Tim O’Reilly: Why Congress Needs a Version Control System
Tim O’Reilly, together with Karl Fogel, discussed the idea of version control for U. S. Congress.
It turns out that Tasmania seems to have implemented something similar, as described in article by Timothy Arnold-Moore “XML for legislation drafting, management and Web delivery—How structured document representation facilitates automatic processing”, published in Novemeber 1998 (found via Bex Huff).
We have already covered similar topic back in March: Slashdot: Source Control for Bills in Congress.
Recent posts on similar topics
- Robin Luckey: "The World's Oldest Source Code Repositories" - October 18th, 2007
- Linus Torvalds: Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists - August 27th, 2007
- Google Diff, Match, and Patch libraries for plain text - August 15th, 2007
- Upgrading Drupal with Git - August 2nd, 2007
- Mozilla: Version Control System Shootout Redux Redux - June 24th, 2007
