On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Chris Cormack wrote:
Hi All
This has become a really interesting and useful discussion. With lots of great points to consider in the upcoming rewrite/refactoring of Koha code.
(After 2.0 .. one can of worms at a time :-))
It also serves as a great illustration of the principle beauty of free software. That is, since we all have access to the source code we are able to have an informed and frank discussion about what we do and dont like about it. And then are able to work together to fix the things we dont like.
I'd really like to second this. I think this is really the key win that free software provides. I don't think you'd ever see a discssion like his happen at a (proprietary vendor's) Users Group meeting. On the other hand, this level of freedom comes with a price, we need everyone to get involved in these discussions to help push Koha along. Even if you aren't a developer (and don't want to be), your input is certainly wanted in terms of: what makes a good serials package, what should we do for acquisitions/circulation, what about different kinds of searching or ranking, what kinds of features should be added or enhanced ...
So in this vein, I encourage all the participants in the discussion and any others interested to write up a page on the wiki. http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaProject Collating the ideas that we'd like to see implemented in the rewrite. So that we dont lose any of these ideas, and hopefully a bit of a roadmap for 2.1 will start to appear.
If you don't feel comfortable working on a wiki (they're not that hard though), please feel free to talk here or on the koha2010 mailing list[1]. (If you are comfortable using wiki's, please feel free to wiki-ize conversations like this so that they don't get lost.) -pate [1] koha2010 is a mailing list set up to discuss the strategic direction of Koha. The discussion there should be non-technical (from a computing perspective). You can subscribe by sending email to koha2010-subscribe@kohalabs.com
Chris
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