2 posts tagged with "tpb"

Monthly Statistics​

During September the Metron Project added the following to its database:

• Users: 27
• Issues: 3,015
• Creators: 371
• Characters: 1,629

Thanks to everyone that contributed!

Metron-Tagger​

A new version of Metron-Tagger was released that added the ability to skip issues that have multiple matches (--skip-multiple) but can't be matched based its cover hash.

Collected Editions​

Back in May the decision was made to temporarily disable new collections (Trade Paperback, Omnibus, and Hard Covers) until better documentation was written since their handling was a source of confusion for users due to our lack of documentation.

Thankfully, anon_hacker47 (from the Matrix General Chat Room) spent time writing new documentation (located at the bottom of the page under the Collected Editions heading), which should help in most cases. Unfortunately, the comic industry isn't known for it's consistency, so there may be cases which the guidelines don't cover and in those cases it's best to ask either in the Matrix chat room or in the Github Discussions before adding a collected edition.

So, with that the documentation completed I've enabled support for collected editions on the site. In addition, I spent some time implementing a helper function which will add resource data (character & teams) to a collection provided that it has reprints associated with it. There are some caveats, tho:

• Only issues with a single story will be synced, since if there are more we can't differentiate what characters are in which story.
• Resource will be synced if the collection does not already have any characters or teams associated with it.
• I may add the reprinted issues story titles to the collection in the future, but need to look into it a bit closer to make sure it doesn't cause more work than it solves.

The Sync button, which is only active if it's a valid series type and doesn't contain any characters or teams, will be used to run this functionality. After it's ran, it will provide notification on what was or wasn't not added to the collection.

If you have suggestions on any improvements to the guidelines, don't hesitate to reach out on Matrix.

OpenCollective​

If you would like to help keep the lights on at the project, we have an account at Open Collective to defray the servers costs and help with increasing future server capacity.

Anyway, that's all I got for this month. Take care!

A user contacted me about adding Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men series to Metron since we have recently added support for trade paperbacks/collected editions. I figured this would be useful exercise since it would show me what parts of the process could be improved to make it easier.

Currently, the process requires the editor to add all creators, characters, teams, etc. manually for the reprinted issues associate with the collection, much like a regular issue. One obvious way to simplify this is to automatically add any characters, team, story titles, etc. for the issues being reprinted. Currently, I've written an admin action to do this, but sometime in the future I need to expose this functionality so that anyone adding a Trade Paperback/Collection can save some time.

When I was creating Metron one of the choices I made was to add creators at an issue-level, and not at a story-level, since I wanted the process for adding an issue to be fairly simple. The downside to this approach is that adding information to a collection from an issue with multiple stories isn't really possible.😢