Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-04-06

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Agenda

• Reviews
• Summit dates (confirmed)

Last meeting: 2026-03-30
Next meeting: 2026-04-13

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Happy Easter to those who celebrate, and happy chocolate eating to those who at least go along with that part of it

Reviews

@faizan.akhtar123

[mailed in] [Faizan Akhtar] [reo: Faizan Akhtar says he’s currently participating in a hackathon (good luck!)]

@failure_san

[mailed in] [failure] I couldn’t get much done this week thanks to mid-term exams, today was my last one though, so it should be a more productive coming week.

@teayah

[mailed in] [teayahx] I submitted my proposal last week and am looking for PRs to work on related to it.
I didn’t work on anything new since it was Easter weekend and I was back home with my family and am on my way back to uni now !

@haris

[mailed in] Spent the first half of the week in exams, Second half on getting grilled by my research advisor :').
Weekend was spent cleaning the room, preparing for one more quiz and replying to mails.
Didnt do much for LB. I’m waiting for the maintainers to review my PRs; in the meantime, I will open a few new tickets and start working on them this week.

@reosarevok

Last week I’ve been seeing friends and family back in Estonia so I mostly just dealt with emails and paperwork before getting a few free days to relax spend hours putting wood in a pile so it dries for winter
“Because holidays are when you do the unpaid work at home your work outside the home doesn’t let you do” - countryside people

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Hi everyone, been working on Lb-1977 recently, first time working on a gpu rendering bug so its taking a bit, but the PR should be pushed either today or tomorrow : )
Other than work, for some odd reason I’ve started learning origami, so if anyone has any tips regarding that, they’ll be much appreciated : D

@bitmap

last week I did some code review and deployed a new beta server update with a few changes
I had to put pages on test.mb and beta.mb behind a login to stop bots from ddosing the services
we also had some issues with bots ddosing prod.mb for about an hour on friday, & some mitigations were deployed with help from zas
other than that I finally fixed the rabbitmq test failures in [Upgrade Docker base images to noble #3739]

@kellnerd

Over the long weekend I mostly finished the Discogs provider for Harmony.
Barcode lookups should now be working as well, now I only have to add lots of test cases to cover all of the odd releases out there,
I also had the pleasure to review not one, but two new provider PRs by Lioncat6 : )

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Not much to report this week, the prototype can now actually play music
But been enjoying the sun today :3

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] i don’t got anything lol. since i’m afk this week for the most part, I’ll be back in gear tomorrow
(i’m one of those places where This is also a holiday (literally, all the things are closed too and shit))
wil lbe working next (this week!)

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I worked on improving the type safety in LB Backend, and upgrading to pydantic v2.
And was busy debugging errors logged on sentry
And continued reviewing PRs.

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] Submitted my GSoC 2026 proposal on March 31 for playlist sorting & organization. PR #3634 fixes caption layout in Art Creator
Scoped out LB-1965 (smooth progress bar) and ready to start.
[ LB-1965: Smooth progress bar animation and drag-to-seek support]

@garvthakre

two weeks ago i pushed BB-670 (async/await refactoring for server-side routes). after that, i looked for the same pattern in frontend and found BB-841. I checked existing PRs and found that someone already worked on it and monkeyDo reviewed it , but the PR was never merged beacuse the fork was deleted , so i went through that PR and monkeyDo’s comments and started to work on those changes and going to open multiple PRs soon .
and also submitted a PR for BB-592.
[BB-670: Rewrite promises to async/await syntax]
[BB-841: Refactor Promises in src/client/components/pages to use async/await syntax]
[BB-592: Alias language change not shown in revisions]

@yvanzo

Last week I worked on Docker for the next schema change and reviewed more MBS PRs.

@uzman2406

[Uzma Nayab] I’ve been working on LB-1976 - the options menu layout breaking/wrapping incorrectly in grid view. I’ve completed the fix and submitted the PR.
[LB-1976: Options menu layout breaks/wraps incorrectly in grid view]
I also identified another issue where playlist metadata gets hidden when the description becomes too long, so I reported it and created LB-1980 ticket
[ LB-1980: Playlist metadata hidden when description is too long]
Apart from these, I also took a look at the beta toggle button implementation on MusicBrainz so it can be implemented similarly on ListenBrainz.

@atharv002

[Atharv] Last week I completed the work on BB-876 and opened PRs in bookbrainz-site and bookbrainz-data-js with the script dropdown implementation
After merging these PRs, editors will be able to select the script alongside the language in the entity editors
[BB-876: Script option for languages/titles]
Other than that, I also started working on BB-889 last week, which is about wikipedia extracts not displaying on entity pages. I will open a PR for it this week
[BB-889: Wikipedia excerpts are not showing]

@anuj990

[anuj_] didn’t do much on the coding side; found some bugs in the LB Android app, created issues for them, and have been preparing for my university exams

@lucifer

Last week, I made progress on updating SIR to use dbmirror2 and looked into some stats issues.

@Lioncat6

Last week, I’ve been working on two new harmony providers. Both a naver VIBE provider and a qobuz one. Qobuz supports basically the same metadata that spotify does (if not more since they identify labels with accessible IDs), and VIBE has no external IDs at all but was simple enough to add.
Additionally, I’ve completed the new UI for SAMBL’s deep search and just need to finish up the API changes for it to function properly, so a new release should be out within a couple days. The new stuff is up on the dev server for testing though :3

@outsidecontext

[delivered via rdswift] I was rather busy this week, so nearly no work on Picard. Over the Easter holidays I’m on a small vacation, will be back next Wednesday

@op3kay

This week i had looked into implementing the artist credit relationship for the mb graphql server and changing the pagination to keyset offset. Also a cherry on top my team won a solana blockchain train in a hackathon. So overall a positive week : )

Summit dates (confirmed)

MetaBrainz summit 2026 dates are confirmed: Barcelona, Spain from 12–16 October, 2026.
Summit 26 wiki page

absent: Many, enjoying an Easter break!