Thanks Paul! I appreciate getting my wrong assumptions straightened out. Very good points about that being another value of being on an open source product. <div><br></div><div>Lori<br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.a@aandc.org">paul.a@aandc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">At 01:00 PM 6/3/2011 -0400, Owen Leonard wrote:<br>
> > So while there is no more<br>
> > development to 3.2, any bugs found will be fixed. At some point, even that<br>
> > will stop and everyone will be expected to get themselves upgraded.<br>
><br>
>And indeed, the 3.2.x Release Maintainer has said that the upcoming<br>
>3.2.10 release will most likely be the final release of the 3.2.x<br>
>branch.<br>
<br>
</div>"expected to get themselves upgraded" ... or, of course, to retain 3.2.x in<br>
production.<br>
<br>
We have a functional, extensively customized, 3.2.5 that meets the<br>
requirements of our cataloguers and users. While I might spend some of my<br>
spare [?] time looking at 3.4 (I really like the concept of templates), the<br>
customization has to be done all over again, and is proving troublesome.<br>
Nothing wrong with Koha, all to do with our requirements; I ended up<br>
modifying the SQL structure to accept longer, searchable keywords and<br>
abstracts; to facilitate serials cataloguing; and to remove all "lending<br>
library" features to speed things up considerably (we are<br>
reference/research only.)<br>
<br>
If and when I get 3.4 running to our requirements, we'll evaluate whether<br>
we migrate; but in the meanwhile, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." And<br>
I'm sure there's got to be a lot of other Koha users who are also wary of<br>
"upgrading" a fully functional tool.<br>
<br>
This is the great strength of community-driven, open license products - you<br>
can reach a point where you have achieved what you set out to do. Anything<br>
after that can be considered much lower priority. Quite frankly, my only<br>
concern at this point is to get rid of Zebra and integrate different search<br>
methodology which is apparently not high on the Koha horizon; barcoded<br>
spine labels, dustjacket images and emailed fines are not in our<br>
specifications.<br>
<br>
Everyone achieving their own specs, again, is a Koha strength. Otherwise<br>
we'll end up following the "M$ business code" - if Win98 is good enough for<br>
a Koha kiosk (and it most certainly is) you don't need to go chasing Vista,<br>
Win7 or Win8. Our Ubuntu 10.10 server is perfect for Koha, so I only look<br>
for the ultra-rare Ubuntu security alerts.<br>
<br>
Given our satisfaction with Koha, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on<br>
future versions; but in the meanwhile, I respectfully beg to differ with<br>
the statement that "everyone will be expected to get themselves upgraded."<br>
<br>
Regards - Paul<br>
Tired old sys-admin.<br>
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