Reply inline: On Sat, November 20, 2010 21:33, Chris Cormack wrote:
* Lori Bowen Ayre (lori.ayre@galecia.com) wrote:
I want to pull out these paragraphs from David Lang's email because I think it is an important point about the benefits of sticking to time-based releases. I think if we had stuck to this principle, we wouldn't be having the troubles we are having (as a community) with some of our biggest contributors needing to support versions of Koha that are different from the latest official version.
Wow.
The single biggest contributor to Koha over time, in terms of a simple lines of code metric, Biblibre, suggested we try a time based release for 3.4. The community agreed.
Biblibre have, and I have faith always will, contribute all their code upstream. In fact they spent a serious amount of time after the hackfest working with others to get their patches in a state that they could go through QA.
I am not sure who these other big contributors that you speak of are? Galen, Joe Atzberger, Chris Nighswonger, Owen Leonard, MJ, me?.
I actually find it quite reprehensible to suggest that the forks are the fault of previous release managers. Everyone with eyes and ears knows the real reason.
Chris Cormack's reading of David Lang's message as explaining some uncooperative behaviour may be a possible reading but I have some doubt that it was the intended meaning. At least in this context, I think that David should be given the benefit of the doubt unless David would explain otherwise.
Lets just try a time based release and see how it works for us, like the community decided.
Chris
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