Consider unifying some/many task-specific files

[cbockman]

In response to #6:

For me: Having a single README (or, potentially, at least a smaller number than we have now) makes it easier (for me) to skim through all numbers, papers, results, etc.

Request to open for discussion:

• consider re-unifying the many task-specific files back into a single README.
• Or, possibly, into some smaller number of grouped, related items. (Don't know a good grouping offhand, but could investigate.)

Opening this for discussion at request of @sebastianruder .... polling community to see what would be easiest.

I will concede that in the long run, either way, there may be a pressure to split things back up (as tasks & papers accumulate), but my (personal!) leaning would be to keep things merged, for now, and then split things back up at some future point.

[nth-attempt]

I would prefer the merged version as well. As you said it is easier to browse through.

Frequency of contributing is much smaller than reading through.

[sebastianruder]

Cool. Any more opinions?

[sebastianruder]

Given the pace that new tasks and new results are being added (which is awesome!), I'm a bit more concerned now that a single page will both become unwieldy and at some point also less clear pretty quickly. In light of that, I think I'm in favour of the current format.

[cbockman]

Perhaps a twitter poll? My one last pitch here. IMO, as-is, I'll have a hard time coming back and re-visiting this resource.

There are many other ways to alleviate this, to provide better searchability etc., but it is hard to beat single file plus grep (ctrl+f), without a bunch of work.

I'm not entirely unique, but perhaps we are a minority. :)

Last alternate, somewhat simple thought--

• Multiple docs (for editing, if you prefer)
• auto-generated single doc (for viewing)

[sebastianruder]

Cool, yeah, I just wanted to voice my current sentiment. I can definitely still be swayed. :)
A Twitter poll seems like a good way to get some more feedback. Let's leave this open and see if more people join the discussion.
Could you elaborate a bit on your two alternate ideas? How would you propose to keep multiple docs for editing? What's a good way to auto-generate a single doc?

[cbockman]

Sorry, that was clearly confusing! Those were a single idea:

• Leave your separate files
• Have a separate script that automatically periodically concats these separate files into a master SINGLE_FILE.md