[twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread Eric Shulman
> From a personal point of view I practically never look at source code > history, other than immediate history (that is the bit of history I've > I personally find that there is no point in looking at history to > understand a bit of code, whether it is to fix a bug or implement a > new feature.

Re: [twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Budden
"That sounds like you do not expect other developers to analyze or even contribute to the core" Actually my expectation is not that people don't look at the core, but that people don't look at the history. >From a personal point of view I practically never look at source code history, other than

[twdev] keeping up with jQuery

2011-02-07 Thread FND
As of today, the TiddlyWiki core (v2.6.2) is lagging two releases behind jQuery (v1.4.3 vs. v1.5.0), with jQuery 1.5 being a major release. Late last year, there seemed to be universal agreement that core development should move more rapidly and be more responsive. Unfortunately, I don't see any e

Re: [twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread FND
> One of the reasons I'm in favour of not importing the history into git > is that a clean repository is in some ways attractive to new users. > I'm in particular thinking of a friend of Paul's who was interested in > doing some work on TiddlyWiki, but didn't bother in the end because > the reposit

Re: [twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Budden
As I understood it, Eric did not want the history to be discarded, and that criterion is satisfied by keeping the frozen svn repository. One of the reasons I'm in favour of not importing the history into git is that a clean repository is in some ways attractive to new users. I'm in particular thin

Re: [twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread chris . dent
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Martin Budden wrote: However for the main body of TiddlyWiki, I thought we'd decided *not* to import the history. That's certainly my preference. I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise, if people feel it is important that we import the history, but I'd like that to be made as

Re: [twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread FND
> To get things started I went ahead and today created a cooker repo > and imported the existing cooker "stuff" into it. Looks good - thanks Chris! > Presumably a next step with cook and ginsu would be to package them > in a proper Ruby way +1 > I thought we'd decided *not* to import the histo

Re: [twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Budden
I notice that, by svn2git, you've also imported the history. Cook is small enough that it does not really matter if you import the history or not. However for the main body of TiddlyWiki, I thought we'd decided *not* to import the history. That's certainly my preference. I'm willing to be persuade

[twdev] Re: Proposal: Migrate TiddlyWiki core dev to GitHub

2011-02-07 Thread cd...@peermore.com
On Jan 20, 5:34 pm, FND wrote: > Off the top of my head, I can think of these basic/official components: > * TiddlyWiki core (Trunk/core/, along with tests and such) > * Cook (Trunk/tools/cooker/) > * jQuery plugins (Trunk/core/jquery/plugins/) To get things started I went ahead and today created