Open Jefferson49 opened 9 months ago
Some further comments of @fisharebest from the discussion in #4883:
The submitter record could be empty - or it could contain the details of the user who created the tree.
We could also create a submitter record when importing a tree.
We could also prevent the final record from being deleted.
But I can think of one useability issue. Users would now see the submitter list in the menu - since they now have submitters in their tree.
For many users, submitters are fairly pointless. This "pointless" menu item will annoy people. Modules will be created to suppress it ;-)
In #4883, it was discussed that a new (default) tree in webtrees is created without a submitter. As a consequence, a newly created tree is exported with non standard GEDCOM, because the submitter is a mandatory object to be referenced in HEAD.
Maybe, it would make sense to generate a default submitter. It could have the same name like the default individual or the submitter name could be generated from the user data.
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