[bt-devel] "Join Us"

[Gary Holmlund]

On 01/12/2013 01:27 AM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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> Hi John!
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> On 12.01.2013 00:25, John B. Turpish wrote:
>> I was considering the possibility of maybe helping out a bit at
>> some indeterminate point in the future. So I went through the steps
>> here <http://blog.bibletime.info/en/development/join-us> except
>> for: " Sign up for an account on our wiki
>> <http://devel.bibletime.info/>, and make your contribution there."
>> - Trying to do so gave me " Permissions errors You do not have
>> permission to create this user account, for the following reason:
>> The action you have requested is limited to users in the group:
>> Administrators."
> Hmm... yeah that page is a bit out of date and should be updated. We
> closed registration to the wiki because we got many spambots. You can
> ask for an account on #bibletime @ FreeNode or e-mail me in private
> and you will get it.
>
> We now use SourceForge mostly only for the distributing the sources
> and binaries each release. Our repository is now on gitorious:
>    https://gitorious.org/bibletime
> For starters you can clone our repository and develop in your own
> branch. If you have commits you would like us to pull into our main
> repository, just submit a pull request on gitorious or contact us in
> other ways.
>
>> " If you do not know what to do please ask on the mailing list for
>> some tasks. Do not forget to add how difficult it should be." - I
>> guess I'm sort of doing that now. I've been a professional C++
>> developer for a few years now, so it doesn't have to be super easy.
>> However, at this point I'm pretty uncommitted and undedicated with
>> relatively little time to allocated to this, so it would be good if
>> it's really low priority and preferably not involve tons of
>> time-consuming busywork.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> The current BibleTime developers are currently rather busy doing other
> stuff and have not had much time to work on BibleTime, so I can't
> recall any simple C++ tasks right now.
>
> For me personally the most important task has been just to refactor
> the code, because currently its just too much spaghetti and hard to
> figure out for new developers. I'm afraid that such refactoring would
> be too time-consuming for you. You could just try to browse the code
> and see whether there's something you can do better.
>
> Another thing is that might be a bit more simple in some cases are the
> retranslation methods of GUI element classes (src/frontend and
> similar). Namely the goal has been that every GUI widget which has
> translatable tr("strings") should also have a retranslateUi() method,
> which would reset the strings. These methods would later allow us to
> change the language of BibleTime dynamically without requiring a
> restart to the application. See
> src/frontend/bookshelfmanager/installpage/btinstallpage.cpp for a
> simple example.
>
> God bless!
> Jaak

John,

I just wanted to say hello also. We also have a coding programming 
guidelines that you should look at.
http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Programming_Guidelines

Welcome,
Gary
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