> > 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. > >
Well, I think that's right, the community needs docs, some sort of insiring/leading blogs and more active participants, but there's also a some specificity about the community and about the development which hinders that. TiddlyWiki is a very complex tool and it feels like without studying it deeply, one couldn't be able to write docs consistently (looks like all the doc projects either describe a little or do this with a bunch of tiddlers organized mostly by tags) or contribute considerably to the core (I look at this from a point of non-professional developer like myself -- for instance, I haven't sorted out how wikifier works yet which I need for at least one plugin). And among those who studied TiddlyWiki much enough (or TiddlyWeb, which seems to be even less likely) which is already not many people (I guess), most of the guys just don't have enough time to contribute constantly, as the do lots of intellectual work already (due to their cast of mind). So we can wait for someone who finds enough room for writing consistent docs on the one hand; on the other hand, I can only speak for myself and I can say that writing consistent documentation requires of me at least established workflow and instruments for turning my notes into solid texts for public (ideally multilangual). I'm planning to do this anyway (create tools and publish smth via TW), but I'm afraid that I'll be ready only in about a year or 1,5. May be we need also another type of contributors, who, instead of knowing the core, can agitate people, may be announce some contests (of plugin development etc) or arrange meetings or write a blog, or even promote TW in some educational communities.(in this aspect Mans promote TW quite nicely, but to a younger generation). But I personally don't have much contacts in the IT world (and even don't know how this works in other communities), so I'd hardly suggest such a person. Things are in the way they are. Let's keep working unless we achieve our breakthrough. Yakov. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/-/pDN4CtKv5eYJ. 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.
