On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:51 AM, paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Joe Atzberger a écrit :
I don't think it accurate to say that there are many people working on Koha for free.
Indeed, these stats bear that out: http://www.ohloh.net/p/1541/contributors
interesting stat, that proves the multiple origin of Koha : - me, laurenthdl & toins (BibLibre) - chris C (previously katipo, now catalyst) - owen (NPL) - kados, galen, atz, rych (LibLime) - acli - many others
In fact, if i'm not mistaken, the 2nd interesting point in this list is that the only contributors that were not support companies are : owen (and he's a unique case I think), acli, steve tonnesen, and wolfpack444
Theres a lot more than that. The whole C4::Context module was done by arensberger. arensb 163 commits
Apologizes if I'm wrong, but none of them (except owen, of course) are still active for years.
This is mostly true.
I'm sure that, to the -notable- exception of owen, for 3 years, the 10 first committers are LibLimers and BibLibreros[*] ! (/me dunno how to count chris C., as he has been a liblimer partially during this period)
And done plenty outside work time. Im sure this is the case for you, HDL, lots of the liblimers as well. A salary only covers a certain number of hours a week. I always worked on Koha more than those hours. So you can't count all of those paid for. Speaking only for myself, I have worked more unpaid hours on Koha than I have paid ones. I bet this is the case for others also.
We see here a change in Koha model. You can think/find it's a shame, but I think that Koha is now too complex (from a functionnal point of view) to have ppl involved on a "spare time" contribution basis.
Learning koha internals + librarian terms + zebra + ... is not a small thing !
ANd this is a shame, because some of the biggest advances we have gotten (C4::Context originally) have come from spare time programmers. Or web based Circulation from Steve Tonnessen who was paid to run school libraries, not code for Koha. Chris