To finish up some post NGS setup tasks, we will need to have a site outage on Wednesday morning between 05:00 UTC (6:00 BST, 7:00 CEST, 1:00 EDT, 22:00 PDT Tuesday) and 06:00 UTC for about 10 minutes.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
To finish up some post NGS setup tasks, we will need to have a site outage on Wednesday morning between 05:00 UTC (6:00 BST, 7:00 CEST, 1:00 EDT, 22:00 PDT Tuesday) and 06:00 UTC for about 10 minutes.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
A small set of fixes to finish the week. The next release after this is currently scheduled for Wednesday. Thanks for sticking with us through the NGS launch week! Please keep the bug reports coming in, no matter how insignificant you think the issue may be, your reporting has been tremendously helpful. The Git tag for this version is ocharles/v-2011-05-27-ngs-hotfixes
– the official tag will be out late Monday (I don’t have a key to sign the tag with).
One note about the Sound Juicer/RhythmBox issues – this is actually a problem with programs being compiled against libmusicbrainz2, instead of libmusicbrainz3 and there’s nothing we can do about these problems. If you are experiencing problems we recommend you compile from source, or wait/pester your distribution to update their packages.
Another day, another bunch of bug fixes! I do wonder sometimes, “how could we have got so much, so wrong?” but we’re making some really good progress. Here’s what you should find fixed now:
The Git tag for this version is v-2011-05-26-ngs-hotfixes
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Thanks for sticking with us through that brief bit of downtime for editors – here’s what we got fixed today! Of interest especially is the improved support for relationship edits in artist history. Hopefully tomorrow we will clean up the subscription system a bit more, so you can get back to voting! This version is v-2011-05-25-ngs-hotfixes
in Git.
We have a number of data changing update scripts to run for today’s hot fix release. To be on the safe side we’re going to put the site into read-only mode for a few minutes while those scripts run. Please be patient with us, while we roll out this hot fix release.
We expect to get started on this release right now.
More bug fixes for the NGS release, keeping up with our promise of daily hot fixes! A lot of work today, but a good whack of it is still in review, so that will be coming tomorrow. Here’s what you should see on the servers:
Please feel free to make use of these, if you want to do more testing, remember our test servers are also up to date! The tag for this version in Git is v-2011-05-24-ngs-hotfixes
We’re getting a number of reports from Rhythmbox, Sound Juicer and other applications that their CD lookup is no longer working. We currently have no open bugs that tell us what is wrong, so we can’t fix anything.
We believe that we are outputting correct XML for CD lookups, thus there isn’t anything for us to fix. We are, however, outputting more matches for CDs, since multiple releases for a single CD can be returned. But, this is nothing new — clients should’ve supported this even before NGS.
We need the authors of programs that are broken to tell us what broke their stuff. Then we can determine if we need to fix something, the authors need to fix something or if we can come up with some sort of compromise. We’ve been talking about NGS for two years and these application authors never bothered to test their applications with our new stuff.
End users who are upset at CD Lookups failing: Please go complain to your software authors to resolve these issues or file bug reports with us if the trouble is in MusicBrainz.
NOTE: These applications are not failing because of User-Agent blocking — we haven’t actually started doing that.
We’ve just finished rolling out todays bug fixes to last weeks NGS release. We’re going to be carrying on daily releases in this fashion for at least the next week.
The tag for this version in Git is ‘v-20110523-ngs-hotfixes’
Our first set of bug fixes have now been deployed on our production servers! Please keep the bug reports coming in, we’re aiming to do almost daily releases until we really get things stable. Here are the bugs that are now fixed:
As promised, here are some release notes for today’s monumental NGS release.
We’ll post more information on the release, including how to setup slave servers, tomorrow after we’ve had some more sleep.