Module Development Collaboration

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VCS options

  • Git
  • Git + SparkleShare/dvcs-autosync
  • SVN

Directory structure

ROOT/modtype/language/module/formats/

  • sword-modules
    • comments
    • genbook
    • lexdict
    • texts
      • en
      • fr
      • es
      • de
        • GerLuther
        • GerElberfelder
          • orig -- source docs from publisher/author
          • docs -- documentation, correspondence with pubs/authors, permission letters, etc.
          • meta -- metadata, for determining the module conf file properties, etc.
          • sword -- compiled Sword module
          • gobible -- compiled Go Bible applications (including any smaller collections)
          • epub -- EPUB for publishing to ebooks
          • osis -- OSIS docs for osis2mod or sharing with publisher/3rd parties
          • thml -- ThML for import to Go Bible?
          • usfm -- USFM for sharing with author or as an intermediate step in conversion
          • usx -- USX for sharing with author or as an intermediate step in conversion

Contents of "module" directory

Scripts

The module directory (e.g. GerElberfelder above) would contain all module-specific scripts necessary for converting source files to modules and other output formats. So general purpose scripts like usfm2osis.pl would not appear here, instead being installed at some system-wide location outside the sword-modules tree.

ChangeLog

Following the approximate lead of Sword SVN, keep a ChangeLog for each module in the format:

[date in ISO 8601 format: yyyy-mm-dd]\t[contributor name <contributor email>] \t[comments]

Makefile

Let's use either GNU make for running scripts or possibly something more platform-independent like a Python or Perl script that calls other scripts. Ideally, we should be able to issue commands like:

make clean     (delete all output & intermediate format files)
make all       (make all supported targets: Sword/OSIS/EPUB/ThML/USFM/...)
make sword     (make Sword module plus any necessary intermediate formats, e.g. USFM & OSIS)
make epub      (make EPUB module plus any necessary intermediate formats)