I think some of the root of this problem is that LibLime considers (or really wants to consider) itself to BE the Koha community. I believe that LEK is not a fork to them; it's just the natural progression of the software, and Koha is the fork.
Liblime has already stated that it is indeed a fork. From that statement I would assume they are fully aware that they have forked the code, and not visa versa. Besides, a community of one is no community at all.
If Koha wasn't continuing to develop, or just developing slowly in a the middle of a long-term stable release, this attitude might better match reality, but since Koha is about to jump to 3.2, LEK is what's going off in its own direction. If/when a LEK tarball is released, perhaps the idea is that it will be so amazing, so perfect and so difficult to merge with Koha, that Koha will just replace itself with LEK, and we'll all move forward together again.
Which would mean throwing out hundreds of man-hours of work on features that other Koha customers wanted and needed, or spending many more hours integrating them into LEK. We would also lose the entire repository history, which let's us know who wrote what. I don't know if that's extremely important, but if a feature is having a problem, it can help locate the developer who would know that code best. I think the more likely situation is some of the Koha devs see particular features in LEK, and spend the time porting those features to Koha. I doubt we could ever move every feature over, since without Git we won't know what has changed without close inspection.
Again, just my opinions, but these thoughts have been brewing for some time, and it feels good to express them.
I think in this community, everyone's opinion is valuable, that is one of this community's strengths. I thank you for bringing these ideas and views to the table, even if I don't agree with them fully. Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
-Ian
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Paul Poulain Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:35 AM To: kohalist@agogme.com Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org
Thomas Dukleth a écrit :
The French demonstrations at the French Koha website, http://www.koha-fr.org/ , are run by BibLibre but they do not contain anything which could be construed as an advertisement for BibLibre. The exact link for french demo is http://demo.koha-fr.org, and, yes, we (BibLibre) host this demo (as well as the mailing lists), as a contribution (is it a "koha" in maori ;-) ?) to koha project.
We (community) lived with www.liblime.com/koha for years, but now, the main problem is that it is not a demo of the Koha anyone can download. And it is even not open source. So it has nothing to do on www.koha.org There is another related problem: liblime host & own koha.org domain name. So we can't do a lot of things about that, except crying & asking (which we must do, for sure, thanks owen to have pointed this problem)
note: the (very small) positive point is that the community can see whas LEK contains... for example /cgi-bin/koha/admin/branch_transfer_limits.pl (many other available at : /cgi-bin/koha/admin/admin-home.pl)
-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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