[Koha-devel] Packing needs - status to add to bugzilla and the dashboard?

[Paul A]

At 07:42 AM 3/9/2016 -0500, Kyle Hall wrote:
>Also, are you saying any newly packaged libraries *must* make it in to 
>Debian? Can we not host our own packaged libraries on our apt server? Why 
>must packages meet the Debian requirements?
>This seems like it's adding yet another barrier to entry for new Koha 
>developers. Now we all need to be Debian package maintainers as well?
>It seems like we're taking away one of the most powerful features of Perl, 
>it's extensive library of available modules.

One of Koha's strengths certainly was, and most probably still is, the 
ability for an admin to be able to aptitude/apt-get (even yum) dependencies 
that conform to her o/s. We used to publish "warnings" about using CPAN. 
Debian trickles down to Ubuntu -- with a possible time-lag -- and these two 
o/s are perhaps the most used by Koha-based libraries.

If Koha needs to use a custom *library* and there is reticence to put it 
through the Debian/Ubuntu loop, surely the proper solution is to put it 
into the Koha environment (package and tarball) where it remains 
Koha-specific and the remainder of the o/s, including Perl, stays unchanged 
without potential repercussions on other installed applications/progammes.

This might well also facilitate version control -- each Koha update has the 
correct libraries in /usr/share/koha/bin, /usr/share/koha/lib/C4, wherever, 
but not in /usr/lib/perl* (or /usr/bin/perl) (with or without /local/) 
available to the entire o/s.

This removes any "barrier to entry for new Koha developers", might ease 
proper installation/upgrade operations and has the potential to obviate 
obscure security concerns.

Best -- Paul


>Just a thought.
>
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>On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Galen Charlton 
><<mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com>gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Brendan Gallagher 
><<mailto:info at bywatersolutions.com>info at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
>Do we have a defined role description of responsibility of the Packaging 
>Manager? (I've only read Robin's posts to the mailing list before - is 
>that it?)
>
>
>We do now, seeded with my view of the position:
>
><https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Packaging_manager>https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Packaging_manager 
>
>
>On a side note, the overall page is new; I'm figuring that it might be a 
>useful exercise to outline minimum role responsibilities for all of the 
>named project positions.
>
>Regards,
>
>Galen
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