Package: gramps
Version: 4.2.3~dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,


this is another feature request for upstream, but since i don't want to
register with their bugtracker i report it here.
please forward this wishlist.

   * What led up to the situation?

gramps allows me to set a confidence level for a given source-citation.
this is a great feature.

however, it misses the point that many (most?) sources provide information on
multiple different things at the same time.
in practice the confidence level of a source varies greatly among those items.

consider a death-certificate issued in december 1834, that states that Foo Bar
died on 1834-12-12 and that they were 80 years old.
Now i have a high trust that this certificate got the death date correct.
however, i am way less confident that they got the age right (the certificate
doesn't state anything about how they obtained that information).

this is even more prominent when doing interviews with living persons: they
often remember details of their own life and their close family pretty well, but
they also know a little about distant relatives (but things get fuzzy).


anyhow, the point i'm trying to make is that i think the confidence-level should
be attached to the relation between event/... and citation, rather than solely
to the citation itself.


thanks for considering.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gramps depends on:
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0    3.20.3-1
ii  librsvg2-2        2.40.15-1
ii  python3-bsddb3    6.1.0-1+b2
ii  python3-gi        3.20.0-2
ii  python3-gi-cairo  3.20.0-2
pn  python3:any       <none>
ii  xdg-utils         1.1.1-1

Versions of packages gramps recommends:
ii  gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10    0.10.3-2
ii  gir1.2-osmgpsmap-1.0  1.1.0-1
ii  graphviz              2.38.0-13
ii  python3-icu           1.9.2-2+b2

Versions of packages gramps suggests:
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf    20120503-4
pn  gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0  <none>
ii  gir1.2-gtkspell3-3.0  3.0.8-1
ii  python3-pil           3.2.0-1
ii  rcs                   5.9.4-3

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