The past and future of Apparatus?

[Dave Crossland]

Hi!

Looking at the https://github.com/cdglabs/apparatus/graphs/contributors graph, it seems development has slowed down. 

There are 3 open PRs in https://github.com/cdglabs/apparatus/pulls and a lot of issues in https://github.com/cdglabs/apparatus/issues without any replies, and no milestones. 

Kindly I wonder.... 

What was the initiating energy behind the project? 

What is the future of this project? 

Where did the developers move on to? 

Cheers

Dave

[Toby Schachman]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for asking.

Apparatus began as a research project at CDG by me. The main research phase of the project, exploring the feasibility of a hybrid graphics editor / programming environment, is mostly complete. But there is still an ongoing effort at CDG to take Apparatus from the research phase and make it more practically usable to a community of interactive diagram creators.

Josh Horowitz is working half-time on the project and I am no longer coding on Apparatus but I have design discussions with Josh almost every day.

We have a ~6 month roadmap to implement the following:

- Various internal fixes and improvements (current work)

- Sharing and embedding diagrams

- Some layout changes to the UI to make it easier to accommodate new features

- Fixes to some usability issues we have noticed while running workshops

- A few new features (pen tool, etc)

The milestone is to produce an explorable explanation with embedded diagrams from Apparatus.

That is the current plan.

Sorry we haven't really been keeping the GitHub issues tracker up to date. Most of our collaboration ends up happening in person. If you have any suggestions on how we could communicate better to a potential open-source developer community, or if you are interested in contributing to development, let us know. Thanks!

Toby

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