On 22/04/2016 10:42, Dave Morriss wrote: > On 22/04/16 08:41, Mike Ray wrote: >> >> On the subject of series... >> >> I've enjoyed Klaatu's recent shows on a couple of XML parsers for Python >> in the 'Little bit of Python' series. >> >> I use something called 'pyoo' to generate quite complex Libre Office >> spreadsheets and thought of doing a show for this series. >> >> Do series have owners? In other words will Klaatu be upset if I make a >> show and put it in the series 'A Little bit of Python'? > > There are series which are "owned" but I think this is an historical > feature or relates to time-dependent shows. I have tried to make sure > that any series I have suggested or caused to come into existence are > open to all, and I know that has been the trend lately. > > This particular one was originally closed (I think) but is now open to > all, so go ahead. Sounds like a great topic. > > If you examine http://hackerpublicradio.org/series.php the title, show > count and description are there for all existing series. > > To be honest, I think the whole series thing needs to be reviewed and > rationalised a bit. I'd like to make it clearer what each series is > about, whether it's open for additions or not (e.g. SELF Talks 2009: > probably not), maybe something about the date range of the episodes in > it, and other stuff. > > Oh, and we have discussed allowing shows to be members of multiple > series - something that the database design can't cater for now. That's > just crazy talk though :-) > > Dave >
Shows belonging to multiple series? Sounds like a job for a many-to-many relationship. Don't let Mr. Fallon code this one ;-) Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Eyes-free Linux: http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ Raspberry VI: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
