[Koha-patches] [PATCH] Adding date format hints to date entry fields (Bug 3089).

[MJ Ray]

Joe Atzberger <joe.atzberger at liblime.com> wrote:
> [...]  I don't care if Steve Jobs himself built the systems, Koha
> does not have the choice to "accommodate" miscompiled dependencies.  Any
> hack around we make would not be maintainable. [...]

The Koha project had the choice not to adopt the problematic feature
so late in 3.0 and it would have been as maintainable as Koha had been
for years - Koha has been working around everything from shell
inconsistencies upwards for years.

> But since the author was gracious enough to tweak H:T:P for your case,
> where's the cause for a fork now?

As I wrote to Joshua at LibLime in private about 30 mins before your
email, the only reason the fork remains now is that my co-op has no
available resources to merge it back in yet.

> [...]  Koha developers have spent many
> hours investigating your problem and specifically determining the cause, for
> absolutely no reward and no payoff to Koha.  Not even a pro forma "thanks".

Yes, some were helpful.  I definitely thanked most of them by IRC and
private email.  Sorry if anyone felt missed out, but I don't like
personal emails like the above being sent to mailing lists, so I'll
cut the rest of this short: we can't report further upstream because
of annoying commercial reasons (not like we're the only Koha company
ever to get into that sort of problem), we've explained the fork
reasons, the git tree is public (give or take occasional server
problems) and we should be taken seriously because we've been around a
long time, we're so open and honest it hurts and we'll return to the
mainline once we can fund it.

Regards,
-- 
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