Thanks Reed. This is a good explanation of the issues. <br><br>Vicki<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Reed Wade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reed@catalyst.net.nz">reed@catalyst.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It's a bit anti-optimal (for everyone) to let your feature mods age<br>
for 6-12 (or more) months. But it also depends on the next step. Is<br>
PTFS/LL going to submit them to the current release manager as patches<br>
against a recent Koha release or just make some random code available<br>
someplace that implements those features in some old or private<br>
version of Koha and call it done?<br>
<br>
Unless it's delivered in a useful way then entities hiring PTFS/LL to<br>
perform development work are funding features that are only ever going<br>
to usable by current PTFS/LL customers. Even the funder loses the<br>
ability to use those features unless they keep buying maintenance<br>
services so they have access to the private code (I would expect).<br>
<br>
Lot's of speculation--as always it would be sweet to hear from them.<br>
Maybe after the americaland holiday.<br>
<br>
For those new to software development, a question to ask anyone you<br>
hire to add features to Koha would be "When could I expect this to be<br>
in an official Koha public release?" Things like the Harley tar file<br>
are nice (and way better than nothing) but are missing the work of<br>
taking the code that next critical step and instead depend on the<br>
chance that others will pick out those features of interest and<br>
perform the additional work.<br>
<br>
(PTFS/LL, please join this conversation so that we're not just<br>
speculating on what your future actions might be.)<br>
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-reed<br>
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