On Jul 9, 2009, at 6:25 AM, wolfgang wrote:
> I think this assessment isn't fair Eric. I was aware of the respects in which my comment about documentation was inadequate -- should I say, "inaccurate"? -- Wolfgang. Of course, I'm aware, too, that it is an open source project. There is a lot of documentation, a great deal of it actually. Another manifestation of the generosity of the TiddlyWiki community. But when you're at work and run into a problem, it's not always easy to know where to go looking -- to what site, or in what location at that site. It would be handy to have a manual, a compilation of components, commands, tweaks, applications, FAQs, solutions to common problems. Something with a table of contents and index. Not not necessarily polished and edited for publication. Almost certainly everything anyone would want to know has already been written up somewhere. If it were organized and made more accessible, it would probably more than suffice. Another example. And again, I've been around at least a couple years. I know vaguely that TiddlyWiki has standard "fields." Maybe some -- or all? -- are associated with tiddlers. Looking at a TiddlyWiki, using a TiddlyWiki, you'd never know it. I still don't know what they are or what they're for. Maybe as a naive user who'll never gravitate to developer, I don't need to know. Or, maybe it would be really helpful. It would be nice to have a book I could pore over and learn about things like that. Develop some sense of what kind of animal this TiddlyWiki is. What it's made of. How it works. As for being open source, TiddlyWiki is not exactly a struggling open source project. In spite of the concerns that have been expressed on this thread, it seems to be on relatively solid ground. It's a proven, highly adaptable application in relatively wide use. It's got a solid community of developers and users. Other open source projects that make it this far develop a literature directed at novices. Perhaps, as in some of those case, it will have to come from outside the TiddlyWiki community. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
