Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-31 Thread Nikki
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:41:00AM +0100, Simon Reinhardt wrote: The page underwent a major clearup lately and there have been no objections as far as I can see, only remarks on details. If anyone has some, please tell us now. :) I've objected to it before because I find it messy and hard to

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-31 Thread Stefan Kestenholz
I've objected to it before because I find it messy and hard to read. I much prefer new lines instead of ' - ', they clearly show where one piece of information ends and another begins and what information belongs to each part. i concur. thing is, it wasn't possible technically to do single

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-31 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Nikki wrote: I've objected to it before because I find it messy and hard to read. I much prefer new lines instead of ' - ', they clearly show where one piece of information ends and another begins and what information belongs to each part. An example,

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-31 Thread Don Redman
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:55:04 +0100, Stefan Kestenholz wrote: I've objected to it before because I find it messy and hard to read. I much prefer new lines instead of ' - ', they clearly show where one piece of information ends and another begins and what information belongs to each part. i

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-31 Thread Nikki
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Simon Reinhardt wrote: SPV 089-40700 DCD-E is the catalogue number of the distributor which is called SPV. Well, if *I* didn't understand it, I can't see a future parser having much luck either. ;) Did you read the discussion section on the page? I

[mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Hi, herewith I request http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseAnnotationStyle to be made official. The page underwent a major clearup lately and there have been no objections as far as I can see, only remarks on details. If anyone has some, please tell us now. :) Simon (Shepard)

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-30 Thread Don Redman
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:41:00 +0100, Simon Reinhardt wrote: Hi, herewith I request http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseAnnotationStyle to be made official. The page underwent a major clearup lately and there have been no objections as far as I can see, only remarks on details. If anyone has

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-30 Thread Björn Krombholz
On 1/31/06, Don Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have any annotatoin style yet? Is this a good idea? [...] Is it ok if we make the general syntax official and leave the details in the current state of informal recommendations? The idea was just to add some rules to the specification of

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-30 Thread Schika
Don Redman wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:10:38 +0100, Björn Krombholz wrote: On 1/31/06, Don Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have any annotatoin style yet? Is this a good idea? [...] Is it ok if we make the general syntax official and leave the details in the current state of

Re: [mb-style] Request for officialization: ReleaseAnnotationStyle

2006-01-30 Thread Björn Krombholz
On 1/31/06, Schika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really doubt that this is usefull - no to mention the parsing will work, besides you code a parser using AI - it will end up in a mess. No, that's why we wrote this little guideline. Every release info that is in the defined format, can be parsed