http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6891 Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chris@bigballofwax.co.nz --- Comment #14 from Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> --- (In reply to comment #13)
LDIF has continued to improve, and has proven its usefulness. We have written a number of converters which take uploaded data from other systems and convert it to LDIF, so that we only need to maintain one importer. Taking this step has made it possible to improve our importer in ways which would not have been practical with the one-importer-per-system method.
If LDIF is this useful when only one side of the equation deals with it, imagine how useful it will be when multiple library systems can import and export it.
This is the right thing to do. Libraries need to be able to get their data out of any system in a standardized way. I believe this is far more important than the development methodology used for any particular system. If your goal is truly ILS openness and vendor independence, let's work together and make LDIF interoperability a reality!
While LDIF is undoubtedly a good thing. Free software is not a development methodology. Perhaps you should reread your last paragraph, you will find that it is easier to win allies if you don't imply they are liars when talking to them. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.