On 5/1/23 04:27, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: > I had in mind to work together with the Promotor to make the Google Sheet > that outputs which Proposal passes or not much more accurate, as well as do > some more Google Sheet magic to make it output a good chunk of the > Assessor's report automatically into a cell in that spreadsheet. > > This would make deputising a lot easier since a lot of the work is already > done by the spreadsheet or would be otherwise just be color-by-the-numbers, > as well as make anyone wanting to improve on that system pretty easy > because of how newbie-friendly Google Sheet formulas as a coding language > is. > > I just didn't announce anything of the sort at the time nor did I > campaign because I didn't see anyone else doing it. I had no idea.
So, just to put it on list, there are a few reasons I haven't touched the spreadsheets at all. First, on principle, I don't like the use of anything involving Google Drive for Agora (or any nomic really) because it's not controlled by us and difficult to automatically archive. If I'm putting in work to support an office, I want it to be in something I control. Second, at least with my workflow, doing anything with the spreadsheet would be extra effort to me for no gain. Unless the spreadsheet is absolutely perfect (and, I think anything approaching that would be unwieldy and not "newbie-friendly" at all; I've certainly done some spreadsheet crimes before), I would still have to do all of the same work as I currently do, so updating the spreadsheet with my own votes or anybody else's would just be duplicating effort. Third, I can't use the spreadsheet because I can't trust it. Someone could forget to update it, or someone could update it after casting invalid votes, or several other things could go wrong. I still have to double check anything. I also keep links to all of the relevant messages in commit messages [0], so I have to pull up the original messages (and even if people did put those links in the spreadsheet, it just goes back to "I can't trust it"). The existence of the spreadsheets doesn't save me any time. [0]: https://github.com/AgoraNomic/assessor/commit/daa96064875e3485cc0c9b9c49b7d0f453adcda6 -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor, Stonemason
