[sword-devel] Getting stuff done (Re: External links)

[Greg Hellings]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>
> Matthew Talbert wrote:
>> I would just like to point out again that there is very little
>> transparency in how bugs are updated and fixed in modules. Neither
>> does it appear to happen quickly. For example, someone reported a bug
>> (several bugs) in the ISBE module to the sword-support list 4 days
>> ago, and no one has even replied. I do not know what to say, because I
>> do not know how bugs like those reported could/should get fixed.
>
> I don't really know how to respond either, since the bug that the user
> thinks is there isn't. I'm planning to update the ISBE to TEI, which
> would clear up the issue that the user thinks is there, but I need to
> find a good source.

Which is an excellent reason why CrossWire should at least, as was
mentioned earlier, maintain the immediate form of the
OSIS/TEI/ThML/RandomMarkupFormat that is fed into the import
utilities.  You might find a good source, after long searching, and go
to report/fix a bug in theirs later and find them gone/moved/etc.  If
a copy of the directly imported form was kept on-hand, then at least a
problem like that could be overcome.

--Greg