Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-04-13

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-04-06
Next meeting: 2026-04-20

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] Finished off my big project which was to prep LB-1971
Also did some mockups for LB-1972
Otherwise some misc socials and tickets. MB/LB are rarely in a useable state/loading properly for me at the moment, which is making it hard to be proactive.
[LB-1971: Add options to Art Creator ‘LPs on the floor’]
[LB-1972: use proper cover art for all ListenBrainz-created playlists]

@julian45

good news and bad news to share : |
good news: fixed some anubis issues across the servers that are currently using it and brought a bunch of our monitoring stuff up to date
e.g. grafana 11.6 → 12.4, alertmanager 0.22 → 0.32, influxdb1 1.8 → 1.12
now the bad news: unfortunately zas and myself encountered some issues upgrading ubuntu on the host server so it is currently down for the count : (
zas has been doing yeoman’s work trying to restore backups, and once i have some time in a few hours i plan to pick that up

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Hi everyone. Been working on LB-1977 (the rendering bug) , I left some notes on the ticket as to how I’m planning on resolving the ticket. monkey, please go through them when you have a moment and let me know if that seems fine :). I can make the changes and create the PR asap.
Also looking at other tickets to resolve before my exams begin. Thank you!
[LB-1977: Art creator: Some rows/text is displayed in black]

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I was working on BookBrainz, fighting with CI for my big ElasticSearch version upgrade, which turned out to be an issue on the Github side.
Also prepared for a new release which I deployed today.
I did some user support for ListenBrainz, some general admin tasks, closing some SEC tickets and reviewed GSOC proposals.
Pretty short week for me as I took Monday off.

@faizan.akhtar123

[Faizan Akhtar] Last week I didn’t do any work… I just chilled, studied DSA and Spring Boot, and participated in hackathons…

@teayah

[teayahx] i couldn’t do much this week since i had projects to finish (one actually quite similar to lb lol) and have final lab exams coming up that’s all from me : )

@yvanzo

I reviewed bitmap’s patches on and updated MB beta website.

@kellnerd

Quick review today: only a bit of testing Harmony’s Discogs provider
The weekend was too short for more…

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] This week, I resolved the issue of inconsistent scrolling in Art Creator.(LB-1953)
[LB-1953: Art Creator: Right settings panel scroll behaves inconsistently with page scroll]
But mainly I worked on the LB-1971, which is about Art Creator’s LPs on the floor template ( aerozol do check it out )
[LB-1971: Add options to Art Creator ‘LPs on the floor’]
and raised the PR for the same, it was a good one

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] Finished work on Author-Edition, Author-Publisher and Author-Series relationship types for BookBrainz, that makes the ALL the relationship types for authors moved over!
I’ve also added all aliases to harmonica! [harmonica aliases]
otherwize tying up loose ends since easter (and even the brazil trip )
I’ll be working on instruments and more db relationships this week.
I’m also still hosting a pin-up drawing thing, so if anyone reading this is on bsky and likes to draw, here is some practice @stquincitanus.bsky.social on Bluesky
also I was lucky enough to be accepted to a Goemon Zine !! @goesbirth.bsky.social on Bluesky
so I’ll be working on that as well!

@bitmap

last week I primarily worked on schema change PRs for musicbrainz-server / musicbrainz-docker (to be continued)
finished up the external-links-editor refactoring PR with help from yvanzo, who deployed to it beta
deployed another small beta update on Friday with a few more tickets
and migrated test.mb to use Valkey / PostgreSQL 18
other than that I spent time deploying more mitigations for bots harming our services

@zas

Last week I rewrote a part of bot-detector to migrate to sqlite for internal state, it simplified the code and I implemented bad actor feature (basically permanent blocking for serious abusers)
I also modernized an internal and critical tool called serviceregistrator (it listens to docker events and automatically registers services to consul)
I implemented a very basic tutorial and startup wizard for Picard, next release will have it for early testing & feedback
I managed to break moroder (metrics collector & alerts) very badly, fighting to restore this now…
Plus usual user support, minor admin tasks, etc..

@outsidecontext

Last week I was on a short vacation to visit family over the Easter holidays. Did some Picard support and code review after I returned.
Also started updating the Linux snapcraft package for Picard 3 with Qt6, so we can have the planned beta release published there. Turned out to be a PITA and take longer then I had hoped for, but it is looking promising now.

@garvthakre

Well I am still working on BB-841. so yeah that’s it
[BB-841: Refactor Promises in src/client/components/pages to use async/await syntax]

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I continued working on upgrading DB Models to use Pydantic V2.
And continued traiging sentry errors.

@m.amanullah7

Last week i mostly worked on tidal music!
i created a full draft for workflow and even started implementing!
implmented the oauthflow and db for tidal but while testing i broke my development enviroment!
still some issue going on i’ll fix that soon and continue soon!

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Spent today banging my head against bidirectional pagination
Did a little bit of work on getting a server to server signatures/auth working, so you can’t just lie about who’s grabbing music
And moved back to uni for one last time

@atharv002

[Atharv] Last week I mainly worked on two issues
I worked on BB-737 where works order was getting messed up in the unified form after adding the 9th work and opened the PR today
[BB-737: 9th added work messes up order]
Other than that, I am also working on BB-889, where Wikipedia extracts are not showing up sometimes on entities that have a Wikidata ID. Still investigating the cause, will keep working on it this week
[BB-889: Wikipedia excerpts are not showing]

@haris

Whats good, im melting here, pretty hot
This week was more music research stuff. We got an EEG machine, i needed training for that. Working on so much researchy stuff.
NOW I CAN READ WHAT YOURE THINKING
Jk its like pretty messy
But yeah, figured some bugs in my pr LB-1973
[LB-1973: Fix the scroll-bar on “Fresh releases” page]
Didnt get the time to fix it tho : p
Good thing nobody else noticed it yet

@reosarevok

Last week I did the quarter accounting
Other than that I dealt with emails, we have a couple more Bronze supporters coming, which is always nice
And unblocked a lot of IPs
Oh, and I got banned from MusicBrainz. Sadly not for long enough that I could take a holiday

@lucifer

last week, i looked into testing SIR live indexing changes
also, looked into a postgres cpu hogging issue. likely due to a missing trgm index, hotfixed in production to test it last night.

@Ashu

working on BB-770 right now
[BB-770: “Stay on beta” style cookie]

@anuj990

[anuj_] had two quizzes and lab exams last week,finding DBMS more interesting these days, nothing too much on coding side

@failure_san

[failure] i was mostly just sick
and i kind of forgot that the meeting moved forward
nothing to really report that i can remember

absent: nirvan jain (1), jasje (1), op3kay (1), lioncat6 (1)