Pat Eyler wrote:
About full MARC support : i'm "ready to play with the ball", but what is the exact question ? what will be the MARC support ? what do we need to reach the MARC version, what could it costs ? let me know, and i'll will answer promptly.
I think the big questions are 'What do we need to do to reach the MARC version?', "What is the (general) plan for getting there?" "What would it cost?" is a question best left for the RFP responses. I'm sure that specifics about "How to get there" will be covered differently in different repsonses as well.
I think the answer to "what is the plan for getting there" is at : http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=ToDoMARC since a few weeks ;-) Note i think i'll add some ideas in the next days.
Second to these (and this goes for all three of the projects) is 'How do we integrate work for hire with the rest of Koha development?'. E.g., my hope would be that you and Steve would be the ones to bid on and win a contract with Nelsonville to do work on the MARC project, but it's possible that "Uncle Bob's Perl Farm" (UBPF) will come up with a compelling bid. You (Paul) will still be managing the 1.4 release series, so we're going to need a way to ensure that UBPF's work meshes with your vision and that 1.4 isn't thrown off track.
what do you call UBPF ? is it a well known organization or "SomeOne Coming From the Sky" ? I've never heard of this ???
-pate
-- Paul