Re: SPI bylaws overhaul: new discussion draft

On 11/15/2016 06:27 PM, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:36:52AM -0500, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>> One thing I’d submit for consideration that could be learned from this and
>> change is to take the opportunity to put the text into Markdown (or LaTeX)
>> format and host it in version control. Then the version control system does
>> the diff, and presenting them, for you without any additional effort.
>>
>> Here’s an example from the most recent bylaws changes for OBF:
>> https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/28
>> https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/29
>>
>> I understand that many in SPI have strong reservations about Github, but
>> obviously Github is far from the only platform that allows doing this.
>
> I think that the salient points, here, are:
> - use a plain text 'source' format for the input
> - use a source code management system to capture revisions and produce deltas
> - publish the deltas so that the members can easily review the proposed changes
> - use a formatter to 'compile' the input into published representation
>
> We can achieve the above wthout having to use github.
>
> I'm perfectly happy to use Markdown and I'd prefer it to LaTeX.

Or just use ODF with commenting?

JD

>

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