On May 15, 2017, at 3:06 AM, Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote: > I create the following proposal: > > Title: Machine-Readable Reports > AI: 1 > > Append the following text to Rule 2143: > In addition, officers SHOULD provide their reports in a machine-readable > format. This machine-readable report SHOULD be available on the World Wide > Web, and officers SHOULD publish the address of the machine-readable copy > along with their published reports. > > [Commentary] Hopefully this will make automating reports a bit easier. I’m > keeping it at SHOULD for now; maybe it should (no pun intended) become a > stronger requirement at some point.
I’m of extremely mixed opinion about this. On the one hand, making more data about the game accessible in a parser-friendly format provides some good opportunities for analysis and study. On the other hand, one of the things about Agora that differentiates it from BlogNomic and a few others is that the game state is, in large part, defined by prose. Reports with exceptions in them are, if not a regular occurrence, then at least an unsurprising one. I’d hate to lose that. Is there a weaker form of SHOULD? Should this perhaps be an organization of interested curators and officers, instead of a rule? -o
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