I totally understand you frustration, Sarah, for my it's the same. But I just don't want to quit OL since it seems to be the only project which is supposed to be an open community producing free data.
If technically and from a workflow point of view, getting pull request accepted is possible, should a few people unite to code this feature? Am 06.06.2013 16:25, schrieb Burkhard Plache: > I can only echo the need for guidance on how merging of editions is > supposed to work. > I came here from Goodreads after they sold out to Amazon, and hope to > contribute here. > Still learning... > Burkhard > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren > <reosare...@musicbrainz.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Sarah Breau <smbr...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Sometimes, I find it frustrating not to be able to merge multiple >>>> editions into one record (I only can do half of the work). Sometimes, I >>>> writer a support request but sometimes I don't. Simply because this causes >>>> more work for me (explain which record should be deleted why) and to some >>>> other person (which I now know is volunteer). Perhaps I would be more >>>> active >>>> editing if I could do more myself. >>>> But clearly, you can't give admin rights to everyone (maybe if deletion >>>> could be reverted, might work but that opens up the whole discussion about >>>> changing the source code I suppose). But is there a known process how to >>>> get >>>> more involved and get more privileges? >>>> >>>> xan >>> I have to admit, I am far more likely to work on GoodReads records (where >>> anyone can merge editions into works) than I am at OL at this point. I used >>> to spend a lot of time editing on OL but have really dropped off because the >>> multiple works problem is just so frustrating. I suspect that when this >>> problem is solved I will come back, but right now I find that unless you can >>> make a record all the way right, it's not worth the time to edit it and then >>> submit a request (or, more likely, 6 requests). Ugh. >> >> Indeed, why developer time hasn't been dedicated to this instead of other >> less obviously needed issues kinda amazes me. Especially if the high-ups >> want a community to form - frustrating users making basic editing impossible >> doesn't seem like the best way for that. Unsure if there's anyone to whom >> this could be said that has any power and would listen though :( >> >> Greetings, >> Nicolás >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list >> Ol-discuss@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
