Chris Cormack a écrit :
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?
Hi Chris & koha-devel mailing list, Your mail was interesting. However, before choosing anyone, i wanted to give you some informations (from France) : * SAN ouest provence. It's a large "médiathèque" (= french library with multimedia, not only paper books), as large as Nelsonville in fact, which means large for france. * Ineo is a large -french & european- company that is involved in library world. They have something like 70 employees, 25M€ income each year. I was with them in Nelsonville last month. 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. And that's a very very very important news (not sure to have permission to announce it officially, but announcing it anyway ;-) ) For many reasons. First of all, in France, they will give a very big boost to Koha reputation (that is already good it seems !) Second, they plan to add some (many) features to Koha. They have dedicated 3 (yes, three) developpers for this. I'll add them in koha dev list in a few minut (they gave me sf nicknames yesterday : btoumi, hpassini, alaurin). I'll suggest them to introduce themself here (none of them three were in Nelsonville) 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. 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... More than this, Ineo answered an RFP from a french university (Angers. I think Nicolas Morin reads this list, but he can't say anything on this topic & I can't ask him anything either). They will probably answer RFP from another university (Antilles, french too but closer from US than france) This means Ineo want to appear as a major company in Koha-project. My opinion is that the best way for them to appear is... to take the role of Release Manager. That's an important thing for another reason. Ineo is not known in the OSS world yet, so, taking this role would be the "ticket" for them, imho, to prove they want to play a fair game. They still don't have decided officially. But that should arrive very very very soon. I cc Francois Laurent Contenay (he was in nelsonville) & could be dedicated to this role by Ineo. Once again, that is not an official information, just to warn you. So, the next question is : who, from Joshua or Ineo would be the best RM ? My opinion is that Joshua has more experience in Koha, but there are many other reasons that make me prefer Ineo : - With frenchies (once again ;-) ) on the top of developper list (me, henri damien, sylvain machefert -for ensmp-, SAN, Ineo), it's easier to have ppl with the same working hours. Coordinating would be easier. We just have to be very very careful not to work only with/for frenchies, but stay a world-wide project. That would probably be our main risk (not to be careful enough). - SAN ouest provence has a deadline : they want Koha to be ready on January, 1st. And Ineo don't want them to fail (because Ineo want to be able to say to futures libraries : look, Koha is great, we are koha-experts) It means we need a Release Manager that can work heavily on head. Even 24/7 if needed. So how could we "use" Joshua ? He answered the question himself :
My primary concern with 2.4 will be Quality Assurance both in existing code and any new code that is committed.
Great, we have a QA manager volunteer. That's what we still lacks. Let me know your opinion/reactions. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)