Style Council

The MusicBrainz Style Council

The style council is the institution in MusicBrainz that creates and edits the OfficialStyleGuidelines. The style council was reformed many times, as it did not work well initially. See the HistoryOfTheStyleCouncil for details. The council has reached a relatively balanced state now.

Membership

There is no formal membership to the style council. If you are an interested contributor to MusicBrainz and reasonably well informed about existing StyleGuidelines, MusicBrainzDevelopment, and the general culture of the project, you are welcome to subscribe to the Style Mailing List and join the discussions.

There are however two formal positions of "supervisors" of the general style process:

Elder

RobertKaye is the elder and benevolent dictator of MusicBrainz StyleIssues. If the process goes off the rails, or if someone disputes the style leader's decisions, the elder steps in.

Style Leader

Nikki and warp are the current style leaders. 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".

Process

 TODO: move process bits from Proposals page here. --warp.

History

The style council had a lot of other protocols and processes that preceded this one. They did not work that well, but since they offer some helpful insight about how things do not work in the MusicBrainz community, they are kept in the HistoryOfTheStyleCouncil.