[sword-devel] Which is preferred in OSIS Bibles? bookGroup or x-testament?

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Please don't say you were ignored.  I certainly didn't ignore you.

If you gave me write permissions to mod2osis.cpp then it escaped me. I
remember us talking about my rewrite to use non-for loops as well as
looking for regular expression libraries, but I do not remember any
actions either to commit my patches or discussion on how to fix them
nor to my requests for mod2osis write privileges.

--Greg

>
> Troy
>
>
> On 02/13/2012 07:51 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:36 PM, DM Smith<dmsmith at crosswire.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/13/2012 01:16 PM, David Haslam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That being the case, it prompts the question,
>>>>
>>>> Why does mod2osis use type="x-testament" ?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not really sure what the utility of mod2osis is at all. The
>>> transforms
>>> of ThML and GBF to OSIS are very incomplete. It is best when processing
>>> an
>>> OSIS module. Every now and then there are discussions here regarding some
>>> shortcoming of this utility. At this point, I think it is abandon-ware.
>>
>>
>> This is only because I have never been given commit privileges to it.
>> I have made extensive changes and updates to it and submitted patches
>> multiple times but those have always been ignored. I've also
>> completely rewritten it two separate times to use something other than
>> a single monolithic for-loop, and both of those times I have been
>> ignored.
>>
>> Ergo, four times I have achieved mod2osis ->  osis2mod ->  DC ad nauseum
>> on the KJV 2006 module, including OSIS validation at each step and
>> verification that both the plain text output and the HTML rendered
>> output was identical between the round trip. Each time that
>> accomplishment has been ignored. The round-trip produces validation
>> errors when the original module import has errors in it (there were
>> some</lg>  elements without corresponding<lg>  elements in one or two
>> modules), but when I've reported those I got a, "Thanks, that's great,
>> but we can't do anything about it" response because we lack the
>> original OSIS files.
>>
>> Thus it is only abandon-ware because I was never given commit
>> privileges to it despite repeated requests (or, if I was given write
>> privileges it was never told me). I have since deleted the git and bzr
>> branches where I was working on mod2osis because I gave up hope of
>> ever being allowed to adopt it.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
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