On Apr 23, 5:24 pm, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that we are really dancing around some practical, as well as
> philosophical, differences of opinion related to the overarching
> question:
>
> "Why, when, and how should a given core change be made?"
I agree and I'll take it a step further:
How do we continue to support existing TiddlyWiki users and uses
while
keeping TiddlyWiki development interesting to a diverse colleciton
of developers.
(This assumes that keeping TiddlyWiki interesting to significant
numbers of developers is a goal. It doesn't have to be.)
I think its the case that a fair number of potential TiddlyWiki
developers are not active TiddlyWiki developers because they can't be
bothered to work with a relatively antique codebase.
> However, regardless of the elegance and technical correctness of any
> engineering principles that are applied, these engineering
> considerations should be, in my view, secondary to the needs and
> interests of the TiddlyWiki end-user/author community. This includes
> timely delivery of fixes for known bugs, as well as issues of
> reliability, ease/consistency of use, customization, performance,
> compatibility and, of course, providing specific feature enhancements
> to actually help them achieve their goals.
You raise some excellent points. With this paragraph you definitely
have a sort of moral high ground.
I wonder if it might be worth considering TiddlyWiki 2.x as stable,
give it a maintainer or two or three or five, with regular bug fixing
releases.
And send all these jquery hopefuls off on a 3.x path that is
considerably more radical and accelerated than the current plans.
This would require a significant commitment by some individual or
group with regards to 2.x but could be extremely rewarding, given the
large size of the TiddlyWiki user community and the very interesting
things they do.
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