[Koha-devel] Koha numbering

[Mathieu Saby]

Thank you for Katrin & Chris for your answers ( I also read some 
comments on irc...)
You convinced me, 1 year release would be a bad idea ;-)

Mathieu


Le 07/04/2013 10:48, Katrin Fischer a écrit :
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> you are right in that updating every half year is a lot of work, but the
> good thing is, that you don't have to. We have libraries that are still
> on 3.6.x now and we will probably update them directly to 3.12 sometime
> this year.
>
> The positive side on half year feature releases is that you can get to
> use your sponsored enhancements quicker if you want to. Libraries don't
> have to wait a full year worst case or even longer, if for whatever
> reason their developments can't go into the very next release. As it
> stands Koha changes a lot in short amounts of time. Our release notes
> show that quite well and I think we should keep our cycle.
>
> Translations are always a bit of a pain to do, that won't change with
> different tools or different kinds of releases in my opinion. But the
> bugfix releases don't introduce a lot of new strings. It's the big
> releases that do and I think we wouldn't reduce work with longer release
> cycles.
>
>
> Katrin
>
>
> Am 07.04.2013 10:27, schrieb Mathieu Saby:
>> Hello
>> Maybe you will not agree with me, but here is my *personal *opinion
>> about release rythm : 6 month between each "major" release seems quite a
>> short delay.
>> In France we have libraries using 3.10 (I think only my library for the
>> moment), 3.8, probably 3.6, 3.2 (with a lot of local changes).
>> In some monthes, we will have libraries using 3.12, 3.10, 3.8 etc
>>
>> For a library a 6 month rythm means updating 2 times Koha each year.
>> Before and after each change, you need to test the new version, to train
>> colleagues, to update documentation, to signal new bugs to your vendor
>> if you have one... You can do that if you have a big team, and the help
>> of a vendor. This is not the case of all libraries...
>> It is also a problem for internationalization : translation teams need
>> to maintain projects for 3 or 4 versions. With Pootle, it is not
>> possible (how many languages with 100% strings translated for 3.10, 3.8
>> and 3.6 ???). Even with an other system it will be very difficult and
>> will take a lot of time.
>> Finally, in terms of development : with the current system, we work on
>> enhancements approximatly 4 months (before feature freeze) for each
>> version. So 8 month in a year. With a rythm of a year, we could work for
>> example 9 months on enhancements, and 3 on bugfixes and translations.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> M. Saby
>> Rennes 2 university
>>
>>
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