[Koha-devel] Bug 6328 (fine in days) and updatedatabase

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Paul Poulain
<paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Le 23/11/2011 21:01, Chris Nighswonger a écrit :
>> It may be a bit of a pain to some, but
>> it has worked through at least three release cycles. The proposed
>> change does not affect the user in any case.
> Yes it does: if a customer has sponsored a feature with DB changes,
> applying the patch to this customer before it's included in official
> version is a nightmare. And it appends more than once a year for BibLibre.
>

IMHO customers who want features before master inclusion is really a
vendor issue, not a community issue. Yes, we want to make changes that
will make life easier on vendors (and therefore their customers),
*but* not at the expense of rushing and possibly introducing a
potentially buggy, not-throughly-tested "enhancement."

Don't interpret this as "anti-vendor," rather as "pro-stability." ;-)

Kind Regards,
Chris