[sword-devel] Is Twiki being used by some/most sword developers? Any?

Lynn Allan sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:23:47 -0600


Inquiring (newbie) minds want to know:
* Is Twike being used by some/most Sword developers? Any?

Mea cupla ... I'm trying to get up to speed with Sword in order to resurrect
ActiveDiatheke. I've got a lot of questions ... reflecting vast ignorance.
(I'm told I'm "trainable" :-)  Hopefully, someone will let me know if I'm
being a pest, or asking questions that an
industrious/competent/consciencious developer would track down on their own.
(ouch)

I took a look at Twiki, which looked very promising. Before tackling yet
another learning curve, I wanted to get an idea if Twiki was actually being
used. It appears to be a potentially great colloborative tool, but I found
very few current entries. There were daily statistics, but otherwise I only
encountered a handful of entries later than Mar, 2003.

(The entry from Troy on July-2003 related to Windows-Getting-Started was
*VERY* helpful)

This may reflect a newbie not knowing what he is doing, but it appeared that
Twiki had quite a few entries during 2002, but that dwindled to near zero by
mid-2003? Is that more or less correct?

If so, is the sword-devel list the primary source of asking and responding
to questions? What is the residual purpose of Twiki, if any? Are there
off-line tools to simplify use of the list and/or list-archive?