[mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

[Barry Platt]

Lauri Watts wrote:
> For me, this is obvious, for an objective database of _data_ not
> guesses, we should be more specific in the rules, not relaxing them to
> allow fuzziness.  We should be saying outright that "Release level
> production, instrumental and vocal AR's should only be entered if they
> do in fact apply to every track on the release." Not opening up and
> tacitly encouraging sloppy data entry, just because it's hard to do it
> right
This has previously always been my sense too, but the way I see it we're 
not talking about "fuzzy" in the sense of "this is our best guess", 
we're meaning that a production/composition AR assigned to a release is 
*defined* as applying to some subset of the tracks on the release.  
We're not assigning this based on guesswork, but because it is the best 
information we happen to have on hand at the time.  Lack of specificity 
in the information we have in the database doesn't invalidate that 
information so long as we're clear on what it actually means, IMO. 

Regards,
Barry