[sword-devel] Licensing audit of SWORD for Fedora - sharing results with upstream

[Jaak Ristioja]

Please understand, that we might nevertheless decide to host our own 
Fedora repository for BibleTime as well.

BibleTime developers are not responsible for packages we did not create 
ourselves, but when issues with these packages arise many users still 
complain directly to us. Oftentimes they just ask for some newer version 
of BibleTime to be packaged for their platform. Many distributions also 
have restrictive packaging policies which prevent introducing new 
(major) versions of packages to stable distribution versions. Hosting 
our own repositories might help in that regard and we would also not be 
tied to having to support older versions of BibleTime we no longer can 
or wish to support. We have very limited resources and can't afford to 
manage BibleTime within distribution repositories.

On 06.10.23 09:58, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> No worries there, I would be doing all the work of managing BibleTime
> within the Fedora repositories, the devs wouldn't have to do extra
> work for that to happen.
> 
> If the BibleTime developers are interested in hosting their own repos
> for other distros, that's certainly their option (and a good idea in
> my opinion), however having BibleTime directly in distribution repos
> will obviously make it easier for end-users to install and use it, so
> I'd like to make that happen by maintaining the package in Fedora. (I
> also have experience with Debian packaging so if the current Debian
> maintainer gives up on it, I might be able to help there too.)
> 
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 1:42 AM Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05.10.23 20:59, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>>> Thanks! If all of the comaintainers for Xiphos and BibleTime are also no
>>> longer available or interested, I think it would be helpful if you could
>>> go into https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xiphos and
>>> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bibletime and click the "Orphan"
>>> button on those. I'll take them once that's done and should be able to
>>> help keep them maintained.
>>
>> BibleTime would be interested in hosting their own package repositories
>> for different distributions and their versions, which would be updated
>> by the CI (see [1]) and perhaps be of low maintenance burden. We don't
>> have the resources to commit to managing BibleTime packages under the
>> umbrella of different distros.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> J
>>
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/258
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