Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > It could help if you or someone else wrote a list of the wanted features > of a complete Sword frontend. I have hands full of work while porting > BibleTime to Qt4 but I have still implemented quite much new features or > code and could do it in the future, too.
Excellent idea. I made a wiki article stub at http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/Frontends:FeatureList. I hope others will join me in filling what they hope to see in frontends (current and future). > sword-support works quite well (though could do even better) but I think > the problem is how the support is advertised. We have had several > discussion about the structure of the website. I don't blame people if > they find it difficult to find certain email addresses, link or > something other there. The forums is the more serious problem and I > think Chris remembers how I feel about it - my comment was almost > identical to that of the review writer. Honestly, I really think Chris > is wrong here. I have used different kinds of forums and know how they > should work, and the Sword forum is NOT active or attractive. I agree with the reviewer about the lack of visibility of the forum, so I put a link into the top link bar of the website. Now you can access the forums from wherever you are. I feel we need some kind of user forum. That can be a bulletin board, like the current forums. And I like that style because it is persistent and easy to search. Another possibility would be a mailing list with archiving on CrossWire. (If we take that route, I would recommend changing sword-devel into sword-users and creating a new sword-devel.) That sort of system works well for the e-Sword user groups, Unicode & ICU, many sourceforge projects, etc. I don't really have an opinion here. But if moving to a mailing list would be more likely to facilitate discussion and encourage developers to answer non-developers' questions, then I would encourage us to take that route. > Again, I think our website is the key issue here. Just see the plethora > of websites of modern projects (software of other) and you notice that > "Forums" is one of the most visible links in the home page. People are > used to that and can't find our forums easily. Like I mentioned, I made the forums much more visible yesterday. We could try it out with the new link for a month or so and then re-evaluate after that before making any other changes. --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
