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As the novelty of trolling these bills with PRs dies down, I can see this being really useful. Imagine more bills getting collaboration from the public this wa
by brad0 4y ago
As the novelty of trolling these bills with PRs dies down, I can see this being really useful.
Imagine more bills getting collaboration from the public this way. Rather than calling/writing your local rep, you submit a PR/issue and get feedback quickly!
IMO this is a brilliant move.
- mountainriver 4y agoYes! This should be the future of government
- justinclift 4y ago> Rather than calling/writing your local rep, you submit a PR/issue and get feedback quickly! Learning git well enough to be effective is likely to present some challenges for a lot of the population. It's hard enough for IT people that don't have version control experience in their background. ;)
- nonameiguess 4y agoI'd definitely love something like this to take off in terms of async collaborative editing that can involve the public directly, but I don't see how Github is the place for that. It should be a government-run server and require some form of authentication that you're really a citizen of the jurisdiction the law would apply to. Even then, you'd get trolls, but at least they'd be American trolls and you're not handing over ownership of critical legal infrastructure to Microsoft.