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Seaching for ConTeXt tutorials and documentation I mostly found unfinished books older than 5 years, yet the last stable release was in 2015 and it seems widely used.

Is this the intended state? I know that ConTeXt is aimed at commercial users so online documentation might not be a priority; or maybe is it that in the last decade ConTeXt remained so stable and backward compatible that those tutorial are still valid despite the age?

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    Since the development of LuaTeX and ConTeXt is tightly coupled, you could probably judge (approximately, at least) the state of the one from the state of the other. – jon Jan 25 '17 at 15:40
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    https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror/commits/beta (unofficial-mirror of beta releases) – Aditya Jan 25 '17 at 17:09
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    I think ConTeXt is more active than LaTeX3 ever was (mainly because it is driven by commercial demands). – Henri Menke Jan 25 '17 at 17:10
  • @Aditya seems to me that only one person is committing to that repo. Not a very good sign imo. I would have expected ConTeXt to be much more open. Disappointing. – user32882 Apr 13 '22 at 06:03
  • @user32882: ConTeXt doesn't use git for version control. The unofficial mirror is just a shell script that downloads the beta releases and uploads them to a git repo. If you look at the source files, there are significant contributions by others. Example 1. Example 2, Example 3, Example 4. – Aditya Apr 16 '22 at 21:12
  • What does it use for version control? Also where is the official repo? Can anyone contribute? – user32882 Apr 17 '22 at 07:31
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    I just found this https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-context/2020/003652.html. As long as PRAGMA maintains this stance, ConTeXt will remain a small, niche project which most developers will neglect or even actively avoid. Compare with the thriving and vibrant LaTeX community : https://github.com/latex3. – user32882 Apr 17 '22 at 07:48

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