I agree completely with Magnus and Zeno! "One Koha to rule them all", where country-specific development should strive to be as general and unobtrusive as possible for the time being, and then focusing on a better/stronger plug-in system! Best regards, Andreas ____________________________________ Andreas Hedström Mace Librarian Stockholm University Library Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm Tel: +46 (0) 8-16 49 17 www.sub.su.se ____________________________________ -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] För Tajoli Zeno Skickat: den 11 februari 2016 10:47 Till: Magnus Enger <magnus@enger.priv.no>; koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Ämne: Re: [Koha-devel] Country-specific forks? Hi Magnus and all, Il 11/02/2016 10:38, Magnus Enger ha scritto:
So do we want one Koha to rule them all, including country-specific features, or do we want one fork per country?
Personally, I prefer the former. In the case of the Norwegian patron DB, that is one of the 2-3 "must have" features that all Norwegian public libraries will be looking for when they are choosing between Koha or some proprietary system. Should we be telling them "Nope, you can't use the real Koha, but you can use this fork over here"? That will not increase their confidence in choosing Koha, I suspect.
I subscribe the option "one Koha to rule them all". In fact in Italy is possible that "one login DB for all libraries" and "one Italian id for Authority[like Idref from France]" will became very important. Clearly those principles are important:
That said, I do think some principles should be applied:
- Strive to make even the country specific features as general as > possible, so that others can use them as starting points for similar > features.
- Strive to make the features as unobtrusive as possible.
and I hope that "in time, the plugin system can be made powerful enough that it can handle some or all of the country-specific features?" Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli / SVILUPPO PRODOTTI/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI) _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/