Don maintained an authority of sorts. He curated the collection and presentation. That role was a lot of work, but I think you still require some form of management given all the different perspectives.

Also, neither text files or wikis (afaik) tend to the easy-on-the-eyes format Don used which was quite useful for printing. Given the large number of tabular errata that people may want to include manually into an existing manual, having compatible looking and sized output is a plus.

This may be particular to the MT iteration... I doubt any other version was as errata loaded.

If I had to choose, I would choose wiki over Git. Have used both but Git is not my favourite VCS by any means.

On Fri, May 15, 2020, 16:00 Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list), < xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

On Friday, May 15, 2020, 11:35:43 AM MST, Christopher Hilton <xxxxxx@vindaloo.com> wrote:

> On May 7, 2020, at 11:22 AM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

>

> Seems like it might be worth me trying to maintain/update/validate additional errata for MT.

>

> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:28 AM Thomas RUX < xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Ethan,

>

> You could be correct about kaladorn's question. In which case the answer is there does not appear to be anyone who has stepped into try to fill Donald McKinney's role of the Guardian of Traveller Errata. However, posts are still being made to the errata pages on CotI.

>

Many thanks are due to Donald McKinney for maintaining these errata over the years. As we move forward I wonder if we should move the location of the Errata to a repository on GitHub. If it were there, it might be easier for the community to maintain it. A suggestion for this is GitHub. GitHub is just set of public Git repositories. If you work with code, you’ll be familiar. If you don’t some explanation is worthwhile. Git is basically a distributed system for managing and maintaining changes in source code. Git allows a distributed group of contributors to make changes to a set of common files. Git can work with any file but it works best with “plain text” files.

That’s just a thought…

— Chris

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Sounds good to me!

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