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King James Pure Bible Search Users,

This email is targeted to those using the King James Pure Bible Search
source code for their own development purposes:

As you'll recall from my previous email to this list, the SourceForge
servers suffered a major storage system malfunction on Thursday, July
16th.  It seems they have successfully gotten things recovered and
restored, at least in all areas that affect King James Pure Bible
Search.

However, this outage has prompted me to implement the source code
repository restructuring I have been contemplating for some time now. 
While I had synchronized backups of the previous repository, there was
no automated system to keep them up to date.  As such, I nearly lost the
details of seven code commits and would have if SourceForge hadn't been
able to restore from their backups.  Thankfully, those have been
recovered.

The previous KJPBS code repository was using Subversion for source
control management.  The biggest problem or shortcoming with Subversion
is that it's a centralized repository, meaning only one server can be
the "keeper of the data" and if that server or the link to that server
is down, then no work can be committed on the project until it's
restored.  Until July 16th, the central Subversion repository for KJPBS
was SourceForge.

Being unable to work on KJPBS code during this outage prompted me to
finally rebuild the code repository to use Git source control
management.  Git is a distributed repository system where every checkout
of the code is a complete and self-contained repository clone, allowing
work to continue even when all internet traffic is down.  And multiple
hosting servers can be setup to mirror the data and automatically
synchronize with one another -- meaning multiple definitive sources
instead of one.  Or as Pastor Mike would put it: "two or more
witnesses".

I will continue to host KJPBS on SourceForge, but as a Git repository
instead of Subversion.  And I have established an account on GitHub and
set it up as a second Git repository for KJPBS.

The old Subversion repository (named "code") on SourceForge is still
currently there, but is set as read-only and serving only as a backup
for the time being.  If you are currently using the KJPBS source code
base, you'll want to switch to the new code repository as soon as
possible, as no more updates will be made to the Subversion repository
going forward.  And at some point, I will eventually delete the
Subversion repository.

To move to Git, you will need to install a Git client (see
https://git-scm.com/) and clone the repository either from SourceForge
or from GitHub.  The following URLs are the online source browsers for
the new KJPBS repositories and contain the corresponding URLs needed for
cloning:

SourceForge Git Repository:
https://sourceforge.net/p/purebiblesearch/KingJamesPureBibleSearch/

GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/dewhisna/KingJamesPureBibleSearch/

The last part of the URL is the name of the repository itself, which is
"KingJamesPureBibleSearch" on both systems.  SourceForge is more project
based and GitHub is more user based, meaning SourceForge has it filed
under the project name of "purebiblesearch" and GitHub has it under my
username of "dewhisna".  Either repository can be used and should
contain the same data, as I plan to set things up to simultaneously push
all commits and updates to both servers.

For all end-users not using the KJPBS source code, this email probably
means very little to you.  All software downloads and online access can
still be accessed via the main website page as always:

http://www.PureBibleSearch.com/

God Bless,
Donna

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