[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Chad Wilson <chad.wilson at gmx.net> wrote:

> Depending on the implementation, this sounds like it could become a very
> unmaintainable and regrettable hack to me if not thought through very
> clearly. Works lists for all artists in big unmaintainable lists? We
> currently can't merge, move or work with NATs at all; will the same
> apply to these works lists if they're tacked on without the concept of a
> song/work/movement actually being added?
>
> Will taggers be disabled from tagging against them somehow? How will we
> vote on their addition/removal?
>
> Are we proposing to write/invent all the generalised style guidelines
> that will go into defining what is a unique work and how it should be
> managed within the hack?
>
> Most scary is that this proposal still sounds like a CSG proposal (in
> which case I wouldn't care less), yet its scope appears to be much much
> wider.
>

I don't see what is scary here. A few technical issues should be polished in
order to make it work correctly, I agree, but even before they are, it will
still be an improvement:
- no editing? then don't AR to it until you have the precise correct work
included.
- if a tagger uses the work lists, so what? Even if someone inserts a PUID
on a work, the PUID will be obviously meaningless, that's all. I agree this
should not be possible, but preventing it could be done later. Until then,
all the users who will have done the mistake (there should not be many of
them anyhow) won't have broken anything.
- I fail to see how defining the style guidelines for the work lists would
be more difficult than the current CSG!
- this is not really a CSG proposal, since as Brian wrote, the actual track
titles would be entered as they are printed. It would even restrict the CSG
to the work list, thus allowing users who don't know anything about
classical and who don't really want to learn it free to stay in blissful
ignorance and still enter their "classical" releases n MB!

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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