This adds "associate" as an attribute to the Producer RT and Engineer RT. Since I'm in the Engineer RT anyhow, and it's related to this attribute, per the discussion earlier this week, this proposal also brings over the "don't assume attributes" guidance from the Producer RT to the Engineer RT.
I've never quite understood this; we go to great lengths to specify that producer job titles shouldn't be assumed - that 2 producers does not mean they are each "co-producers". And the discussion earlier this week at least assumed the same for engineer credits. So then why do we combine two other distinct producer and engineer credits? "Associate Producer" and "Additional Producer" are two different titles. One means that someone added external music to a mix, the other means that the producer is relatively new and working under a more experienced producer. So this addresses that by adding the missing job title via the "associate" attribute. Side note: In at least a few places, the "associate" rather than "additional" has at least been recorded as a sub optimal credit; http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?type=annotation&query=associate&handlearguments=1 This is RFC-257. Assuming a second, and without ongoing debate, it will move to RFV on 2010-03-27. Proposal pages are located at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:BrianSchweitzer/Producer_Relationship_Type_Proposaland http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:BrianSchweitzer/Engineer_Relationship_Type_Proposal Thanks, Brian
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