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Revision as of 00:33, 6 March 2010

Proposals

Changes to MusicBrainz are agreed to using this proposal process.

The process is simple. Someone has an idea, either for something new, or for a change to how something existing is done. After discussion of the idea has taken place, one person takes control of the idea. This person is then known as the Idea Champion for that proposal. The Idea Champion has the responsibility for moving the idea from a vague concept to a clear proposal, then working for Style Council passage of the proposal.

Though it is somewhat dated, Turning Your Ideas into Reality is well worth a read.

Definitions

Idea Champion
The person who currently is handling a proposal.
Style Council
Any members of the Style mailing list who wish to take part in discussion of a proposal. There is no formal membership to the style council. If you are an interested contributor to MusicBrainz and reasonably well informed about existing StyleGuidelines, MusicBrainz development, and the general culture of the project, you are welcome to subscribe to the Style mailing list and join the discussions. Also see the history of the Style Council.

Process for Idea Champions

  1. Come up with an idea for something new or something that should be changed.
  2. Create a new wikipage for the proposal. This should be located at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:(you)/(proposal name) and assigned the most relevant of [[Category:Proposal]] [[Category:Proposed Style]] or [[Category:Proposed Advanced Relationship Type]].
    • The proposal template should be at the top of the page:
{{Template:proposal
|proposal=
|discussion=
|champion=
|rfc=
|rfv=
|status=
|ar=
|style=
|trac=
}}
  1. proposal, rfc, rfv, status: Leave these blank
    discussion: A link to the initial discussion (IRC, forums, or style list) of an idea.
    champion: You.
    ar: If your proposal changes or adds an Advanced Relationship, then "true", otherwise leave the value blank.
    style: If your proposal changes or adds a style guideline, then "true", otherwise leave the value blank.
    trac: The trac ticket number for your proposal.
  2. Send an RFC announcement to the style list.
    • The RFC should have "RFC:" at the beginning of the subject line.
    • The body of the email should contain:
    1. The expected expiration date for the RFC.
    2. A brief summary of the proposal.
    3. A link to the proposal's wikipage.
    4. Links to any previous discussion (IRC, style list, users list, forums, etc) which led to the proposal.
  3. During the period where the RFC is active, discussion of it will occur on the style list.
    • Anyone can change the proposal's wikipage, though it is encouraged that any changes which go beyond minor formatting, spelling, or example changes should be left to the Idea Champion.
    • If you are not the Idea Champion, and you have sufficient disagreement with the proposal that you feel an entirely different proposal needs to be created, a new proposal wikipage should be created, for which you would become that proposal's Idea Champion. Do not rewrite the original proposal wikipage and attempt to take over the idea from the original Idea Champion!
    • Where there is disagreement, the Idea Champion should work to find consensus.
    • On minor points, the Idea Champion maintains control of the proposal. However, for the Idea Champion, you ignore dissent at the risk of the proposal - disagreement can easily become vetos during the RFV period.
    • If discussion on an RFC is still ongoing, and there is not yet agreement that the proposal is ready to pass, the RFC period may be extended. The RFC period only defines a minimum, not a maximum, time period for debate.
  4. When the RFC's initial period has expired, the Idea Champion (or a Style Leader) will send out an RFV for the proposal.
    • The RFV email should have "RFV:" at the beginning of the subject line.
    • The body of the email should contain:
    1. The expected passage date for the RFV.
    2. A brief summary of the proposal, including a summary of any changes which have been made since the RFC.
    3. A link to the proposal's wikipage.
  5. During the RFV period, any member of the style council may veto the RFV. However, vetos must have merit (no vetos simply because "I don't like this proposal"). Vetos must be publicly cast, on the style list, and should detail what problems are believed to remain in the RFV, and what changes could be made such that the veto would be cleared. These suggested changes must be reasonable; if the changes would entail a rewrite, or rethink, of the proposal itself, then a counter-proposal wikipage should be created, and the decision as to which proposal will pass should be left to the style council.
    • If an RFV receives a veto, the proposal reverts to an RFC. There is no minimum time period at this point, but no new RFV should be attempted until the problems raised in any vetos have been discussed and/or addressed. A proposal may revert to an RFC, or have replacement RFCs sent, as many times as is needed.
  6. If the end of the RFV period is reached, and no vetos have been cast, then the proposal has passed. The Idea Champion is now responsible for ensuring that the changes described by the proposal are enacted (changing wiki pages, entering edits, creating trac or jira tickets, etc.). This includes remembering to remove the proposal template from the proposal's wikipage!

Time Periods

  • RFC: 7 days
  • RFV: 2 days

Style Leaders

Style Elder

Definitions

RFC (Request for Change)
The initial discussion period for any proposal
RFV (Request for Veto)
The decision period for any proposal
Style Leader
They guide the process and keep it from getting stuck. If the council cannot reach consensus they will make a decision. This position was previously called "secretary".
Style Elder
The benevolent dictator of MusicBrainz StyleIssues. If the process goes off the rails, or if someone disputes the style leaders' decisions, the elder steps in.

Special Procedures

Cover Art Relationship Type, Has Lyrics At Relationship Type, and Has Score At Relationship Type each only allow links to whitelisted sites. To add any site to the whitelist for any one of these advanced relationships, the following additional procedure must be followed.

  1. Add the site to the list on the relevant page for the AR.
  2. Using the normal proposal process, send a RFC requesting the addition of the site.
    • The RFC should be limited to covering only 1 site.
    • Rhe RFC must provide rationale and evidence for why the site can reasonably be believed to have permission to contain the content to which we would be linking.
  3. The Style Council will then make sure that the site itself is legal; that it has a right/license/whatever to store the content (lyrics/scores/cover art) which which the relationships would be link.
    • If any situation arises where "legal" is questionable depending on local laws, MusicBrainz is based in California, so US/California law wins.
  4. Once the RFV has passed, permission must be obtained, in writing (email is fine), from the site which would be added to the whitelist.
    • This permission may be requested prior to the passage of the RFV.

Only when permission has been received and a RFV has passed may the site be added as a whitelisted site for the applicable relationship type(s).

Current Proposals

Next New Proposal Number

Next new proposal number: 102

March 2010 Proposal Cleanup

NOTE: Effective March 24, 2010, any proposal which has no Champion will be closed, including any associated proposal pages and trac tickets! If you do not want to see one of these proposals die, then adopt it today, then make it happen!

Style Proposals

RFC # Title & Wikipage Champion Affects Trac ticket Status RFC RFC Date RFV RFV Date Passage Date
RFC-1 AudioBook Style New guideline 2147 Abandoned
RFC-7 Capitalization Standard Spanish Toni Panadès (t0n3t) and reosarevok New guideline 5635 RFC RFC 2010-03-05 2010-03-12 2010-03-14
RFC-8 Capitalization Standard Swedish ? New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-9 Capitalization Standard Turkish Yasar Suleyman Kocak New guideline In development
RFC-10 Capitalization Standard Vietnamese jesus2099 New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-19 Game Soundtrack Style BrianFreud New guideline 2146 Discussion
RFC-20 Instrumental Style ETI style for instrumental tracks 2142 Inactive original RFC 2006-04-20 ? ?
RFC-22 Live Bootleg Style BrianFreud Replacement for Untitled Bootleg Style 1053 Passed, to be implemented RFC 2010-02-22 RFV 2010-03-01 2010-03-03
RFC-23 Live Track Style BrianFreud Replacement for Untitled Bootleg Style 2141 Passed, to be implemented RFC 2010-02-22 RFV 2010-03-01 2010-03-03
RFC-25 Medley Style ? New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-27 Multi-Track Movement Style ? New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-28 Musical Soundtrack Style BrianFreud New guideline 2146 Discussion Related thread
RFC-42 Release Artist Style navap New guideline 2143 Abandoned?
RFC-43 Release Country Style (additional page) Jacobbrett Release events 2145 Discussion
RFC-46 Release Region Style ? New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-47 Release Title ? New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-53 Soundtrack Style BrianFreud New guideline 2146 Discussion
RFC-54 Soundtrack Title Style BrianFreud New guideline 2146 Discussion
RFC-61 Track Title Style warp Naming of track titles ? Abandoned?
RFC-62 Untitled Release Style Bogdanb? New guideline ? Abandoned?
RFC-64 Release Event Style Jacobbrett Release events ? Discussion
RFC-66 User Tags Standards ? New guideline, folksonomy ? Abandoned?
RFC-67 Revised Classical Style Guide BrianFreud Rewrites all of CSG 4426 RFC, On hold pending NGS release RFC 2009-02-15
RFC-82 Part Number Style rewrite BrianFreud Part Number Style 5066 On hold pending RFC-61
RFC-101 Capitalization Standard Catalan Toni Panadès (t0n3t) New guideline None RFC RFC 2010-03-05 2010-03-12 2010-03-14

Advanced Relationship Proposals

RFC # Title & Wikipage Champion Affects Trac ticket Status RFC RFC Date RFV RFV Date Passage Date
RFC-2 Has Score At relationship mbuser838171846981 New release-URL AR
New track-URL AR
5634 Passed, to be implemented RFC 2010-02-20 RFV 2010-03-01 2010-03-03
RFC-4 Redesign of the Vocal Relationship Attribute ? AR modification 1140 Discussion
RFC-18 Engineer Relationship Type Chris B New artist-release AR
New artist-track AR
3565 Passed but needs server support for 3-element ARs, see RFC-91 ? 2007-05-22 RFV RFV 2008-02-01 2008-03-02
RFC-21 Linking Different Artist Names ? ? ? Abandoned? ? ? ? ?
RFC-26 Miscellaneous Production Relationship Type/Artwork ? ? ? Abandoned? ? ? ? ?
RFC-29 Narrator Relationship Type ? New vocal role 1368 Abandoned? ? ? ? ?
RFC-35 Part Of Series Relationship Type voiceinsideyou New release-release, or RG-RG, AR ? Discussion
RFC-39 Reader Relationship Type ? New vocal role 1370 Abandoned? ? ? ? ?
RFC-52 Single From Album Relationship Type ? New release-release AR ? Abandoned? ? ? ? ?
RFC-55 Speaker Relationship Type ? New vocal role 1731 Abandoned? ? ? ? ?
RFC-68 Add Has News Coverage AR ruoak New release-URL AR 5636 RFC RFC 2010-02-28 2010-03-07 2010-03-09
RFC-69 Defining instruments and vocals for members of bands ? Artist-artist AR enhancement 1141 Abandoned?
RFC-70 add attribute 'translated' to Lyricist Relationship Type zout Artist-Track and Artist-Release AR enhancement 4424 Needs wikipage RFC3 RFC4 2010-02-27 2010-03-06 2010-03-08
RFC-74 "Sampled speech" as AR for tracks ? ? 3032 Abandoned?
RFC-82 Resolve FoundingMemberDatesQuestion BrianFreud artist-artist AR 1009 RFC RFC 2010-03-01 2010-03-08 2010-03-10
RFC-83 Add track-url Wikipedia AR BrianFreud New track-URL AR 3852 In development
RFC-84 Add 'provides discographic information about' AR BrianFreud New track-URL AR 3734 In development
RFC-85 Adding vocal attribute to Arranger AR Chris B New artist-release AR
New artist-track AR
3564 MBS-488 Passed, Waiting for implementation RFV 2008-01-08 2008-01-??
RFC-86 Add Release-Track Relationship for pre-gap tracks ? New track-release AR 4235 On hold until after NGS is released
RFC-87 Add 'is a project of' AR ? New artist-artist AR 882, #s 3 and 4 Abandoned?
RFC-88 Add microblog/Twitter AR Andrew John Hughes New artist-URL AR
New label-URL AR
5330 Abandoned?
RFC-89 Add Facebook AR Andrew John Hughes New artist-URL AR
New label-URL AR
5329 Abandoned?
RFC-90 Has Lyrics At Extension BrianFreud New artist-URL AR 5637 RFC RFC 2010-02-28 2010-03-07 2010-03-09
RFC-91 Fix Production Relationship Class (aka: convert the current Miscellaneous Production and Engineer Relationship Types to Relationship Classes, fix/implement the unimplemented but already-passed specific Engineer Relationship types, and fix Programming Relationship Type) BrianFreud Fixes problems within Production Relationship Class, also implements RFC-18 and RFC-85 RFC RFC 2010-02-28 2010-03-07 2010-03-09
RFC-92 Create three new AR Classes, remove 3 existing AR Classes, move Affiliate RC, merge 2 existing AR Types BrianFreud Reorganization of 4 Relationship Classes, merge 2 Relationship Types RFC RFC 2010-02-28 2010-03-07 2010-03-09
RFC-94 Decommission Label Relationship Class BrianFreud Removes 1 Relationship Class RFC RFC 2010-03-01 2010-03-08 2010-03-10
RFC-95 Add Live Journal ? New artist-URL AR Abandoned?
RFC-96 AR documentation cleanup BrianFreud AR documentation cleanup RFC RFC 2010-03-01 2010-03-08 2010-03-10
RFC-97 Expanded Samples Relationship Type ? AR enhancement Abandoned?
RFC-98 Allow Instrument Attribute for Members of a Band ? AR enhancement Abandoned?

Other Proposals

RFC # Title & Wikipage Champion Affects Trac ticket Status RFC RFC Date RFV RFV Date Passage Date
RFC-3 Advanced Entity ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-5 Album Rework ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-6 Artist Type Project ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-11 Change Default Data Quality Proposal ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-15 Disentangle Interfaces From Schema ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-16 Display Inheritance ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-17 Distributed MusicBrainz ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-24 Location Proposal BrianFreud ? ? In development
RFC-30 Add Descarga cat #s field ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-31 Subscribe to release ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-32 Separately identify hidden tracks ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-33 Add support for displaying and editing related artists ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-34 Add support to become an open source AccurateRip replacement ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-36 Performance Restructuring Proposal ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-37 Performances And Recordings Proposal ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-40 Reason Not To Treat DVD As CD ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-44 Release Data Set ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-48 Release Transliteration And Translation ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-49 Release Type Restructuring Proposal BrianFreud ? 1372 In development
RFC-50 Removing the clutter ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-57 Make a DAML+OIL ontology for music ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-58 Public Namespace URIs ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-59 Music Ontology (MO) project ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-60 Track Grouping ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-63 Updating Subscription Mails ? ? ? Discussion
RFC-65 Voting Motivations ? ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-71 NGS: Groups and Gender BrianFreud NGS development MBS-450 RFC RFC 2010-02-22 RFV 2010-03-08 2010-03-10
RFC-72 NGS: Alternate Genders BrianFreud NGS development MBS-344 RFV RFC 2010-02-22 RFV 2010-03-03 2010-03-05
RFC-75 Add release format: VHS BrianFreud New release format 5605 Abandoned, see RFC-93
RFC-76 Add release format: VCD BrianFreud New release format 4615 Abandoned, see RFC-93
RFC-77 Add release format: SVCD BrianFreud New release format 4615 Abandoned, see RFC-93
RFC-78 Add release format: 7" vinyl Per Øyvind Øygard (Wizzcat) New release format/format+format attribute 3941 Discussion
RFC-79 Add release format: 10" vinyl Per Øyvind Øygard (Wizzcat) New release format/format+format attribute 3941 Discussion
RFC-80 Add release format: 12" vinyl Per Øyvind Øygard (Wizzcat) New release format/format+format attribute 3941 Discussion
RFC-81 Add release format: HDCD BrianFreud New release format 3942 Abandoned, see RFC-93
RFC-93 Add release formats: VHS, VCD, SVCD, Betamax, HDCD, USB Flash Drive, slotMusic BrianFreud New release formats, would close RFC-75, RFC-76, RFC-77, RFC-81, and address some unknown fields on Release Format. 5605 4615 3942 RFC RFC 2010-03-01 2010-03-08 2010-03-10
RFC-99 Also Known As ? ? Abandoned?
RFC-100 Rename Legal Name to Birth Name ? ? Abandoned?

Needed Proposals

These are guidelines, or parts of guidelines, which are known to not yet be written and/or proposed for approval.