MusicBrainz Server

Nick at the BBC says: We are looking for a perl contractor to do some work on getting MusicBrainz NGS on to the BBC’s Forge Platform (advised and assisted by me). There is a job description here: ... [More] http://london.pm.org/pipermail/jobs/2011-February/000280.html The contract time is 60 working days and I believe that the day rate is around £400. The work is [...] [Less]

Rolling out NGS (Next Generation Schema) onto the main servers is going to be hard if we have to do it with our current hardware. If we can raise $15,000 to purchase new servers we will make this process much easier and with much less down time. Also, our current hardware is starting to get [...]

Our old test server, which is being used for some special projects currently, is now generously hosted free of charge by Internet service provider Layer42 in Mountain View. We really appreciate your support of MusicBrainz! Thanks Michael and Dan at Layer42 for getting us set up so fast. Also, thanks to Cliff Skolnick for hosting [...]

I’ve just finished uploading the Virtual Machine for MusicBrainz Next Generation Schema Release Candidate 1. This virtual machine is setup as a slave and can pull replication data from the test server by running the ... [More] admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges from the musicbrainz-server codebase about 10 minutes after every hour. This is an easy way to jump in and take [...] [Less]

The MusicBrainz development team has been working hard to reach the RC1 milestone for NGS and we’re proud to announce that we’ve just released RC1 for you to play with! Not only do we have a feature-complete (only small enhancements and bug fixes remain) version of NGS, but we also have a shiny new test [...]

After a great day of teamwork in preparing for today’s RC1 release it was the database that wouldn’t play along. Our code is ready, but we’re hitting glitches on the database on our new test server. We’re now waiting for a new clean migration of the data which takes several hours, so we need to postpone [...]

I just posted the Profit & Loss for 2010 for the MetaBrainz Foundation! Short summary: We earned $177k and we’re in the black by almost $5k, but we’re still not raking in the bucks. But, a tiny non-profit being in the black for this crappy economic climate is awesome and makes me happy. Watch for a [...]

Using Virtual Box I’ve created a virtual machine that contains a complete NGS installation. This installation also has the latest NGS data (without the edits) loaded in it. If you’re interested in playing with NGS on your own machine, but don’t want to go through the long setup process, this virtual machine is for you! To [...]

As of today we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! We feel confident that we can finish all new features (and most improvements as listed in jira) by January 17th. Once we reach RC1 we’re going to freeze the features for NGS and only work to fix bugs in our [...]

Hello and Happy New Year! Very late last year we finally hit a milestone we’ve been working towards for quite some time: Freezing the public NGS schema! The public schema refers to the collection of tables that will be replicated in NGS. See below for a complete list of all those tables. However, we may make small [...]