[mb-users] Seeing track edits for a release

[Robert Kaye]

On Dec 4, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> I understand that it's pretty trick to get all this stuff working in a
> snap. I am primarily interested in NGS as a classical editor. Any way
> I can help bring it to fruition?

For some background on why NGS isn't here yet, read:

http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/09/addressing_musi_1.html

The problem is that NGS is too big for the load of developers we have  
right now. Its high time that MusicBrainz got some paid developers on  
staff. I have a nefarious plan for how to pull this off, but its  
going to take a few months more to line up. There are a couple of  
companies that are interested in seeing NGS come about and are  
interesting in chipping serious $$$ to make this happen. I need to  
work on the BizDev side of things to get these companies to agree to  
a course of action and then fork over $$$. Then hire a person or two,  
get the team working on a warm-up clean-up release to get the team  
dynamics settled and then go to tackle NGS in two or three phases.

NGS is going to be my major focus for 2007 and I am shooting to have  
1 or 2 phases of NGS rolled out in 2007.

How can you help? Unless you have major $$$ or are a hard core perl  
developer there is little at this stage you can do. :-(

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