[sword-devel] New public git mirror of Sword SVN trunk and why

[Jaak Ristioja]

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Hello!

The Mirror
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I created a new git mirror of the SVN trunk of Sword at gitorious:

Gitorious web page:

  https://gitorious.org/sword-svn-mirrors/trunk

Git URLs:

  https://git.gitorious.org/sword-svn-mirrors/trunk.git
  git://gitorious.org/sword-svn-mirrors/trunk.git
  git at gitorious.org:sword-svn-mirrors/trunk.git


Why?
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In short: there's a possibility that there might arise forks.

The BibleTime team has long been contemplating on how to relate to
various issues with Sword and its development, which has somewhat
hindered the development of BibleTime, fixing or working around bugs
dependant on Sword etc. Up to this point, we have discussed
  1) writing an alternative backend for BibleTime to replace Sword,
  2) writing a better wrapper around Sword which would hide its
deficiencies,
  3) a combination of 1) and 2) and allow BibleTime to use multiple
backends,
  4) forking Sword as a separate project, and
  5) embedding a forked version of Sword SVN in the source code of
BibleTime which would be partly kept up-to-date with the original project.

At this moment we have not yet reached any decision whatsover, but
these discussions have become rather frequent.

Personally, as a developer and the current lead of the BibleTime
project, I'm not satisfied with the code quality of Sword, and find
lacking the documentation of Sword interfaces and file formats. In
addition, as an outsider I have long found it difficult to do anything
about it, partly because of the centralized version control system
used by Sword (SVN), and partly because the lack of explicit
guidelines for new developers (how do I start, get my proposed fixes
and changes applied etc).

I just wanted to clarify what has been under discussion @ BibleTime
during the previous years and what we feel we're experiencing towards
using Sword. I'm not offering any silver bullets, except that for one
thing I urge the Sword project to release a new version of Sword soon.
However, personally, I'd place my bets on recruiting new developers
for the Sword library (and git).


Blessings (and please don't ban me :),

Jaak Ristioja
The BibleTime team
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