# Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-04-13 **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-04-13/814666 **Category:** MetaBrainz **Tags:** metabrainz-meeting-notes **Created:** [April 13, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-04-13/814666 "2026-04-13T22:50:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/aerozol/32/116_2.png) [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol) #### Post date: [April 13, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-04-13/814666/1 "2026-04-13T22:50:26Z")
Meeting start: [IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/2026-04-13/?msg=5576153) Meeting wiki page: [MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki](https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MetaBrainz_Meeting) ## Agenda - Reviews _Last meeting: [2026-04-06](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-04-06/814624)_ _Next meeting: [2026-04-20](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-04-20/814696)_ _@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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-1971): Add options to Art Creator ‘LPs on the floor’] > [[LB-1972](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/instrument/63e37f1a-30b6-4746-8a49-dfb55be3cdd1/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](https://bsky.app/profile/stquincitanus.bsky.social/post/3mijivnpkfc2h) > also I was lucky enough to be accepted to a Goemon Zine !! [@goesbirth.bsky.social on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/goesbirth.bsky.social/post/3miwheo6bhs2v) > 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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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)