mb_server is now hosted on Git —
Today we are officially marking the transition of mb_server (that’s the code name for the MusicBrainz Server – the website) from Subversion to Git. This is now hosted at git.musicbrainz.org, and the “musicbrainz-server/core.git” repository contains the stable and unstable development branches (named master and next, respectively).
If you are just interested in setting up MusicBrainz locally, [...]
Posted: 2010-02-08 22:37 GMT
Sorry for the downtime! —
Hi folks, just a quick announcement – our main web server frontend had some minor problems earlier, but we’ve since sorted it out. It seems to have only effected the web frontend, and not other services such as the web service.
We’re back up now though!
Posted: 2010-02-01 13:19 GMT
Testing the NGS live data feed —
If anyone would like to test out the NGS replication, which I’ve setup from the test server, follow these instructions:
Download and install the mb_server source code from SVN trunk. 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 /admin
./psql READWRITE
insert [...]
Posted: 2010-01-29 19:08 GMT
Database on test server updated —
The database on the test server has been updated with the latest data and search indexes to match the latest work that ijabz’ has done. This update was in preparation for testing the replication system, which I’ll invite the general public to try in a few hours.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The passwords on the test server are [...]
Posted: 2010-01-29 10:06 GMT