On 09/03/2015 05:26 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Looking at the flurry of emails from the last few weeks I am thinking > if I was Michael, I would start hitting my head against the wall.
I'm not Michael, and I already feel like I've been beating my head against eBible's wall. In an unusual-for-me fit of good taste, I just deleted about 8 rant-y paragraphs in which I went on at length about the nature of the problems being fought on eBible's behalf. Suffice for summary that the problems being fought are not deep problems, rather they are surface problems we are being forced to fight because no one is minding the store. Take a peek at Michael's just-updated grcTisch in Xiphos to see what's wrong with its morph to understand what I mean, or just see my screenshots: http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/xiphos/grcTisch/ This isn't a "wouldn't it be nice to fix" issue; this is a surface level "nobody glanced at this even once in any app" issue. Adding complexity to configuration will not solve the problems being fought. Module de-dup and filesystem choice conflicts are readily solvable. Analogy: I'm finishing up a novel, and I need a title. Hm, how about "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Um, no, that's taken, and we expect written works (hm) to have unique titles. There is just one Romeo and Juliet, one Midsummer Night's Dream, and one The Tempest. Now apply the idea to Sword modules. > the eBible repository is currently nowhere advertised. People who > use it, know they are testing things and need to live with breakage. *ahem* Nobody's getting off that easily. I alone had no less than 6 reports about eBible's failure to deliver content, all because Michael wasn't testing his own repo before repeatedly announcing "all is well!" to the world even when nothing was working. Others reported problems as well. So I'm not buying that. I don't expect us to have to deal with a repo that was effectively bricked without its owner even knowing it. eBible repo has waited a long time to become available. I think another week or three to hammer things out to a level of basic, functional, non-conflicting quality is in order. Given that we were forced to spend literally weeks hammering our heads against eBible's inability even to deliver content, I think it's a small price to ask and a small effort to expect.
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