[annotator-dev] One Annotator, Several Mailing Lists? [Was: Re: Lost in the "current" Annotator 1.2.9 - looking a "state-of-the-art" plugin]

Wed Jun 25 08:28:08 UTC 2014

On 25/06/2014 09:12, Randall Leeds wrote:
[...]
>> > The master branch has all reworked packaging and build.
>>
>> I switched back to the v1.2.x branch just because the changes in
>> architecture that are worked upon in the master branch were just
>> confusing me. Until a 2.x release comes, I'll study v1.2.9. I probably
>> just passed by at the wrong time; I want to stay tuned but Annotator is
>> not within the scope of my everyday activity, so I can sync with it only
>> when I decide to stop doing other things, revise my JS books, rediscover
>> the Firebug debugger and dive into your code.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
> 
> Thanks for your patience!
> 

Hey, why live in a valley of tears? I hope that "patience" won't be
recorded with dependencies in the package.json :-D !

I am using this list because I am not aware of any other ML dedicated to
the Annotator. Actually it sounds incorrect to me to use a *-dev mailing
list for setup issues like mine, and the ones of several other users here.

Actually, this mailing list is set up so that replies are addressed to
the original sender by default, and not to the list itself. IMHO this
may remove some traffic, but mixes things up. I cannot take the
attention of core developers for silly matters. I came with a simple
question like "what code should I read?" and I was answered by core
developers like Nick and Randall. This is just incredible to me, it is
like being helped by Dries Buytaert for setting up your LAMP. Nick,
Randall, you deserve more than this... :-))

So: I would say that the Annotator has a "core" part, and a "plugins"
ecosystem.
I *suppose* that it would be possible to split up this list in something
like

	annotator-core-dev
	annotator-plugins-dev
	annotator-support

Of course I'd then subscribe to "annotator-support" first.

I'm writing this mail because I expected to find a lot of discussion
about this matter within the >500 messages that I received since I
subscribed to this ML, but to my great surprise, I did not.

Thank you for reading so far.

Ernesto Torresin