Thanks, Josh, you are right. There are many unknowns down the road of regex and it’s not fair or prudent to send people down that road. There is a fair degree of chance people merge multiple parts and end up removing others.
But you see, most people stop being pro-active and taking a personal interest when they see that somebody is “on it”.
I just think in metadata (that nobody sees other than ourselves) it is okay to be repetitive.
E.g.:
family_member:
- mother
- father
family_member_name:
- "[[mothers_name]]"
- "[[fathers_name]]"
- Actually, it was laid out above. Of course there are other ways but programatically we want the best that suits everyone, including those on personal and commercial level.
I do agree though that we need to keep hitting the Properties and YAML irons while they are hot, otherwise the devs’ focus will shift to other topics.
It’s even possible some plugin makers will beat them to it.
But because there are some Database plans in the works and metadata plays a huge part in that, I suspect this YAML upgrade will have be addressed and the time is about right to make the transition. We don’t know what’s going on.
(And there is also DataCore; not sure where DataCore is at at the moment.)
So fingers crossed.