The law is a repository
Contribute
The draft improves the way open source improves: in public, by pull request, against stated criteria. Three repositories:
- own-the-machine: the law, its memorandum, the review ledger (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- own-the-machine-tools: the review gates and linter (MIT).
- own-the-machine-site: this site (AGPL-3.0).
The merge criteria
Every change to the legal text must survive four tests: it claims assets, not flows; it reaches every citizen equally; it is raid-proof; and it claims the stake in time, at the moment gains crystallise. Mechanical constraints (the DC table in the objections) and six adversarial review gates apply before merge. A pull request that weakens a protection needs to say so in plain language.
Ways in
- Argue. Take on an objection, or raise a new one at full strength. The strongest contribution is the attack we have not answered.
- Draft. Improve an article against the Joint Practical Guide conventions; the linter and gates will meet you.
- Translate. Languages are promoted from machine-translated to human-verified one page at a time; native readers are the bottleneck.
- Build. The site and tools are ordinary open source with issues waiting.