Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-06-29

[aerozol]

Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs
Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki

Agenda

• Reviews
• OAuth Migration

Last meeting: 2026-06-22
Next meeting: 2026-07-13 (skipping one for oauth migration)

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@anshgoyal31

[mailed in] [ansh] Last week, I was mostly away from keyboard.
I did get some time to reviews the GSoC PRs by @Yateen and @failure .

@failure_san

[mailed in] [failure] Last week I worked on implementing the artist and event follow tables, and writing a DAL for the same. I also added tests for the same.
Then I worked on the review comments from my first PR, adding event to event and event to series relationships and other stuff. I also worked on adding tests tor the same.
Lastly, I also started working on implementing the API endpoints, and it should be a done in a few days.

@lioncat6

[mailed in] Last few weeks I haven’t been very active, but I did push a new update to SAMBL, which fixes Apple Music and adds a new provider: Volumo.
I won’t be able to make these for the next month or so unfortunately, but I’m still free later in the day if anyone needs to message me about anything.

@aerozol

[mailed in] Early in the week I did a LB PR :0
Look at me go. Thanks for the assistance monkey, as always.
Otherwise the usual socials, a bit more moderation than usual.
My late week was absolutely INSANE. Storms and 8 hour all-night emergency drives and chicken rescues. Quite fitting, as it seems the MeB servers were simultaneously battling hordes of K-pop fans.

@kellnerd

[mailed in] I’ve reviewed Harmony PRs and did a release

@zas

I was in holidays, I attended new ED interviews and worked a bit on Picard
Merged fixes for tag view double-counting (PICARD-3325), release matching boost (PICARD-507), and local plugin install without git (PICARD-3313). Reviewed and merged phw’s PRs for macOS locale (PICARD-3308), optional collections (PICARD-3138), and session restore matching (PICARD-3327).

• PICARD-3325: Tag view may double-count selected tracks after metadata refresh
• PICARD-507: Wrong matching to already loaded release
• PICARD-3313: Support executing local non-git plugins
• PICARD-3308: macOS: System locale detection fails
• PICARD-3138: Make user-collections retrieval optional, similar to genres and ratings
• PICARD-3327: MBID auto-loading and auto-analyze do not work after loading session with “No auto-matching on load” enabled

Started the design discussion for TOML-based exportable profiles (PICARD-3328). Also a small maintenance push to serviceregistrato

• PICARD-3328: Support TOML-based exportable/importable profiles

And that’s it, I’m back to normal work tomorrow (writing from the train back to home later tonight)

@outsidecontext

Last week I melted in the heat here. But I got some stuff done in Picard with bugfixes for session restore and missing sdist package on the PyPI release. And code reviews for zas’ changes he did despite travelling.
I also worked on implementing PICARD-2673 (separating artist name standardization for name variations or actual name changes). Won’t be ready for the beta release we plan to do tomorrow, but soon after.

• PICARD-2673: Standardize artist name variations by default

And I did restore lost Malay translations from Transifex on Weblate for the MB server components after some forum request.

@garvthakre

so last week i worked on the edition ,series and work-section ,and edition section folder .
opened some more PRS
make changes in the reveiwed PRs .

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] this week i continued the viewmodel migration and mostly worked on the reviews left on the PRs, also resolving a lot of merge conflicts : )

@jasjeet

[jasje] Last week was fun again
We got alot of PRs merged
Mainly related to cmp migration / gsoc project
Will be continuing on that this week as well

@waqib2992

Last week i spent most of my crafting prs for CaliBBre. it ends the work for the metadata tab for now.
(will make one more PR adding some documentation on how to use the plugin)
In the upcoming Week, I plan to get feedback and review on the code and make changes accordingly and also start working on the new tab browse bookbrainz

@reosarevok

Last week we had several interviews with our ED candidates
Other than that, I worked on some library updates for MusicBrainz, I dealt with a lot of emails, reviewed the tax documents our accountant prepared, and watched a lot of football
And tried not to melt, with some success

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[ApeKattQuest] it’s too hot here to think here (feelsbadman for anyone else in places hotter than this) so mostly I’ve been a̵d̵d̵i̵n̵g̵ editing releases and looking at merging obscure african highlife bands and the like
probably gonna continue with that, too tired and hot to do anything else

@bitmap

I mostly continued working on changes related to the account migration prepared for next monday. I finished MBS-12379 and the handling of OAuth-backed remember_login cookies in MBS

• MBS-12379: Delete user tags (and ratings?) via hourly cron on user deletion

I’m planning to deploy the digest auth changes to beta today and open a PR for everything else

@yateen

So last week I worked on the backend portion for the tags applied to playlists. Completed most of it and raised the pr
Also re worked on previous pr based on the reviews .

@mr_monkey

[monkey] last week I continued reviewing GSOC PRs, and reading up on some of the technology I’m less familiar with
Looked after ListenBrainz and tried to combat the onslaught of the K-Pop army.
We are losing battles but we’ve not fought our last
Continued reviewing the new OAuth and login system and UI
Did some general admin, plus the usual security tickets and general PR reviews
Had some productive discussions about LB and identifying personal information, in the context of a potential new supporter
And melted.
Also had an interview for the new ED, as mentioned before, but as an applicant

@yvanzo

Since last meeting I completely fixed the Flow regression blocking translation update.
I also finished reviewing the React conversion of the MusicBrainz recording edit form.
At the MB dev team meeting, we have planned major search upgrades for November (Q4).
he official announcement with selected changes should be posted to the blog in August.
Besides, I also managed to survive the heat wave that @zas fortunately escaped.

@julian45

this week was mostly of a patching nature, plus backseat driving suggesting potential refactors/improvements in MeB projects like search and LB
currently preparing for heat wave as my region is expected to get up to heat index 107°F (approx 42°C) for the next few days
but in the meantime, on a non MeB note, i helped get continuwuity, the matrix homeserver i use and Jade co-maintains, packaged for a bunch of distros! for people who use fedora and related distros (including EL10) it is, as of an hour or so ago, in the terra repos!

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] This week has also been mostly melting, I think it was like 34-40 degrees some days
However, I got my final project marks back, and it’s just about a first class honours
That’s the highest possible award in the UK
(still waiting for the final overall marks, but I think I’ll get it with a good margin to spare, something like an 85% GPA)
Today has been moving back home, I’ve spent like the entire day unpacking.
But that means I should have much more interesting stuff going on next week!

@_junaid

[fettucinae] Last week, I mostly worked on testing and fixing bugs in my implementation of response writer
Looking forward to the reviews

@lucifer

last week I mostly worked on OAuth related stuff, more bug fixes and testing. we hope to do the migration next week.
also looked into some LB issues. dumps/stats/load.

@haris

[mailed in later] This week just updated my LB-1973 PR, working on my lab’s (Music Cognition Group) research and finding common functionalities between the lab’s projects and listenbrainz

• LB-1973: Fix the scroll-bar on “Fresh releases” page

OAuth Migration

Please read the notes for the full discussion, summary of points:

• Plan is to migrate 1 hour before the next meeting (2026-07-06), and skip the meeting.
• Lucifer will discuss with monkey and bitmap and try to do the non-disruptive and safer parts already this week, so that we can minimize the downtime that day.
• MetaBrainz Weblate is ready for translations and the login/register pages are not fully translated, so feel free to contribute.
• Most important translations are Login and register pages, as well as user profile
• There will be downtime for all projects.

absent: Shreshth Sharma (2), m.amanullah7 (1), op3kay (1), anuj_ (3), Uzma Nayab (3), Atharv (3), Ashu (3), Gopal (3) - everyone who has missed three in a row has been removed from the regulars list, please add yourself again if you start attending regularly again.