Galen Charlton a écrit :
As Joshua mentioned, I currently work on nothing but Koha, spending perhaps three quarters of my time on development and bugfixing and a quarter on customer migration projects.
The only point I could note is that for instance you're hired by LibLime. So you could/will/may/... face conflicts : community want "that" and LibLime want "this". How will you deal with that problem. The best solution would be, I agree with joshua that suggested it, to have a collective pot that could let us have a RM independant from any vendor. How large should be the pot ? Who could put some money on it ?
While I do some travel, mostly to conferences, I would be able to devote more time to RM duties.
mmm... do you mean you plan to do RM tasks mostly when at airport ?
I am committed to helping move the project to more frequent releases.
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I agree with MJ's point - Koha is not a "benevolent dictator" sort of project, nor limited to any one view of library practice, so I suggest establishing a position of a secondary RM - someone who works with the primary RM to integrate patches, would do testing and signoffs of complicated patches, and, importantly, is designated to step in to keep the flow of patches going when the RM is away.
++, although that would need a *huge* coordination between the 2 RMs, which i'm not sure can be achieved.
Similarly, to spread out the workload, I think it would be a good idea to have more than one designated QA position, i.e., one or more people who are designated to do testing and sign off on patches.
hdl is supposed to do some things about that, but it has not become something tangible yet.
Over the next few days, I will start sending out RFCs regarding what LibLime is working on or plans to work on, particularly with respect to features to be targeted for 3.2, 3.4, and perhaps 3.6.
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