Category: Development

Due to a number of loose ends that we still need to tighten up (and lack of sleep on part of the people doing the work) we’re going to rest, then fix issues and aim to complete the server update tomorrow.

Sorry for the delay!

After completing a slew of new features and a many more bug fixes, we’re finally ready to schedule the next server release for October 7th. For more information on this upcoming release, please see our updated preliminary server release notes. We still have a handful of small bugs to attend to before the release, but the major bugs have been addressed at this point in time.

We’re asking people to come and help us test this release on the staging server — if you find problems, please enter a bug report to let us know about the problem.

Thanks to Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and Jugdish for contributing towards this server release! (Its good to see five people hacking on one release!)

The MusicBrainz server devs (Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and myself) have been busy hacking on new features and fixing bugs for the next server release. While we’re not quite ready for the next release, we are starting to narrow down what will be in the next release and could use your help in testing these new features.

In particular we have the new folksonomy tagging feature (tag your favorite artists, releases, label and tracks like last.fm) ready to go and would like to get your feedback on how to integrate the new feature better into our web pages.

Also, please help us test various bug fixes that we’ve made.

But, like I said, we’re not ready for the next release. I personally still have a lot of open bugs I intend to tackle, and Lukáš is working on merging another feature or two from other SVN branches. But we are far enough along that we could use your feedback. Also, since some features are still in flux, we’ve also not set a firm date for when we’re going to push this release onto the main servers — at this point we’re shooting for some time in September.

For more details on what we’ve done and where to test, please see our preliminary release notes.

Searches have been re-enabled. Thank you for your patience during the downtime.

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The search server is terminally overloaded (load average over 100, last I looked), and it was taking down the main web site with it. Therefore for now I’ve had to change mb_server to show a simple error message instead of running the search.

You may be better off using the old search page
for now.

Hopefully more news later.

Tomorrow at 2000UTC (1300 PDT, 1500 EDT, 2100BST, 2200MET) we’re going to finally rotate the new Sun server into active service. We’re expecting MusicBrainz to be unavailable for about 90 minutes while we dump the database from our old server and import it to the new server.

Sorry for the inconvenience this will cause.

We’ve got the new database server finally ready to roll, except for one thing: We don’t know how to monitor the hardware RAID array.

Under Linux we would use mpt-status, but this doesn’t work for Solaris. Does anyone know how to get Solaris to tell us about the state of the hardware RAID array? If one of the drives in the array goes away, we want to know about it as soon as possible.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE: Our very own inhouseuk had the answer: raidctl — a utility that was installed all along!