Development/Summer of Code/2020/CritiqueBrainz
Ideas
IMPORTANT NOTE: CritiqueBrainz will not be participating in GSoc this year!
Gamification of the activity of reviews and ratings on CritiqueBrainz
Proposed mentor: alastair, ruaok Languages/Skills: Python, Flask, SQL, Javascript
Related ticket: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/CB-308
Add support for reviewing and rating more entities
Proposed mentor: alastair, ruaok
Languages/skills: Python, Flask, SQL, JavaScript
Currently, we allow rating release groups, places and events on CritiqueBrainz. We'd like to get someone to add support for reviewing other MusicBrainz entities
such as works, artists, recordings and labels. This would allow us to later migrate ratings from MusicBrainz to CritiqueBrainz. This would involve some backend work interacting with the MusicBrainz database to get information about the new entities, changing the ws and the frontend to allow reviewing and rating the new entities.
See https://tickets.metabrainz.org/projects/CB/issues/CB-270
This is a relatively smaller task. So a detailed proposal would probably involve this as a sub-task along with a task involving import of MusicBrainz ratings into CritiqueBrainz. This will require larger amounts of discussion and delving into MusicBrainz too.
Review aggregation
Proposed mentor: alastair, ruaok
Languages/skills: Python, Flask, SQL, JavaScript
One way we could make CritiqueBrainz more useful and interesting is by providing reviews for music, places, and other things is by aggregating reviews from other sources. This is a nice way to provide access to different perspectives from different authors, in addition to reviews that we have already. Even better when we don't have any reviews of our own.
This is useful particularly in cases when we can't "import" reviews (like we've done with BBC Music ones), because they are not distributed under an open (CC) license. But what we can do is provide a link (perhaps with additional info). So something like Google News, but for reviews (of music or something else).