Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-09-28

[aerozol]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-09-21
Next meeting: 2026-10-05

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@aerozol

[mailed in] I seem to be in a big ‘doing comms for MeB’ phase! Published the blog post welcoming Silona.
Spent quite a bit of time releasing the press release version, freshening up the mailing list that hadn’t been used in some years.
Drafted two more blog posts (one super secret lousy shirt interview and one about API ‘vendors’), both are waiting on some stuff.
Other socials.
Didn’t really have the time, but treated myself to some rare (at the moment) physical media editing - MB just didn’t feel complete without it: Release group “A Very Silent Night” by Colin Mitchell & Alex Dyer - MusicBrainz

@Haris

First half of the week was in quarantine and getting better, second half was tinkering with a lot of frontend to implement dark mode

@yvanzo

Last week I completed tagging requests sent from MB Server to Solr (MBS-14470).
Worked with zas to get it deployed to the beta MB server already.
Plus, MB dev meeting and PR reviews.

• MBS-14470: Tag Solr requests with server-sided metadata

@lucifer

Last week was mostly working on the listens stuff migration and clickhouse stats. Also looked a little in search testing.

@bitmap

last week I helped finish the MB prod release and worked on the SQL perf improvements I mentioned last week (browsing artists by release, and releases by label, in the web service, have a PR for the former up)
I did some code review, made small improvements to the MBS-12761 branch, and started looking into the rust stuff for the website I paused a few months ago, again
but mainly on coming up with a migration plan to store our perl configuration (DBDefs.pm) as TOML

• MBS-12761: Convert recording edit form to React

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

not much from me, currently plastering like hell trying to finish atleast *that* before summit
I *did* get the time to watch Coyote vs. ACME though, go watch it! it’s AWESOME

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] Not much this week on the mb front, just finally hit publish on the mb-graphql GSoC post
Still trying to figure out the health issue
The doctor might be a vampire because she stole my blood

@julian45

mostly talked infra with the team this week & did some server patching, nothing earthshaking overall

@anshgoyal31

[ansh] Last week I finally got some time to pick up some smaller issues in LB
And started reviewing some PRs for LB
Could not get much stuff done - as I was down with fever

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week I prepared a big LB release (Release v-2026-09-24.0 · metabrainz/listenbrainz-server · GitHub) adding all our github contributors on the about page
It also adds a big feature, programmatic exports, to allow third-party software to download a user’s history without having to scrape the API. Then contacted as many projects as I could to ask them to implement it
Wrote to the internet archive to talk about the Book Cover Archive again, let’s see
Also workedf on polishing the Youtube importer features, allowing users ot import their Youtube Music history
Also spent some time looking at the future of LB and some project management stuff
And some supporter feedbakc with Fankee
Some ticket triages and PR Review to round it up

@Silona

[Silona Bonewald] File all the things
But first download all the forms
And then realize missed x
Create critical path for all the forms
Board paperwork ongoing - bylaws etc.
Pricing still
Pitch deck - still too rough to share sent to aerozol
Rough draft on editathon - which I need to polish and share to deal with misconceptions.
also LB stuff with monkey to be able to project costs in the future per user.
seriously too much time on government sites last week and a personal tragedy made it a rough one

@outsidecontext

We had another Picard release candidate last week, and following several fixes again. Specifically I looked into several issues reported for macOS
We wanted to do the final release soon, zas and I will discuss this whether we need another RC in between.

@reosarevok

Mostly supporter registrations, support and other email stuff, but also a bunch of small PRs and a fair bit of reviewing.
We have another beta out, which hopefully it’s helping understand how Solr gets hit (so use beta, please!)

absent: yateen (2), failure (2), zas (1), lioncat (1), garv thakre (1), jasje (1), waqib2992 (1), gopal (1)