Recipe variants and forking
We are talking with the FabCity:Hamburg project, which wants to implement open source hardware recipes, is using VF, and also has other open source hardware connections. At the same time, we are talking to the GitBuilding project, which is developing markdown-based documentation to share recipes. Since it is text-based, it can be stored in git repositories to support forking and versioning, which we have known is a requirement for VF but haven't added. Here is an example of GitBuilding doc.
So we are using this opportunity to coordinate upgrading the VF recipe model to support the features these and possibly other groups are interested in, and also to see if we can create a round trip between Gitbuilding and VF software. The conversation is still developing.
This issue is for documenting the ongoing discussion, and to work on the VF model.