[Koha-devel] Some thoughts heading to 2.0

[Pat Eyler]

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
>