Finished Work

Finished MusicBrainz Development Work

These parts of MusicBrainzDevelopment are now finished. See also FutureWork and CurrentWork for stuff that is not finished (yet). Please enter a date with any new entry and describe it a sentence (using TextInsteadOfLists).

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2005

I have just dumped stuff here from CurrentWork wich is finshed but needs reformatting, will take this up later, sorry. --DonRedman

AdvancedRelationships (finally!)

• 2005-01:

• RobertKaye has done some heavy coding on AdvancedRelationships and worked together with DonRedman who IdeaChampioned a SimpleAdvancedRelationshipsInterface. They have then set up an initial set of AdvancedRelationshipTypes and then released the wole stuff to the world!

• AdvancedRelationships allows the MusicBrainz users to define new and flexible relationships betwen more or less any data element ("artist a and artist b are married", "artist c performed on track d" etc.)

Some Simple Improvements

• 2005-01-08, DaveEvans:

• This weekend I've been hacking on a few simple improvements:

• • A way for automods to temporarily drop their privileges, thus allowing them to enter a change which will go to the vote
  • A new preference, "When I vote on a moderation, mail me all future notes for that moderation" (I still need to test this one)
  • Feature Request #1038665: Display the number of subscribers for each artist. Also, a new preference: "Allow other users to see my subscribed artists", and new pages to see artists to which a user is subscribed, and users who subscribe to a given artist.

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2004

Memcached, Persistent MusicBrainzIDs and InterNationalization

• 2004-12:

• DaveEvans is working on making much better use of memcached, including the use of pgmemcache. I'm also working on making Persistent MusicBrainzIDs (so that if, say, two artists are merged, then the ID of the old artist still finds the new artist). Plus, rudimentary support for specifying the language of each album has started.

Official Style Guide and Documentation in the Wiki

• 2004-10:

• TarragonAllen and DonRedman have been moving the OfficialStyleGuidelines to the Wiki; this project will probably include the incorporation of some of the ProposedStyleGuidelines.

• 2004-11:

• @alex has also moved OfficialDocumentation (OfficialMusicBrainzDocumentation) from the main pages to the MusicBrainzDocumentation section of the Wiki. We are now RestructuringTheDocumentation to update it here and then move it back to static HTML on the main site (or preferably, modify the main site to link to (or display) the Wiki versions of the pages wherever feasible).

International Capitalization

• 2004-06:

• A new CapitalizationStandard that includes InterNationalization is being worked out.

• Isn't this more or less finished? --DonRedman
  • The Wiki pages are done, but the OfficialStyleGuide doesn't reference them yet. Now that the OfficialStyleGuidelines are on the Wiki, these should be linked in. @alex

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• AddDiscID:

• DaveEvans implemented "Add Disc ID" moderations. Like "Add TRM" edits (and others), these are auto-approved edits; but having the data added via a moderation provides an audit trail of changes. Included in the November 2004 server update.

• AdvancedRelationships:

• This major new feature allows MusicBrainz to detailed relationships between artists, albums, tracks and URLs. Included in the April 2005 server update.

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• ArtistAnnotations and AlbumAnnotations:

• MatthiasFriedrich created the first working implementation, and DaveEvans finished the feature and released it in the November 2004 server update.

• ReplicationMechanics:

• In May 2004, the first mirror NL went live.

• AmazonMatching:

• Introduced in April 2004. Most AmazonMismatches are now fixed. As MusicBrainz is now a TaxExemptOrganization, we can even make money with this.

• IconSuggestions:

• In January 2004 we built a new icon set for the MusicBrainzTagger. The current tagger uses these icons now and the page only shows the past discussions.

• CapitalizationProposal:

• Tom Hull's CapitalizationProposal was accepted and made the CapitalizationStandard, along with various common acronyms (DJ etc.).

• ImplementingEmailCommunications:

• Confirmation of e-mail addresses went live in June 2003.

• PerlServerUpgrade:

• Notes about the process of upgrading the server from Perl 5.6 to 5.8 (in 2003?)

• ModerationClassesTestList:

• Things to test before the ModerationClasses2 branch went live (in 2002?).

• PageLayout:

• Rob and Dave fleshing out the structure of the site just prior to launch (in 2001?) -- see SiteMenuArrangement for a more recent proposal (May 2004, updated Sept. 2004).

• ModerationInterfaceSuggestions:

• Rather outdated (or historical) list of suggestions. I am not even sure how much of this has been implemented.

• CompletedAndOldDiscussions:

• Archived discussions (implemented, dismissed, or outdated). This page dates frome before we did RestructureTheWiki and is really really old.