I just added a combined author and it looked correct like this:
but when I submit the edition the result is this:
not nice 
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Wow, this is… pretty bad.
But for this kind of think it’s better to create a ticket directly, it’s so clearly a bug that needs to be fixed by the developers…
Maybe, but I’m not sure if this is just another part of the bug complex concerning the author field.
I just wanted to document this in case this happens to anyone else.
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Another example I noticed today
But perhaps worse is that the author credit is not editable, the Edit button is greyed out. So this isn’t just a cosmetic issue.
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Yes, this issue has been known for months. And if you then click on “no author” to make a correction in the author field, there are further bugs: data duplicates. That’s not very pleasant
Somehow I didn’t notice this before.This really is a very serious bug.
There is already a ticket for that issue (and even a closed PR which didn’t solve it):
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And I have finally created a new ticket for the display issue:
Unfortunately I couldn’t reproduce this on my test server so far when I created a new edition or edition group, and the two examples are not part of my local database.
I was also trying whether it is possible to fix the display issue by editing[1] the author credits (without actually changing something in the end), but currently I am always getting 502 Bad Gateway errors.
(Edit: The 502 error only went away when I used a different joinphrase temporarily… Weird, 502 usually indicates load issues.)
Checking “This Edition doesn’t have an Author” temporarily deletes the author credit and allows me to edit it again (while BB-782 is not resolved). ↩︎
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Fixes are on the way, at least for the edit button and the “no author” checkbox.
The order of the author credits being jumbled is a new one to me. I wonder if it is the same issue we are facing with the order of works as described in Order of works in editions is not static anymore - #3 by indy133
Both of those have the same symptom of the original order not being preserved, so perhaps they have the same root cause too. I will investigate.
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Sorry for the delays everyone, the fixed “No author credit” checkbox and order of author credits are now up on beta.bookbrainz.org for a week if you would like to test it, and will be deployed to production next week.
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