Get Involved!

TWiki is an open source project with 10+ years of history, built by a team of volunteers from around the world, and used by millions of people in over 100 countries. The community is focusing on building the best collaboration platform for the workplace. We invite you to get involved!

TWiki Co-development Web

TWiki News, Advocacy, and Release Downloads

• TWikiInTheNews: TWiki mentioned in the news, websites and articles.
  • DevelopersNews: The latest inside scoop for TWiki developers
  • CoffeeBreak: Drop in for a coffee and chat
• TWikiAdvocacy: Please help out in spreading the word!
  • TWikiAdvocacy05x01: Advocacy of the latest release
• TWikiReleases: Lists and explains the releases of TWiki
  • DownloadTWiki latest production release
  • TWikiAnnounceMailingList to announce new releases and warn site administrators of TWikiSecurityAlerts

TWiki Active Development

Brainstorming normally starts here in Codev, and when ideas are refined enough to be broken down into specific work items, they get transferred to the tracking interface.

• ReadmeFirst on how to get involved
• See TWiki Feature Proposals for proposed specs for new or improved features - browse, comment. You can also submit new request from this page.
• See Bugs:WebHome for the work item tracking interface
• See ideas in incubation that may become Feature Proposals.
• DeveloperResponsibilities gives an overview of how to work with SVN as a developer.
• SubversionReadme gives the overview of how to work on the branch used for the future releases.
• TWikiMailingLists used by developers and users
• SubversionBasedTWikiInstall describes how to run TWiki directly based on a checkout from SVN
• SVN manual (external link) is a must when working with SVN
• TestCasesTutorial describes how to write unit test cases.
• TWikiDevelopmentStartingKit contains more links needed for an active TWiki developer.
• Releasing TWiki - the important topics
  • TWikiReleaseManagementProcess - the process of how features are proposed and decided upon (from 4.1 and onwards)
  • TWikiReleaseProcess - the basic on how to document your check-ins on the Bugs database
  • BuildingARelease - step by step how to build a release
  • ProductionReleaseChecklist - an overview of what you must remember when you release
  • PatchReleaseMaintenanceSVN - describes how we handle the releases on SVN - both patch, minor and major releases
  • TWikiProductionRelease - overview of production releases
  • TWikiBetaRelease - overview of beta releases

TWiki Community and Development Discussions

• TWikiDevQuestions: Specific developer questions - browse or post your own.
• TWikiIRC: We have a channel called #twiki - we encourage all to hang out here.
• CodevDocumentationProject: Shows documentation for the perl files that make up TWiki.
• TWikiAddOnProducts: Programs and other tools, used or considered for use in conjunction with TWiki (including RCS, Perl and Apache modules, standalone utilities, etc).
• TWikiUsability: Structuring and organising the usability efforts of the TWiki community.
• TWikiGovernanceAndStrategyTopics: Topics discussing the Governance and Strategy of TWiki.
• TWikiOrgRenewalWorks: Lost of entry points regarding TWiki.org's appereance, structure, look & feel

TWiki Bug Tracking & Known Issues

• See TWikibug:WebHome for the development tracking interface (all reports against TWiki 4.0 and later)
• See BugReports for old bug reports

• KnownIssuesOfTWiki05x01: Production Release TWiki 5.1.x (code name IstanbulRelease)
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki05x00: Production Release TWiki 5.0.x (code name HelsinkiRelease)
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki04x03: Production Release TWiki 4.3.x (code name GeorgetownRelease)
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki04x02: Production Release TWiki 4.2.x (code name FreetownRelease)
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki04x01: Production Release TWiki 4.1.x (code name EdinburghRelease)
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki04x00x00: Production Release TWiki 4.0.x
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Sep2004: Production Release 01-Sep-2004, 02-Sep-2004, 03-Sep-2004 and 04-Sep-2004
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Feb2003: Production Release 01 Feb 2003
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Dec2001: Production Release 01 Dec 2001
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Sep2001: Production Release 01 Sep 2001
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Dec2000: Production Release 01 Dec 2000
• KnownIssuesOfTWiki01May2000: Production Release 01 May 2000

TWiki Deployment

• TWikiDeployment: Considers all aspects of TWiki in action around the world.
• TWikiVsOtherProducts: A look at other notable collaboration and content management tools (CMS, DMS, weblog, BBS, etc).
• TWikiInstallations: List of public and private TWiki installations
• ConsultantsForHire: If you need help / can offer on TWiki deployment
• CodersForHire: If you need help / can offer help on TWiki development

TWiki Documentation

• DocRequest: TWiki features in need of new or improved documentation as part of a release.
  • DocsToDo: Pending docs and approved DocRequests.
  • FeatureDocumented: Stable feature documentation.
• TWikiHistory development timeline. TWikiLore has discussion and questions about the history.
• A set of documentation about writing documentation has also been started. A mostly complete TWikiDocsStyleGuide is a great reference.
• TWikiDevelopmentStartingKit is a collection of interesting links to have at hand when developing a plugin or a patch to the core.
• TWiki has a project dev page on Sourceforge.

Codev Web Site Tools

Notes:

• You are currently in the Codev web. The color code for this web is this background, so you know where you are.
• If you are not familiar with the TWiki collaboration platform, please visit WelcomeGuest first.