[bt-devel] Allow me to introduce myself.

[Kevin Shenk]

Thanks Gary,

It looks like you already have a good thing going on there.  I don't know
how I missed those pages before.

Kevin

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 3/4/2011 1:26 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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>> Hi Kevin, everybody!
>>
>> 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
>>
>> (...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
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