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Translating a movie with a validation error is not so nice in the user interface
posted by Karl DietzSTAFFMOD on May 12, 2013 at 3:16 PM
I'm adding a bag of translations and some of the movies have no state (released / postproduction / etc.). To fix that I have to open an existing translation, then fix the status, then go back until I'm offered to add a translation again. It would be nice if it was possible to add the empty translation but only save the translated title after the validation error are fixed.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 13, 2013 at 9:10 AM
Unfortunately, this is not the way validations work (at a code level). The db is in a bit of a state of transition as some of these validations have been added after the fact. Because of that, some of the data is not going to be "clean".
It's pretty amazing how quickly this fixes itself though, with the help of users like you everyone bangs through it pretty quickly.
Reply by Karl Dietz
on May 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM
Hmm, that reminds me of the reports over at musicbrainz ( http://musicbrainz.org/reports ). They run queries every $cycle to generate lists of stuff to look into, like "these movies have a rating that is not on the list of valid ratings", "these movies don't have a director", "don't have any release event", "this poster has no language and is not tagged as 'no language' either". Basically giving people a place to look for things to do to raise the data quality to the next level.