Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2026-11-09

[Haris076]

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Agenda

• Reviews

Last meeting: 2026-11-02
Next meeting: 2026-11-16

@reosarevok: Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Reviews

@failure_san

[mailed in] I have been on break pretty much for the last 4 weeks, I think? It’s been festive season in Kolkata, what with Durga Puja and Diwali and a lot more. It’s been great. I should be back to work this week.

@Haris

[mailed in] Hi all! This past week I just tried to study and prepare for my exams and work on cool research projects and some competitions.
My PRs for LB-859 & LB-1884 were merged, so that was nice.
I’m going to pause working on moods till december, me and monkey need to meet more frequently on that.

@anshgoyal31

[mailed in] [ansh]Last week I was able to migrate a few pages in Bookbrainz to React Router.
In App Notifications are now live in Synapse.
I’m working on finalising the UX before putting it on test.lb

@julian45

[mailed in]hi all. unfortunately i had a family emergency arise late last week, so i haven’t had much time to work on MeB things, except for a little bit of server maintenance earlier in the week. hoping things will resolve soon

@aerozol

[mailed in]
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone!)
I am a bit to sad to share this news with the community today - my contract (doing design/comms) with MetaBrainz is ending at the end of this month.
Of course it’s not really goodbye… as now I (hopefully) have more time to enjoy editing and being a member of this wonderful community!
I have greatly enjoyed my time wrangling this beautiful beast and am really looking forward to seeing Silona and the team move things forward. I also hope to be back one day, refreshed, refocused and rejuvenated, if life takes us that way.
If you want to chat with me you can always get in touch with me on the usual MeB chat channels/forums etc. I’ll be around.
Ngā mihi nui

@Silona

[Silona Bonewald] Rough week
Grandma died on my flight back and had her funeral
Also first divorce hearing and there was of course mind games
Some research on PM tools wasn’t happy with anything I found
More research on rates and pricing
Prelim Budget pieces
Reo and I worked hard on fixing QB issues
Chatted about support emails and strategies going forward
Good part - Blue Wave in Texas! (Did going blue instead of purple on my hair help?)
This week:
Budget - Proposal to board on the 17th
The biggest planning part is editathons and pricing as well as funds raise and potential risk mitigation
Also some follow up conversations after OTR and Mozfest about grants and donations
And still need to do Social Media posts about summit (does anyone else also want to post about their stuff from the Summit? Ping me!!!
Also any suggestions on PM tools? In this area of AI - so much confusion.

@bitmap

I was mostly working on changes to SIR to support the search update at the end of the month. and subscription emails performance which has become an issue
I also tested and made some changes to get feat: build and push image for amd and arm by lotooo · Pull Request #24 · metabrainz/docker-python · GitHub working, since the Solr test node is ARM

@zas

1. metabrainz-ansible (infra, about 17 PRs)
   • Upgraded flobot and mingus to Ubuntu 26.04 and moved them from shorewall to nftables.
   • Added a Discourse role and a mingus<->quest migration plan.
   • Added the new server “wussy” (PR #150).
   • Generated server addresses, Icinga2 hosts and smartmontools/RAID checks from the inventory.
   • Added a new_server.py script, a refresh-inventory playbook and CI checks (lint, consistency, dnscontrol sync).
   • Fixed the Icinga2 IcingaDB upgrade.
   • Updated documentation accordingly
2. metabrainz-dnscontrol (about 10 PRs)
   • Moved community.metabrainz.org to quest, then back to mingus.
   • Fixed SPF, DKIM and DMARC mail auth.
   • Removed DNS records of retired servers.
   • Generated A/AAAA records from the ansible inventory.
   • Added wussy (#150, closed).
3. docker-server-configs
   • Added a minimal node script for wussy (PR #402, merged).
4. Picard
   • Continued on GUI / non-GUI code separation & preparing next stable release (upcoming 3.0.5)
   • Fixed cover art not embedded on multi-item selection (PICARD-3511, open).
   • Fixed CD lookup picking the wrong drive (PICARD-3543, open).
   • Fixed the pending files count and auto clustering (PICARD-3541/3542, open).
   • Moved file and disc workflows out of GUI code (open).
   • Added a default file naming script fallback (open).
   • Reduced services() lookup overhead and added api.services.
   • Reset plugin options on Restore Defaults (PICARD-3525).
   • Shared the add-files ignore rules and routed Qt logs through Picard logging in headless mode.
   • Reviewed PRs and commented on metabrainz/picard.
   • Opened review follow-up PRs on contributor forks (PICARD-3531 and PICARD-3469).

Misc.

• User support, server ordering
• Pushed documentation updates to syswiki
• Added wussy to prometheus-exp
• Supervision and system upgrades
• virtual meeting with team about SOLR 10 migration

@yvanzo

Last week, I had a call with bitmap and reosarevok on GDPR management.
Had a meeting with them and lucifer and zas for the planned search upgrades.
So I mainly worked on these two topics.

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

this week I:

• finished CritiqueBrainz translation 100% on weblate!!!
  MetaBrainz Weblate
• in that, pls turn MetaBrainz translations on, they are still locked
  MetaBrainz Weblate
• still had no fire-safety doorz refurmishers (was supposed to come today but…)
  this week I plan on finalising the pandeiros,please smack me if i forget
  unless people turn on metabrainz translations (hint hint)

@JadedBlueEyes

[Jade] it’s been a hell of a busy week - first few days at Element, dealing with getting dropped right into a project and onboarding nonsense
I haven’t managed to catch up on my housekeeping backlog yet, and it’s getting quite big
Also planning the next events out – I’ve managed to acquire a CCC ticket, and am planning on going to FOSDEM too

@lucifer

Last week, i did some more work on porting away from timescale and optimizing the dumps for the new database.
the format is changing from being organized by the year/month to being organized by the user.
some small fixes on MeB/quickbooks side.
this week will be mostly clickhouse stats.
also did a little bit of MB search testing setup last week after a meet with zas and MB team but didn’t get much far.
will try to resume that as well this week.

@mr_monkey

[monkey] Last week was a short one for me. On Monday I was still in Munich and visited the Deutsches Museum with kellnerd, then took Tuesday off.
I worked on BookBrainz internationalization, caught up on messages/support, fixed some security issues, worked on some documentation and finally reviewed PRs, including a big clickhouse one.
This week looking more into clickhouse with lucifer and continuing to deploy inyternationalized bookbrainz and looking into the modernization PRs ansh mentioned.

@Rudyy07

Starting of this week only, my 2nd PR got merged. Which gave me confidence and it was basically on adding duration_played_ms to the submission payload. By help of it I learned a lot about payload validation and backend integration testing while doing it . (Alongside i had my state football trials)
Over this weekend ofc during diwali (bursting a lot of crackers), but I took out some time and I was working on LB-2023 to allow users to disable flair animations or hide flairs, and today morning only I raised PR for LB-2023

@Pixel20coder

this week I:

• got my dark-theme contrast fix PR (#3978) approved — fixes the unreadable .text-secondary text and the review read-more link in dark mode
• updated my disable-notifications PR (#3881: the toggle now asks for notification permission, fixed an API schema issue that was rejecting the save, and added frontend + integration tests

this week I plan on:

• getting these two merged and picking up #3971 (remove from radio)
• finding a slightly bigger issue to work

@lioncat6

I’ve been pretty busy with some other projects so not much to report.
Did a little bit of editing and worked on my bandcamp library a little.

@outsidecontext

Not that much to report, last week I was busy with personal stuff. Some Picard PR work and reviews and general support. We didn’t have the bugfix release, let’s see how it goes this week.

@yateen

I was quite inactive here for past few weeks . I am preparing for on campus placements.Will soon start working on some issues

@reosarevok

Last week I mostly dealt with emails - I finally basically caught up with everything from the summit period until now(ish)
The amount of people who are writing to us asking to use MB in small apps they are writing is impressive - most of them are I’m sure AI vibe-coded things, but still.
I was talking to @silona the other day, it’s interesting (and a bit crazy) to see how many people are writing things that they probably couldn’t actually create without MB (because they couldn’t afford to get the data to get started!)
Whether any of the tools and apps end up working or not, we’ll see, but at least people get the chance
It also does mean a lot of emails to answer though, even if I do of course have templates to simplify that
Other than that, I spent some time writing small MB PRs (updating dependencies, blocking more aggregator links)
And I set up (with some help from @bitmap ) a server so we can test stuff for the search update
@yvanzo @lucifer: there’s a musicbrainz-docker install set up under root in the solr server we discussed now (just finished the materialized table creation now), please see if it does what you need it to
Also, my laptop screen half-died (it’s crossed by tons of horizontal black lines now and hard to read) so I got myself a nice portable 14" monitor I can use for now, and once I have a new laptop I can use it as a “having email vertically on a side screen” kind of tool so I hopefully miss less of it
Let’s see if that works!
And a tiny bit of accounting, as @silona mentioned
Anyway, this week: probably mostly more emails, but also a bunch more small URL handling PRs to clear some backlog I hope
That’s it for now!

absent: Gopal (2) (everyone with 3 missed meetings in a row removed from regulars, re-add yourself if you are back!)

[aerozol]

Wow Haris, so quick!! Thanks again for picking these up!