On Dec 28, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Maurits <mfmeulenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > There is a ticket* in the bug tracker on turning instruments into > entities, but it doesn't seem to have been discussed on this mailing > list yet. > Obviously this would be a big feature and a schema change, and we'd have > to discuss the desirability of it first, so I didn't want to turn this > into a formal RFC just yet. > Personally I'd love to have this feature because as a translator, I > wouldn't have to worry about translating the name of an instrument and > making it impossible for an end-user to find said instrument when > editing from a different-language release. > An entity-ified instrument would simply have an alias for a language and > searching for a Harpsichord would automatically select the Klavecimbel > or Cembalo from the instrument list, depending on the language the site > is viewed in. > It would also move the translations of instruments away from the (IMO) > cumbersome Transifex to the more manageable MusicBrainz editing system. > I understand not everybody shares my ideas about the increased ease for > translating (see Mihkel Tõnnov's comment on the issue page), so I wonder > what everybody else's opinion would be. > > Maurits Meulenbelt +1 Nikki and I discussed this a while back. I have some releases whose liner notes contain line-item lists of the make and models of all the instruments played. > > * http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3674 > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
