I would be happy to add this kind of automation to the existing proposal archive website, in whatever form is ultimately agreed upon.
-root On 4/3/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quazie wrote: >Unless the automated sites e-mailed a properly formated proposal to the >forum. Thus keeping both an updated archive and an automated system. No, this still means there's no archive of what the submitter actually submitted. There's only a record of what the automaton perceived. The former is what has legal significance. Do not presume that your automaton will always function correctly. I suggest that if you want to manage the proposal pool largely automatically then the automaton should accept submissions via email. You just need to announce "I prefer to receive proposal submissions in this format: ...", and program the automaton to parse email messages that match that format. The players can be quite accommodating about this. When a submission comes in that the automaton can't parse, all you have to do is edit it into the standard format and feed it to the automaton. The automaton can mail out proposal distributions and pool reports on its own. You can do all of this at present, without legislation and without compromising archivability. You don't even need to tell anyone you're doing it, except for stating a preferred proposal format. The same goes for voting, which is very amenable to standardised text layouts. Other offices can do the same, but to lesser extents. I'd be happy to take over as Promotor, or as Assessor if we separate it out again. I'll use a suitable amount of automation, as I am already doing as Rulekeepor. (My rulekeeping automation posts the FLR monthly, generates and posts the SLR weekly, puts both on my web page whenever I make a change, and checks that the current FLR is consistent with the preceding history. I still edit the FLR itself manually, for the time being.) -zefram
