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 ro...@orcus.priv.at 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

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 (more

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 own

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 this:

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 ro...@orcus.priv.at 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 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 think

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 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 parent/child one. This was never implemented, and there's a ticket

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 hibiscuskazen...@gmail.com 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

[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 feel

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

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