Hi Jeremy

On Thursday, 24 September 2015 13:44:04 UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> Hi Matabele
>
> The process of exporting a tiddler to a .tid file, then attaching this 
>> file to a post on this forum is fairly straightforward. 
>>
>
> Another possibility is to use the "export all" button in the sidebar tools 
> tab to export a JSON file of just the changed tiddlers.
>

That makes things easier -- it had escaped my notice that once the docs had 
been placed into a plugin, an 'export all' would export only modified 
documentation.

Looks to me that the TW5-docs plugin should, therefore, be broken into 
>> several sections -- one for each TW5-docs moderator.
>>
>
> Things get a bit easier if we can assume that moderators are working in 
> GitHub, even if the contributors aren't. 
>

Again -- this streamlines the merge  process.

With these two modifications, the process should be fairly simple for 
contributors:

A contributor:
  (a) downloads and saves a copy of the latest TW5-docs
  (b) modifies (or creates) the relevant tiddlers 
  (c) exports the modified tiddlers in JSON format (with 'Export all 
tiddlers' button)
  (d) attaches this JSON file to a post (explaining the reason for the 
changes) in the appropriate thread of the TiddlyWik-Docs forum.

And the moderators picks up the process from there.

It seems that downloading JSON files from a Google group is easier for a 
moderator than visiting a list of blogspot wikis and, attaching a JSON file 
to a post is easier for a contributor than creating and updating a blogspot 
wiki. 

This also provides a forum for contributors to discuss their documentation 
modifications (with moderators and other contributors) before they post to 
the pinned threads. 

regards


On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 18:18:42 UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>>>
>>> Following up some recent discussions about making it easier for people 
>>> to contribute improvements to the documentation on tiddlywiki.com, I've 
>>> been experimenting with a new edition for documentation contributors:
>>>
>>> http://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/editions/tw5.com-docs/
>>>
>>> It's based on a new plugin $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/tw5.com-docs that 
>>> contains all the documentation tiddlers from tiddlywiki.com. The 
>>> advantage is that it's easier to tell which tiddlers you've modified, and 
>>> to revert to the original.
>>>
>>> The idea is that a would-be contributor would clone this edition to 
>>> TiddlySpot (step-by-step instructions forthcoming), and then make their 
>>> changes, saving them back to TiddlySpot. I, or anyone else, can fairly 
>>> easily then pick up the wiki and extract the changed tiddlers into a pull 
>>> request.
>>>
>>> One shortcoming at the moment is that TiddlyWiki gives a warning each 
>>> time you modify a shadow tiddler.
>>>
>>> A desirable feature is the ability to see line-by-line diffs for the 
>>> changes, and perhaps to be able to easily export a JSON file of the changed 
>>> tiddlers.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, feedback and questions are welcome,
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Jeremy.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jeremy Ruston
>>> mailto:jeremy...@gmail.com
>>>
>>
>
>
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> Jeremy Ruston
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