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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 03/12/2018 à 20:15, David Haslam a
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<div>It's generally safe to assume that taking the initiative to
work towards a module update or new module release is unlikely
to duplicate work already started by another volunteer.</div>
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I just ask if I can work on CPDV because I didn't have answer about
sources. Just to be sure you don't have osis or usfm files. Is it
possible to publish a list of the sources of all module you have? Or
it's not possible?<br>
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<div>Once you've dived in and got deep into the details, the fact
that you may need to ask a technical question about module
development in that specific context, this will alert CrossWire
about what you're aiming to accomplish. </div>
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<div>Finding by coincidence that two volunteers have independently
taken the initiative for the same task is such a rare event that
I can't think of an instance when this has happened. Even so, it
often succeeds better when a pair of CrossWire volunteers choose
to work together on such a project. "Two are better than one" as
the writer of Ecclesiastes taught. </div>
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<div>Nobody needs to ask CrossWire for permission to pick up a
task in modules and run with it.</div>
<div>As long as all the requirements for module submissions are
met, it's unlikely that any other CrossWire volunteer will
object to your active involvement. </div>
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<div>Module updates for those where a text source is specified in
the .conf file may require getting the owner of the text to
become involved in making corrections to the text that they
host.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>David </div>
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 18:46, Cyrille <<a
href="mailto:lafricain79@gmail.com" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">lafricain79@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"> As we don't know
if a module enter in the first case (not maintain) or the second
(retain copies of source text files), you can understand that
the question about source is relevant :)<br>
Maybe you can give us a date about when the module team retains
copies? After that it will be easier to know if you have or no
sources.<br>
I understand also something about a collaborator who leave the
module team? <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span
class="">I am not informed about this.<br>
And maybe the gitlab private repo will be really help full.
We spoke already about it.<br>
The problem of source is really important because if we
can't access to it, we can't help you :) Is it imaginable to
create this kind of gitlab repo with all the source you have
already? If someone want to check you can give him access,
even </span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text"
lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box"
class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="">temporary.<br>
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I'm just looking for solution.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 03/12/2018 à 17:14, David Haslam
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<div>This has been stated on numerous occasions.<br>
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<div><b>CrossWire as a Society does not maintain the
authoritative source text for modules except for very few
cases, namely the KJV & KJVA modules.</b><br>
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<div>Individual volunteers may indeed have [had] access to
working copies of source texts for some modules as part of
past or ongoing work in progress.<br>
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<div>However, when such module issues were reported, this is
generally because the reporting was done in the role of a
user making observations from module testing or analysis -
rather than as a module developer and/or source text
collaborator.<br>
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<div>That a certain volunteer went AWOL (having left CrossWire
and in effect cut himself off from further contact) this
simply means that his knowledge, skills, <i>ad hoc</i>
working scripts, customised software tools and file
resources are no longer available to other volunteers. The
trail went cold. We simply have to begin again from scratch
on these issues.<br>
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<div>Now of course, there are volunteers such as myself and
several others that are active in source text development
collaboration with third parties.<br>
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<div>This enables us to provide a benefit to those not
directly involved in Bible translation activities in the
various well-established Bible agencies and societies.<br>
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<div>i.e. Because such people are often using something other
than ParaTExt (or Bibledit) to maintain their source text. <br>
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<div>We have various software skills and some tools that can
assist such providers get their source text into a format
(USFM & OSIS)<br>
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<div> that is more amenable for electronic publishing in forms
suitable for Bible software in general and including SWORD
modules for distribution by CrossWire.<br>
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<div>For the present "modules team", in projects that are
likely to go through more than one iteration, every effort
is being made to retain copies of source text files.<br>
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<div>But keeping a working copy is not the same as maintaining
an authoritative source. We're back to ownership, provenance
and version control matters.<br>
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<div>Generally, for copyrighted works, these should be kept in
a private repository, and only shared with others where
collaboration is essential.<br>
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<div>Even so, that still leaves a lot of collaboration work
where the files for work in progress are probably stored
only on the individual volunteer's computer rather than in
accessible cloud services such as GitHub or GitLab, etc. <br>
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<div>David<br>
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<div> On Monday, 3 December 2018 15:01, Cyrille <a
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 03/12/2018 à 14:45, David
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<div>Posting comments on multiple issues that are
several years old that simply ask questions like "Do
you have the source?" don't get us anywhere forward
soon.<br>
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<div> They can even become a distraction in the
originator's email notifications.<br>
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<div>Ok I understand, but when you (or the team) build the
modules you had some source no? Where are this sources?
Didn't you keep the osis files or usfm file when you had
it? Just CPDV as example. I would like to be sure nobody
keeps usfm or osis file before working on it.<br>
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<div>Some of these old issues were originally added by
me as long ago as 2011 when CrossWire still had
someone responsible for building the original modules.<br>
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<div>They were added on the assumption that this person
would have known the module history and was in a
position to do all the necessary work.<br>
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<div>That he went AWOL and these issues are still open
essentially means that to make any progress now, someone
will need to champion each module, do the research, find
the latest source text, do the conversion to OSIS,
rebuild and test the module, and check that the issue is
then fixed, before submitting to the Modules Team.<br>
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<div>I will not be adding replies to new comments unless I
have new information to hand that was unavailable when
each issue were created.<br>
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<div>David<br>
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<div>On Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:21, Cyrille <a
href="mailto:lafricain79@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"><lafricain79@gmail.com></a>
wrote:<br>
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<div>Please Peter, can you post even if you don't have
the source? It will be easier, because I post on
multiples issues, I don't remember exactly which...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 02/12/2018 à 18:54, DM
Smith a écrit :<br>
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<div>The Internet Wayback Machine is useful for dead
URLs. I’ve used it to find resources no longer
available and to make contact w people. <br>
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<div>On Dec 2, 2018, at 10:47 AM, "<a
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<div>Regarding how to find source:<br>
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<div>In our newer and better modules a source is
given in the conf file. But sometimes that link
is now dead.<br>
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<div>Subject: [sword-devel] Modules, Tracker -
some remarks<br>
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<div>From: <a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">refdoc@gmx.net</a><br>
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<div>To: sword-devel <br>
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<div>Hi to all<br>
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<div>1) I am so pleased and grateful for all
the activity checking and testing modules
wrt issues mentioned on the tracker<br>
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<div>2) There is a substantial minority of
modules we do have source texts for (around
100) and I hold the key for them. They can
not be shared to anyone, usually, as they
tend to be not public domain texts. But the
upshot for them is, I feel responsible in a
direct way for them and take care of much in
these weeks. So if you see me commenting on
a module as the matter being in work, just
move on , as it is in hand. <br>
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<div>3) There is a majority of texts, and some
of them are very old in terms of CrossWire
and we need to find sources for them,
because we do not hold them. So, if you do
not see me commenting that things are in
hand, the module clearly requires a rebuilt
and you want to push this actively forward,
go and find the source. <br>
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<div>4) How to find sources:<br>
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<div>Many public domain texts have been pushed
forward and backward between projects since
the start of the internet, are in a poor
state and badly or not at all marked up,
forced into KJV versification , or sometimes
even chopped up in order to support
sectarian views. Commonly for important
texts though there exists somewhere someone
who has decided to fix things. People who do
try and fix things make this often very
clear. Others refer/defer to them. It pays
to get into direct contact with them to
establish a link and maybe even let them
produce OSIS or USFM for our use. We
certainly always want to feed back any and
all improvements we make to Mark Up etc.<br>
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<div>5)You find good authoritative source, put
at least the link underneath the tracker and
explain shortly why this is in your view the
best source, particularly if there is a big
choice. If you want to go and start working
on a module, even better<br>
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<div>Thanks again to all!<br>
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