Amother potential TiddlyThemes project -

Name proposal: 'TiddlyHip..'
- Ability to scroll through thumbnails and "short descriptions" (new
standard of sliced documentation for themes)
- Ability for users to suggest repositories for indexing
- Ability for a theme author to exclude specific themes from being
indexed
- Comments and ratings on themes
- An RSS feed of theme updates
...
A TwitterTabs or Twitter Archiver-like application - which allows for
tweets as contribution to the "virtual" repository--

YS Måns Mårtensson

On 5 Maj, 21:29, Måns <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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