On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Yakov wrote:
Well, :)
Thanks, the reason I asked is because in these sorts of things perception and reality are often quite different and often not what one would expect (either way).
in more narrow meaning, that's those who have the right to change the master branch, not sure if that's only Eric, or some other people too;
These days Eric is, indeed, the keeper of the master branch on TiddlyWiki classic. As far as I know he is the only active committer. Other people certainly have code in the core, and some probably have the power to make commits on master, but I'm not sure who that is these days. Jeremy can probably commit on TiddlyWiki but is active on TiddlyWiki5. I can't, and I'm focused on TiddlyWeb (and thus TiddlySpace as well). I don't generally use TiddlyWiki. The other people you mention may have at some point, but no longer do, having moved on to other interests or responsibilities. It's an interesting state of affairs and you might have seen me posting my concerns about the state of the community here or in some of the other tiddler-related groups. If the core pieces of a few purportedly open source projects only get commits from one person each, are they actually open source? The answer must be "yes", there are plenty of open source projects that are driven by one person that are visibly successful (mod_wsgi being one such example). And there is clearly a very sizable population of people developing plugins in the tiddler universe, and providing bug reports and otherwise engaging in a technical fashion. However, can these projects be called robust or in "rude health"? I think the answer is "no" and I'd like to figure out how to fix it. The answer would become yes if some of the following happened: * There were more core committers and/or more pull requests * There were volunteer webmasters (to use an old and generally horrible term) who maintained web presences (including things like blogs) for the projects * There were volunteer documentors who made and kept up to date repositories of FAQs, Tutorials, Introductions and API documentation For the record the projects I'm thinking of here are all four of: * TiddlyWiki * TiddlyWiki5 * TiddlyWeb * TiddlySpace The flip side of this is that the _products_ can be called robust and in rude health. People are excited to see what will happen with TiddlyWiki5 and use of the other three continues to move along very nicely. It's interesting to observe and consider. -- Chris Dent http://burningchrome.com/ [...] -- 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.
