Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-04-20

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-04-13
Next meeting: 2026-04-27

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] I’ve been a sickly child Maybe I did some minor MeB work, I can’t remember. Mainly been working on an aerozol-shaped groove in the couch.

@teayah

[mailed in] [teayahx] cant make it to this meeting as im preparing for a lab exam tomorrow so I have no work to report either :] although tomorrow will be the last one so I’ll try to get back on track asap after it

@haris

[mailed in] Hi all, Hope everyone’s been sleeping well. I’ve Working on LB-1973, Ansh or monkey should review it, ill ping you guys when im done committing and documenting things properly.
[LB-1973: Fix the scroll-bar on “Fresh releases” page]
End semester exams are gonna be here soon, Im gonna be locking in for that, sadly.

@bitmap

last week I was primarily working on schema change tickets, some issues with the external-links-editor on the beta server, and minor website performance improvements

@atharv002

[Atharv] Last week I worked on BB-895 where the recently used section was blocking search results in entity search dropdowns. I asked on the community forum and based on the feedback, I filtered recently used to only show matching items while searching. Opened a PR for that.
[ BB-895: recently used blocks out actual search results on edit page]
Other than this, also started working on BB-894 where the typed text in fields and dropdowns gets cleared when switching tabs or clicking outside on the edit page. Will open a PR this week.
[ BB-894: leaving tab and returning deletes search box text]

@uzman2406

[Uzma Nayab] Didn’t do much this week due to midterm exams, but I still worked on LB-1980, where playlist metadata gets hidden in grid view because long descriptions overflow without truncation. I’ve opened a PR for this.
[LB-1980: Playlist metadata hidden when description is too long]
Also looked into LB-1933, trying to figure out the icon tray positioning issue in the artwork section that causes horizontal scrolling on smaller windows.
[LB-1933: Albums in Art Creator creates overflow on mobile devices]

@outsidecontext

I spent most of last week on getting Picard’s Linux snap package ready for version 3. Way more time than I had expected, but I’m very satisfied with the result. Development versions of Picard 3 are now already available as snap.
Today I continued on the ListenBrainz support for Picard’s player. Currently listening with it to test the submission.

@garvthakre

Last week I finally pushed the BB-841 and opened a pr .
[BB-841: Refactor Promises in src/client/components/pages to use async/await syntax]
And I also saw a bug in revision page so going to open a ticket for that too .
And also there are 2 Todo comment in the codebase so i fixed one and open a PR for that and fixing another one .
So i guess after this fixed there will be no linting warning in the codebase i guess.

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] Good week for me
PRs have been reviewed after incorporating some changes, while others are under review too and are looking great. i.e LB-1971 and LB-1953.
[LB-1971: Add options to Art Creator ‘LPs on the floor’]
[LB-1953: Art Creator: Right settings panel scroll behaves inconsistently with page scroll]
Have also spent some time planning to raise new tickets.
Busy week with term exams, but still on top of things.

@zas

Busy week for me, mainly on the eternal bots/scrapers problem, so I updated bot-detector, and matching config, fixed a bunch of issues, handled false positive complaints
Apart that, I modernized gitzconsul (that reads a git repo and set key-values in consul) to use uv etc
Plus preparing Picard 3 beta 1 (we plan to release it on Thursday)
Also spent a lot of time investigating a weird issue on our solr cluster, one node is under-performing compared to the other (identical) nodes. Conclusion: apparently an issue with underlying hardware, reported to Hetzner, waiting for an answer
In the process, I discovered a configuration issue in the cluster causing significant cpu usage for nothing, fixed it
Plus usual user support, system upgrades, and various admin tasks.

@faizan.akhtar123

[Faizan Akhtar] Last week I opened a PR (LB-1970) and it successfully got merged I just wanted to share a small achievement: I have now reached around 10 merged PRs across LB and BB! I am really happy about this milestone … It’s been an amazing experience so far I have learned a ton about writing actual production level code and picked up so many new things from the awesome mentors here…
[LB-1970: Fix Incorrect placement for “Create new playlist” button]
Also my semester exams are starting on May 8th… I’ll be inactive for a little while because I really need to focus on studying and maintain my 9+ CGPA for my scholarship (can’t risk losing it! )…

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] I started work on work relationships in the BookBrainz database, hope to finish that this week. (monkey, let’s have a meeting)
Also I’ve spentsome time editing MusicBrainz, and adding Hyperion samplers and such things!
Zine work and pinups are going well also.
a little note that in may I’ll be afk quit a lot, because there are many free days, I have doctors appointments, the gardenbox is going in full swing and I will be taking a small 4 day awaycation to sweden : D
So I hope to work more thoroughly for this, the latter half of April : P

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Worked on LB-1977 and my initial PR did not end up being the actual solution. Monkey however pointed me to the right direction and I’m fairly confident in getting the fix right this time! Also, exams approaching very quick so will be working on a few more tickets that I’d been eyeing before devoting myself to being the academic weapon I wish to be
[LB-1977: Art creator: Some rows/text is displayed in black]

@failure_san

[failure] i was busy shifting, nothing to report expect looking at tickets to pick up : )

@m.amanullah7

Last week I worked on tidal backend mostly!
Implement oauth flow and couldn’t tested will test this week probably and thanks to monkey in advance for helping me out. : )
and also added tidal music in connected service to test oauth flow.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Uni lectures are back (defining functions in terms of natural logic??), but I’ve been making some progress on the music player regardless
Spent some time on the front end
So there’s now very basic playback queue and cover art
(I figured out how to serve the cover art from the audio file without writing it to disk between!)

@yvanzo

Last week I reviewed security alerts and pull requests.
Also worked to address the issue of phantom SEC tickets.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I reviewed PRs for BookBrainz and ListenBrainz, worked on adding HTML support for relationship descriptions on BB, and deployed a new BB version.
I also did some general admin and had some meetings, reviewed GSOC proposals.
Had a lovely weekend of live music, seeing 7 concerts!

@lucifer

did a little work on testing the SIR updates and some digging in spark daily jams issues. that’s it for me.

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I was mainly spending time on reviewing PRs for ListenBrainz.
Was working on documenting long term improvement in LB.
And reviewing GSoC Proposals.

@reosarevok

Last week I mostly did more of the same - emails, bit of accounting, etc
We finally got our US bank to give us proper access on my name, which is nice, even if it took them a month and a half
And this week we will probably finally send the invoices for the quarter (alongside a note from the board about what has happened, since a fair amount of supporters might not have heard of it to begin with)
Finally, I did get some time to deal with a couple small URL tickets, to at least remember how MBS works

@julian45

some good news to report vs last week: namely, our stats/monitoring infra is back!
also testing out a new backup destination with zas that should be a bit less finicky and faster than our current one
not much to report besides, i’ve been a bit lost in the monitoring sauce this week

@ashutosh_things

[Ashu] I opened PR #1291 for BB-770 (stay on beta cookie) a few days ago. It adds the same “stay on beta” functionality that MB and LB already have.
[BB-770: “Stay on beta” style cookie]
Also this Saturday i made to final round of GDG hackathon held in college.
so yeah let’s hope for best

absent: anuj_ (1), nirvan jain (2), jasje (2), op3kay (2), lioncat6 (2)