Will all the documents, rules and bylaws be available publicly and versioned ?

[poliorcetics]

One thing that has always struck me a silly is that law and many public documents are not versioned when doing such would help catch so many small mistake or voluntary obfuscation (not naming anyone nor anything to avoid deriving the question).

What's the position of the Foundation on this ?

Note that my question is not asking for the process to be entirely public in the same sense as code, I just want to know if it will be easy or hard to compare the current bylaws to a previously finished version, not to each revision that happened in between two official versions.

Ideally this would simply be a diff of two files or group of files.

I don't know if I'm clear enough so an example from something we probably all experienced: when a service we use update the Terms of Usage, they send a mail resuming the changes and linking to the new version. I would like for the Rust foundation to make the exact diff available (in addition to a summary for people who aren't lawyers). Not everyone would care about it but having it would be very nice I think !

As a volunteer for translation, such diffs would be very very helpful too, though I'm very wary of translating law-related texts.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough and thanks for all your work !

[aidanhs]

We’ll need to spend some time drafting an answer, so we won’t get to it during this Q&A window.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

Transparency is a core value of the Foundation, and we do intend to make our documents available and accessible. We’re not sure that we’ll be able to provide diffs, but we’d like to. We’ll need to see if it is feasible! We are definitely planning on publishing human-readable versions, including translations, and those should be much shorter and easier to compare.