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Contributing to TiddlyWiki5

Here we focus on contributions via GitHub Pull Requests but there are many other ways that anyone can help the TiddlyWiki project, such as reporting bugs or helping to improve our documentation.

Rules for Pull Requests

PRs must meet these minimum requirements before they can be considered for merging:

Imperative Mood for PR Titles

The "imperative mood" means written as if giving a command or instruction. See this post for more details, but the gist is that the title of the PR should make sense when used to complete the sentence "If applied, this commit will...". So for example, these are good PR titles:

These a poorly worded PR titles:

PR titles may also include a short prefix to indicate the subsystem to which they apply. For example:

Commenting on Pull Requests

One of the principles of open source is that many pairs of eyes on the code can improve quality. So, we welcome comments and critiques of pending PRs. Conventional Comments has some techniques to help make comments as constructive and actionable as possible. Notably, they recommend prefixing a comment with a label to clarify the intention:

praisePraises highlight something positive. Try to leave at least one of these comments per review. Do not leave false praise (which can actually be damaging). Do look for something to sincerely praise
nitpickNitpicks are small, trivial, but necessary changes. Distinguishing nitpick comments significantly helps direct the reader's attention to comments requiring more involvement
suggestionSuggestions are specific requests to improve the subject under review. It is assumed that we all want to do what's best, so these comments are never dismissed as “mere suggestions”, but are taken seriously
issueIssues represent user-facing problems. If possible, it's great to follow this kind of comment with a suggestion
questionQuestions are appropriate if you have a potential concern but are not quite sure if it's relevant or not. Asking the author for clarification or investigation can lead to a quick resolution
thoughtThoughts represent an idea that popped up from reviewing. These comments are non-blocking by nature, but they are extremely valuable and can lead to more focused initiatives and mentoring opportunities
choreChores are simple tasks that must be done before the subject can be “officially” accepted. Usually, these comments reference some common process. Try to leave a link to the process description so that the reader knows how to resolve the chore

Contributor License Agreement

Like other OpenSource projects, TiddlyWiki5 needs a signed contributor license agreement from individual contributors. This is a legal agreement that allows contributors to assert that they own the copyright of their contribution, and that they agree to license it to the UnaMesa Association (the legal entity that owns TiddlyWiki on behalf of the community).

How to sign the CLA

Create a GitHub pull request to add your name to cla-individual.md or cla-entity.md, with the date in the format (YYYY/MM/DD).

step by step

  1. Navigate to licenses/CLA-individual or licenses/CLA-entity according to whether you are signing as an individual or representative of an organisation
  2. Ensure that the "branch" dropdown at the top left is set to tiddlywiki-com
  3. Click the "edit" button at the top-right corner (clicking this button will fork the project so you can edit the file)
  4. Add your name at the bottom
  5. Below the edit box for the CLA text you should see a box labelled Propose file change
  6. Enter a brief title to explain the change (eg, "Signing the CLA")
  7. Click the green button labelled Propose file change
  8. On the following screen, click the green button labelled Create pull request

The CLA documents used for this project were created using Harmony Project Templates. "HA-CLA-I-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-individual" and "HA-CLA-E-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-entity". +

Contributing to TiddlyWiki5

Here we focus on contributions via GitHub Pull Requests but there are many other ways that anyone can help the TiddlyWiki project, such as reporting bugs or helping to improve our documentation.

Rules for Pull Requests

PRs must meet these minimum requirements before they can be considered for merging:

Imperative Mood for PR Titles

The "imperative mood" means written as if giving a command or instruction. See this post for more details, but the gist is that the title of the PR should make sense when used to complete the sentence "If applied, this commit will...". So for example, these are good PR titles:

These a poorly worded PR titles:

PR titles may also include a short prefix to indicate the subsystem to which they apply. For example:

Commenting on Pull Requests

One of the principles of open source is that many pairs of eyes on the code can improve quality. So, we welcome comments and critiques of pending PRs. Conventional Comments has some techniques to help make comments as constructive and actionable as possible. Notably, they recommend prefixing a comment with a label to clarify the intention:

praisePraises highlight something positive. Try to leave at least one of these comments per review. Do not leave false praise (which can actually be damaging). Do look for something to sincerely praise
nitpickNitpicks are small, trivial, but necessary changes. Distinguishing nitpick comments significantly helps direct the reader's attention to comments requiring more involvement
suggestionSuggestions are specific requests to improve the subject under review. It is assumed that we all want to do what's best, so these comments are never dismissed as “mere suggestions”, but are taken seriously
issueIssues represent user-facing problems. If possible, it's great to follow this kind of comment with a suggestion
questionQuestions are appropriate if you have a potential concern but are not quite sure if it's relevant or not. Asking the author for clarification or investigation can lead to a quick resolution
thoughtThoughts represent an idea that popped up from reviewing. These comments are non-blocking by nature, but they are extremely valuable and can lead to more focused initiatives and mentoring opportunities
choreChores are simple tasks that must be done before the subject can be “officially” accepted. Usually, these comments reference some common process. Try to leave a link to the process description so that the reader knows how to resolve the chore

Contributor License Agreement

Like other OpenSource projects, TiddlyWiki5 needs a signed contributor license agreement from individual contributors. This is a legal agreement that allows contributors to assert that they own the copyright of their contribution, and that they agree to license it to the UnaMesa Association (the legal entity that owns TiddlyWiki on behalf of the community).

How to sign the CLA

Create a GitHub pull request to add your name to cla-individual.md or cla-entity.md, with the date in the format (YYYY/MM/DD).

step by step

  1. Navigate to licenses/CLA-individual or licenses/CLA-entity according to whether you are signing as an individual or representative of an organisation
  2. Ensure that the "branch" dropdown at the top left is set to tiddlywiki-com
  3. Click the "edit" button at the top-right corner (clicking this button will fork the project so you can edit the file)
  4. Add your name at the bottom
  5. Below the edit box for the CLA text you should see a box labelled Propose file change
  6. Enter a brief title to explain the change (eg, "Signing the CLA")
  7. Click the green button labelled Propose file change
  8. On the following screen, click the green button labelled Create pull request

The CLA documents used for this project were created using Harmony Project Templates. "HA-CLA-I-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-individual" and "HA-CLA-E-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-entity".

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Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a non-linear personal web notebook that anyone can use and keep forever, independently of any corporation.

TiddlyWiki is a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript. It can be used as a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful Node.js application. It is highly customisable: the entire user interface is itself implemented in hackable WikiText.

Learn more and see it in action at https://tiddlywiki.com/

Developer documentation is in progress at https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/

Join the Community

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Official Forums

The new official forum for talking about TiddlyWiki: requests for help, announcements of new releases and plugins, debating new features, or just sharing experiences. You can participate via the associated website, or subscribe via email.

https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/

Note that talk.tiddlywiki.org is a community run service that we host and maintain ourselves. The modest running costs are covered by community contributions.

For the convenience of existing users, we also continue to operate the original TiddlyWiki group (hosted on Google Groups since 2005):

https://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

Developer Forums

There are several resources for developers to learn more about TiddlyWiki and to discuss and contribute to its development.

Other Forums

Documentation

There is also a discussion group specifically for discussing TiddlyWiki documentation improvement initiatives: https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidocs +

Official Forums

The new official forum for talking about TiddlyWiki: requests for help, announcements of new releases and plugins, debating new features, or just sharing experiences. You can participate via the associated website, or subscribe via email.

https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/

Note that talk.tiddlywiki.org is a community run service that we host and maintain ourselves. The modest running costs are covered by community contributions.

For the convenience of existing users, we also continue to operate the original TiddlyWiki group (hosted on Google Groups since 2005):

https://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

Developer Forums

There are several resources for developers to learn more about TiddlyWiki and to discuss and contribute to its development.

Other Forums

Documentation

There is also a discussion group specifically for discussing TiddlyWiki documentation improvement initiatives: https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidocs

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Installing TiddlyWiki on Node.js

  1. Install Node.js
  2. Open a command line terminal and type:
    npm install -g tiddlywiki
    If it fails with an error you may need to re-run the command as an administrator:
    sudo npm install -g tiddlywiki (Mac/Linux)
  3. Ensure TiddlyWiki is installed by typing:
    tiddlywiki --version
  4. Try it out:
    1. tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server to create a folder for a new wiki that includes server-related components
    2. tiddlywiki mynewwiki --listen to start TiddlyWiki
    3. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser
    4. Try editing and creating tiddlers
  5. Optionally, make an offline copy:

The -g flag causes TiddlyWiki to be installed globally. Without it, TiddlyWiki will only be available in the directory where you installed it.

Warning
If you are using Debian or Debian-based Linux and you are receiving a node: command not found error though node.js package is installed, you may need to create a symbolic link between nodejs and node. Consult your distro's manual and whereis to correctly create a link. See github issue 1434.

Example Debian v8.0: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node


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Tip
You can also install prior versions like this:
npm install -g tiddlywiki@5.1.13
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Using TiddlyWiki on Node.js

TiddlyWiki5 includes a set of commands for use on the command line to perform an extensive set of operations based on TiddlyWikiFolders, TiddlerFiles.

For example, the following command loads the tiddlers from a TiddlyWiki HTML file and then saves one of them in static HTML:

tiddlywiki --verbose --load mywiki.html --rendertiddler ReadMe ./readme.html

Running tiddlywiki from the command line boots the TiddlyWiki kernel, loads the core plugins and establishes an empty wiki store. It then sequentially processes the command line arguments from left to right. The arguments are separated with spaces.

Introduced in v5.1.20 First, there can be zero or more plugin references identified by the prefix + for plugin names or ++ for a path to a plugin folder. These plugins are loaded in addition to any specified in the TiddlyWikiFolder.

The next argument is the optional path to the TiddlyWikiFolder to be loaded. If not present, then the current directory is used.

The commands and their individual arguments follow, each command being identified by the prefix --.

tiddlywiki [+<pluginname> | ++<pluginpath>] [<wikipath>] [--<command> [<arg>[,<arg>]]]

For example:

tiddlywiki --version
 tiddlywiki +plugins/tiddlywiki/filesystem +plugins/tiddlywiki/tiddlyweb mywiki --listen
-tiddlywiki ++./mygreatplugin mywiki --listen

New in: 5.1.18 Commands such as the ListenCommand that support large numbers of parameters can use NamedCommandParameters to make things less unwieldy. For example:

tiddlywiki wikipath --listen username=jeremy port=8090

See Commands for a full listing of the available commands. +tiddlywiki ++./mygreatplugin mywiki --listen

Introduced in v5.1.18 Commands such as the ListenCommand that support large numbers of parameters can use NamedCommandParameters to make things less unwieldy. For example:

tiddlywiki wikipath --listen username=jeremy port=8090

See Commands for a full listing of the available commands.

Upgrading TiddlyWiki on Node.js

If you've installed TiddlyWiki on Node.js on the usual way, when a new version is released you can upgrade it with this command:

npm update -g tiddlywiki

On Mac or Linux you'll need to add sudo like this:

sudo npm update -g tiddlywiki

Also see

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