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

[Jaak Ristioja]

Sure, Chris, if you give me appropriate permissions to do so. My current
github username is "jotik-".

Jaak

On 17.12.2012 22:47, Chris Burrell wrote:
> Can I suggest we put this on github under the crosswire organisation? We
> already have JSword there...
> 
> github.com/crosswire <http://github.com/crosswire>
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> On 17 December 2012 20:13, Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee
> <mailto:jaak at ristioja.ee>> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> The Mirror
> ==========
> 
> 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
> <http://gitorious.org/sword-svn-mirrors/trunk.git>
>   git at gitorious.org:sword-svn-mirrors/trunk.git
> 
> 
> Why?
> ====
> 
> 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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