Joshua Ferraro wrote:
Firstly, download.koha.org was promoted as "the usual location" to download Koha from for something over two years, as in http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2008-January/012900.html I didn't mean to imply otherwise. What I meant to clarify is why we weren't deleting one or more of the 3.00.04 releases HDL distributed--ie, download.koha.org preserves the history of the
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:02 PM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote: project's releases and HDL's three 3.00.04 releases are part of that history.
Even ignoring the gaps (some understandable like the pipex.com-hosted 2.0 releases, some surprising like the 2.0pres), most of the files there have a much later timestamp than the originals, so it doesn't seem a terribly accurate historical archive. I feel that this sudden new announcement of download.koha.org's purpose is a bit odd.
[...] I'm also not interested in a debate about whether or not anyone should or should not have access to LibLime servers or whether or not LibLime should or should not host download.koha.org. [...]
Well, that's a bit of a change from "though LibLime does own koha.org, we'd look for the comunity to decide what would be suitable as far as content on the community site" (Joshua Ferraro, #koha, 2008-08-23). It seems pretty clear that the community would like empowerment of the community's release managers to manage releases on download.koha.org. I guess we could hold a poll if you'd like, but why cause the koha community that pain?
Yes, I sort of agree with this. Having three 3.0.4s releases wasn't a good thing. However, what's done is done and I expect HDL will have learnt from the mistakes, so this sort of public rebuke seems painful. If this were the first time we've had these kinds of problems with releases I'd completely agree.
Please excuse my poor memory, but that comment means little to me.
Also, Chris Cormack asked about changing the homepage to link to 3.00.04, but so far we haven't heard from HDL about his intentions to roll 3.00.05 to fix the previous issues with 3.00.04 and 3.00.04_final, and to provide a single download point for this release. To avoid further user confusion I suggest we await his comments on that.
OK - HDL? (And had anyone asked you before this?) Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op