This is an extraordinarily GREAT initiative!! I believe that it will get MUCH easier for newcommers to see the potential of TiddlyWiki, when they can find/search for plugintitles, links and short descriptions in one place!!
Regarding css/styles & themes: It would be wonderfull with something similar for styletweaks and themes contributions from the community!! I think the TiddlyThemes is very good - but it is very inspiring also to follow "live" and cutting edge development that occurs in the community, many places at once - Documentation of and recognition to the "cssdesigners" as well: I think there ought to be be some kind of documentation (like the slices in plugins), which follows a combination of stylesheets, stylesheetcolors and pagetemplates. It might be a incentive to potential contributors - and give the community a "facelift" - rewarding the great cssartists with fame and recognition, which I think they deserve! Just a thought... Thanks for your initiative - and yet another great and intelligent high quality tool for TW-users! YS Måns Mårtensson On May 5, 3:28 pm, Saq Imtiaz <[email protected]> wrote: > As many of you are aware, there have been numerous discussions and attempts > at creating a "plugin repository" for TiddlyWiki in the past. However, for > various reasons, these attempts have fallen short of delivering something > usable by the community. Over the last few weeks - with the support of the > UnaMesa Association - I've been working on a new project called TiddlyHub > which addresses the same need: making it easier to find plugins. In > particular my focus has been on delivering a solution that meets the > immediate needs of the community and requires minimal maintenance to keep it > up to date. An early preview is available here:http://dev.squize.org/plugins/ > > If all goes to plan, within a few weeks this will go live > athttp://plugins.tiddlywiki.org. Further features will be added incrementally > as detailed below. > > TiddlyHub is designed to make the indexing of TiddlyWiki plugins as > automated as possible in order to reduce the burden of maintenance on > community members. The de-facto standard for publishing TiddlyWiki plugins > is for authors to publish their plugins as a public TiddlyWiki document. > TiddlyHub builds on top of this existing norm by indexing[1] a list of > TiddlyWiki plugin repositories[2] and checks them for updates on a regular > basis. > Therefore, plugin authors normally do not need to manually intervene to keep > listings for their plugins up to date, as TiddlyHub extracts relevant data > directly from the respective plugins.[3] > > Future planned features include: > > - Ability for users to suggest repositories for indexing > - Ability for a plugin author to exclude specific plugins from being > indexed > - Comments and ratings on plugins > - More advanced search and sorting mechanism (currently search only > searches within plugin titles and the description slice) > - An RSS feed of plugin updates > > Any contributions to the project are very welcome. > Code:http://bitbucket.org/saqimtiaz/tiddlyhub/ > Issue tracker:http://bitbucket.org/saqimtiaz/tiddlyhub/issues/ > Project wiki:http://tiddlyhub.projects.unamesa.org/ > > I'd also like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance I've received from > FND and Chris Dent on this project. FND notably spent some of his personal > time creating the TiddlyPy module which is an essential component of > TiddlyHub's indexing mechanism, whilst Chris has provided invaluable > guidance whenever I've hit a dead end. > > Best regards, > Saq > > [1] Note that TiddlyHub is not a plugin repository, as it neither stores nor > redistributes plugins. It is better thought of as a directory listing of > plugins developed and hosted by various community contributors. In the > context of the TiddlyHub project, the term "plugin repository" refers to a > single TiddlyWiki document published by a community contributor which > contains plugin tiddlers (e.g.http://www.tiddlytools.com). > [2] the (preliminary) list of repositories currently being indexed is > available athttp://dev.squize.org/plugins/repositories/ > [3] guidelines for plugin authors to ensure that their plugins are indexed, > will be properly documented before the initial version of TiddlyHub goes > live --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
