[sword-devel] Making better use of the CrossWire GitHub project ?

Sun Feb 18 14:48:16 EST 2024


Le 18/02/2024 à 20:42, Michael H a écrit :
> Re: Lack of momentum for OSIS.
>
> OSIS as described on wikipedia is owned by a committee including 
> United Bible Societies, SIL International, and the Society of Biblical 
> Literature.
>
> However, this team got together and created the version that is 
> available, then almost completely ignored it, and went back to the SFM 
> tagging system and then produced USFM, when turned into several more 
> closely related XML languages, but has become USX. There was in the 
> UBS/SIL Paratext translation program the ability to produce OSIS 
> output until version 8, but since about 2016, there is no use or 
> mention of OSIS in Paratext.
>
> A history and analysis of why this is published in Balisage 2021 
> conference:
>
> https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol26/html/Robie01/BalisageVol26-Robie01.html
>
> Even in 2024, the tagging language USFM remains the "primary" tool to 
> encode biblical works at almost all the organizations that produced 
> OSIS. There is no momentum for that committee to ever meet again. But 
> the spec has holes.
>
> https://gitlab.com/cmahte/osis-users-manual-2.1
>
> I started working on updating OSIS, and in the process received a 
> reply from someone at ABS or UBS that although the OSIS spec is 
> copyrighted and does not contain specific verbiage about reuse, I 
> could and should consider it licensed under creative commons BY-SA. 
> (At the time, I wasn't seeking to update OSIS, but freely copy from it 
> in creating a successor or fork.)
>
> This means that OSIS is both abandoned and available for adoption by a 
> successor body.  I've also since moved on from ever producing proposed 
> changes to it or a fork myself. IF I ever got far enough along to need 
> a formal spec, it would be extensions USFM or to OpenDocument or more 
> directly synonymous with that XML.  If you're interested, I'll dig up 
> the contact information, and pass it along. But I do have a copy 
> re-edited into USFM (or more specifically a draft version of PSFM... 
> which means the way tables are built in my text are unusual.) If there 
> is an effort to update. I can transform my work into LibreOffice 
> Writer format.
>
> I suggest it is time to consider an OSIS 3, or at least an OSIS 2.2 
> spec that is owned by a successor organization instead of 
> organizations that effectively abandoned it. That's the missing link 
> which would provide a mechanism to actually make changes to the 
> standard.  People (including me) keep doing this search and landing at 
> Crosswire Bible society as the best option for a new owner. But maybe 
> who OWNS can be one of the topics considered by a committee.
>
👍
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 9:47 AM Arnaud Vié <unas.zole+avie at gmail.com 
> <mailto:unas.zole%2Bavie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     Having dived into the whole crosswire ecosystem recently, I'm at
>     the same time impressed at the quality of the tools provided (in
>     particular the OSIS standard and the JSword lib, as I've been
>     working in Java), and worried by what I perceive as a lack of
>     dynamism around it's development and difficulty to contribute.
>
>     By "lack of dynamism" I of course don't mean to criticise the time
>     anyone spends (as we contribute to a free ecosystem, we all have
>     lives keeping us busy elsewhere), but rather to highlight how
>     rough it is for external enthusiastic people to join.
>     For example, I'd like to contribute evolutions to the OSIS
>     standard around versification systems, but I have no idea where to
>     make such proposals, as there is only a mailing list dead since
>     2015 <http://crosswire.org/pipermail/osis-core/>, a few wiki pages
>     <https://wiki.crosswire.org/Category:OSIS> and a few downloadable
>     documents <https://crosswire.org/osis/> which are supposedly the
>     latest version.
>
>     I think a lot of that could be improved by making better use of
>     the crosswire github project <https://github.com/crosswire>, which
>     is nowadays the first contact most young developers will have with
>     these crosswire projects.
>
>     I'd like to propose a few changes, get your opinions, and
>     volunteer to execute them if everyone agrees.
>
>       * *Revive the jsword github repository*.
>         That includes
>           o Backporting the relevant changes from the andbible fork
>             <https://github.com/AndBible/jsword/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed>
>             (excluding android-specific stuff - which I already mostly
>             removed in my last PR there).
>           o Setting up a release process to publish the jar on a maven
>             repository.
>           o Setting up a clear branching model and writing clear
>             contribution guidelines.
>           o Having a team of several people familiar with Java
>             development to review PRs or answer questions in the issue
>             tracker. I obviously volunteer, but more people is always
>             the best.
>
>       * *Create a new Git repository for the OSIS specification*.
>         Must contain :
>           o In Git, the OSIS XSD schema, and the functional
>             specification (basically, the contents of the current
>             manual) in markdown or asciidoc format.
>             So that contributions to the standard may be opened as
>             pull requests, reviewed, potentially stored as separate
>             branches, etc.
>           o A wiki tab where all relevant OSIS-related resources from
>             the crosswire wiki should be copied.
>
>       * Ideally, I'd also suggest *moving the C++ sword code to github*.
>         Having it only on an old SVN repo
>         <https://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/>, not browsable or
>         searchable online, really harms its visibility. I used a
>         little bit of SVN while in engineering school 12 years ago,
>         but I doubt that most young devs nowadays even know about it.
>
>     But for this last C++ part, I suspect it has bigger impact on
>     current developers, since Troy is still actively developing it and
>     using the Jira bugtracker for this part - so there is no urgent
>     need to change.
>     I'm really more worried about the jsword repo (it breaks my heart
>     to see it dead since 2019) and having a visible and versioned
>     location for the OSIS standard.
>
>     Please let me know your thoughts !
>     And whoever is currently admin of the github project, would you be
>     willing to grant me some permissions on the jsword repo and a new
>     "osis-spec" repo to start setting up all of this ?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Arnaud Vié
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