MusicBottle/Integrating Commercial Services

General outline

Needs to be expanded quite a bit; see notes below.

1. Make a post to musicbottle@lists.musicbrainz.org with details.
2. Discuss pros and cons, including relevance for current agreements.
   1. discuss implementation possibilities.
3. Vote or make decision in some other way.

Notes

On the process

• its all about the community and it contributors.

• when someone enters the process, they should have an idea of what the expected outcome might be.
• meaning that someone who meets all the criteria outlined by out should reasonable be able to expect to work with us.

• another thing to consider are limited time agreements.
• we'll try and work with you for x months.
• if we dont like it, you get the boot.
• making that clear can avoid misgivings when someone gets the boot.
• and we should leave booting someone as a clear option.
• we should not enter into anything that forces us to:
  1. do something long term
  2. exclusively.
  3. exposes us to liability
  4. provide indemnification for anything.

• if there's no useful, music-related content provided, there's no way we should have them in here

On who should decide the outcome

• [ruaok is] happy to lay my experience out for people when bringing a decision to the table.
• another possibility is to make a committee of people whose members can vote on these decisions, but the committee's communications are open for everyone to see.