Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-08-24

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-08-17
Next meeting: 2026-08-31

@reosarevok: Hi, and welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@outsidecontext

[mailed in] Last week was mostly Picard code reviews. We merged PICARD-3380 by new contributor cryobry, which finally gives Picard the ability to completely remove embedded cover art.

• PICARD-3380: Option to remove all cover images from tags

Also I helped zas with his PR for allowing to change dark/light UI on runtime. I myself addeed support for a generic “performer:instruments” tag.

@julian45

[mailed in] not much to report this week, mostly admin tasks like fixing wordpress (blog) permissions and upgrading internal software like SSO.

@aerozol

[mailed in] Hmm, a week with quite a bit of MeB stuff, but time spent all over the place.
Reading emails, some comms work for Silona, putting out fires or putting out updates, that kind of thing.
Lots of community engagement, not much progress on things. I guess that’s life sometimes!

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week, I tried to knockout every error in ListenBrainz which was logged on Sentry.
Most of the errors were addressed and were promoted to PROD - after which I can see that the error rates have gone down.
Also debugged and fixed an issue we had with Spotify Importer (thank you zas for helping with this)
And continued reviewing PRs for GSoC

@zas

Over the past two weeks (I missed last meeting, I was somewhere deep in Massif Central for a bunch of days more or less off), I’ve been mainly working on Picard 3.0: runtime theme switching, new script functions, plugin API improvements, and a bunch of code quality cleanups (type hints, ruff rules, dead code removal).
We shipped beta 9 and aim at first RC next week.
In parallel I built LinkBrainz Server (https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-13444) as an experiment (artist & album cards, qr code, etc. think linktree but from MB data), check https://test.linkbrainz.org, feedback welcome. Source isn’t available yet, it will if we decide to go further and move it to prod.
This weekend abusive bots (again) were hammering the ListenBrainz API, so I set up detection rules, gateway blocks, mitigation tricks.
I also identified a memory leak and unneeded queries (MediumCDTOC without inc=discids) on MB server, fixed by bitmap already.
Also fixed memory limits and worker counts for production hardware (MB).
I also kept up reviewing others’ PRs (32 reviews, mostly on Picard).
The numbers: 386 contributions, 35 PRs opened (31 merged), 160 public commits plus a bunch in private repos. Busy holidays.

@bitmap

last week I finished some patches: MBS-14445 and MBS-14414

• MBS-14445: Logouts can occur on MB despite having “Remember me” checked on MetaBrainz
• MBS-14414: Allow setting noindex on specific entity pages

also did some code review, and deployed the memory leak fix reported by zas over the weekend. it mainly affected the web service
I started preparing some other WS performance improvements identified by profiling, too, to buy a little more time before we can move away from Perl. will submit those this week

@waqib2992

Hello everyone, Last week i was mostly writing the GSoC blog sharing my experience, ( i was waiting for it to get reviewed by monkey and publish it ) but i guess he is on a break so had to upload a github gist in the gsoc website as my final submission

@nirvan73

[Nirvan Jain] this week i mostly worked on my experience blog and did my final submission, apart from that did some work on the reviews left on the shared notification and shared work manager PR, and got some new reviews which i am planning to start from tomorrow.

@garvthakre

so last week i did the migration of some remaining pages
completed my blog and submission .

@Silona

[Silona Bonewald] More meetings esp w reosarevok
PR w aerozol
got bad lettuce Monday…
Reading CRM docs and QB
Going to do twenty even though AI (read docs) need the level of integrations - we can just do python on our side (need to chat more with lucifer this week on existing ones)
Pinged editors
Need a Specific survey for editors
Realized also Voters and need to better understand process
Booked trip to Barcelona
This week start Server and Bots doc
Get QB setup and start on 20 w reosarevok
twenty is an open source CRM but i noticed it integrates with AI but don’t have to use it.
also could use help getting editors to reply back… any hints?

@lucifer

last week, i worked on listens repartitioning.
its live on beta.lb for testing.
already much faster on many edge cases.
https://beta.listenbrainz.org/user/RustyNova/?max_ts=1702569461 vs ListenBrainz
also working on clickhouse port of stats.
that is live on test.lb.
but some bugs to resolve still.
also had a meet with fettuccinae on his GSoC project.

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] it’s been quite a week, with all sorts of nonsense happening this week - including my server dying of about 6 simultaneous issues
and a whole bunch of other stuff
but on teh MB side I did manage to get in some more maintenence, replacing a dependency julian45 requested
and a light review of op3kay 's gsoc final post

@yvanzo

Last week was mainly dedicated to search upgrades Q4 with another dev meeting about search tests.
Also fixed auto-closing SEC tickets created from auto-dismissed Dependabot alerts.

@kellnerd

I’m barely back from vacation and don’t have much to report. A few interesting discussions and a PR with an Apple Music provider for Harmony to be reviewed, that’s it.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] I only worked a few days last week in-between vacation weeks.
Mostly reviewed Important Work for LB infrastructure, GSOC PRs, and wrote a blog post to explain the current infrastructure issues in more details, to let LB users know what is going on
Some more support and messaging along the same lines
And some meetings with the team as well as a welcome meeting from NLNet, who granted BookBrainz a grant
And that’s most of those three days, back at it at the end of the week

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

[MonkeyPython] Finished INST-1155, now working on INST-1156

• INST-1155: improve apito aka samba whistle
• INST-1156: improve caixa

updated some aliases with languages that have been added in the meantime (this is a stealth ping about updating more/rerunning a scrypt for me)
btw, a reminder to everyone to bring chocolate, but also other 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘺 please, for people who can’t have/prefer (me) non-chocolate sweets
other than that, just the usual, editing releases, trying to fix my hallway, etc

@reosarevok

Last week I spent a lot of time (most of it really) catching up to all the email from the week and a bit I was off, including a bunch of new registrations, new GDPR emails, etc, plus the usual support and a bit of code
Plus talking to Silona Bonewald about some more of our finance stuff
Today I was planning to write some small MB URL improvements, but I ended up mostly dealing with the LB blocks and more support (plus usual Monday stuff like adding areas, genres)
So, maybe tomorrow : )

@_junaid

[fettucinae] Last week, I mostly spent time on writing the blog post
Had a chat with lucifer about the project
Cant believe 3 months went by so quickly

@yateen

Last week was just a wrap up week for me , pushed the final pr ( still left for review) and completed the final report .
Well after GSoC , it feels like a little void in life

@jasjeet

[jasje] Did PR and GSoC submission review
Testing some core changes that come with the migration changes

@Gopal7387

[Gopal] I’m currently focusing on mid-sem exams. So I wasn’t able to contribute many PRs
I will keep working on my open PRs (mainly the Art creator one ) once the exams are over.

Absent: failure (sick), op3kay (2), Haris (1), Lioncat6 (2)