Thanks for the clarification Nicole. I would further say that "Harley" is a trunk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_%28software%29> not a fork (as was once explained to me by an Evergreen developer). "Harley" is temporary, while Koha is permanent. I don't think my vendor has implied that "Harley" is better. They have said that it has features that are not yet in Koha. I would venture to say that we librarians are struggling with this new terminology but we are trying our best to understand. Vicki On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/7/2 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com>:
contracts with customers. Then, when customers insist on developing huge blocks of code (multiple new features), they will know what that means --- a much bigger cost to them because of the gargantuan effort involved in getting their final product back into the community version.
I agree with what everyone before me has said, the process is in place, it has been in place for years and has worked pretty darn well. What I want us all to agree on here and now is that there is no "community version" - there is Koha. Koha is the official release of the software and it is developed by a community of developers and users worldwide, but it's not the "community version" versus "those other versions" - it's Koha and "not yet Koha" ("not yet" because the code hasn't been integrated into the official product yet).
I think this is part of why users/librarians are so confused. They are told there is a "community version" and then a "version from your vendor" implying that one is better than and one is less than. The fact is that it's all software that serves a purpose and I won't debate which is better - I just don't really want to talk about the official version of the software - Koha - as the "community version" anymore.
Just my 2 cents.
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