On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
<reosare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <phi...@foolip.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
>> <reosare...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:52 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>>>>> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Performance_Relationship_Type
>>>>>
>>>>> I used the definition from the previous thread. The link phrases would
>>>>> just have "medley" added, e.g. "live cover medley recording of".
>>>>
>>>> I like the idea, but on a technical note:
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any plans for how the data will be migrated from the old AR
>>>> to the new one? There's a couple of options here, maybe:
>>>>
>>>>      A. Have a developer write a script to do all the conversions
>>>>         automatically, server-side after the AR is created.
>>>>      B. Have a developer write a report showing things using the 'old'
>>>>         medley AR; it will only be deleted once the report is empty.
>>>>
>>>> Either one would be fine, but you'll have to find a developer to sponsor
>>>> your request :)
>>>
>>> We have around 2500, so that's a pain, but I'd go with C) convince a
>>> bot owner to run a bot for this for a couple days.
>>
>> My thinking was to deprecate the existing AR so that new ones can't be
>> added, like the "earliest release" AR. Is that easy enough to do? Then
>> the ARs can be converted slowly with the help of reports and/or bots.
>
> That's trivial, yeah.

Great, is there anything else (other than a +1) I need before RFV,
i.e. do I need to update the existing medley AR to say it's
deprecated?

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt

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