Help Wanted

MusicBrainz has great ambitions, and already gets tons of support from the community that has built up around the project. We need all kinds of help: Editing the data, voting on other people's edits, documenting existing software and testing new features. However, we really need software developers and testers to develop the next great MusicBrainz feature. If you think MusicBrainz is cool and you're a motivated hacker/tester and hack on software for fun, please let us know!

If you have most, but not all the skills required we'd be willing to help you learn the missing skills. We're looking for self motivated people willing to learn new things and to challenge the status quo. All of our positions have the following benefits:

• Undying gratitude of the MusicBrainz community
• Your name in lights
• Excellent resume fodder
• yourname@musicbrainz.org mail address

Open Positions and Tasks

The list of open tasks is kept on our Bug Tracker, and on MusicBrainz Development, and they change quite frequently.

MusicBrainz Server Developer

If you do not have all the skills listed in a section, and would like to pick up the remaining skills, then working on MusicBrainz might be the right way to do that. As long as you can self direct your learning, we can help point you in the right direction and get you up and moving. Our web developers need the skills listed below:

• Mid-level to experienced perl hacker
• Catalyst, Template Toolkit, Moose experience
• Know XML and/or RDF
• SQL Experience, PostgreSQL is our poison of choice.

PyMusicBrainz2 Developer (Python client library)

We're looking for a maintainer for our Python interface to our XMLWebService:

• Experience with Python
• General understanding of Web Services.
• Linux lovers preferred, Mac OS X devotees welcome, Win32 Python hackers needed!
• Know XML.

The immediate task at hand is to add support for Release Groups to pymb2.

libdiscid Developer (C based Audio CD identification client library)

We're looking for a maintainer for our discid library:

• Experienced C programmer
• Experience writing/maintaining a C library
• Linux lovers preferred, Mac OS X devotees welcome, Win32 Python hackers needed!
• Experience with CD-ROMs, ISRCs

The immediate task at hand is to add support for reading ISRCs and barcodes from CD-TEXT.

If you're interested in any of these volunteer positions, please send mail to helpwanted at musicbrainz [dot] org or join us in IRC on irc.freenode.net channel #musicbrainz.