> On May 11, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 22:59 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: >> I'd prefer to try to make wages match time investment. Offices like >> Referee don't seem to do much, whereas the ones I listed (such as >> Secretary) seem like they have a ton of responsibilities. > > Secretary is indeed very difficult.
As of the advent of Shinies, I’ve been using a tool called ledger <http://ledger-cli.org> to manage most of the data. It helps a ton. The raw entries look like this: > 2017-04-30 * Pend proposal "Yet Another Scam" > Agora 5 Shinies > Player:ais523 In this transaction, the Agora account is credited 5 Shinies, and the Player:ais523 is debited 5 Shinies to balance the amount. > 2017-05-01 * Payday > Player:ais523 10 Shinies > Player:aranea 10 Shinies > Player:Aris 10 Shinies > Player:Charles 10 Shinies > Player:G. 10 Shinies > Player:Henri 10 Shinies > Player:Murphy 10 Shinies > Player:nichdel 10 Shinies > Player:o 10 Shinies > Player:omd 10 Shinies > Player:Publius Scribonius Scholasticus 10 Shinies > Player:Roujo 10 Shinies > Player:Sci_Guy12 10 Shinies > Player:Sprocklem 10 Shinies > Player:Tekneek 10 Shinies > Player:Warrigal, the 10 Shinies > Player:Yally 10 Shinies > Player:Zachary Watterson 10 Shinies > Player:天火狐 10 Shinies > Agora = -149 Shinies In this transaction, a large number of accounts are each credited 10 Shinies, and the Agora account is debited to balance it out. In addtion, there is an assertion that the Agora account’s balance is exactly -149 Shinies after this transaction is processed. After chewing on the full transaction log and querying it for data I’m interested in, the output looks like this: > $ ledger -f office/secretary/accounts bal --limit 'commodity == "Shinies"' > --cleared > 191 Shinies Agora > 16 Shinies Organization > 10 Shinies AAaAA:Proxies:nichdel > 6 Shinies AVM:Bond:o > 793 Shinies Player > 54 Shinies Aris > 140 Shinies G. > 50 Shinies Henri > 50 Shinies Murphy > 26 Shinies Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > 30 Shinies Quazie > 70 Shinies Roujo > 30 Shinies Sprocklem > 50 Shinies Warrigal, the > 64 Shinies ais523 > 75 Shinies nichdel > 54 Shinies o > 50 Shinies omd > 50 Shinies 天火狐 > -1,000 Shinies Proposal:7838 > -------------------- > 0 (You can see some of the bookkeeping-only accounts I maintain, there. The full transaction log is at <https://github.com/ojacobson/agora-nomic/raw/master/office/secretary/accounts> and is updated more or less whenever I remember to push my changes.) ledger is responsible for the balance formatting in the weekly report. I’ve also been using it to track Budget, since Budget has account-like dynamics, but I maintain the table in the weekly report manually based on its output. (I think it may be possible to get ledger to directly generate that table, but it’s not clear how.) Combined with some mail hygiene, this takes care of most of the work of maintaining the Secretary’s reports. I maintain an Inbox-agora mailbox, which has messages I need to Do Work on in it, and an Agora-2017 mailbox, where I move messages to after I’m done adding them to any relevant reports. That’s helped a ton for keeping the event lists in each report sane. For the Surveyor, I’m considering a different approach, based on paperwork handled by land registries. -o
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