Kerim Aydin wrote: >out a non-tedious way to get Repeal dates in; repeal dates >would be needed to reconstruct an FLR for any given date. >Any thoughts?
I'm afraid that doing it properly is just going to be tedious. Not only do we have to examine the adopted proposals to see which one repealed each rule, it's also necessary to check for any last-minute amendments between the prior ruleset publication and the repealing proposal. However, it's possible to get approximate repeal dates by comparison of consecutive ruleset versions. At the moment I don't do that sort of analysis: my code takes the rulesets all mixed up (in a bucket, with the eggs on top), and works from the individual rule versions that they contain. Absence of a rule is never noted, only positive evidence is used. (The input consists of 351 rulesets so far, plus an extra file for short-lived rules that were never published but which I've recovered from Michael's archive of voting reports.) -zefram
