On 23 May 2003, Mike Mylonas wrote: Hiya Mike, comments below.
As we head towards to 2.0 release, I have a couple of thoughts and ideas that I wanted to share.
These thoughts were based around doing an install of 1.9.3 (many thanks to all especially Paul and Mike Hansen for the effort they have put in).
Templates & Translations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Currently the distribution comes with a few different templates, and hopefully as we finialise 2.0 more translations. One thought that I had was to seperate out the different Templates and Translations into seperate installable files, so that Koha itself is only distributed with the default templates in english.
If we can make subsequent files available ie default-fr-1.9.3.tar.gz for the french default etc (please note that I am not picking on the French, I am just using it as an example), etc then people can install and configure the translations as they need them, this would also allow the translation teams a little more time to get the translations complete without holding up the main releases.
The same could also be done for new templates ie. vanilla-en-1.9.3.tar.gz. This may encourage people to add new Templates, to the point of we could possible have a themes.koha.org etc.
This sounds like a very good idea. This is likely the course we'll be taken with some other Koha related software that doesn't fit in the main distro.
I am intested in peoples comments and opinions, please refrain from flaming the list, but all flames will be accepted via private mail.
no flames required. happy hacking, -pate
Cheers Mike M