Proposal: [Special Case] [Appendix] Foster family
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 04 Feb 2020 09:49:35 UTC
1. Amend rule 4.2 (“Gamestate Tracking”) as follows.
a. Before the subrule “Random Generators”, create three new subrules entitled “Official Posts”, “Representations of the Gamestate” and “Orphan Variables”.
b. Move into the subrule “Official Posts” the first three paragraphs of “Gamestate Tracking” (from “Votable Matters and other official posts…” to “...for at least 3 months.”).
c. Move into the subrule “Representations of the Gamestate” the remaining two paragraphs of “Gamestate Tracking” (from “For gamestate which is tracked…” to “...raise a Call for Judgement instead.”).
d. Copy into the subrule “Orphan Variables” the text of rule 3.5 (“No Orphan Variables”).
2. Repeal rule 3.5 (“No Orphan Variables”).
Step 1 of the Special Migration. I think “Gamestate Tracking” is a good fit for orphan variables, and I take this opportunity to break up the rest of the rule in a way that feels natural; it ought to make it clearer and easier to read, and gives some prominence to the term “official posts”, which I completely missed for a good while when I first arrived. The proposed rule ought to look like this (with the minor difference of an additional paragraph break there).
This is an opportunity to discuss other improvements to the rule in question.
Kevan: he/him
How many steps do you have in mind, here?
It may be easier just to discuss the replacement in comments or on a wiki talk page, and make one simple “replace the non-dynastic ruleset with the version at X” proposal when we’ve all had a good look at it. (It’d also be more likely to catch problems, as we could make a clear side-by-side wiki diff comparison before going ahead.)