Heck, just hosting all the files in an easily navigable (and ideally diffable) format, for all the different versions, would be great, leaving aside any other features.

I might look into doing that myself...

On 1 September 2016 at 17:52, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, at 20:21, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> > If the size of data distribution is a concern, it looks like one can
> > achieve a much better compression by simply discarding comments
>
> But the comments are the best part! :-)

It might make sense, long-term, to transition the most of the comments
to a conventional documentation format (HTML, maybe) and host it on a
website.