Re: [s-d] proposal parser

[Antonio Dolcetta <antonio.dolcetta@xxxxxxxxx>]

bd wrote:
> 
> How about: Increment nesting-level on /^\s*{{/, decrement on /^\s*}}/. 
> When nesting-level goes above 0, start a prop; when it goes back to 0, 
> end one.
> 
I wanted to use this, but I wasn't sure if it might have problems with 
Joel's future dice-roller


>>>> I was also thinking, instead of having people send proposals to a
>>>> special address we could simply subscribe the bot to the mailing list
>>>> and have it work automatically, that would be nice.
>>> It would be nice as long as there were some clear indication when
>>> something goes wrong. For example, if I start a message with
>>> STARTPROOSAL, everyone will get the message and see that I made a
>>> proposal, but it wouldn't show up on the page because the script
>>> wouldn't recognize it.
>>>
>> i was thinking that the script would send an ack mail to the list, so  
>> you would notice something is wrong if you don't see it
> 
> Perhaps spoon-notices could be used for this? If a sequence number was 
> assigned by the bot that'd be useful too. We should have legislation to 
> allow prop sequence numbers to be assigned out of order when necessary 
> though.

I was thinking use sequence numbers 1000+ for bot parsed proposals, and 
use <1000 for manual override.
Needs legislation though.



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