Month: June 2010

Sadly, the last round of NGS testing caused some problems. I’ve fixed those problems and restarted the replication feed again. Follow these instructions to get your replication started again:

• Download and install the mb_server source code from git. Follow these instructions. (Make sure you update this code from the code you may have pulled yesterday)
• Set your server type in DBDefs.pm to RT_SLAVE
• Download and import this dataset. This is the same dataset has in the last NGS test!
• Insert this required row into the database, using our psql program:

  cd <mb_server_src>/admin
  ./psql READWRITE
  insert into replication_control values (1, 12, 100, now());
  

• Now run admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges a few minutes after the hour to keep up to date with the data on the test server. Please note that this system may not be stable yet and that we will occasionally load new data on our test server, which will require you to reload the data on your server.

Good luck!

Now that we’re (hopefully) done making schema changes to NGS, its time to give the replication testing another try. If you’re interested in testing replication for NGS, follow these instructions:

• Download and install the mb_server source code from git. Follow these instructions.
• Set your server type in DBDefs.pm to RT_SLAVE
• Download and import this dataset.
• Insert this required row into the database, using our psql program:

  cd <mb_server_src>/admin
  ./psql READWRITE
  insert into replication_control values (1, 12, 0, '2010-06-15 17:00:02.795317-07');
  

• Now run admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges a few minutes after the hour to keep up to date with the data on the test server. Please note that this system may not be stable yet and that we will occaisionally load new data on our test server, which will require you to reload the data on your server.

Good luck!

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finished hacking on NGS Beta 2! The test server is updated with the beta 2 source code and a fresh data dump (20100616 complete with 119,000 old edits migrated).

To play with NGS Beta 2, head over to the test server and log in with your normal MusicBrainz username/password. If you find any probems, please enter a bug report in our bug tracker. To see the complete list of issues that have been resolved for Beta 2, see this rather long list.

Oliver says:

Here’s a brief summary of my changes:

• Edit migration – old historic edits are now migrated, along with votes. Edit notes are not yet migrated, though work has begun in this area
• Many bug fixes from beta 1, including improved error handling
• A few more possible edits, including removing PUIDs and adding/deleting ISRCs from recordings
• Case change edits are now auto-edits
• Aliases now have a ‘locale’ field
• Annotations can be previewed before submit

It’s hard to summarize the apparent 160 issues in JIRA though, but these stand out at least.

Warp says:

Completely new release editor, not quite finished but it should give you a good feel of how the final version will work.

Some big changes to /ws/2, see the new specification.

Non-latin names are now properly sorted.

Green tagger icons

Ratings can be cleared.

Lots of data display fixes and tweaks.

Both Oliver and Warp have been working hard to meet this deadline, and I’m pleased that they’ve completed this important milestone! Many thanks to Oliver, Warp, Nikki, Navap, Ijabz, Murdos and anyone else who had a hand in working on beta 2. I would also like to thank Alisa Lemberg specifically for her efforts in helping Warp, Navap and myself redesign the release editor. Alisa’s UX experience helped us focus our efforts and finally deliver a solid release editor. Without her we’d still be guessing the right approach to take for creating a usable release editor.

Happy Testing!