TiddlyWiki development team and communication

[jeremyruston]

@dongrentianyu

I’m not sure if TiddlyWiki has a dedicated development team, because I saw in the official plugin library that the plugins have descriptions saying they are maintained by the official team. If there is such a development team, that would be great.

TiddlyWiki does not have a dedicated development team, in the sense of a group of people paid to work on it full time.

Our core development “team” is a loose collective of the regular committers on GitHub, but I still think of us as a team.

My own work on TiddlyWiki is supported by my consultancy work. Nowadays all the projects that I work on involve TiddlyWiki, and so I do work with TiddlyWiki full-time, but I don’t work on TiddlyWiki full-time.

@dongrentianyu

However, from another post, I saw that the communication between developers does not seem very close. On the contrary, due to lack of timely communication, some misunderstandings or conflicts have arisen.

There’s some important context to that discussion. @Flibbles is in an unusual position of needing to maintain plugins that depend on the TiddlyWiki core without being a participant in the community. That’s a tough nut to solve because our development model is participatory: one finds out what is going on by following the action and getting involved.

That’s not to say that there aren’t improvements that we could make. In general, I prefer to explore ideas that have already proven successful in other open source communities. I don’t think it is our job to invent new ways to manage open source projects.

@dongrentianyu

Create a tiddlywiki with content written by the tiddlywiki development team. Development members write their ideas on it instead of bugs, and bugs can be raised in a github repository. Then other development members discuss these ideas further and can make appropriate suggestions. Then commits are saved using github. Of course there may be time differences, but these may be acceptable or changeable.

As you know, there is already a documentation wiki written by and for developens at https://tiddlywiki.com/dev, but you are suggesting going further and transplanting new feature discussions to a hosted TiddlyWiki. Those discussions currently happen on GitHub and here on Talk. I do not think we are yet at the point where TiddlyWiki can offer a comparable user experience.

It’s also worth noting that the development discussions happen on GitHub largely because there are special features there that make it simple to refer to code and issues.