Re: DIS: collated rules history

2007-03-29 Thread Zefram
Here's the current state of my historical rule text work: http://www.fysh.org/~zefram/agora/rules_text.txt (Note the file is 2.9 MB in size.) This file is specifically concerned with the text of each rule, and does not indicate mutability or titles. Problems with the dataset are flagged by

DIS: collated rules history

2007-03-29 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: Here's the current state of my historical rule text work: Nice, this goes back farther than mine which ends with FLRs in the current archive. One thing: I've been trying to figure out a non-tedious way to get Repeal dates in; repeal dates would be needed to reconstruct an FLR

Re: DIS: collated rules history

2007-03-29 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: out a non-tedious way to get Repeal dates in; repeal dates would be needed to reconstruct an FLR for any given date. Any thoughts? I'm afraid that doing it properly is just going to be tedious. Not only do we have to examine the adopted proposals to see which one repealed each

Re: DIS: collated rules history

2007-03-29 Thread Zefram
You may all be interested in this old ruleset from 1993-08: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.abstract/msg/86da94d8a3ba0ba6 Wes pointed this out to me, as an initial response after I contacted him about archives. I'll be adding it to my database. -zefram

DIS: collated rules history

2007-03-28 Thread Zefram
Here's an early product of my historical research. I've collated all the history annotations from the rulesets that I've found, and resolved most of the many conflicts between them. The data behind this output includes rule text too, but I'm concentrating on the history logs to provide the