> I’m a private citizen asking friends for their thoughts. One of them fixed the grammar in something wrote years ago. Would those edits need to be copied to a public ledger and identified?
It wouldn't hurt, but it also wouldn't be necessary.
> I’m sure as hell not getting all of them to sign their names to a draft measure. Yet every single one of them have added value to the discussion and project.
"Added value" is not the same as being the author of a draft that gets merged (in whole or in part, and with or without edits by the person who's integrating it).
> I’m sure we could prosecute private citizens and NGOs for not using the sanctioned reporting system.
I don't know what that means. As I said before, if you send your draft (or just the parts that you wish to "patch", i.e. a suggested change) to a public official (no matter what form, e.g. an email, even) who then chooses to integrate your suggestion, and they record both the provenance of the revision and what precisely is being revised, then that would satisfy the conditions of what constitutes version control.
> You’ve argued this well
I don't think so. I see this subthread as being tedious and unnecessary, and there's nothing particularly insightful in the things I've written here. It should have ended with the first commenter who explained that nothing about any of this is incompatible with version control, but it sounds—not just based on the remarks here, but similarly timed comments elsewhere—that you still don't grok what that really means.
> "Added value" is not the same as being the author of a draft that gets merged
Merged into what? There is no master draft. Just a bunch of drafts being circulated. I have no idea at what point my comments are submitted into a copy that winds up on the floor for a vote.
More to the point, the author of the draft may have nothing to do with my edits. If we’re skipping that, the entire exercise is performative.
> it sounds—not just based on the remarks here, but similarly timed comments elsewhere—that you still don't grok what that really means
How much language have you drafted that wound up in state or federal law?
> Merged into what? There is no master draft. Just a bunch of drafts being circulated. I have no idea at what point my comments are submitted into a copy that winds up on the floor for a vote.
Give this another think-through.
> How much language have you drafted that wound up in state or federal law?¶ This confident naïveté is part of the problem.
Mr. Crisscross: There is no amount of experience or lack thereof that can invalidate basic mathematical truths that are known about graph theory.
> More to the point, the author of the draft may have nothing to do with my edits. If we’re skipping that, the entire exercise is performative.
It wouldn't hurt, but it also wouldn't be necessary.
> I’m sure as hell not getting all of them to sign their names to a draft measure. Yet every single one of them have added value to the discussion and project.
"Added value" is not the same as being the author of a draft that gets merged (in whole or in part, and with or without edits by the person who's integrating it).
> I’m sure we could prosecute private citizens and NGOs for not using the sanctioned reporting system.
I don't know what that means. As I said before, if you send your draft (or just the parts that you wish to "patch", i.e. a suggested change) to a public official (no matter what form, e.g. an email, even) who then chooses to integrate your suggestion, and they record both the provenance of the revision and what precisely is being revised, then that would satisfy the conditions of what constitutes version control.
> You’ve argued this well
I don't think so. I see this subthread as being tedious and unnecessary, and there's nothing particularly insightful in the things I've written here. It should have ended with the first commenter who explained that nothing about any of this is incompatible with version control, but it sounds—not just based on the remarks here, but similarly timed comments elsewhere—that you still don't grok what that really means.