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

[Jaak Ristioja]

I apologize for leading this thread off-topic. I suggest the discussion 
on creating a repository for BibleTime to continue under the respective 
GitHub issue: https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/258

On 06.10.23 19:27, Fr Cyrille wrote:
> 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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