[mackwic]

> I'm surprised if France and other supposedly civilized countries don't do it on behalf of the Justice Ministry or equivalent.

Please be kind in your comments.

Also, you're wrong (http://legifrance.gouv.fr/), but that's secondary relatively to the harsh tone you had there.

[ptaipale]

Well, I said "surprised if", not "surprised that".

The eur-lex link I mentioned lists precisely that site (legifrance) for France. But as I don't read French and don't know the particulars, what puzzles me is what is the additional value of putting the same thing in Github. The maintenance burden seems horrific unless you can pull it automatically, and even then the actual benefit of using Github is not so clear to me.

[masklinn]

> The maintenance burden seems horrific unless you can pull it automatically

Which is probably relatively easy, legifrace provides reconciliated articles with history so it should be possible to just crawl the code, see if an article was updated since the last crawling and generate the relevant commits.

> and even then the actual benefit of using Github is not so clear to me.

Diffs are somewhat more straightforward than the equivalent legalese, and version-controlled markdown makes for easier programmatic manipulations across "space" and time than a custom-designed website.

[ptaipale]

Right, that makes sense then.