User:Kuno/currentstyleproposals

Current Style Proposals

This page is an attempt to list all 'current' or 'active' proposals on the StyleMailingList. Often, proposals do reach some sort of consensus, but are never followed up on, the goal of this page is to keep track of those proposals so they are not forgotten, and can be revisited at the appropriate time.

Formal RFCs on the StyleMailingList are tracked here, no other proposals should be added.

NOTE: the current name and location kuno/CurrentStyleProposals should change at some point, i would like some suggestions on what this page should be called (just leave comments here or tell me on irc :).

Disclaimer: this is not an automated list, but I will try to keep it up to date. If you think some information is out of date or incorrect, notify me (warp on irc, or kuno@frob.nl) and I will look into it (or, change it yourself, this is a wiki :).

Summary	Date	Full Proposal	RFV	Current Status	IdeaChampion	Developer
RFC: Don't allow/disable additions of ARs and release	2007-08-28	post	-	being discussed	Gecks	-
RFC: ClassicalReleaseLanguage	2007-07-24	post wiki	-	no support	AaronCooper	-
RFC: Classical works for multiple instruments	2007-06-29	post	-	no support	AaronCooper	-
RFC: Change Default Data Quality	2007-06-19	post wiki	-	no consensus	BrianFreud	-
RFC: Adding {instrument} and {vocals} to 'Recorded By' AR	2007-05-21	post	-	discussion died	Gecks	-
RFC: "changed name to" AR	2007-05-07	post	-	discussion died	Bogdanb	-
RFC: Reissue Produced By" and "Compilation Produced By	2007-05-06	post	-	no discussion	Gecks	-
RFC: performance dates and locations	2007-05-03	post wiki wiki trac	-	discussion died	Bogdanb	-
RFC: instrument-related AR changes	2007-05-03	post	-	no discussion	Bogdanb	-
RFC: Conductor AR Changes	2007-05-03	post	-	discussion died	LukasLalinsky	-
RFC: IMDb AR change	2007-05-01	post post	-	resurrected	Kilu	-
RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg	2007-04-24	post	-	consensus?	dmppanda	-
RFC: New Release Status: "Upcoming"	2007-04-14	post	-	consensus	AaronCooper	-
x (disc 1) & x (disc 2), vs x & x (bonus disc)	2006-05-03	post revisit revisit	post	RFV	Gecks	-
Audio Book Style	predates 2005-07-23	wiki post	-	discussion died?	WolfSong, Keschte	-

Audio Book Style

• Some discussion took place, but it seems no member of the StyleCouncil actively listens to audio books themselves, which I fear makes progress on this issue VERY slow.

RFC: Don't allow/disable additions of ARs and release data Pseudo-Releases

• new rfc.

RFC: ClassicalReleaseLanguage

• Out of the people who voiced their opinion on this proposal, Alex Dupuy doesn't see the need for it and Olivier is not in favour. I assume this proposal has been abandoned due to lack of support.

RFC: Classical works for multiple instruments

• Only three people participated in the discussion, with no clear support for the proposal. I expect the author has abandoned the proposal, but please correct me if I am wrong --kuno.

RFC: Change Default Data Quality

• No consensus was reached on the actual proposal in its original form. However, a lot of valuable suggestions were made by various people, the proposal should probably be rewritten to take those suggestions into account and resubmitted as an RFC. (IMO, DonRedman has an insightful post on the proposal. --kuno).

RFC: Adding {instrument} and {vocals} to 'Recorded By' AR

• Discussion died, no clear consensus reached as far as i can see. No summary of the discussion.

RFC: "changed name to" AR

• In general, people seemed to be in favour of this proposal -- but concerned that the AR will be abused to split up artists which wouldn't be split up without the AR. The discussion died out, wasn't summarized or otherwise followed up later.

RFC: Reissue Produced By" and "Compilation Produced By

• No discussion took place. No further action was taken.

RFC: performance dates and locations

• Discussion has died on the MailingList and died or slowed down on the wiki pages. I don't see a clear consensus yet on the implementation details.

RFC: instrument-related AR changes

• No discussion took place. No further action was taken.

RFC: Conductor AR Changes

• Discussion died. There seem to be no objections to the proposal, however the discussion was not summarized nor do I see an RFV for the proposal.

RFC: IMDb AR change

• No discussion took place. UPDATE: Yay, artysmokes is the first to reply, only 4 months after the initial post :)

RFC: Bad Terminology: bootleg

• Apparently enough consensus was reached to prepare the wiki for changes: http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2007-May/004841.html , but looking at the history, no actual changes were made.

RFC: New Release Status: "Upcoming"

• Consensus reached according to http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2007-May/004726.html , see also

http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2007-May/004840.html . No further work seems to have been done on this after the initial consensus was reached.

• Related activity: NotYetReleasedReleases Also, I think the issue of upcoming releases was also discussed on the style mailinglist within the context of Data Quality (setting upcoming releases to low data quality), but cannot find the thread right now --kuno.

x (disc 1) & x (disc 2), vs x & x (bonus disc)

• The proposed changes to BonusDisc were first discussed and written in may 2006, amended in september 2006, and a call for further discussion in may 2007 (with no responses). Some issues raised in the september discussion and on the wiki page haven't been addressed by the proposal. RFV has been posted now.

Old Style Proposals

Vetoed or otherwise abandoned, canceled or retired proposals go here. These should be moved to a separate page when the list becomes too big.

Summary	Date	Full Proposal	RFV	Current Status	IdeaChampion	Developer
RFC: change video game data cdroms from soundtrack to other	2007-08-15	post forum	-	discussion resumed	kuno	-
RFV: new vocal type - "rap"	2007-08-15	post	post veto	vetoed	LukasLalinsky	-
RFV: "has a blog at" AR	2007-05-01	post	post	implemented	LukasLalinsky	-

RFC: change video game data cdroms from soundtrack to other

• No consensus, RFC dropped.

RFC: new vocal type - "rap"

• Vetoed because we do not have a clear definition of what rap is.