[mb-style] Guest performances again

[Lauri Watts]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
> If I understand the both of you correctly, we have a situation where
>  different editors are interpreting this differently.
>
>  I'm not sure if it's true or not, but let's assume that Madonna
>  doesn't have a standard group of musicians which record all her albums
>  and that different drummer are used on different albums. Chris would
>  use "performed guest drums" AR:s while Lauri would use "performed
>  drums" on Madonna's albums. Correct?
>
>  To me, "guest drums" in such a situation is about as sensible as
>  "guest composed". I think "guest" should imply at least some level of
>  special status, even if not necessarily noted as "guest" in the
>  liners. If the artist is somehow noted on the cover (duet with Artist
>  Foo) then that would probably be "guest" (and a feat. in most cases).
>  I don't know if I'm making any sense, does anybody else see a problem
>  here?

I don't really think this one's a big problem.   I don't think most of
us really care if the 'guest' or not is used, nor if the attribute
disappeared entirely or was retroactively automatically applied to
every AR that doesn't have it.

Sometimes it's unclear what we'll need when a new feature is
implemented, and things we think will be vital turn out to not be,
after a few thousand edits are done.  I suspect this is one of them.
In hindsight, I don't know why we didn't make 'featured' one of the
attributes.  Picard is certainly smart enough now to pick that up (it
already does from the track titles, with the appropriate plugin.)

I've never seen anyone arguing about the guest attribute though (and
we certainly like to argue about things around here.)

-- 
Lauri Watts