[bt-devel] Allow me to introduce myself.

[Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann]

Hi,
I also only recently started to look into bibletime development.
I must say that I have some very similar ideas to yours. But most user 
interface changes I am thinking about still take more time before they are 
worth sharing with the others for feedback. And I guess larger user interface 
changes are something the whole developer team has to support.

I started learning in a very similar way as you propose. Learning by doing is 
a very effective method. So I want to encourage you to dive into the code and 
actually changing stuff as early as possible. Since we have a versioning system 
you can't mess anything up, so get your hands dirty. :-)
And feel free to ask any questions.

Anyways be blessed,
Patrick

On Sunday, 27. February 2011 03:24:27 Kevin Shenk wrote:
> Hi Developers,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know I just joined the BibleTime development
> mailing list.  I'm a Christian, a computer enthusiast, and a Linux/KDE
> user, so I'm very interested in this project.  I've actually been using
> this program for many years now, and always have had a desire to
> contribute to it's development.  I'm not ready to start developing quite
> yet, but I'd like to see how you guys operate and where you are going with
> this project.
> 
> I have several motives which fuel my interests here.  I love to study the
> Bible.  BibleTime seems to be the most advanced Linux Bible study software
> so far, but it could use many improvements, and I'd love to be part of
> that.  Secondly, I have some close friends who are involved in a Bible
> translation organisation, and I think it'd be cool to implement features
> which would be useful to them in that field.  Thirdly, I really enjoy
> working with computers, and although my work involves programming in Object
> Basic and SQL, I always wanted to learn in C++ and QT.  It's hard for me to
> learn if there's no specific motivation, and improving BibleTime could be
> very motivational for me.
> 
> I'm chock full of ideas, and I find it easy to speak my mind, but I hope I
> can be helpful and not annoying.  I have several aspirations for moderate
> changes in the application, like an accordion navigation pane for the
> bookshelf instead of the list tree view, an MDI search window, auto-loading
> chapters, a breadcrumbs reference navigation panel, better cross-reference
> integration, etc.  Most of these changes would probably only be feasible
> for a major future version (like 3.0?) but I'd love to know how you guys
> brainstorm, make design decisions, what your road-map looks like, and if
> and how I can fit into all of that.
> 
> There are several other factors in my life which will determine whether
> I'll actually ever be able to actively contribute to this project.  I
> suppose for now I'll just sit back, be quiet (that might be hard), and
> watch you guys work.
> 
> God Bless!
> 
> Kevin Shenk