Hi everyone esp. @ Osmosoft, Reminded by Yoann [1] for the need of such, I think it is high time for a professional, dedicated TiddlyWiki resource center supplying plugins / scripts / transclusions / usecases / whitepapers ...well a repository for all kinds of extensions.
I believe this should be the driving force in TiddlyWiki presentation and plugin management as opposed to posts in discussion groups and loads of places scattered all over the web to look for stuff. This last statement of course is not an attempt to diminish any individual achievements but only a call for a much needed gathering place. While I generally like Tiddlyhub - and please correct me if I am wrong - I believe it's missing a few vital features... 1) plugin categories, maybe with respect to different root concepts such as... what technical TW/HTML/JS/JQUERY aspects or elements it deals with vs. use-case oriented categories. Thus, a plugin might for example have a tech category of "tags" and a use-case category of "listings", another might be tech: "DOM" and useCase: "presentation", etc... 2) the ability for plugin authors - to first of all find registration information for the publiishing workflow on Tiddlyhub - not to point to an overall repository but to maintain URI and description information for plugins INDIVIDUALLY... For example, as a plugin author I would want to be able to point TiddlyHub to a plugin URL (being a tiddler) which defines the plugin's essentials via slices. Like that I would only have to register some plugin once and then have TiddlyHub parse the PluginInfoTiddler for the required information, which I only ever edit at this plugin repo- info tiddler. Even better would be the ability to define a plugin collection in a tiddler which itself would contain nothing but full-path-url's to the plugins being maintained by the author... which again were to be in the (yet to be defined?) format above, however not necessarily located in the same wiki as the collection tiddler. 3) Interactivity, social networking (facilitators), a more human touch... like user profiles (maybe imported from an individual profile tiddler in ones profile space or wiki, etc.) What I am trying to say is that, as an author, it's already quite some work to keep up with updates, deployed, includable versions, examples, tutorials, documentation, the work of others, etc... so that registering with a Repository Management System like TiddlyHub should only require a one time setup, periodically updated by TiddlyHub on a "per plugin" basis. In other words... I don't want to maintain another TiddlyWiki into which I am forced to put all my plugins hoping they'll all go well together... whether or not the desire for them to do just that is actually justified. I also would rather not want to (have to) register multiple repo's with TiddlyHub. I would desire a single place for me to be able to manage plugin information with respect to things for which I consider myself to be the author or current maintainer. Please do tell, if I am asking too much. Cheers, Tobias. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_frm/thread/c8fa01bf4b450038 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
