github-like contributions?

[Mortar]

If text doesn't match the original product, then just let us know in the "Pathfinder Second Edition - generic DLC issue thread". Thanks!

I wouldn't use Github as is being discussed in this thread if I wasn't specifically invited to do so. I can see both the merits and drawback to this idea though.

[mwfantasygrounds]

Also this. Very much this.

I find myself being inconsistent sometimes on my own things, haha! For example, when to use the "apply usage" and when not to use it. Formatting for how much info to put in the combat tracker. When to make something an Activity or when not to. When to personalize combat tracker effects to the Source using the [ACTORNAME] argument. When to check the "Show Apply All" box for a spell, or the Min Action box, etc. Lots of details for consistency, but also very doable

[Trenloe]

...Also once this functionality is implemented I am going to be sorely tempted to write an extension that handles importing XML records...

No need. Coming to a future version for the records that allow XML export...

[MaxAstro]

Trenloe you are an absolute hero.

Just a little while ago I was in the situation of wanting to share a specific piece of homebrew with another GM and since I keep all my homebrew in a single module it was hard to find a simple route to that. This is exactly perfect.

[Trenloe]

The ability to export/import individual XML for activities, backgrounds, classes, feats, items, lookupdata, ancestries, skills and spells will be available this coming Tuesday. Sorry for the delay in this, I've been overseas for the holidays and getting back down to FG dev only now. I'll be putting together a community contribution document that will detail how to contribute, how to track who's doing what, and some recommended best practices for format of actions, automation and "How to Use" text. It'll probably be a few weeks before I get all of that done and ready for community review.

[mwfantasygrounds]

Awesome! I can't wait to contribute

[Erlu]

I'm not a dev by trade (windows server admin), and using github type repositories is not natural to me. That said, I find a common repository that tracks changes and diffs them and makes merging in of new code is way useful at work, even for 'just powershell'. There might need to be some clever way to protect core code from public exposure, but I recommend the powers at be seek some sort of solution that allows community contributors to efficiently input code. Maybe some of the long term contributing mods and devs that do this every day that can/could be allowed access to smiteworks version tracking system could serve as funnel points for fixes? I don't know what you all have to go through presently though.
Maybe a cadre of contributors with NDA's to protect the intellectual property?