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

[Fr Cyrille]

For Ubuntu, there's already a ppa for Crosswire. It would be coherent 
for us to put everything together on this ppa: 
https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. You'd need to 
have full access rights, which I do, but I can't do it for you - you'd 
have to ask DImitri: https://launchpad.net/~xnox

Le 06/10/2023 à 10:12, Jaak Ristioja a écrit :
> 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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