[jsword-devel] Building on Bible Desktop: BibleBlogs.Net

[DM Smith]

Don,
    I have seen your Jira entry with attachment and hopefully I'll get 
to it by the end of the weekend. I'll be running it through our 
CheckStyle, FindBugs, PMD and other QA tools and making adjustments to 
minimize their whining. So don't be surprised at some changes. Also, I 
will be setting you as author on new stuff and slapping on our license, 
LGPL for library code and GPL for GUI code. For existing code that you 
changed, if the changes were more than a few lines or were significant, 
we will add you as an author. If this is not OK, please speak up.
    If the code tests well, we can do another release fairly soon. (You 
caught us at a good time!)
Thanks,
    DM

Don Brown wrote:
> I'm in the process of building BibleBlogs.Net [1], a site that 
> provides tools and a forum to help you in your personal search for God 
> and to share your experiences with others.  This is accomplished 
> through the marriage of web journals or "blogs" with Bible study 
> tools, specifically, Bible Desktop [2].
>
> To this end, I've built a blog client into Bible Desktop to allow 
> someone to share their Bible study thoughts and experiences from 
> within the Bible Desktop itself.  The blog engine, Roller [3], even 
> supports group blogs to allow several people to collaborate on a 
> single study easily and the client in Bible Desktop supports multiple 
> blogs per account.  Initially, I was going to build everything around 
> the blog engine, but once I saw Bible Desktop and how well-designed 
> and commented it was, I decided to built it into the site.
>
> Anyways, my question is where should I go from here? 
>  #1 - I could donate the code to Bible Desktop, once it has been 
> cleaned up to its standards.
>  #2 - Continue as a separate project, forking code as needed.
>
> Since Bible Desktop is GPL, the code is available on the 
> BibleBlogs.Net site [2], so option 1 is more about collaboration.  
> Option 2 obviously necessitates me finding a new name, but it also 
> might help encourage Bible Desktop's design to better accept plugins 
> and extensions.
>
> Look forward to your feedback and ideas.
>
> Don
>
> [1] http://www.bibleblogs.net
> [2] http://www.bibleblogs.net/study
> [3] http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/project