[Koha-devel] Koha Support provider

[Ian Walls]

Davi,


Thanks for clarifying leals services offered on Koha, and your willingness
to update the company site to reference Koha and link back to the community
website.  I really don't want to be an antagonist, but those small HTML
edits go a long way for me personally (I love Koha and the community that
has grown up around it).

As for the integration of EDIFACT, that development partner you reference is
my company, ByWater Solutions.  I may have pounced too vigorously on this
point because, frankly, I'm embarrassed that I haven't gotten further with
the integration in the time I've had.  I've been quite busy, and the changes
to the Acquisitions module in 3.2+ make for a thick mental stew of
conceptual rebasery.

I in no way intent to point blame at anyone (other than myself) about the
EDIFACT work not being integrated; though, if you've got it working on the
current HEAD of Koha, I'd love to see any updates/modifications you needed
to make to get it working.

Cheers,


-Ian

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:26 AM, <davi at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Friday 08 July 2011 15:11:05 Ian Walls wrote:
> > MJ is correct: www.leals.com/library, the page that appears to contain
> the
> > most information about their ILS offerings (unless I'm missing a page...
> I
> > didn't do a full review of the site), does not link to
> > www.koha-community.org anywhere (as MJ already confirmed), nor does it
> even
> > reference Koha.  To quote:  "We provide a full-featured ILS solution"
> >
> > There is also reference to EDIFACT integration (twice on the page), which
> > is still awaiting integration into Koha (a fact to which MJ and I can
> both
> > speak).  This indicates to me that leals is not offering services on the
> > community codebase, at least not exclusively.
>
> The EDIFACT integration is the one I developed some months ago for one of
> the
> software.coop (MJ coop) customers. Software.coop got in partner with other
> company to integrate it upstream and did some marketing about it.
>
> It is not my fault if they have not integrated it yet.
>
>
> > I'll leave MJ's other concerns to be addressed by those more
> knowledgeable
> > than I, but facts above stand in my mind as blockers enough to listing.
>  I
> > would ask leals to remedy this by providing link backs to
> > koha-community.org, as well as referencing the software directly on
> their
> > page.  Any clarification about the nature of exactly what codebase
> they're
> > offering services upon would be appreciated.
>
> We offer services for the official upstream release, and of course for the
> software we have developed.
>
> > I remember a discussion some time ago about the requirements for listing,
> > but I don't recall the resolution.  Perhaps I'm being too restrictive; I
> > have no objections to leals being listed if they do indeed provide Koha
> > support, but from their website I have no idea if that's true or not.  A
> > single link and the word "Koha" would go a long way in that regard.
>
> We will add the product name, Koha ILS, and the link to koha-community.org
> .
>
> I have to get a break now, but I will be back and fix the issues Ian name.
> I
> hope show results and report tomorrow.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> David Díaz (davi) worker of www.leals.com, a business democratically
> managed by its workers. Webmaster, Debian Maintainer, Software Engineer.
> Available for hire through www.leals.com
>



-- 
Ian Walls
Lead Development Specialist
ByWater Solutions
Phone # (888) 900-8944
http://bywatersolutions.com
ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
Twitter: @sekjal
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