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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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Release Manager for 2.4
by Eyler, Patrick 03 May '05

03 May '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: koha-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:koha-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Chris Cormack > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:32 PM > To: koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Koha-devel] Release Manager for 2.4 > > > 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. I'll second this nomination! Joshua has done a lot for Koha, and I think would bring a lot to the table as a release manager. > 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. Again, I agree completely! Paul has done a great job through not just one, but two major releases. I'm sure he'll continue to contribute great things to Koha. > > 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 -pate

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Re: Mailman results for Koha-devel (fwd)
by Pat Eyler 03 May '05

03 May '05

forwarded for Jochen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:32:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Jochen Geiser <Jochen.Geiser(a)freigmbh.de> To: koha-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Mailman results for Koha-devel Hello! I am from Germany, I got a question . So I had installed koha 2.2.1 on linux 9.2 , than I would tipp in the opac path to the main page but , I got now an acces forbidden error ! What could I do ? Jochen Geiser

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Swedish translation of Koha and MARC21
by lars＠rovaniemelainen.com 03 May '05

03 May '05

I've sent a message off list to Paul with Swedish translations of css_opac_sv_SV.po, default_intranet_sv_SV.po, and default_opac_sv_SV.po attached. I've also attached a file of the MARC21 field and subfield labels. -Lars ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/

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Disambiguating the string "issue"
by lars＠rovaniemelainen.com 02 May '05

02 May '05

I notice in the interface that the term "issue" is used in at least three different contexts: 1) in circulation (i.e. to lend) 2) in journals as part of a host publication 3) in administrivia (i.e. a problem or question) Perhaps this is more suited as a bug report, but would it be possible to pick non-homonymic words for these three concepts? For example, could we say 'lend' or 'loan' for #1, and 'problem', 'question', 'incident', or similar for #3 For #2 the only alternative would be 'number', but that's not an option. -Lars ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/

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Interesting idea
by Eyler, Patrick 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

The link below is about tieing cvs, bugzilla, and rss to help track bug squashing work more readily. Thought it might be of some interest. http://www.pragmaticautomation.com/cgi-bin/pragauto.cgi/Monitor/TrackingBug… -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said - the Raven (George MacDonald, Lilith)

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