Author: mwiencek

Today’s release progresses in finishing up the UI for last schema change. One of the changes introduced was tag voting, and as of this release you can finally upvote/downvote tags on the website. This should make it easier for people to re-use tags and to hide tags they consider wrong.

In other news, artist and place collections can be created now, too.

The rest of the release contains various bug fixes and refactorings (some without tickets, but visible in the git log).

Thanks to JesseW, legoktm, nikki, and the MetaBrainz team for their work. The git tag is v-2015-06-29 and the changelog is below.

Bug

• [MBS-8430] – SQL exception when undoing creation of a record label: “Controller::Edit->cancel “Failed query: …” “
• [MBS-8443] – Not possible to remove dates in the relationship editor
• [MBS-8448] – ISE on Donation Check page

Improvement

• [MBS-4145] – Up/down vote for tags
• [MBS-7987] – Event series should be (auto-)ordered by date

Here’s the final server update before our 2015-05-11 schema change. This posting comes late, which I apologize for, since the release coincided with switching over to our new load balancers, and I had trouble deploying things at first.

Included in this update are new “Guess feat. artists” buttons, seen on recording, release, and release group edit pages. Their purpose is to help move featured artists from titles to artist credits. To find them, look for icons with “ft.” next to the older guess-case ones.

We also now have the possibility for ordering relationships other than series ones (say, work parts), though as of this writing, they still need to be enabled as a style matter.

Thanks to chirlu, nikki, Ujjwal Wahi, and the MetaBrainz team for contributing to today’s release. The git tag is v-2015-04-27 and the complete changelog is below.

Bug

• [MBS-8284] – Contact user form should require a verified email address
• [MBS-8321] – Readding same information in the relationship editor gives unexpected results
• [MBS-8349] – Unique (medium, position), (track, position) indexes no longer created on slave databases

Improvement

• [MBS-3375] – Ability to specify sort order for sub-works that are part of an aggregate work.
• [MBS-3799] – Show more information for releases in the inline search
• [MBS-8332] – Make removing URLs an auto-edit for auto-editors

New Feature

• [MBS-3388] – “Guess artist credits” – automation support for RFC-327 and moving feats etc to artist-credits

Task

• [MBS-8344] – Remove abbreviation expanding from guess case

Another release out today, this time with a couple new features for editors to take note of:

• It’s now possible to add releases without any mediums attached. This is useful for cases where the release is known to exist but the tracklist is unknown. Currently this feature is a bit hidden: you have to remove the default blank medium to expose a checkbox that lets you confirm your intention to submit things that way. Based on community feedback, we can possibly make this more visible in the future. Note that it’s not (yet) possible to add mediums without tracks, only releases without mediums.
• There’s now a minimum voting period length for destructive edits like merges and removals. Even if such edits get three yes votes, they’ll remain open for a minimum of 48 hours.

Thanks to chirlu (especially for the latter feature) and the MetaBrainz team for their work on today’s release. The git tag is v-2015-04-06 and the complete changelog is below.

Bug

• [MBS-8137] – Release editor does not prevent duplicate label/catno pairs
• [MBS-8162] – “Add work” from artist sidebar includes useless artist parameter
• [MBS-8163] – Merging labels can produce duplicate label/catno pairs
• [MBS-8300] – Medium title “0” not displayed
• [MBS-8313] – Can’t remove last attribute from a relationship via the /relationship-editor endpoint

Improvement

• [MBS-8234] – Enforce a minimum voting period for destructive edits
• [MBS-8327] – Show an icon for CDBaby links

New Feature

• [MBS-3235] – Allow adding release stubs (without tracklist)

Today’s release focuses on fixing various editing bugs, particularly in the release editor. For those who use the track parser often, it should be a lot better at retaining track MBIDs after you reuse recordings now.

The entire list of changes for today is below. Thanks to chirlu and the MetaBrainz team for working on these tickets.

The git tag is v-2015-03-23.

Bug

• [MBS-5108] – Setting end-date is no longer auto-edit
• [MBS-7719] – “Reuse previous recordings” button not available after using the track parser
• [MBS-7983] – After adding “translator” relationship, “translated” flag gets stuck for subsequent relationship
• [MBS-8212] – “Copy the release artist credit to the release group” on the release page is broken
• [MBS-8272] – Web service doesn’t output language or script for releases that are relationship targets
• [MBS-8285] – Unable to edit release with deprecated external links
• [MBS-8286] – Seeding URLs on Add Release is broken
• [MBS-8296] – It’s now impossible to re-order Release Groups in a Manual Series

Improvement

• [MBS-7071] – Make it possible to use the Track Parser to fix mistakes without creating new Track MBIDs
• [MBS-8231] – Use https URLs in emails
• [MBS-8281] – Remove the knockout-postbox plugin

This one’s mostly a small bug-fix release, since improvements to sitemaps and other big projects have been concurrently in the works. One thing of note is that the “external links editor” on entity edit pages was rewritten to be more maintainable in the long run; hopefully no bugs have creeped in with the new code, but if any have then please report them on our issue tracker!

Thanks to reosarevok and the MetaBrainz team for working on the changes below. The git tag is v-2015-03-09.

Bug

• [MBS-8055] – Series-Series relationships are blocked by JS
• [MBS-8151] – Filename not being shown in remove cover art edits
• [MBS-8221] – Work pages don’t show event rels
• [MBS-8270] – Bottom display of work relationships is inaccurate for works appearing across multiple tracks

Improvement

• [MBS-7913] – Allow seeding of non-URL ARs when creating non-Release entities via URL parameters
• [MBS-8258] – Rewrite the external links editor in React

We have another server release out today (a little over a day late, as given away by the title). The most exciting change this time around is CritiqueBrainz integration: on release group pages, the most popular and most recent reviews from CritiqueBrainz are now displayed, along with links to write your own. Hopefully people find these reviews useful and interesting and are encouraged to start contributing to CritiqueBrainz themselves!

As usual, the release contains a variety of other bug fixes and improvements, detailed in the changelog below. Thanks very much to chirlu, Freso, reosarevok, and the MetaBrainz team for their work on today’s release. The git tag is v-2015-02-23.

Bug

• [MBS-4928] – It is possible for non-auto-editor users to submit ‘approve’ votes
• [MBS-5959] – _uniq indices for editor_subscribe_{artist,editor,label} not unique
• [MBS-6763] – Entity merges don’t save Ended if there’s no date
• [MBS-8200] – ws/js/edit does not validate release event dates
• [MBS-8201] – Dates with year == 0 are invisible
• [MBS-8203] – Spurious spaces in relationship target lists
• [MBS-8224] – Events can’t be rated via /ws/2/ratings

Improvement

• [MBS-6164] – Filter out duplicate annotations when merging
• [MBS-6885] – hard limit height of wikipedia excerpts the same as annotations
• [MBS-7477] – Add a unique constraint on track (medium, position)
• [MBS-7872] – Show CritiqueBrainz reviews on the release group pages
• [MBS-8205] – Remove entity browse pages
• [MBS-8220] – Align Artist columns in discographies

Task

• [MBS-3998] – Editor may vote / may add edit note checks should also be done at the Data level.
• [MBS-6451] – Update cleanup code for Amazon India and Brazil
• [MBS-8107] – Add autoselect for Sina Weibo URLs
• [MBS-8176] – Add autoselect for CD Japan URLs
• [MBS-8192] – Add autoselect for work-level IMDb rels
• [MBS-8199] – Unset the date for release events that have 0000-00-00
• [MBS-8226] – Add ClassicalArchives.com to Other DBs whitelist

Our first release of the new year is out today, containing the usual set of editing bug fixes and improvements. There’s also a small new feature in the release editor that allows propagating the release title and artist credit to the release group.

Anyone experiencing failures in InitDb.pl after upgrading DBD::Pg to version 3.5.0 will want to get this update, since it contains a workaround.

Thanks very much to chirlu, navap, nikki, and the MetaBrainz team for their work on today’s release.

The git tag is v-2015-01-12 and the full changelog is below.

Bug

• [MBS-4904] – Edit search automatically focuses text fields on page load
• [MBS-8025] – Spurious "performance" entries in work search results
• [MBS-8032] – Internal server error applying problematic add ISRC edits
• [MBS-8047] – Applied merge release groups link has broken links
• [MBS-8099] – Edit search automatically focuses text fields when changing dropdowns
• [MBS-8108] – Edit removing track with track mbid redirect can’t close
• [MBS-8116] – Place edit form acts on outdated parse-coordinates responses
• [MBS-8126] – InitDb.pl fails with newest DBD::Pg

Improvement

• [MBS-2895] – Make it possible to propagate release changes to the release group
• [MBS-6162] – Mention mbslave in INSTALL
• [MBS-7498] – Recognise Deezer URLs
• [MBS-7733] – Recognise and clean up 7digital.com URLs
• [MBS-7924] – Match e-onkyo, hd-music and ototoy URLs with "purchase for download" relationship type
• [MBS-8077] – Clean up mobile Soundcloud and ReverbNation URLs
• [MBS-8078] – Match and clean up Google Play URLs
• [MBS-8080] – Show CAA-down warning also when the Archive is down completely

New Feature

• [MBS-7688] – Add autoselect for Vine URLs

Task

• [MBS-5671] – MBServer internal code using old search json format should use new format

This release is quite small because it overlapped with the holidays, but contains a fix for an annoying guess-case issue in the release editor that several people reported. Thanks to chirlu for the rest of the bug fixes listed here!

The git tag is v-2014-12-29.

Bug

• [MBS-4668] – Edit search loses selections when the page number is too high
• [MBS-8064] – Can’t add documentation to migration-created relationship types
• [MBS-8086] – Guess case for release title does not trigger an edit
• [MBS-8091] – Can’t fix non-normalized artist credits

We’ve released another server update today, though a fairly modest one, since bigger changes have been happening in the background with embedding JSON-LD into our pages and switching our JavaScript over to browserify. A few more edit types have been made auto-edits for everyone, as detailed in the changelog below. There’s additionally been some misc. UI changes, and a fix to output artist genders in the JSON webservice.

Thanks to chirlu, nikki, reosarevok, and the MetaBrainz team for their hard work on today’s release.

The git tag is v-2014-12-15.

Bug

• [MBS-7916] – “Set track durations” preview is broken for single-track mediums
• [MBS-8008] – “Add Event” (entity) and “Add Event” (release event) share the same translation string
• [MBS-8044] – Map doesn’t zoom when pasting coordinates
• [MBS-8066] – “Date” field wraps inconsistently in different browsers
• [MBS-8082] – Gender missing on artist lookup (JSON)

Improvement

• [MBS-7478] – Make more use of HTML5 form field types
• [MBS-7970] – Replace guess case bubbles with icons next to the fields
• [MBS-7973] – Make remove alias/ISRC/ISWC edits auto-edits for auto-editors
• [MBS-7975] – Make move disc ID edits auto-edits
• [MBS-8045] – Update link_event to include dates

This release was pushed back a week due to scheduling around the GSoC summit and upcoming schema change release, but here it finally is. Editors can take note that more edit types are now auto-edits: adding recording-work relationships, adding/editing aliases, setting track durations, and editing cover artwork. We’ve also added a “Make all edits votable” checkbox to allow edits that are normally always applied automatically (like capitalization changes) to be left open for voting if there’s any dispute or uncertainty. Auto-editors should be aware that this checkbox replaces the one that previously toggled their auto-editor privileges (so it should be left unchecked wherever it was previously left checked).

As part of this release, we’ve deployed some changes that should hopefully prevent slow /ws/2 searches from tying up too many perl processes on our frontends. This may reduce the number of 502s we’ve been seeing lately, but it’s a bit early to pronounce any results. Thanks go to kepstin for suggesting the nginx trickery used here.

More thanks go to chirlu, nikki, and ianmcorvidae for their hard work on today’s release.

The git tag is v-2014-11-03 and the full changelog is below.

Bug

• [MBS-1444] – Make ‘i’ <-> ‘ı’ an auto-edit.
• [MBS-5961] – BC dates in search results are parsed incorrectly
• [MBS-6545] – Medium added without tracknumbers magically gains them
• [MBS-7399] – Can’t link to TheSession.org’s artist pages
• [MBS-7927] – Text strings on fingerprints tab are not correctly escaped
• [MBS-7935] – Can’t add URL examples to relationship documentation
• [MBS-7938] – Track parser resets track artists to the release artist when “lines contain track artists” is unchecked
• [MBS-7960] – The link to the mailing lists doc page in the menu doesn’t work
• [MBS-7961] – Wikidocs redirects are broken
• [MBS-7962] – Links on /doc/ pages are no longer converted

Improvement

• [MBS-1479] – Make it possible to leave a capitalization-diacritics edit open
• [MBS-6011] – Strip out LRM/RLM characters in text with no RTL characters
• [MBS-7880] – Release editor should have options to copy only titles or only artists to recordings, instead of always both
• [MBS-7902] – Use nginx X-Accel-Redirect to handle Webservice search requests rather than doing it in perl
• [MBS-7934] – Add IMSLP autoselect for artists
• [MBS-7944] – Make recording-work add relationship edits auto-edits
• [MBS-7945] – Make add/edit alias edits auto-edits
• [MBS-7946] – Make set track duration edits auto-edits
• [MBS-7947] – Make edit cover art edits auto-edits
• [MBS-7953] – Extend normalise_strings to cover more punctuation

Task

• [MBS-7939] – Add autoselect and validation for release-level Allmusic
• [MBS-7942] – Add a bunch of sites to the whitelist for dbs