Re: [Tiki-devel] importing content

Saša Janiška <gour-XQYBc/g6bItWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:07:30 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.cms.tiki.user
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:51:46 -0400
Marc Laporte <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Marc,

> You started more than one thread on related topics in the last week.

Well things a a bit inter-related...

> I took the time to answer your questions, this time around, and a few
> years ago when you were evaluating Tiki.

Thank you for that!

> I indicated that it was "not on my personal or business roadmap"
> because I get the feeling you are trying to pressure me or others into
> doing something. 

Why did you get such a feeling?

First of all, I wrote a post to the Pandoc mailing list asking about support
for Tiki writer, then commented here:

https://dev.tiki.org/item6697-Markdown-support 

asking about wіkiLinigo which was mentioned years ago when I was interested for
Asciidoc. Then submitted ticket (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4825) to
the Pandoc tracker on Aug 9th.

After that I visited #tikiwiki and was a bit surprised to see much less people
than years ago when evaluating Tiki...there I met Bernard asking about support
for Chat app and mentioning my desire to have better facilities to
import/export to/from Tiki which is actually the same thing expressed to you
several years ago when I did encounter Tiki for the first time...and I'm still
sure that by using more standard markup allowing import/export, Tiki would have
more users today.

Bernard suggested on Sep 29th me to create 'wishlist' which I did on Sep 30th:

https://dev.tiki.org/item6827-Tiki-writer-support-for-Pandoc

and a little bit earlier I sent my first post to the users-list being mostly
concerned about import/export capabilites, mentioning Pandoc issue and asking
about wikiLingo.

I have become more fired up only after lucish mentioned: "at the recent
TikiFest Montreal we discussed possibilities of adding Common Mark" in
#tikiwiki considering that (finally) Tiki devs are seeing the value of support
for more standard markup which could greatly help its wider adoption.

Iow, initial inquiry was just testing a pulse and only after that I did some
research, found some links in regard to PHP-Markdown parsers etc. based on
"well, we mostly concluded it is for the future and that we could start by
adding a new wikiplugin first for Markdown support which could eventually
evolve in global parser support later...", found out there is (some) support
for (github-flavoured) markdown in CKE which Tiki uses (I discussed that with
Bernard in Open Hours yesterday)...

Btw, what is, in essence, the difference in my proposal with e.g.:

https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4057

That's why I'm a bit sad that you got the feeling that I'm pushing you or
someone else to ѕo something *on my behalf*, while in reality it's just my
enthusiasm trying to help further promotion of Tiki by adding, imho, important
feature.

Still, I do apologize for my overheated enthusiasm and promise to resist
further temptations in regard.
 

Sincerely,
Gour

-- 
Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice,
O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion —
at that time I descend Myself.

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