[bt-devel] Allow me to introduce myself.

[Gary Holmlund]

On 3/4/2011 1:26 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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> Hi Kevin, everybody!
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> I started work on BibleTime sometime in April, 2009 by providing
> Estonian GUI translations and a few patches. I got commit access in
> August 2009 and for some weird reason I'm currently the project lead. :D
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> (...and I have never actually used BibleTime on a regular basis...)
>
>> I don't believe I'll be able to actively contribute while I am
>> constrained to the rigorous demands of my current employment.  Lord
>> willing, that situation will change by the end of May, when I hope to
>> have time to start developing.
> Same situation here. And I fear the lack of time for me to work on
> BibleTime might worsen in the future, because of the increasing need to
> fight evil and lies within the Church.
>
>> Meanwhile I'm wondering, is there any roadmap for the project?  How do
>> you guys usually reach design decisions?  I admire Ubuntu's "blueprints
>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications>" as a way of documenting
>> major changes before they are ever implemented.  Could/would BibleTime
>> benefit from a similar section of wiki pages, or has a different
>> development model been already established?
> We don't currently have anything like that for BibleTime, since we're
> few and busy. Many of the new features that users have seen in BibleTime
> lately are there because we just implemented them without much
> discussion and they have been generally accepted.
>
> Something I have stated ever since I joined the project, is that a lot
> of old code in BibleTime is still of unsatisfactory quality and
> architecturally unsound. Too much legacy. This makes adding new features
> a very hard job. We've tried to fix that as much as possible, but
> there's still a long way to go, and we're taking it step by step.
>
> Personally, I hope the next small step towards our goal is what Patrick
> is currently working on - a refactoring of the configuration system. I
> don't yet fully understand what his branch does, but I still hope for
> the best outcome. :)
>
> God bless!
> Jaak
We have used our wiki in the past for planning new features. Here are a 
few samples of this:

http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Config_Dialog_-_Key_Bindings
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime2FrontendNavigator
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Reworking_the_Configuration_System

A couple of other important pages on the wiki are:

Development plan:
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_Plan

Development cycle:
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_cycle

Bibletime 2.9 schedule:
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Release_Schedules/2.9

Gary