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It is frequent that some recordings are mistakenly assigned to the wrong artist, who has the same name as the correct artist. Having a daily report for such recordings would help editors to clean up such mistakes in the MusicBrainz database.

The objective is to create a daily report of MusicBrainz recordings which have the same name and are credited to different artists of the same name. Two steps are necessary to reach it:

1. Understanding the database schema and creating a specific SQL query
2. Adding a new report based on this query

Requirements:

• A working development environment, including a MusicBrainz server in standalone mode. (See the documentation for information on how to do this.) Installation should be fairly straightforward to complete, but it could be quite long depending on your computer performance. Note that running the server code is only supported on Linux systems and that you need at least ~20 GB of space to install it.

Steps include:

1. Create a personal account in the issue tracker and assign yourself the linked ticket
2. Create a branch to modify the code (SQL, Perl, Template Toolkit) with style
3. Test your changes on your local MusicBrainz server and show us a screenshot
4. Create a pull request to submit your changes
5. Wait for review and make additional changes if required until approval

If you have questions, at any step, feel free to ping us on #metabrainz (IRC channel).