Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-03-30

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Summit dates

Last meeting: 2026-03-23
Next meeting: 2026-04-06

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@leftmostcat

[mailed in] I’ve been working on providing feedback to BookBrainz GSoC applicants.

@mrkomododragon

[mailed in] This week, I primarily worked on revising my ListenBrainz proposal for integrating events from MB. I spent some time incorporating feedback and gaining a deeper understanding of the codebase of ListenBrainz to make the proposal match the existing components and structure.
I hope to find more PRs to work on and contributing more to this project in the coming weeks.

@aerozol

[mailed in] A busy MeB week for me (compared to usual)
Progressed public as well as secret new tshirt plans!
Did social posting, moderation and a bit of GSoC chat/design-related ticket checking and feedback.
Almost a full day’s work on LB-1971 (none of it uploaded yet), which is something that I’ve wanted to do for a while and decided to finally commit a good chunk of time to. Almost there!
[LB-1971: Add options to Art Creator ‘LPs on the floor’]
Played a show and started a new tattoo.

@julian45

[mailed in] i was out for the last week and a half; got to see a cool concert & great movie, visit family, and some other nice things : )
after returning, i’ve continued working with staff on business continuity efforts, mostly in our google workspace, but of course there’s plenty more to do elsewhere too

@yvanzo

Last week I completed updating Perl module dependencies for MusicBrainz’s next schema change.

@zas

Not much to say, I’m in BCN for mayhem’s celebration events.
I worked on bot-detector to make unblocking more reliable
Also started renewal of meb cert, still in progress
Also fixed some issues in Picard, from reports after alpha 4 release

@kellnerd

Last weekend I continued working on Harmony’s Discogs provider.
Still not fully done, but at least I covered most cases of splitting tracklists into sections and media

@garvthakre

Hii everyone,last week I worked on the architecture of i18n fixed some bugs in that and also worked on BB-592 ,going to open a PR soon .
[ BB-592: Alias language change not shown in revisions]

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] This week I worked on finishing all the contributions before the deadline for the GSoC.
I made some changes to the Art Creator. I fixed the problems with the caption and color options.
I fixed the issues that the reviewers pointed out such as the text clipping and the color picker compatibility.I also fixed the problem with the TypeScript CI failure.
Now all the checks are okay. I am waiting for the final review of the PR #3634 for the issue LB-1651.
[LB-1651: Add release/listen text options to art creator/stats art generator]
I still have to finish the PR #3604 for the issue LB-1942.
[LB-1942: Order of albums on artist page should read left to right then down]
I am waiting for someone to review it. and i also submitted my Google Summer of Code proposal for the Playlists Sorting and Organisation.
I made a post about it on the forum on March 19.
After that my mentor asked me some follow up questions on the forum. I answered them with the correct information, from the codebase.
I want to thank aerozol monkey and ansh for helping me this week.

@faizan.akhtar123

[mailed in] [Faizan Akhtar] Last week i work on LB-1970..
LB-1970: Fix Incorrect placement for “Create new playlist” button

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I read and reviewed GSOC proposals, and continued doing some general MetaBrainz admin.
Hung out with zas, yvanzo and atj which was really nice, and had a bartendro cocktail party mayhem would have been proud of.

@outsidecontext

Not so much from Picard side last week. I started working on ListenBrainz integration for the built-in player, also some forum support.
But I worked on python-discid, doing some code modernization and documentation updates. python-discid 1.4 got releaded today, see the blog post.
Talking about libdiscid, I woul appreciate some review on [libdiscid PR: Add DISCID_USE_HTTPS build flag to build with https URL support]. Especially from someone familiar with cmake and/or autotools.
Oh, and next Monday I won’t be available

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I’ve had spent most of my time reviewing GSoC Proposals for both Listenbrainz and BookBrainz
And reviewed a few PRs for LB

@m.amanullah7

last week i was looking to my past work as we and monkey were waiting for funkwhale v2 realse as its finally released i was explring possible ways to continue to my work and was trying some random stuffs to check how’s the v2 accuracy!
[LB PR: Funkwhale: updated playback approach to always use search based]
will discuss soon with monkey about that as we both need to look our past discussions and catch up where we left!
and also i was exploring about tidal music integration as i can see it’s idle and neither reserved for gsoc! i wiill continue integrating tidal music soon once i’m done with my research!

@uzman2406

[Uzma Nayab] This week, I focused on refining my GSoC proposal in depth like revisiting it multiple times to improve clarity, structure, and details… Thanks to the mentors ansh and monkey for their valuable feedback.
I also worked on the beta server toggle button LB-1611 and opened a PR for it.
[LB-1611: Beta toggle/switch]
Additionally, I reported a UI issue LB-1976 where the options menu behaves inconsistently compared to the list view, affecting its layout and overall user experience.
[LB-1976: Options menu layout breaks/wraps incorrectly in grid view]

@lucifer

Hi all, last week I worked on sir changes for schema change and reviewed some gsoc proposals.

@atharv002

[Atharv] Last week I started working on BB-876. Currently, there is no way to specify the script for titles like whether a title is in Latin, Cyrillic or Devanagari. I am working on adding a script table similar to the language table along with a script dropdown next to the language field in the entity editor. I will open a PR this week
[BB-876: Script option for languages/titles]
I also submitted my proposal after feedback from lucifer

@anuj990

[anuj_] I didn’t do anything special just refined my GSoC proposal based on the feedback and browser some new libraries and documentation

@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 : )

@failure_san

[failure] i posted my proposal : )
and also just realised i got replies on there : )

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was Proposal reviews + convocation : )
Had fun at both

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] I don’t have much but I did get done most of things from even the brazil backlog
so there’s that
next week I’ll be taking a break (easter)

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing great. Last week, I refined my proposal, went deeper into the codebase, and addressed the feedback and questions Ansh left. It’s fully updated and submitted now! Going forward, I’m planning to hunt down some new issues once the proposal deadline passes so I can keep contributing and improving things. : )
Apart from work, went on a hike trip with a few friends from college and it was a blast

@Lioncat6

I’ve been working on a small rework of SAMBL’s deep search to revamp the UI and add URL lookups and track artists to hopefully improve how useful it is.
Also, I threw together this script for genius: [new userscript: Genius MusicBrainz Buttons]

@teayah

[teayahx] in the past week i posted my proposal and edited it again earlier today, and i also fixed something in a pr (3645) i had opened a bit before. but it also has been busy otherwise and i barely had room to breathe for a while and not atleast until neeext week :,)

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Finally submitted all the coursework I was behind on
Also did my tax return, which was painful lol
so I should be much more free now :3

@haris

Worked on LB-1884, made some commits to it, it still needs work for local instances. Worked a lot on the SoC proposal, anxiously checking for feedback everyday lol, finally submitted it on the portal as well. Also worked on aerozol’s beautiful mockups for LB-1973, very fun stuff. Thought it should be done quickly since it will be required for the events page. Also I remember seeing somewhere that you have to open a pr related to your SoC project. I guess it kinda counts…? Anyways, looked at some PRs as well. Fucked up my sleep schedule again :’)
[LB-1884: Import starred/loved songs from Navidrome]
[LB-1973: Fix the scroll-bar on “Fresh releases” page]

@reosarevok

Last week I kept dealing with migrating MetaBrainz-related accounts in a billion places to our password manager and moving some to not go directly to unused emails (some were even aliases to emails that were gone for years…)
Dealt with emails, got a new Bronze supporter in
And started looking at a bunch of Spain-office-related paperwork
Which is going to be muy divertido

@bitmap

last week I spent more time on code review/gsoc proposal review, and opened a few musicbrainz-server PRs
one for upgrading our docker base images, and some other ones for MBS-14307, MBS-14308, MBS-14309
[MBS-14307: Wikipedia extracts are not displaying]
[MBS-14308: “RangeError: Attempt to access memory outside buffer bounds” in the template renderer
[MBS-14309: Can’t click documentation/help links]
also fixed up some old internal database server documentation

@minus_1

[minus_one_m1] I spent last week mostly working on my proposal after getting bitmap’s feedback
also opened a PR for IMG-163
[IMG-163: reload_configuration ignores the custom config file]

Summit dates

@reosarevok

Does anyone in the team have a big issue with October 12 to 16?

@ansh mentions that GSoC summit may be October as well. It seems it’s inconsistent when exactly - GSoC summit dates are usually announced in May. @yvanzo will email our contacts at GSoC to see if they know a date, and we will re-confirm the dates (12-16) based on the reply (if any).

absent: op3kay (1), Nirvan Jain (1)