mishraprince

Aah, yes. My bad.

Gary Bernhardt wasn't all that wrong when he mentioned anything that can be written in JavaScript will be written in JavaScript. This post indeed reminded me of his talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Why that audio? Scared, I could have spilled some fine coffee!

That one reply in that flame war is still hilarious so many years later. To anyone who didn't get the reference of Putnam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Didn't see this mentioned, but Wordpress and Drupal have had a huge impact on my early career.

Wouldn't count them as developer tools per se, but as a software provider, I could serve a lot more customers with ease and confidence thanks to hundreds of thousands of man hours put in by the Wordpress and Drupal developers.

Yep, that is the long term agenda of the project. Most (all?) amendments have certain socio-economic/political context which gets lost over time. Amendments (and laws in-general) are better understood when the context is well laid-out.

I'll add all such contexts to all these amendments, including who tabled the bill, how did the debates go, were there any following judicial reviews: all that data.

There is a repo for the USA-Constitution: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution

I am not sure if there are any for the states.

- Constitution of India applies only in the Union of India

- The first article of the constitution defines the boundaries of the Union of India: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...

- The terminology referred to as "socially and educationally backward classes" is to provide certain underprivileged sections of the society better living standards

- PART-3 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...) guarantees the Fundamental Right to Equality 14. Equality before law.—The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.

Till 96th amendment, I used the work done by https://github.com/captn3m0/constitution and https://github.com/anoopdixith/TheConstitutionOfIndia/

96 onwards, I downloaded the gazette notifications and applied the changes manually. I could not find any automated way.

I'll file an RTI one of these days to the Legal Department to source the Constitution as is, after every amendment. Let's see where that goes.

lol, I took it too seriously then. I thought it to be a reference towards squashing all amendments into one commit.

Yes, the original constitution was drafted in English and the full official text of the Constitution in English, available here: https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india/co...

However, Amendment 58 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...) made sure Hindi translations exist Hindi version here: https://www.india.gov.in/hi/my-government/constitution-india...

I am not sure about authoritative versions in any other language.

oh, I meant "courts" not press. Let me correct the comment.

I was especially referring to https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...

This amendment to Article 368 essentially gave the legislature unrestricted power to amend the constitution without fear of a judicial review.

Yeah, now that you pointed out, it does look ugly. I created an issue: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/i... to track this one. I anyway plan to rewrite all commits with corrected time and author info; will be a good time to rename files as well.

Especially look at the restrictions on courts!

An amendment in the Indian Constitution is an act/law/bill in itself. It does modify the core document (the constitution) but it has an independent existence.

In that sense, one could argue that every "amendment" is a bugfix, feature-request of sorts.

Debatable both ways.

I personally like the idea of independent commits better as the "git browse" UIs handle individual commits better.

Absolutely! It would be a dream come true if Indian law-makers start doing things in the public, allowing public to comment/vet their ideas/thoughts/plans on upcoming legislations. I'm not sure if you're aware: currently the farmers in India's capital are protesting against the farm acts the Govt. introduced. The acts are supposed to do good to the farmers, but since they did not involve them, there is a lot of misinformation and protest.

By backdated, do you mean correct dates for the commits? I'll add that in one of the subsequent commits: both corrected dates and authors.

I did think about having correct dates and authors, but then I got lazy and in fact got more focussed on getting all the amendments in place. Now that the core work is done, I'll add corrected dates (perhaps real date + 100 years), authors and committers in one of the later commits. Thanks for reminding!