Continuing the discussion from Looking for new maintainers for the ReStructuredText plugin for PyCharm:
I’m putting together a group of alpha testers for the new Mermaid plugin I’m working on.
For anyone interested (@chriscarini, @jgafner, others), the group is being hosted on my Discord server (Tachi Labs).
Just join the #mermaid channel and request to join. Communication for the alpha test group will take place in the #mermaid-alpha private channel.
The first alpha release will be made available to testers sometime next week.
The expectation for testers is active participation in providing feedback and creating feature requests or bug reports.
As I mentioned in the original thread, the plan is for a freemium-type offering on release though whether that’s one closed-source freemium-licensed plugin vs two separate/complementary plugins, one closed and one open is still not 100% decided. I’m leaning towards diagram preview and export related features being FOSS, while making highlighting and code intelligence features (inspections, completions, folding, etc.) being paid (though with ~25 diagram types, there’s some leeway to play around with making some of them available in the free version).