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Development of Foswiki and TWiki - get the facts (Part 1)

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3 months, 3 weeks ago in by Andre Ulrich
It is often claimed that only a few developers moved from TWiki to Foswiki, therefore the first article will look at who are/were active core developers of both projects.

Number of core developers

The analysis focus on core development of both projects, as this is a major indicator for the health of a software project. This is because you need a lot more knowledge and background for developing the core product than for writing an extension with a clearly defined API.

Claim

"We have healthy downloads, an active user community, and a very active support community. However, we are a smaller developer community than we used to be."
Source: Blog post by Peter Thoeny (Twiki.net) – 11 Nov 2009

Fact

Developers of TWiki and Foswiki
Core contributers
PeterThoeny
SopanShewale
CrawfordCurrieCrawfordCurrie
KoenMartensKoenMartens
MichaelDaumMichaelDaum
RafaelAlvarezRafaelAlvarez
AndreUlrichAndreUlrich
TravisBarkerTravisBarker
ArthurClemensArthurClemens
GilmarSantosJrGilmarSantosJr
LynnwoodBrownLynnwoodBrown
OliverKruegerOliverKrueger
ColasNahabooColasNahaboo
KennethLavrsenKennethLavrsen
MarkusUeberallMarkusUeberall
SvenDowideitSvenDowideit
AntonioTerceiroAntonioTerceiro
WillNorrisWillNorris
MartinCleaverMartinCleaver
New to core development
SebastianKlusSebastianKlus
OlivierRaginelOlivierRaginel
EugenMayerEugenMayer
LarsEikLarsEik
IsaacLinIsaacLin
GeorgeClarkGeorgeClark
AndrewJonesAndrewJones
New developers
SeanMcCarthy
RobManson
BenBeijer
RaulFRodriguez
MarkSchumann
MichaelTempest
AndrewPantyukhin
DrakeDiedrich
PaulHarvey
2 Core Contributers32 Core Contributers

Statement

Developer community:

Look at the list of developers contributed to the core of both projects since the commercial takeover of Twiki.net. The TWiki.org development community has dropped to almost nothing – only Peter and his employee Sopan is left. Whereby all other TWiki.org core developers moved to Foswiki.org. Together with new developers, Foswiki has almost doubled its core contributors!

  Number of core contributors
  before commercial takeover
of TWiki.org (2008-10-27)
one year later (2009-10-27)
TWiki.org 18 2
Foswiki.org n/a 32

Healthy Downloads:

Yes, lots of users still download the old TWiki code as they don´t know about Foswiki and its progress. Our marketing was very bad as we are better in concentrating on improvements than in talk about it. Sadly even most of our old TWiki user community don´t know about Foswiki and may wonder why there is no progress on TWiki.org.

Sources

As the analysis is based on open source, you can easily check the correctness of the data by yourself. For the first analyzation I used the following sources:

Don't miss the rest of the series:


Development of Foswiki and TWiki - get the facts (Intro)

One year after the commercial take over of TWiki.org its time look how TWiki and its successor Foswiki performed. A small blog series will cover facts and give you insight into the development status of both projects.

Intro

As a Wiki consultancy we regulary got asked about different projects and how good they are. In case of TWiki.org and Foswiki.org customers are very irritated and cannot see the difference. The fact that Foswiki is based on TWiki, but got developed much further within the last year is not obvious to most users. Contrary to the fact that Foswiki is the superior product, TWiki still has the better recognition marketing wise.

In order to help our customers getting an insight into the development of both projects I will do an analysis and compile the results in an understandable way. The results will be published in a small series of articles.

The first analysis will be based on core development of both projects, as this is a major indicator for the health of a software project. This is because you need a lot more knowledge and background for developing the core product than for writing an extension with a clearly defined API.

As the analysis will be based on open source, you can easily check the correctness of the data by yourself. For the first analyzation I will use the following sources:

Stay tuned and see how Foswiki and TWiki developed over the past year.

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Foswiki-1.0.7 released

The amount of improvements is impressive. The bug fixing carousel passed another lap and pace increases noticeably as new high potential contributors have joined the Foswiki core team. This is easily the best release we ever had.

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And this is not all. The Fosswiki Association e.V. has just recently been founded formally. The first constitutive general assembly will take place within the next two months to ratify its articles, vote for the board and convert virtual beers into physical ones. Maybe it will take place around Nov 20. This would be a great date as we could celebrate Foswiki's first anniversary having decided on the new project's name one year before.


Read the full release notes and go grab it here.

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Foswiki.org running on a new server

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We are all quite excited about the recent and upcoming changes on the Foswiki project. Now Koen Martens has set up a new hardware for the Foswiki main server and migrated the site. Big big thanks to Koen and his company Sonologic hosting it and all people that donated money to buy the new iron.
Here are some pictures:

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ClearQuest interface for Foswiki (and TWiki)

Is there any interest in such an interface?
For the last couple of years, C-dot Consultants has been working with a client to develop a plugin that interfaces to the well known (and quite excellent) IBM ClearQuest bug tracking and workflow management system. This interface allows Wiki users to make queries into the ClearQuest database, and present the results of those queries in tabular and graphical form. The interface was developed for the client's internal use, and has been heavily used by a large number of people for quite some time. It has proven to be very reliable. It occurred to us that it might be of some use to other enterprises who use ClearQuest. If you are interested, please contact me.
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r5 – 29 Mar 2008 – 13:08:59 – MichaelDaum
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