[mb-devel] Permanent MBIDs

[Robert Kaye]

On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Lukáš Lalinský wrote:

> I was playing a little with the server code tonight and implemented a 
> simple way
> of "merging" MBIDs (http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/912). The patch 
> needs
> some cleanup (especially loading of objects from the database), but 
> can you
> please look at it and tell me if something like this would be 
> acceptable?

Yes, I think it should work just fine. Nice and compact -- strong work!

The only problem is that we need to wait for a schema change release to 
get this up on the server. If the folks from last.fm ever get around to 
signing the data contract (hi Martin!) that gives us the legal right to 
use the last.fm relationship data then we should get these two changes 
out in one release. But, this is not something I want to do before 
Burning Man. :-)

What other schema changes should we batch into this? Multi language 
artist aliases?


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