# Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-09-28 **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-09-28/815715 **Category:** MetaBrainz **Tags:** metabrainz-meeting-notes **Created:** [September 29, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-09-28/815715 "2026-09-29T01:38:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/aerozol/32/116_2.png) [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol) #### Post date: [September 29, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-09-28/815715/1 "2026-09-29T01:38:10Z")
Meeting start: [IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs](https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/libera/metabrainz/2026-09-28/?msg=5636596) Meeting wiki page: [MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki](https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MetaBrainz_Meeting) # Agenda - Reviews _Last meeting: [2026-09-21](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-metabrainz-meeting-2026-09-14/815646)_ _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](https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/09/22/welcome-silona-bonewald-new-metabrainz-foundation-executive-director/). > 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](https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/e6e59740-c6bc-463b-afae-dc21a15fa9a4) > [@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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/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](https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server/releases/tag/v-2026-09-24.0)) 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)