[mb-users] Quick idea... "stub" releases

[Brian Schweitzer]

>  Just a quick idea I wanted to throw by the list... Has there been any
>  thought into "stub" releases? By this, I mean the release would show
>  up on the artist page, but if the user clicks it they will be told
>  that no one has yet entered information about the release, and
>  encourage the user to fill in the missing details. This would be
>  convenient for people who have editing projects - filling an artist
>  discography or whatever. It is also lets us easily enter releases that
>  have been announced (possibly with a release date) - but the TOC is
>  not yet official.
>
>  Thoughts? I can see problems, and these will probably be more than the
>  benefits, but I thought I'd see what you clever people thought before
>  I made a ticket :-)

Great idea!  Could it be used to pull off "entry in progress" for
those complex releases too?  (The 70 track VA releases with no listed
artists, where you're looking each and every track up in BMI...  and
never feel like doing all 70 in a single session...).

Brian