hi, thanks for your answer.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:16:50PM +0100, Francis Davey wrote: > As it happens we do have an "easier" way to work this out for bills. A > bill is printed at several stages through Parliament (representing the > fact that it used to be expensive to do this - it originates at a time > when amendments were scribbled onto a text and then written up later). > Between those stages amendments are proposed in a form that explains > in a formulaic (though English) fashion how those changes will affect > the bill. In other words a "diff" written in Parliamentary language. indeed, also on eu level a similar approach is taken. > I think most of us are interested in capturing that level of detail > because not only could we then automatically work out how Bills > changed, it is at that level that votes are taken in Parliament and > citizens can bring their pressure to bear on legislators. Keeping > track of each individual change is also interesting as you can then > trace back whose "fault" any particular provision might be 8-). > Free My Bills will (hopefully) work that way but because there is a > hope that we can persuade a sane Parliament to do the right thing and > mark its bills up properly there's a reluctance to try to build a > really cool tool to do the job in advance. i agree, but as long as the incentives are against transparency as in the case of ACTA - i have my doubts. and thus we either need to crowdsource this or automatize. > Francis Davey thanks for your quick response, s -- gpg: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg gpg fp: F617 AC77 6E86 5830 08B8 BB96 E7A4 C6CF A84A 7140 _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
