Peter and I spent some time on this today. More to do. Let me know if the 
vlsJoNT is visible now.

BTW, the extraneous emails regarding a new module were part of testing fixes.

DM

> On Jan 5, 2019, at 9:43 AM, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> I appreciate your eagerness and your service.
> 
> I can work with specifics fairly quickly. That vlsJoNT doesn’t work is 
> helpful and I can look to see what’s where on the guest and host, but that 
> still leaves me sleuthing for the specifics. I don’t know the text type to 
> know what category to look under (though I can guess that NT means that it is 
> a Bible) and I don’t know the language as it would appear in a front-end. 
> Then I don’t know what front-end can see it and which cannot. (There are 
> three different mechanisms: SWORD, PocketSword and JSword and each has a 
> different issues that needs to be diagnosed.) When I have little time and 
> hardly any specifics, I don’t try as it might be more than I have.
> 
> Can you be more specific?
> 
> I’m looking for a simple solution (e..g. sync more often) or a solvable 
> problem (we also need to sync xyz, but didn’t) and have limited time.
> 
> In Him,
>       DM
> 
>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 9:23 AM, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 2 days delay or less I could live with.
>> 
>> But it's more than that since module vlsJoNT was announced and it's still 
>> unobtainable via the module manager UI in most front-ends.
>> Likewise for most if not all module releases since sometime in May 2018.
>> Hence the sighing "When, oh, when...?"
>> 
>> My interest is in providing speedy feedback on any technical issues I can 
>> detect in new/updated modules.
>> e.g. If I can report any obvious faults in the .conf file, then the modules 
>> team can speedily fix them before there are too many complaints from end 
>> users.
>> 
>> I should hope that there are others in this mailing list that would like to 
>> provide a similar service.
>> 
>> Announcing module releases that users cannot install is akin to the inverse 
>> of "crying wolf".
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
>> 
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Saturday, 5 January 2019 14:07, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I’m very encourage that there’s lots of interest in the module making 
>>> process. If I can help maintain that momentum, I will.
>>> 
>>> I’ve privately asked Peter, in response to his lament about the problem, 
>>> for specific things he wants fixed. I have not heard back from him. It is 
>>> now early morning for me on the weekend and I’m able to help. At least for 
>>> a few hours.
>>> 
>>> There has always been a lag of a day from when a module is “published” to 
>>> when it is available to all of SWORD, PocketSword and JSword.
>>> 
>>> I got your email less than 2 hours after announcement. Wait 2 days for it 
>>> to be fully published.
>>> 
>>> There are several parts to this:
>>> The email is published the moment that the module is put in mods.d and 
>>> module.
>>> Daily mods.d.tar.gz is rebuilt with the listing of mods.d.
>>> The module is zipped when a user requests the download via the website’s 
>>> listing of modules.
>>> The indexes for PocketSword and AndBible are built on a daily basis.
>>> The module sizes are updated into the conf daily.
>>> The host and guest repositories are synchronized daily.
>>> Front end users only know of the module when they refresh their module 
>>> listing.
>>> 
>>> Note, the day lag has always been hit by JSword and noticed every now and 
>>> then, but we’ve lived with it as long as JSword has been around. It only 
>>> uses the compressed files.
>>> 
>>> I think your question really is, “When is 'status quo' going to be 
>>> achieved?” The answer is “Not today, tomorrow or this week.” So, thus my 
>>> question back to Peter, "What can we do in the meantime?”
>>> 
>>> I also, don’t like where we were before we had a split server and would 
>>> like to solve that as well. But it’s not going to happen soon, either.
>>> 
>>> DM
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:11 AM, David Haslam dfh...@protonmail.com wrote:
>>>> I downloaded JapDenmo (via Xiphos) and still got the old 2008 module.
>>>> When, oh when, is the server sync issue going to be fixed????
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> David
>>>> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
>>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>>>> On Saturday, 5 January 2019 11:08, ref...@crosswire.org wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>> This is to announce that we have just now uploaded JapDenmo.
>>>>> This is is an updated version of JapDenmo.
>>>>> Many thanks to Cyrille for the hard work.
>>>>> yours
>>>>> The Module Team
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