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 community here but you already do so much for us! Honestly for me it will be nice to work with a non moving target for a while. Will 1.1.5 and the export feature make release before the moratorium begins?
On Friday, November 21, 2014 5:27:26 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Several recent events have conspired to make me suggest that until the end > of the year I operate a moratorium on new features for TiddlyWiki5. > Instead, I propose to focus on documentation, and presentation of the > available editions and plugins. I will of course continue to fix bugs as > they are reported wherever it's possible to do so. > > (In the next few weeks I will also have to pay some attention to TiddlyFox > and TiddlyDesktop. In the case of TiddlyFox, imminent Firefox architectural > changes will require the architecture of the add-on to be significantly > updated). > > One trigger is obviously the recent thread discussing obstacles to > TiddlyWiki's success: > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/_rScP9Lscdg/discussion > > A more subtle trigger is my recent experience with implementing the > "export" features for 5.1.5. > > I started work on those features on around 12 days ago, on November 9th. I > committed the first working code on November 10th. Ever since then I've > been tied up with fixing up the loose ends: making the strings > translatable, making improvements in response to feedback. Most recently, > I've been implementing nested popups so that the export button will > function when it is invoked through the "more" menu. The initial > implementation was quick and fun, but a lot of the work since has been a > slow slog. > > In my experience that is all pretty typical for a major new UI feature: 2 > days to get the basic implementation followed by 5 to 10 days of working > through the edge cases and cleaning up. Of course, part of the reason it > takes so long is that alongside I'm still working on bug fixes, > documentation and the occasional new feature such as the tabbed table of > contents. > > The third trigger starts with the fact that I've been busy over the last > few days, and unable to participate in the mailing list threads as much as > I'd like. I've still been scanning the messages, and I'm drawn to the > conclusion that for many people here, some of the quite basic features of > TiddlyWiki are, thanks to the lack of documentation, indistinguishable from > voodoo. For example, Danielo's terrific recent post on the "variable" > attribute of the list widget was pretty interesting: another basic feature > that hasn't been well enough communicated. > > So, now that I stand back, I'm not at all sure that the work on the > "export" features was the best use of my time. It's an undeniably important > feature in terms of rounding out the interoperability of TiddlyWiki, but it > makes little or no difference to new users. > > My worry is that this will keep happening. There's plenty of voices here > calling for new features, and I'm naturally attracted to the intricate > problem solving required to implement them. I've a deep motivation to keep > smashing through the roadmap of planned features. > > 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. > > Some quick googling suggests that new feature moratoriums are not uncommon: > > https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=new+features+moratorium > > I'd be interested in any thoughts on this, and of course we'll discuss it > further at the hangout next Tuesday, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:jeremy...@gmail.com <javascript:> > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
