Re: [Gramps-devel] GEPS 009: Import Export Merge

[Algis K. <aka...@pc...>]

Julio,
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:36:36 Julio Sánchez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that merging itself needs consideration, with independence of
> the import step.  It is important to understand what is merging used
> for, because there may different use cases (I use the term
> informally).  Merge while importing is one of those cases or maybe a
> family of use cases (depending on whether matching and merging is
> completely automated or not).
>
> But there are other use cases that could use some thinking.  For
> instance, merge candidate selection has always seemed weird:  in my
> universe, potential matches scoring 4 are almost always real matches
> (and many scoring 3), while higher scores are invariably false
> positives.
>
> I think my code changes shows what the actual merge step itself should
> do, but it needs discussing and refining, too.
>
> So I think that the title discourages discussing things that are by no
> means solved and that we should begin by describing what people use
> merging for or how they would expect it to behave.
>
> Regards,
>
> Julio
[...]
> > Brian M (The Coordinator) has counselled that there should be some
> > formalised discussion before interested people start hacking the programs
> > and drew attention that considerable discussion had already occurred
> > earlier and that the same steps are now repeated again..  A wise
> > suggestion.
> >
> > Benny M (an active mailing list member and developer) considered that it
> > may be seen by some as discouragement. In further discussion about
> > another thread ("Call Name") it has been suggested to open a separate
> > wiki page.
[...]
A great suggestion! I have two questions to you:
1. What are the names of files that you had to modify?
2. Why not put these suggestions in the wiki page:
http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_009:_Import_Export_Merge
?

Item 1 would help mugs like I to find their way around, though that may not 
always be a good thing :-)

Item 2 would justify having a wiki page.  Wiki has very simple formatting and 
a mere look at the editing in text mode formatting commands will make you 
into expert.

Furthermore, if spelling is a problem, there is an English spell checker built 
in and other readers will/should happily improve the writing, beyond the 
spelling.

Thank you for you contribution to my enlightenment so far!

Kind regards,
Al.

 -- 
Dr Algis Kabaila (PhD Eng)
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis/
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