[sword-devel] Contributing to sword-tools repo?

[Jaak Ristioja]

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I totally agree with Matěj and I'm all for the git move, even to the
point of suggesting to create competing Sword++ fork in case of
further objections by Crosswire. I'd be happy to contribute to the C++
code.

God bless!
Jaak Ristioja

On 14.01.2016 17:06, Greg Hellings wrote:
> Based on the way this conversation has gone in the past, nearly 
> everyone involved except the project administrator would welcome a 
> migration to git. Even if it was a self-hosted git. But the
> project admin remained unconvinced the last time the topic came
> up.
> 
> So please, don't re-open this old sore spot. Sword is in SVN,
> hosted on the crosswire server, and there it shall remain.
> 
> --Greg
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
>> On 2016-01-14, 12:50 GMT, Baiju M wrote:
>>> I know that this project is encouraging new contributors. I can
>>> read like this here: http://crosswire.org/volunteers/ 
>>> "Currently, the CrossWire Bible Society has a number of
>>> projects in progress, all open to new volunteers" I think
>>> moving to Git would be a good choice.
>> 
>> I think you misunderstood the situation. There were numerous 
>> flamewars on the topic of svn/git migration (browse through 
>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.literature.sword.devel to see 
>> for yourself), and I think the sitaution is a bit more 
>> complicated than what this page suggests. The powers to be IMHO 
>> actually really do not want new contributors to sword, because 
>> they would have to loose some control over the project. You may 
>> be allowed to contribute a simple bug fix, but the current state 
>> of the sword codebase is good enough for them and there is really
>> little if any will to change status quo. And SVN serves as a
>> pretty good barrier for entry of new contributors, so it will
>> stay here for a long long time.
>> 
>>> I started collecting few notes here, when we are going for
>>> migration, this will be helpful. 
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Git_Migration
>> 
>> See 
>> https://gitlab.com/mcepl/git-svn-tools/blob/master/git-svn-fix-author
s
>>
>> 
and git-svn-fix-tags in the same repo. The result is
>> https://gitlab.com/mcepl/sword-tools
>> 
>> HOwever, as I said, the block for the transition is in people not
>> in tools.
>> 
>> Blessings,
>> 
>> Matěj
>> 
>> -- https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl at ceplovi.cz GPG
>> Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
>> 
>> [...] sleep is no substitute for caffeine. -- Robert Storey in
>> review of Debian (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-)
>> 
>> 
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