Hi Mat and Jed Your work is one of the most expected works. However here are my concerns
1. Organization: Having documentation alone will not do. It must be organized under titles and subtitles and so and so. Orgnanization will provide answers for the questions you have, as well as serve to showcase the other possibilites and alternate methods in the same tree of questions, from different sources and users. 2. Scalability. If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that the scalability of an effort like Twederation will be difficult beyond a point. Shouldn't we opt for a solution that has the ability to expand? 3. Learning curve. For someone who is new to TW5, Twederation will be yet another thing he will have to learn, however simple it is being made into. This introduces the same hurdle that makes github not ideal. While we might not be able to make the process of creating documentation completely familiar, we should atleast provide a way to access the documentation on a familiar UI. 4. What if someone deletes his TW5? Will a copy of the documentation persist somewhere or will it be lost? Since twederation is not a client-server type setting, I guess not? If it will not persist, it means the whole structure of documentation becomes volatile. If it does, where will it stored? 5. Asking people to submit documentation is one thing, asking them to give access to a file that resides in their hard-drive is another. Call me paranoid. 6. The whole system depends on current browser security I assume. If they become stringent tomorrow, what will happen? 7. Yours is a voluntary effort. I am not in anyway questioning you guys' commitment to the project of Twederation, but what if at a point tomorrow life makes it hardly possible to maintain the project of Twederation? I understand that people will not submit documentation eagerly. Hence the suggestion to make it a community agreement that if users get a satisfactory solution for their problem from the group, they will simply write it up and file it under the appropriate heading. A lot of questions have very simple answers. It is quite sad that such an effort requires this much push. I want to remind the group in general in no uncertain terms - there is a dearth of documentation. Unless we do that, in a world full of easy solutions, people will not get a chance to know TW. One of you veterans, if they take any kind of steps to set up such a community documentation, they will have my whole hearted support and I offer any kind of help I can provide. Yours sincerely Someone who realised yesterday that changes made to tiddlers starting with $:/state will not make TW dirty. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/02e90aa1-99c8-4f85-971a-bb2b90e792ca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
