Jed Thanks for the very detailed reply. I will mull it & come back.
Josiah On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:12:35 UTC+2, Jed Carty wrote: > > I assure you we are very aware of how difficult it is to find what has and > hasn't been done and how difficult a task it is to start using the more > interesting parts of tiddlywiki. I am mostly in charge of maintaining the > list of plugins used by the community search site and I don't know a lot of > what has been made or is being worked on. Most of the development work is > taken up by improving the core so that as a basic standalone wiki > tiddlywiki works well. Unfortunately since this is an open project and > there is no dedicated staff being paid for development everything is > limited to what we are interested in making in our spare time. > One result of this is, to use myself as an example, that when I make > something interesting I tend to make only enough documentation so that I > can use it and then I don't worry about it anymore. There are plenty of > other people who do the same thing so over all documentation is lacking. > That is why I started the wiki reference wiki > <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com> but that is done in my spare time > instead of working on any of my other projects that I generally find more > interesting. The problem only gets bigger when you add the other authors > who make plugins that I try to list because they need to make the plugins, > then they need to host them somewhere, then I need to know they made the > plugin and then I need to find the time to create the entry on my site then > Erwan needs to find the time to update his site so that the community > search has the correct list. > Me and Erwan have been in contact with each other about this and every so > often some plugin authors will contact me, but for all of us this is > secondary to the development itself. We have no dedicated organizer or > logistics person so that side of things only gets done when someone who is > working on development decides to take a break and spend time on it. > I am working on some things that will make it much easier for someone to > develop a plugin and then send me the information to list it, but that is > one of many projects I am working on. > > This isn't to complain, just to explain why things are the way they are. > Until we get some more people working on it (hopefully some who are > dedicated organizers) progress is going to be slow. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6ac788ca-2f27-4de0-8232-5e1f62e3a83e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
