Eric and I have discussed bringing in another core developer to help with the TiddlyWiki Classic work. Would anyone be interested? Vincent? Yakov?
And just to remind everyone who has used and appreciated Eric's work that making even a modest donation can help to make a real difference: http://tiddlytools.github.io/fundraising.html Best wishes Jeremy. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Vincent Yeh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Take good care, Eric. Hope to hear you better soon. > > > On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:17:41 AM UTC+8, Eric Shulman wrote: >> >> First, allow me to offer my profound apologies to Yakov (and the entire >> TiddlyWiki community) for not responding sooner. >> >> As you've no doubt noticed, while I've continued to answer questions >> online (via GoogleGroups as well as private emails), my recent overall >> level of effort on behalf of the TiddlyWiki community has not been like was >> in past years. Unfortunately, I've been struggling with some long-term >> chronic medical problems and this has been, as you can imagine, a major >> distraction from my work on TiddlyWiki, as well as having a serious impact >> on my already tenuous financial situation as a self-employed consultant. >> >> As a result, most of my time is spent pre-occupied with trying to get >> healthy while keeping ahead of the bills, and haven't been able to put as >> much focus on TiddlyWiki development as I would like. Regrettably, and >> despite my best intentions, I have not published an update to the >> TiddlyWiki Classic core code in nearly a year, and several 'fixes' and code >> enhancements to the TWCore that were submitted months ago as "pull >> requests" to github are not yet incorporated into a published TiddlyWiki >> Classic release build. >> >> While this may give the impression that all development on TiddlyWiki >> Classic has ended, I want to assure you that this was not, and is not, the >> plan. Although TiddlyWiki 5 development is at the forefront of >> TiddlyWiki's growing future, TiddlyWiki Classic still provides a rich >> "ecosystem" of plugins and customizations that offers a significant value >> to many people, and the current TiddlyWiki user community will undoubtedly >> make use of their existing TiddlyWiki documents for quite a long time. >> >> It continues to be my intention, regardless of my personal situation, to >> provide ongoing support as well as periodic updates and enhancements to the >> TiddlyWiki Classic core code for as long as needed. Of course, while this >> is all well and good, what is needed in the immediate short-term is a >> specific plan for getting an update to the TiddlyWiki Classic core >> published as soon as possible. >> >> To achieve this and help me get back "up to speed" quickly, I would like >> the active assistance of as many people as possible to help me review and >> prioritize the existing github pull requests, as well as any additional >> changes that they feel should be submitted for the next TWCore update. >> Ideally, this should take no more than a few days, perhaps a week. >> >> Once that is done, I can start incorporating those changes into the >> TWCore code base and then build/post a beta-test version so that the >> updates can be confirmed as "safe and stable" for release. If that can be >> accomplished quickly (within the next few weeks) and there are no "show >> stopper" problems along the way, I should be able to publish an official >> update (TW2.8.2) sometime in July. >> >> Following that, we should begin focus on the *next* update, so that we >> can establish a clear plan and schedule so that the TiddlyWiki community >> knows what they can expect in the future. >> >> Again, my heartfelt apologies for having 'dropped the ball'. I greatly >> appreciate your patience and understanding... now, let's get things going! >> >> Much thanks, >> -e >> Eric Shulman >> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios >> >> YOUR DONATIONS ARE VERY IMPORTANT! >> HELP ME TO HELP YOU - MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO MY "TIP JAR"... >> http://TiddlyTools.github.com/fundraising.html#MakeADonation >> >> Professional TiddlyWiki Consulting Services... >> Analysis, Design, and Custom Solutions: >> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
