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Excuse moi,

I like to have one, only ONE reason, why anyone of the contributors should listen to people who are not contributing at all ?
I really would like to understand what the agenda is, of those people, who keep everything local, do nothing that helps the community...and still they are trying to force their opinions , their rules onto the guys that are keeping this whole program going...THE CONTRIBUTORS!!!

For me it seems that you must be really, really bored.

Donnie

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The program should try as hard as possible to serve ALL users, not just the few, even if that few is the majority.

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So basically, we would have a different standard for each locality. That sounds like a great idea 

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And if you translate a credit into your native language, why can't you just use the existing system? That works for every locality/language through the translation files.

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So to summarize: complete open credits would break crew linking as the program wouldn't have any way of knowing the cinematographer and kamera mean the same thing, (or for that matter screenplay and written for the screen by) would be a lot of trouble to implement both from a programming and a data entry standpoint and only a few users (possibly only one) care about whatever benefits would come of this. Yet, the user who wants other people do do a lot of work for a feature only he cares about isn't the selfish one.

If you aks me, we track too much already. I only care about the sound editor and mixer. These are only people who get Oscars. Yet, we are having threads to figure out the common name for re-recordists. Part of the problem is that which crew is important varies a lot movie to movie. People care about the art designer for Batman, but not so much Sleepless in Seattle. The visual effects supervisor is important information for an effects driven movie like The Thing, but not so much Meet Joe Black, which had one brief effects shot. People care about the sound mixer for U-571 more than Clerks.

The only crew that are basically always important are the director, writer, producer, editor and cinematographer, and I'm not entirely sure about those last two. Those are the ones that important in regular movies anyway (i.e. not a single, take, no diagetic camera).

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So to summarize: complete open credits would break crew linking as the program wouldn't have any way of knowing the cinematographer and kamera mean the same thing

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The only crew that are basically always important are the director, writer, producer, editor and cinematographer, and I'm not entirely sure about those last two. Those are the ones that important in regular movies anyway (i.e. not a single, take, no diagetic camera).

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Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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The only crew that are basically always important are the director, writer, producer, editor and cinematographer, and I'm not entirely sure about those last two. Those are the ones that important in regular movies anyway (i.e. not a single, take, no diagetic camera).

I would add composer and drop producer, but your point is well taken.

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Quoting Dan W:

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I fail to understand why an open credit would create more problems with these profiles than it would for any of the others

The current system works for all languages regardless of what language the credits are in. A person that understand the credits of a foreign movie, enters it into DVDProfiler in the correct slot (Director, Art Director, whatever). Because of the translation files, that slot can be Director for one user and Regissør for another user. The underlying data is still the same. We lose this ability with open credits, so it will be just Regissør for all users, if that is what is entered into the database.

Also if you translate the crew roles to the language of your locality, you are moving away from the idea that open credits should be a copy of what the credits actually are.

Another point is that I can easily contribute to a Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, British or Canadian locality with the current system. Especially for English language movies. With your suggestion of translations that should be agreed upon within that locality (As if that is gonna happen), this will be virtually impossible and the smaller localities will suffer even more since I no longer can contribute to Portuguese localities because I don't know the language.