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Cover Scan Management

Here's a conversation from the mailing list about covers:

And I would think that comparing pictures in this regard is technically
doable, the question is if easy accessible code for that is available.

Jochen

Lionel English schrieb:
> I think one thing that would also make the job easier is if we had a
> place for a "last known good" scan.  When replacement scans are loaded,
> the current scan would be bumped to a "last known good" area instead of
> deleted, and if there were problems with the new scan we could easily
> restore the previous one.
>
> It might also be nice to have a feature (and I don't know if this is
> possible) that would prevent people from loading a replacement scan that
> is identical to the current scan.  Maybe a mod to the program that
> resized the incoming image, then did some kind of checksum comparison
> against the current image, and if found to be identical the replacement
> would be rejected with a message indicating "The scan you're trying to
> load appears to be identical to the one currently marked for
> replacement.  Please load a new scan."
>
> Mike Nielsen wrote:
>> Well, I'm not a senior editor so I should probably shut the hell up
>> cause I don't know what you guys have talked about but here's my two
>> cents... :)
>> 
>> It's probably more than a one man job.  A couple of people who keep an
>> eye on the new covers directory, and maybe a mailing list for those
>> folks to discuss things about a suspect cover.  Then any requests to
>> the error list for a replacement cover can be sent to these folks to
>> look over and decide if a new cover is really needed.
>> 
>> Obviously, when I say someone needs "the balls" to tell someone no, I
>> mean we should be nice about it.  I assume that goes without saying. 
>> The Valente thing makes me angry, and I'm sure Jim is tired of marking
>> them only to see him reload the same damn cover over and over.
>> 
>> Which reminds me I need to scan my Essential Super-Villian Teamup book
>> and get it loaded so it's one less Jim has to deal with.  I'll try to
>> do that tonight Jim.
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Nielsen
>>
>> */Donald Dale Milne <[email protected]>/* wrote:
>>
>>    And, I think that if there's anyone here with the balls to tell a
>>    potential uploader that we already have a perfectly good cover, it's
>>    you
>>    too.
>>
>>    Actually, I believe that it's inevitable there will be problems with
>>    some contributor sooner or later, as some of our contributor's scans
>>    would be frequently deleted. I suspect that anyone who would be a good
>>    cover editor would have to bounce some scans, fix some scans as
>>    permanent, and maybe go as far as Mike suggests and outright ban some
>>    people.
>>
>>    - Don Milne
>>