Hello TW Devs,
I have a delicate question/comment/discussion to pose to Jeremy and the
community.
As we know, the development priorities are set entirely by Jeremy, and (at
least most recently) new major features get developed by him as they become
relevant to Jeremy's use and development of TW for various commisions (I
don't know how true this is historically, or even generally, and I mean no
judgment or offense by saying this). Other features get added slowly and
only after persistent pushing by dedicated members (like aspects of the
keebord plugin finally making it in!).
There has been a lot of talk about opening up TW so that other people can
handle accepting pull requests, closing tickets, reviewing new features,
etc. There was even a brief period where we tried out gitlab, discussed a
workflow there, etc. I am not sure what happened this time. I am very
interested in seeing this happen, not so I can try and influence its
direction directly - I am only an amateur TW developer and intermediate
user - but so that TW can open up to "the next level". For example, I'd
like to prepare TW to be able to participate in the next Google Summer of
Code! (only as an example), or to be used as a software development class
project for a group of students at a university where they fix bugs, add
features that the community needs, etc! Or to be subject of a weekend
hackathon by a group of people!
We can even imagine simplifying while expanding the supported editions of
TW:
1. Bare-Bones
2. Feature Rich
- Comes loaded with many plugins making it easier for new users to
"get started".
3. Niche:
- Writer
- Student/Researcher
- Dungeon Master/Gamer
- etc. - These will probably just differ in style/pre-loaded content,
not really functionality.
When TW has:
- Development goals/features that are:
1. planned and fleshed out ahead of time (think github milestones,
roadmaps, etc.)
2. prioritized by the community (think github stars/votes in
comments, etc)
- A responsive group of developers to handle a growing community of
bug reporters and contributors
I think it can really grow into its own!
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Some context: In my time in GG I see motivated talented people come in,
want to contribute, show us what they have and eventually life takes over
and they move on and at best were left with a plugin, and if we're lucky
the plugin is on github and not lost as an attachment in GG. I want to make
sure TW is in a place to take full advantage of talented peoples limited
time!
Any and all comments are welcome!
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