I raised the issue of having a certain GitHub repository as a public forum and people opposed it because it would not be within the TDoC of a member and it would break the precedent of mailing lists being public fora.
On 06/20/2018 03:32 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 12:23 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Well considering I've still got a terminal window open, I could >> change the link contents instantly to anything before most people >> will have seen it. Definitely not out of my TDOC if the content of >> those links is the only evidence. >> >> I suppose (now that those links are tied to a github repo) one could >> cross-reference my message timing to commit timing. > Semi-serious suggestion: make the Github repository a public forum. > > For what it's worth, I've opened the FLR in question so you couldn't > now change it and have me see the new version (and the use of Github as > an intermediary, who keep backups of old versions, means that your TDOC > is ill-defined here but probably doesn't contain the repository). That > said, I thought the whole TDOC precedent got discredited anyway at some > point? > >> Overall though, I'm pretty sure we've been strong on "publishing X" >> means actually publishing the full contents of X, otherwise it's >> ISID. The cases that allowed outside references are generally by- >> announcement actions, where outside references work because the >> specification is like this: >> "clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs it" >> for this, "announcing e performs it" must be included in the actual >> announcement, but the "clearly specifying" part can lead to a link >> that has a clear specification. >> >> So this would work: "I do as in link X" -> [link X] "I support" >> because e announces "I do...", but just providing the same link >> without an announced verb/context doesn't do the trick. > Right, the message needs to contain enough context to find the action. > I don't think that's a problem with the message in question, though. > -- ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
