Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-11 Thread Ulrich Klauer
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Gary McGuy has parents Ebeneezer McGuy and Anonymous Female #38475 > Andy McGuy has parents Ebeneezer McGuy and Anonymous Female #837212 > Therefore they are step-brothers. Half, not step. > This would potentially triple the number of persons in the database. As your o

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Am 2015-02-10 um 22:42 schrieb Robert Bihlmeyer: > Of course, some intelligence in software would be needed to show the > transitive relationships. But that would be nice, anyway, so that "don't > make relationship clusters" makes sense. > Regarding grandparent relationships, we have a fair number

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Am 2015-02-10 um 23:37 schrieb Tom Crocker: > On 10 Feb 2015 21:42, "Robert Bihlmeyer" wrote: > >> This would also make half-brother relationships superflous: you could >> just link both brothers to their shared parent. [...] > Not just half brother, all sibling relationships, assuming you have en

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-10 Thread Ulrich Klauer
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > a question I had on my mind for some time, that could have some impact > on this: what is the policy on adding people that have no reasonable > place in our database (i.e. never performed in any role related to > music), but are useful as "relationship proxies"? I don't

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Crocker
On 10 Feb 2015 21:42, "Robert Bihlmeyer" wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 2015-02-02 um 13:50 schrieb Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren: > > Ages ago (before my style time) an RFC passed to implement "step" and > > "half" attributes for the sibling relationship, and "step" for the > > parent/child one. > a question

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Hi, Am 2015-02-02 um 13:50 schrieb Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren: > Ages ago (before my style time) an RFC passed to implement "step" and > "half" attributes for the sibling relationship, and "step" for the > parent/child one. a question I had on my mind for some time, that could have some impact on

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-02 Thread SwissChris
I think with Nicolás that this is overkill. I vividly remember the editor who tried to add relationships for even the remotest theoretically imaginable stuff – not only for family relationships, but for the vocal tree (http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Advanced_Vocal_Tree) and the like. IMO all

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Crocker
Although I've not come across a need for it while editing, as a step-brother with step-parents they're (obviously) a different kind of relationship but an important one. So I wouldn't use brother to mean step-brother but think we should be able to represent it. I think it would be odd to limit the

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-02 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Rachel Dwight wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren < > reosare...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > Ages ago (before my style time) an RFC passed to implement "step" and > "half" attributes for the sibling relationship, and "step" for the >

Re: [mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-02 Thread Rachel Dwight
> On Feb 2, 2015, at 6:50 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren > wrote: > > Hi! > > Ages ago (before my style time) an RFC passed to implement "step" and "half" > attributes for the sibling relationship, and "step" for the parent/child one. > This was never implemented, and there's a ticket for it

[mb-style] Step and half brother data. Do we really want this?

2015-02-02 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
Hi! Ages ago (before my style time) an RFC passed to implement "step" and "half" attributes for the sibling relationship, and "step" for the parent/child one. This was never implemented, and there's a ticket for it still (well, 5...) at http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-9 I personally f