[Musicbrainz-style] Style Council areas

[John Carter]

Don Redman wrote:

> I have two issues with the whole process:
>
> On Tue, 17 May 2005 00:34:42 -0400, Alexander Dupuy wrote:
>
>> There's a list of the areas and sub-areas on the MoinMoin wikidocs; this
>
>
> Please do not use this wiki for collaboration!
>
> The wikidocs.wd wiki is nothing more than a hack to display wiki 
> content  on the main site. It is *not* a real wiki. The new 
> WikiDocsConcept states  that what is currently the UseMod wiki will 
> eventually replace all other  sources of documentation.
> Since it is much less work to just convert the whole wiki to MoinMion 
> than  to integrate and intertwingle new pages, I will make a copy of 
> that /wd/  page on UseMod tomorrow or so (about the time when Alex 
> announces the  style council).
>
>> The second matter is the division of the various areas and sub-areas
>> amongst ourselves; the primary purpose of this is to divide the work up
>> in a more-or-less obvious way so that when new issues come up, each of
>> us will know whether we need to be tracking it.
>
> In my eyes this division is far too fine-grained. I cannot see how 
> someone  could make a decision on 1.1 (MetaData.LinkTypes) without 
> touching the ara  of 1.3 (MetaData.LinkUsage). Similarly something 
> related to 3.3  (Genre.Electronic) will probably refer to either 
> prsentation or MetaData.
> This smells a bit like the way big corporations divide tasks between 
> many  people so that at the end eveybody can say: I was not my job ;-)
>
> But MusciBrainz is an open source project. The "rough consensus" 
> principle  works rather well here. It will work even better within the 
> StyleCouncil  once we all have some work-experience with each other.
>
> I therefore suggest something else: Every one of us should specify  
> him/herself and without necesarily fitting into your schema what 
> areas  he/she will get involved in.


I agree with Don about both the wiki & the council.

There's style issues that come up that I feel passionately about, and 
issues I don't care about.  Hopefully with a reasonably sized council, 
every issue will have enough interested parties to discuss it properly & 
reach a concensus that represents the wider MB community.

John.