not scared of it being a bit less warm than in Sept
Anyway!
We won’t confirm / decide today
We will decide next Monday

@haris076

[Haris] I have read the blogposts about the summit, but can you still please explain it for a lot of people who are new here reosarevok

@reosarevok

The summit is when the MetaBrainz team and friends gets together for a week
Often but not always in Barcelona
And says that we are going to work hard for a week
And talk about the past year and make plans and cool decisions
And then after three days of talking we remember that we are mostly introverts and we are exhausted with all that talking
So we get little done the last two days but eat a lot of chocolate
I think that about sums it up

absent: julian45 (on holiday!), m.amanullah7 (1)

[Lioncat6]

@Lioncat6

(and inevitably added like six more issues that I’m not going to notice until someone finds them)

I did in-fact add like six more issues :3