[bpfk] What I'm going to do.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

OK, so.  The urge to just Go Fix Shit has been growing in me.  I
think there's actually not all that much to do if I can get people
in a room for concentrated time to work on it.

So, here's what's going to happen.

1.  Lindar is working on examples, basic cleanup, and search of past
contention for everything.

2.  I have diffs for the CLL; I will go through them, possibly with
others, and approve the result as the new CLL.

3.  Possibly in parallel, somebody converts the current CLL in git
to docbook.

4.  I, some other bay area Lojbanists, and a *very* few people via
voice chat, sit down for serious, concentrated sessions of Fixing
Shit.  The results I want here look, in my head, a lot like what Bob
originally asked for, actually.  To wit:
  
  - a series of numbered alternative proposals; there might be three
    {ni} proposals, for example.  Somewhere (I'm thinking in a setup
    like shapado.com, but suggestions *very* welcome here) is a
    repository of the proposals *and the justifications for each
    option*.  Each proposal is associated with CLL changes and word
    definitons.

  - a modified CLL that has colored paragraphs corresponding to
    *every* proposal, so you can just go through and pick the ones
    you like, basically

  - some proposals will contradict each other some won't
  
  - as long as a consistent set of proposals is selected, the
    language will be as specified as we want it to be (including
    those places where we explicitely say "this is a stylistic
    choice")

5.  We (where "we" means "a bunch of Lojbanists I respect") all vote
on the various proposals.  (I have invited people to join the BPFK,
and the response has been underwhelming in general, so I'm going to
pick the people that I think have actually helped or whose voices
need to be heard and call them BPFK members.)  This continues until
a consistent set is selected.  The result becomes the CLL.  The word
definitions become official.

6.  I, some other bay area Lojbanists, and a *very* few people via
voice chat, sit down for serious, concentrated sessions of Making A
Dictionary, hopefully using the next generation of jbovlaste, which
someone has written in the meantime.  We publish the resulting
dictionary.

7.  Satisfied with the result, some of us vow to only speak in
Lojban when discussing Lojban, and in public Lojbanic fora.  If
something's seriously broken, that should root it out.

There are votes for the LLG and the BPFK in there at various points,
but I expect if xorxes and Arnt and I all agree on something, the
rest of you will toe the line.  :)

-Robin

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