Monthly Statistics
During November the Metron Project added the following to its database:
- Users: 31
- Issues: 2,210
- Creators: 104
- Characters: 426
Thanks to everyone that contributed!
Metron-Tagger v3.1.0
I released a new version
of Metron-Tagger today that adds the ability to migrate data from a
comic that contains a ComicInfo.xml.
The conversion from ComicInfo.xml -> MetronInfo.xml does have some caveats though:
- Elements containing data with a comma in a delimited ComicInfo element. If for example, the
Title element contained
a story call "Babs: True Blue, I Love You" and it was originally written with a tool other than Metron-Tagger it
will split the story into two element items: Babs: True Blue and I Love You .
- Ratings.
We map
these to the enums used in MetronInfo, but it's not perfect since the ComicInfo documentation isn't terribly clear how
it defines it values, so if you feel our mapping is incorrect please notify us and explain what it should be. Also,
I've seen some users use non-valid values which obviously won't work.
- Series Format. We've also done our best
to map
the series format, but this is even less defined the age rating since this is just a text element in the schema, and
could be anything. We've used
the values
in Comic-Tagger to handle the conversion, but this isn't perfect.
To migrate your ComicInfo.xml to MetronInfo.xml without any online lookup would simply run:
metron-tagger --migrate /path/to/comics
If you wanted to tag you comics with data from the Metron Comic Book Database, and migrate the data from the existing
ComicInfo.xml for those comics not on Metron, you would run:
metron-tagger -om --migrate /path/to/comics
If you run across any bugs or have suggestions for improvements, please file
a Bug Report or Feature Request.
Server Upgrade
Finally got around to upgrading the
server, and it was fairly uneventful. Yay! 🎉
OpenCollective
The main repository has finally reached 100 stars, and so most likely in the next week or two, I'll set up a funding
option at Open Collective to help defray the server costs and help with increasing future
server capacity.
Future
Now the bulk of the work is done with getting the MetronInfo out the
door and some initial tooling to generate them, I'm planning to work on some low-hanging bugs with the website over the next month
or so, before starting any large scale projects.
Anyway, that's all I've got for this month. Take care!
