May 2005 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

New document on kohadocs
by Stephen Hedges 15 May '05

15 May '05

New on http://www.kohadocs.org ... "Command-line scripts," Jared Jennings' translation of Paul Poulain's original French document. Look for it in section 2.3 "Maintenance and Troubleshooting." -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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RE: [Koha-devel] RM for 2.4 [news from france]
by Eyler, Patrick 13 May '05

13 May '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: koha-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:koha-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Stephen Hedges > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 4:23 AM > To: Paul POULAIN > Cc: koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; François-Laurent Contenay > Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RM for 2.4 [news from france] > > > Frankly, I am a little nervous about INEO being too deeply > involved with Koha too quickly. It is a large company, with > lots of resources (it's part of a much, much larger company), > but that can be both good and bad. Having been burned by our experience with Cherry Hill, I'd also prefer to err on the side of caution. I' glad to see INEO is interested and willing to help, but I think waiting for them to take on the RM until they've spent some time working with Koha is the right way to go. > > So, the next question is : who, from Joshua or Ineo would > be the best > > RM ? > > I think both -- but Joshua first (2.4), then INEO (2.6 -- or > even 3.0, if SAN-Ouest Provence proposes some really BIG > changes) in about six months. > That would give INEO time to become part of the Koha > community and get very familiar with the code (and decide if > they want to continue with Koha). And perhaps Chris' idea of > having INEO do the QA would be a very good way to accomplish that. I'm leaning the same way. -pate > > Stephen > > -- > Stephen Hedges > Skemotah Solutions, USA > www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. > Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 > great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score > wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. > Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/k> oha-devel >

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Release Manager for 2.4
by Chris Cormack 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi all I was having a think the other night, about possible candidates for release manager for 2.4. Id like to suggest Joshua from NPL and Liblime. If he's willing of course. I think its important to share the release manager duties around. Paul has done a great job but I think it would be nice to let him concentrate on programming for a while and let someone else take over the management role for the next big release. Joshua has been involved with Koha for quite some time, and I think that because he doesnt come from a programmer background would bring some new/different skills to the release managers role. Any thoughts/suggestions/other nominations? Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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koha 2.4 tools & requirements
by Paul POULAIN 11 May '05

11 May '05

Reading joshua proposals for search in 2.4 (http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=koha24rmnotes) I see many improvements that are interesting for everybody & "easy" to add with our actual tools (& some that are already done in CVS ;-) ) my question is : should we add some technical requirements to Koha 2.4 ? things like Perl modules or non-perl modules (like yaz, that is a requirement for z3950 client & server) ? I think we should be very careful in "components" selecting. Koha is hard enough to set up, we should not make is harder. (for example : did Plucene need something else that Plucene.pm package ? cpan.org was not clear to me) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Firstname / surnames uc/lc
by Paul POULAIN 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hi, In french, we usually write surnames in capitals (POULAIN) and firstnames with 1st letter in capitals (Paul) Is it a behaviour that is international or french specific ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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RE: [Koha-devel] RM for 2.4 [news from france]
by François-Laurent Contenay 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hi, Stephen ! Nice to read your post. I've been lurking on the list, but haven't been active as things have been a bit hectic here :) Just a small precision : Jean-Pierre has not been hired to manage our experience with Koha - he is our VP sales and has many other ongoing project. Our goal is not to "absorb Koha", but to become part of the community. Our interest is to provide the best service we can to our customers by integrating existing and new solutions ; we're a services company. Though INEO is part of a big (huge!) conglomerate, the relationship with our parent company is very loose. We think of ourselves as a 50-60 person company (which is large enough in my book !)... I'm glad thing are going well with the SAN - your input has been very valuable and probably a key point in their decision. We are writing a software developpement road map with Paul, and will keep you posted on what's happening here. I - personnaly - agree it may be a bit prematurate to talk about release management or QA. We need first to get acquainted with the job... Thank you again for your input, and don't forget : Paris is but a few hours drive+flight from Athens :) Say hello for me to Owen and Joshua. -- François-Laurent CONTENAY INEO media system -----Message d'origine----- De : Stephen Hedges [mailto:shedges@skemotah.com] Envoyé : jeudi 5 mai 2005 13:23 À : Paul POULAIN Cc : koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; François-Laurent Contenay Objet : Re: [Koha-devel] RM for 2.4 [news from france] Paul POULAIN said: > The result of this trip (apart from meeting in real life stephen, owen & > joshua that was really great) was that SAN decided definetly to go with > Koha. Excellent! (I had a felling Yves would make the "right" decision.) > What i'll request is to write what they will add & publish it ASAP. In > fact, i/we already have written some pages (in french) about that. Still > has to be completed & translated. But should arrive soon. Good. I think it would be very interesting to see what SAN-Ouest Provence would like to add to Koha. It's quite likely that their "wish list" will have a big impact on the future direction of Koha. > What will Ineo do in this matter ? Ineo, as a large company, will help > SAN to go to Koha. So, they will coordinate dev of new features, help > them migrating, teach... Frankly, I am a little nervous about INEO being too deeply involved with Koha too quickly. It is a large company, with lots of resources (it's part of a much, much larger company), but that can be both good and bad. A large company can do a lot to promote Koha. But a large company, if it wants, could easily absorb Koha. Koha is still a small open-source group. INEO's involvement will instantly increase the number of _active_ developers by about 50% (or more). That could be either good or bad. INEO has recently hired a very experienced library automation person (Jean-Pierre) to manage their experiment with Koha. (François-Laurent, please correct me if that is incorrect.) But I think that INEO will want to assess this experiment at some point and decide if they want to continue their involvement with Koha. So once again, I think we might want to proceed with caution as we build a relationship with INEO. > So, the next question is : who, from Joshua or Ineo would be the best RM ? I think both -- but Joshua first (2.4), then INEO (2.6 -- or even 3.0, if SAN-Ouest Provence proposes some really BIG changes) in about six months. That would give INEO time to become part of the Koha community and get very familiar with the code (and decide if they want to continue with Koha). And perhaps Chris' idea of having INEO do the QA would be a very good way to accomplish that. Stephen -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Koha Developers in Córdoba - Argentina
by nmo＠bmayor.unc.edu.ar 09 May '05

09 May '05

We are part of a developers team of the National University of Córdoba - Argentina (www.unc.edu.ar) Our goal is to work a customization of Koha to the requirements of the 26 library in our University. We would apreciate very much if Koha development team coud help us in some way. Thankz.

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Koha 2.2 Users Guide (preview)
by Stephen Hedges 07 May '05

07 May '05

I have started work on a comprehensive guide for users of Koha 2.2. The guide would be targeted to librarians using Koha, and would explain how to set up and use Koha once the basic code has been installed. I have posted an outline of the guide and a sample section ("System Preferences") in the "General" section of http://www.kohadocs.org. I would like to have comments, reactions and suggestions before I get too much further in this project. (Thanks!) -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Koha Developers in Córdoba - Argentina
by Norberto Ottogalli 06 May '05

06 May '05

We are part of a developers team of the National University of Córdoba - Argentina (www.unc.edu.ar) Our goal is to work a customization of Koha to the requirements of the 26 library in our University. We would apreciate very much if Koha development team coud help us in some way. Thanks.

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synch'ing 2.2 and head branch
by Paul POULAIN 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hi, i'm synch'ing 2.2 and head branches now. A lot of commits, hoping I won't break too much head. But be warned you will probably get new bugs from synch' process... -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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