Feature: Add an 'Edit on GitHub' link to pages
sambacha opened this issue · 3 comments
Proposed Change
Edit on GitHub page button can be:
- create a fork and edit the page
- create an issue for that page
Example: I visit the page https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6466 and see that it does not include in its 'Security Considerations' an audit done by Dedaub (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p-1VvOGwI5GHkwaGMzJYDL7Affofm6rVLa6cvnmoqGI/edit) - This takes me a few steps as I have to go to GitHub repo manually, making me less likely to even bother.
Another example, I am reading the EIP page for https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6493 and check the required EIP https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2718 and notice that the required EIP-2718 makes no list of Transaction Types like EIP-6493 - should I ask the author @MicahZoltu to update or what? This sort of EIP is esp. important as what is considered 'valid' (meaning recognized by the community, etc). I do not believe there is a requirement on EIP Authors to go back to the required EIP to update its list or how it is handled in the first place absent explicit directive from the EIP itself (maybe @SamWilsn can pls explain).
notice that the required EIP-2718 makes no list of Transaction Types
Final EIPs cannot have non-normative changes made to them, and the EIP system is not designed to handle maintaining mutable lists of things, only immutable lists. There has been discussion about coming up with a solution for maintaining mutable lists of things somewhere (like lists of transaction types), but I don't think any progress has been made on that front.
Continuing on from @MicahZoltu's comment, EIP-5069 tries to clear up some of our reasoning for what we do and do not allow.
There is actually an edit-like button on EIPs:
(the little < > symbol)
It's just not very prominent.