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[ebarker]

Regarding teams and other organizations posting 'copies' of FIRST manuals:

There is a concept in a field called "configuration management" that is implemented in other concepts called "ISO 9000" that goes something like:

An important document, like the FIRST manual exists in one place only and it is golden. Copies shouldn't exist else where because then tend to become non-authoritative because the local copy goes stale because the remote authoritative copy doesn't know to "push" the update out to the world.

What about the copy that I downloaded from FIRST ?

YOUR copy is in YOUR possession and YOU are responsible for making sure that you are up to date. But your copy isn't authoritative, only the FIRST copy even though you think it is the same.

You will likely encounter these concepts in industry.

I'm sure there are a lot of mentors with way more experience in this than me.