Carnegie Mellon University Student Senate Bylaws

Advantages

• Simple, effective workflow for improvement and collaboration
• Complete history with extensive tooling
• Straightforward text format without pitfalls
• Easy conversion to a multitude of alternative formats
• Increased consistency and less room for errors

Dependencies

To generate output files and lint files, the following development dependencies must be installed.

• make
• aspell
• pcregrep
• pandoc
• texlive-latex-base, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra

On Ubuntu-based systems, use sudo apt-get install make aspell pcregrep pandoc texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra.

Usage

• Edit bylaws.md. Then, run make to generate DOCX, PDF and HTML outputs.
• Use ./lint.sh to check for errors including misspellings, non-ASCII characters and trailing whitespace.
• Only propose changes to bylaws.md within pull requests. Always merge with rebase to ensure a linear history.
• Create a new tag and GitHub release with each bylaws content revision that includes voting details and date.