[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-03-21 Thread PMario
Hi David, On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 8:25:54 PM UTC+1, David Bakin wrote: I am a happy user of TWC. Every few months I check this group to see how TW5 is coming along and I was very happy to read this message - until I released it was 3 months old. Has this moratorium paid off? Is

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-03-21 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi David Just to a couple of the answers already given by Eric and Mario: a) The single most important plugin I use is SharedTiddlers, which lets me have a base wiki which contains nearly all the plugins I use (except SharedTiddlers itself...) and then a bunch of topic wikis that refer to the

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-03-20 Thread Eric Shulman
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 12:25:54 PM UTC-7, David Bakin wrote: Here's my state: I have several useful TWC wikis in progress ... some have several hundred tiddlers. Even though there's very little theming done I have only read that a) TWC tiddlers can't be directly imported to TW5 and

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-03-20 Thread David Bakin
I am a happy user of TWC. Every few months I check this group to see how TW5 is coming along and I was very happy to read this message - until I released it was 3 months old. Has this moratorium paid off? Is there documentation and a plugin list for new users? I hope so! Here's my state:

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-02-16 Thread Alfonso Arciniega
Hi Eric, I left you a message in TiddlyTools regarding the book project. Not sure if you've seen it. Apologies to the group for this unrelated message, just I don't have Eric's email to communicate to him directly. Alfonso Arciniega On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 11:42:29 PM UTC-7, Eric

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-02-15 Thread Eric Shulman
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 11:22:54 PM UTC-8, Hiru Yoru wrote: That's a great idea! Thank you for the information! My idea was more for an online wiki, though, so that everyone can add to it and help to expand it through group effort. I know I didn't say that specifically, but that's

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-02-14 Thread Hiru Yoru
Speaking as someone new to TW5, I think documentation is a must. I had a hard time starting to use TWC way back in the day because of the unavailability of documentation. It was a struggle and I stopped bothering with it on several occasions because of that very problem. It was only after more

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-02-14 Thread Eric Shulman
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 9:20:58 PM UTC-8, Hiru Yoru wrote: If you document TW5 thoroughly -- not just the dense, complex documentation targeted towards seasoned programmers, but the more easily understood documentation that could be read by newbies -- I think TW5 will grow on

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2015-02-14 Thread Hiru Yoru
That's a great idea! Thank you for the information! My idea was more for an online wiki, though, so that everyone can add to it and help to expand it through group effort. I know I didn't say that specifically, but that's what I had in mind when I wrote that. That said, I'm sure the two aren't

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-12-31 Thread Tobias Beer
My point is that TW-5 should be informed (or introduced) as (1) collaborative works where many can edit simultaneously While that would be very desireable, TiddlyWiki is not that. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-12-24 Thread Handoko Suwono
A big topic is clearly how we improve the contribution process for the documentation. I have a couple of thoughts: * We could initiate a TW5 community space on tiddlyspace along the lines of tiddlywiki.org - it's a proven way to work. It would be good to try out TW5's support for TiddlySpace

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-24 Thread PMario
On Monday, November 24, 2014 12:52:09 AM UTC+1, Tobias Beer wrote: On a need basis perhaps? I.e if a part can be reused, then it is tiddlified to avoid redundance in the system. Not sure how to deal with if there's later a wish to change it in one context but not the other. Or maybe

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Thanks everyone for their contributions. There are a bunch of good suggestions in the thread which I'll try to pick up in the hangout on Tuesday. A big topic is clearly how we improve the contribution process for the documentation. I have a couple of thoughts: * We could initiate a TW5 community

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread David Gifford
And 5.1.5 will be released this week, right Jeremy? I am really eager to have this update. It's got some great stuff in it. Also I am eager because I have used some of the define newhere bits you emailed me, but they don't seem to work in 5.1.4, only in my copy of the prerelease of 5.1.5. This

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Dave And 5.1.5 will be released this week, right Jeremy? Yes, there's nothing else big planned, but it'll still be a couple of days before the release. In particular there's quite a few contributions awaiting merging on github. Best wishes Jeremy. On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:29 PM, David

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Erwan
Hi everyone, as this is my first post here, I'd like to start by thanking Jeremy and everyone who contributes to TW, from core development to helping make the community so engaging. I've discovered TW only a few months ago (I was lucky to arrive just for the birth of the official TW5), and

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Erwan I tried to develop these ideas and to imagine how things could work globally in a more detailed proposition, in case that helps: http://tw-doc-ideas.tiddlyspot.com Terrific stuff, thank you Erwan. You've done a great job of summarising the situation and the ideas that are floating

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Mat
On Sunday, November 23, 2014 5:33:40 PM UTC+1, Erwan wrote: http://tw-doc-ideas.tiddlyspot.com Hear, hear! I particularly like that you brought up the need for different types of documentation, and probably for different levels of expertise. BTW, this will, to say the least, be one tough

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Richard Smith
Hi all, With regards the Philosophy of Tiddlers http://tiddlywiki.com/#:%5B%5BPhilosophy%20of%20Tiddlers%5D%5D. I read some of Tobias' and Jeremy's recent conversations about sections in Tiddlers. Although I don't understand some of the complexities, I do think the goal of 'smallest

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Mat
On Sunday, November 23, 2014 9:40:32 PM UTC+1, Richard Smith wrote: With regards to the documentation specifically then, how should we think about, for example Introduction to Filters http://tiddlywiki.com/#:%5B%5BIntroduction%20to%20Filters%5D%5D - should it be split into ~13 different

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Erwan
On 23/11/14 17:17, Jeremy Ruston wrote: Hi Erwan I tried to develop these ideas and to imagine how things could work globally in a more detailed proposition, in case that helps: http://tw-doc-ideas.tiddlyspot.com Terrific stuff, thank you Erwan. You've done a great job of summarising the

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-23 Thread Jed Carty
Erwin, I was hoping to restart the dedicated documentation mailing list trying out the ideas discussed here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/F0dnmWrOuxg The other mailing list is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tiddlywikidocs and I put up a post briefly discussing

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-22 Thread Mat
On Saturday, November 22, 2014 3:37:16 AM UTC+1, Jed Carty wrote: I think that we could try making a public tiddlywiki on tiddlyspot and make a list of topics people want documentation for the most, then collect explanations and examples from people and hopefully get someone who is good at

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-22 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Whenever you have an open web page, you end up with spammers trying to create link drops. Probably a real wiki (with authentication) or even just a special thread on this forum would be better. I believe the better wiki systems track history, so changes can be rolled back when something useful

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-22 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Whenever you have an open web page, you end up with spammers trying to create link drops. Probably a real wiki (with authentication) or even just a special thread on this forum would be better. I believe the better wiki systems track history, so changes can be rolled back when something useful

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Stephan Hradek
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[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Tobias Beer
+1 Whatever boosts your productivity and focus, Jeremy. Definitely advisable slow down a little from time to time and do some housekeeping before the next round. If there are any new feature requests, they'll end up on the pile anyways. Perhaps there's a way to display a sticky above the

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Alex Hough
My thoughts: I thought the criticism was more than an bit unfair. It's for other members of the community to contribute to efforts according to their will and skills. To me it signalled a requirement for the wider community of non-coders to organise itself a bit more. I think there are people

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread PMario
On Friday, November 21, 2014 1:27:26 PM UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: Hence my proposal for a new feature moratorium. It's a simple way to ensure that my attention stays focussed on the really important things for the next few weeks. OK. +1 ... as long as also every other non programming

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread David Gifford
Comments: 1. Don't be too hard on yourself about choices made. All of the possibilities - documentation, new features, bug fixes, helping people who are stuck on a use case problem - all of it is worthwhile. And while you are so productive as to seem omnipresent at times, you are still one

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread David Gifford
One other thing...there is a lot of helpful stuff on the hangouts, and Mario has done an awesome job of writing annotations for them. But still, there area almost 70 of them now, most of them two hours long. One possible help for TiddlyWiki users might be a *topical index of the Hangouts*. Not

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread PMario
@Jeremy, Could you set the sticky flag for this post for some time? -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Alex Hough
great points Dave and Mario Alex On 21 November 2014 14:32, David Gifford dgiff...@crcna.org wrote: One other thing...there is a lot of helpful stuff on the hangouts, and Mario has done an awesome job of writing annotations for them. But still, there area almost 70 of them now, most of them

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread HansWobbe
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[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Julio Peña
+1 In the heat of battle a good general knows when it time to resurvey the situation. I believe that Tiddlywiki5's development has been going at an accelerated pace ever since it came out of beta. As for myself, I'd the time is right to take a deep breath and stand back a bit. Best regards

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Ton Gerner
+1 On Friday, November 21, 2014 4:55:26 PM UTC+1, Julio Peña wrote: +1 In the heat of battle a good general knows when it time to resurvey the situation. I believe that Tiddlywiki5's development has been going at an accelerated pace ever since it came out of beta. As for myself, I'd the

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Ed Dixon
I feel it should be expected. I am surprised you haven't decided to take at least a month off and celebrate TW5 leaving the nest :) It allows the smoke to clear, noobs like me to catch up on basic concepts and features. I am sure plugin development will continue to move forward within our

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Jon
I didn't like the recent post that provoked the review - it seemed very ungrateful to me. I use tiddlywiki every day and it has revolutionised my study and I'm just thankful for whatever improvements I can pick up along the way. As far as I'm concerned it's a work in progress and people should

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Ed Dixon
I do agree Jon but at the same time if I understand what transpired it was meant as constructive criticism and upon reflection Jeremy feels it is in the best interest of the project to slow new feature development down a bit and refocus his efforts. As a new comer I have to admit I am drowning in

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Mat
My +1 shouldn't surprise much. @everyone - Don't let my views distract you from doing what you love doing and your personal goals with TW. I think that in non-profit / no-pay projects the common, and necessary, denominator for anyone doing anything is enjoyment. :-) On Friday, November 21,

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Richard Smith
+1 @PMario ... as long as also every other non programming and programming community member contributes to the documentation improvement. Hi Mario, Is there any chance we could coordinate this effort somehow? I am happy to lend my time to the project but I'm a bit unsure as to where to

[tw] Re: [TW5] New Feature Moratorium

2014-11-21 Thread Jed Carty
I think that we could try making a public tiddlywiki on tiddlyspot and make a list of topics people want documentation for the most, then collect explanations and examples from people and hopefully get someone who is good at technical writing or design to collect everything into a nice tiddler