Thanks Gary,<br>
<br>
It looks like you already have a good thing going on there. I don't know how I missed those pages before.<br><br>Kevin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gary Holmlund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.holmlund@gmail.com">gary.holmlund@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 3/4/2011 1:26 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:<br>
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Hi Kevin, everybody!<br>
<br>
I started work on BibleTime sometime in April, 2009 by providing<br>
Estonian GUI translations and a few patches. I got commit access in<br>
August 2009 and for some weird reason I'm currently the project lead. :D<br>
<br>
(...and I have never actually used BibleTime on a regular basis...)<br>
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I don't believe I'll be able to actively contribute while I am<br>
constrained to the rigorous demands of my current employment. Lord<br>
willing, that situation will change by the end of May, when I hope to<br>
have time to start developing.<br>
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Same situation here. And I fear the lack of time for me to work on<br>
BibleTime might worsen in the future, because of the increasing need to<br>
fight evil and lies within the Church.<br>
<br>
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Meanwhile I'm wondering, is there any roadmap for the project? How do<br>
you guys usually reach design decisions? I admire Ubuntu's "blueprints<br>
<<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications</a>>" as a way of documenting<br>
major changes before they are ever implemented. Could/would BibleTime<br>
benefit from a similar section of wiki pages, or has a different<br>
development model been already established?<br>
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We don't currently have anything like that for BibleTime, since we're<br>
few and busy. Many of the new features that users have seen in BibleTime<br>
lately are there because we just implemented them without much<br>
discussion and they have been generally accepted.<br>
<br>
Something I have stated ever since I joined the project, is that a lot<br>
of old code in BibleTime is still of unsatisfactory quality and<br>
architecturally unsound. Too much legacy. This makes adding new features<br>
a very hard job. We've tried to fix that as much as possible, but<br>
there's still a long way to go, and we're taking it step by step.<br>
<br>
Personally, I hope the next small step towards our goal is what Patrick<br>
is currently working on - a refactoring of the configuration system. I<br>
don't yet fully understand what his branch does, but I still hope for<br>
the best outcome. :)<br>
<br>
God bless!<br>
Jaak<br>
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We have used our wiki in the past for planning new features. Here are a few samples of this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Config_Dialog_-_Key_Bindings" target="_blank">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Config_Dialog_-_Key_Bindings</a><br>
<a href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime2FrontendNavigator" target="_blank">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime2FrontendNavigator</a><br>
<a href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Reworking_the_Configuration_System" target="_blank">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Reworking_the_Configuration_System</a><br>
<br>
A couple of other important pages on the wiki are:<br>
<br>
Development plan:<br>
<a href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_Plan" target="_blank">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_Plan</a><br>
<br>
Development cycle:<br>
<a href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_cycle" target="_blank">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Development_cycle</a><br>
<br>
Bibletime 2.9 schedule:<br>
<a href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Release_Schedules/2.9" target="_blank">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Release_Schedules/2.9</a><br><font color="#888888">
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Gary</font></blockquote><div><br><br> </div></div>