On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:45 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
But I bet this conversation has already happened a dozen times, and since I do not have the expertise to actually do all this, I will stop arguing for it, however inevitable I think it is.
The topic will not go away until the installation situation is resolved. As it stands, and judging from the number of comments and cries for help on this list, we have a way to go.
I am in the process of writing up an RFC on the developer's Wiki that addresses as many of the different installation environments and situations I can think of.
How can we / should we as a group proceed to discuss this RFC? For one thing, the discussion belongs on Koha-developers. Or is there room for input from librarians and non-techies ?
cheers rickw
I would imagine there is room for input from Librarians and non-techies, since they will be the eventual end-users. Or don't non-librarians and techies have room for that sort of input?
From what I've read on this list and gathered from other sources there is quite a lot of room for improvement to the installation process for Koha. I have just managed to install LAMP on Ubuntu 8.04 after several weeks of research. All went smoothly due to my extensive research and documentation before I actually started the install process. The same material I have been gathering for a Koha installation does not bode well for such a smooth process as with the LAMP installation.
I know there are companies such as LibLime that will handle the technical back-end of Koha, but not all companies can afford or will want to go that route. Also, the dev list can be quite overwhelming to the non-techies, such as myself. Just my thoughts. Thanks, John - a non-techie and non-librarian, but one tasked with installing and maintaining Koha.