[Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - project organisation

Thu Aug 19 10:36:08 CEST 2004

That discussion is very, very good!

Questioning Koha foundations could allow it to crystalise new positions that we
don't have any idea today.

Let's understand todays trends :
     - The OPAC tool must be service and patron oriented
     - The information must come to the patron, not the opposite
     - A patron can be member of more than one library
     - Independant systems must talk to each other
     - etc, etc, ...

Would it be time to talk about LIS architecture ?

I'm just raising the question...

Dan

Quoting "Eyler, Patrick" <eyler at amazon.com>:

> Thanks for passing this along Paul, it's great news.  I'll reply to
> individual points below, but have some thoughts from OSCon that I wanted to
> pass along to the devel list.
>
> Tim O'Reilly talked a lot about web services, platforms, and social software
> in his keynote, and there were some ideas that seemed to make sense for the
> Koha world (especially in light of discussions on oss4lib about modularizing
> the ILS).
>
>    Web Services for users/clients:
>  reviews/ranking  (this is a nice bit of participatory social software too)
>  search
>  patron info
>  reserves
>  reading club (or similar) tools
>
>    Web Services to make use of (from other sources):
>  amazon reviews/ranking
>  amazon buying circle info
>  ibiblio
>  cddb
>  imdb
>
>    Social/Participatory Software:
>  how can we give patrons more control over their own data?  (make it
> relocatable when/if they move to a new library, make it optionally sharable
> in the form of reading/favorites lists, make it collaborative in the form of
> reading clubs and the like.)
>
>  sharing data among libraries (can we move past ILL to share anonymized
> circulation data a'la amazon buying circles? how about sharing ranking/review
> data?)
>
>  what value/information can be distributed beyond libraries?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
> > Paul POULAIN
> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:53 AM
> > To: Emiliano Marmonti; Koha-devel
> > Subject: [Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) -
> > project organisation
> >
> >
> > Hi Emiliano & al,
> >
> > For al : this mail was sent in my mailbox, but it seems we have a new
> > future major contributor in Koha, so I answer on koha-devel.
> >
> > Emiliano Marmonti wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Paul
>
> [elided]
>
> >
> > Koha 2.4 ROADMAP
> > ============
> > The 2.2 is too close from official release to have such features
> > correctly tested & integrated. Because they interact with the
> > actual DB
> > (I don't speak of barcodes printing here, of course).
> > So, we should begin 2.4 roadmap (feel free to create a page
> > on the wiki,
> > it will be completed)
> > What is your own roadmap for those features, in term of date I mean ?
>
> I agree completely.  It would be good to start assembling our 2.4 roadmap.
> Would it be possible to look at the 2.2 roadmap in terms of where we are
> today?  I think both of these have some value.
>
>
> >
> > KOHA PROJECT ORGANISATION
> > ==================
> > The management team should be reorganise, because we lack
> > some/lot of roles. If your involvement in Koha is expected to
> > last, maybe your arrival is
> > an occasion to reorganize.
> >
> > The first position that you could take, because it's free, is
> > "test/quality manager". Are you interested ?
> >
>
> Instead of signing up for a position now, it's probably better to meet as a
> group and decide which roles we need and who wants to step up to them.  I
> agree that a test/qa manager is a very important role to fill.  Paul and MJR
> have the development/stable release management roles pretty well in hand at
> the moment as well.  I think we might want to look at documentation and the
> overall project management position as well.
>
> [elided]
>
> > > PD3: I could not talk with you very often in irc-koha by timezone
> > > problems (I really start working when you leave...)
> >
> > Last year, we used to have chat sessions planned. We had the problem
> > with timezone, so I often went to bed very late... But with
> > kiwis (new
> > zealand), australia, W-europe and America (south & north), we
> > can't have
> > everybody waked up at the same time...
> > If we reorganize the Koha team, we should probably plan an
> > IRC meeting
> > for all volunteers at beginning of september.
> > Any opinion on this everybody ?
> >
>
> I think this would be a great idea.  How does Tuesday, Sep 7th (Wednesday the
> 8th for the NZers) sound?
>
> -pate
>
> > --
> > Paul POULAIN
> > Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
> > responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
> >
> >
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