[bt-devel] Allow me to introduce myself.

[Gary Holmlund]

On 02/26/2011 06:24 PM, Kevin Shenk wrote:
> Hi Developers,
>
> I just wanted to let you know I just joined the BibleTime development 
> mailing list.  I'm a Christian, a computer enthusiast, and a Linux/KDE 
> user, so I'm very interested in this project.  I've actually been 
> using this program for many years now, and always have had a desire to 
> contribute to it's development.  I'm not ready to start developing 
> quite yet, but I'd like to see how you guys operate and where you are 
> going with this project.
>
> I have several motives which fuel my interests here.  I love to study 
> the Bible.  BibleTime seems to be the most advanced Linux Bible study 
> software so far, but it could use many improvements, and I'd love to 
> be part of that.  Secondly, I have some close friends who are involved 
> in a Bible translation organisation, and I think it'd be cool to 
> implement features which would be useful to them in that field.  
> Thirdly, I really enjoy working with computers, and although my work 
> involves programming in Object Basic and SQL, I always wanted to learn 
> in C++ and QT.  It's hard for me to learn if there's no specific 
> motivation, and improving BibleTime could be very motivational for me.
>
> I'm chock full of ideas, and I find it easy to speak my mind, but I 
> hope I can be helpful and not annoying.  I have several aspirations 
> for moderate changes in the application, like an accordion navigation 
> pane for the bookshelf instead of the list tree view, an MDI search 
> window, auto-loading chapters, a breadcrumbs reference navigation 
> panel, better cross-reference integration, etc.  Most of these changes 
> would probably only be feasible for a major future version (like 3.0?) 
> but I'd love to know how you guys brainstorm, make design decisions, 
> what your road-map looks like, and if and how I can fit into all of that.
>
> There are several other factors in my life which will determine 
> whether I'll actually ever be able to actively contribute to this 
> project.  I suppose for now I'll just sit back, be quiet (that might 
> be hard), and watch you guys work.
>
> God Bless!
>
> Kevin Shenk
Kevin,

Welcome to the devel mailing list. I joined the project about 2 1/2 
years ago. I have done most of my work on the "frontend" (user 
interface) of Bibletime. I also use c++ and Qt at my work.

Our source code is managed with git and hosted at:
http://gitorious.org/bibletime

It is possible make a person clone on gitorious and commit changes to 
it. You could propose patches from there.

It seems that all of the Bibletime developers, including myself, have 
been quite busy lately and not very much is happening on Bibletime, so 
the mailing list has been relatively slow. We do hang out on IRC at 
freenode in the #bibletime channel.

Gary Holmlund