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Re: Old directions in social media.

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> Thu, 07 January 2021 17:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: Old directions in social media.
To: "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
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On 1/7/21 9:31 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something.  You refer to transparency of changes. 
> For any document I care about, I look at the diffs between versions as 
> well as at the resulting whole document.
>
> If authors want to use git for storing documents and tracking what 
> they do, that is likely beneficial to the working group.  But that has 
> little or nothing to do with discussing issues on the WG email list.
>
Diff gets you the "what" (poorly for I-D's, imo), but it doesn't give 
you the "why" which is often more important. Capturing that history 
would be very beneficial just like with source code.

Mike

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