Ian Kelly wrote: >IMO, official duties such as report contents should mostly be kept in >the rule that defines the office. This way a (potential) officer can >read one rule to find the duties required of em rather than having to >search the entire ruleset.
I think it is reasonable to expect a potential officer to grep the ruleset (once) to establish the totality of eir duties. It seems a greater maintainability win to group together all the material on a particular bit of game state, including reporting requirements. However, as rulekeepor I've been pondering adding annotations to the office-defining rules giving cross-references to all the officers' duties. Would that satisfy your concern about the difficulty of grepping? -zefram
