Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-04-27

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-04-20
Next meeting: 2026-05-04

@reosarevok:
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] Still a bit sick and then a holiday (Anzac) weekend. So mainly just kept an eye on socials, some chats.

@zas

[mailed in] A lot of work on bot-detector to fix issues causing the database to not be cleaned up as it should have been, causing timeouts due to slow queries. Plus various improvements to ease configuration.
2 nvme drives were replaced: one on randy, one on rudi
We released Picard 3 beta 1, so pre/post work related to the release and to the feedback
Picard website was updated and deployed accordingly
usual admin tasks, user support, MB edits, etc.
I’ll be traveling and busy IRL this week.

@anshgoyal31

[mailed in] [ansh] My sister got married yesterday. It’s a typical Indian big fat wedding, and I’ve been spending some time with my family.
I’ll be mostly AFK this week as well.

@outsidecontext

as already mentioned in zas review we had the Picard 3 beta release. Things are working well it seems, we didn’t get a load of bug reports : )
Also found some time to review older Picard 2 plugin PRs finally

@atharv002

[Atharv] Last week I was not able to work that much because of lab exams. Still almost completed the work on BB-894, just some testing is remaining so haven’t opened the PR yet.
[BB-894: leaving tab and returning deletes search box text]
Also, mid term exams started today so I will not be able to work for 3-4 days : (
but will finish testing and open the PR after that.

@ashutosh_things

[Ashu] Last week I was pretty much buried with final lab tests and all those end of sem chaos things.
feeling a bit relieved now that it’s almost over now : )
I’ll be more active very soon

@m.amanullah7

[mamanullah7] Last was busy with my final year project reports and presentation and thesis and still on it : )
But in meantime I was refactored some front end part for tidal music!
Currently my aim is to minimise the refactoring work for monkey!
Once im done lots of ping gonna come to him and sorry for that xd!

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] This week,
I managed my end term exams along with the contribution work.
Mainly, I worked on the LB-1971 LPs on the floor ticket,
where aerozol asked me to align the covers to the cutouts based on the new templates that were designed.
[LB-1971: Add options to Art Creator ‘LPs on the floor’]
And still the alignment work of covers is under process for two more templated that is close and many,and I’ll complete the work as soon as possible, as my exams wrap up soon.

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] been inactive lately due to hackathon work earlier and continuous labs and quizzes. And now the end sems have started, so i’ll get back soon once they’re over…

@garvthakre

Last week I was not able to do much work as My CT is going on , so i just worked on the Todo comment in the codebase and yeah I forgot to open ticket for that revision page bug too , due to the exams ,but yeah now I don’t have any exam
So i will do everything I said ASAP
Thankyou everyone

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade (she/her)] Progress is… progressing. Code cleanup and working on an auth system so this is actually able to be exposed to the internet

@Lioncat6

Now that I’ve actually remembered to attend a meeting, last few weeks I’ve been working on adding qobuz to SAMBL & harmony and reworking how SAMBL’s deep search works
Also, I’ve been working on a few userscripts to help link genius entities in MBz.

@Shreshth

[Shreshth Sharma] Hi everyone! This past week I worked on addressing the feedback and improving the PRs for LB-1941 and LB-1977. Also, my exams have just started, so my bandwidth is pretty limited right now and I’m unsure if I’ll be able to contribute much more this week. Thanks!
[LB-1941: Show playlist track collage as opengraph image]
[LB-1977: Art creator: Some rows/text is displayed in black]

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I finally deployed the big ElasticSearch update for BookBrainz (5.x → 9.x)
Good riddance !
I also reviewed pull requests for BB and LB.
I had a couple of meetings (one with a music researcher who wants to offer his help)
LB stopped ingesting listens for most of Friday, and I helped investigate the issue (although credits go mostly to lucifer).
I also did some research on some new software coming up that connects to LB, and some social media outreach and answering support emails

@teayah

ive got my finals for a bit now due to which i didnt get to start anything new

@bitmap

last week I mostly continued working on schema change tasks, and finished up the beta external links editor fixes I’d been working on
other than that I spent time on MBS/mb-docker code review

@haris

Lifes kinda rough rn. Some exams and project deadlines. Pushed some fixes to my PR-1973, my container for the LB server stopped working for some weird reason, i think it was a postgres error.
[LB-1973: Fix the scroll-bar on “Fresh releases” page]
Got an exam tomorrow, hope i get some sleep

@uzman2406

[Uzma Nayab] I didn’t open any new PRs this week as my previous PRs were under review and had some change requests. I worked on addressing those by making a few updates (LB-1611 and LB-1933).
[LB-1611: Beta toggle/switch]
[LB-1933: Albums in Art Creator creates overflow on mobile devices]
I also experimented with the demo suggested by monkey using React Bootstrap’s dropdown with renderOnMount={false} for the options menu in the playlist section, and fixed the overflow issue in LB-1976.
[LB-1976: Options menu layout breaks/wraps incorrectly in grid view]
My end-sem dates have been announced, and my pre-university exams started today, so I may not be able to contribute much in the upcoming week.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[ApeKattQuest] Have worked on work relationship pages in the BookbRainz DB
finished those links
also started work on editions, which is a bit harder because we didn’t make pages in the docsfor those first
also publishers (I do need to talk to you, monkey abt those a little, when you have time)
Thanks to Monkey’s html-rendering code on these, the information text in the db now looks very pretty: [image 1] [image 2]

@kellnerd

This weekend I’ve picked up testing of Harmony’s Discogs provider again.
Now that there is basic coverage, I have started to look into the more complex cases.
Specifically medium boundaries, named sections and (abused) sub-tracks such as on this monstrosity: [Discogs link]
I’m almost there, hopefully can release this next weekend.

@julian45

helped unbork some metrics gathering for LB monitoring last week (had to do with data we weren’t able to restore from
backups after the server went down a little while prior)
also briefly discussed the early, early beginnings of an infra refactor with zas and took care of some requests for assistance by board members
otherwise didn’t have bandwidth to do much

@faizan.akhtar123

[Faizan Akhtar] Last week… I didn’t do anything because my end semester exams are about to start on 8th May and I need to maintain a 9+ CGPA to continue my scholarship​…

@lucifer

Hi all, reset the spark cluster to restore stats but nothing much other than that. was busy with moving.

@jasjeet

[jasje] I’ve been taking some time off mostly for weddings and vacations

@reosarevok

last week I had some chats with board people, team people, prepared invoices and did other paperwork, updated 30 versions or so of Flow for MBS now that bitmap’s React 19 code is ready
(luckily most were trivial…)
And prepared for our Q2 board meeting tomorrow
Also releasing a MusicBrainz update today, half-done with that
That’s about it I think! (it’s harder to remember what exactly I did now that I don’t track hours specifically )

@yvanzo

Last week I reviewed more pull requests for MBS beta.
Prepared MB Docker Compose for database schema change.

absent: anuj_ (2), failure (1), op3kay (3, removed from regulars list)