[Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

[Chris Cormack]

On 23 August 2012 12:25, Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com> wrote:
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>> Regards
>> To+
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>> PS: Sorry for my poor english.
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>> PS2: I've struggled and got annoyed for the outdated docs, and even
>> filled this http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8478.
>> You'll see Mark's work there.
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> Tomas
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> there has been some discussion about ways to improve the Koha install docs
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> the big problem is...
> there are too many 'Koha installation guides' on the kc.org wiki that have old ,incorrect, redundant or duplicated info
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> i think we need to remove the duplicated installation documentation from the wiki
> and concentrate on improving the INSTALL.* files in the Koha git repository (just like we do with the Koha user-manual)
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> lets have a single place for the Koha installation files (and a consistent format)
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> lets have modifications to those critical and complex files go-thru a QA process and version control, too
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> many people google-search for 'koha installation help guide', then find these incorrect guides and have horrible experiences installing Koha :/
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> what do other Koha devs think?
> does anyone else agree that these old or inaccurate install guides are causing problems for Koha newbies?
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+1 for bringing them into version control and under signoff/qa process.

Chris