Le 17/02/2011 15:34, Tom Hanstra a écrit :
I hope I'm not kicking a hornet's nest here. I'm just trying to get a handle on how compatible these are and how to decide which version might best meet our local needs. Definetly, and without any doubt : the koha-community version. Definetly yes it's a hornet nest. So I'll try to answer clearly and without awakening sleeping hornets ;-)
Just to be clear : I'm Paul Poulain, from France, served as Release Manager for Koha 2.0 and 2.2. I've founded BibLibre in France 3 years ago. I have nothing against PTFS/LL but I think their strategy won't be successfull. I think Koha project loosed many time with those problems, but it's behind us now. A small history history : * at the beginning (2000), koha.org was managed by katipo, where chris C. and some other were working (katipo was the Koha v1 author) * in 2007, LibLime bought koha.org, the katipo Koha dev team and katipo New Zealand customers * one year later, the katipo-now-LL ppl resigned from LL * in 2008 PTFS started his involvement in Koha. They were coldly welcomed by the community & LibLime (LL & PTFS are operating in US) They sended some patches but were considered as a wolf in a sheepfold, so patches were included, but always with a cold welcome. Note the technical relationships have always be better than the strategic relationships. * in 2009, some/many devs from LL resigned as well and, in sept, 11th LL announced LLEK, a hosted version that is not OpenSource because the source is not distributed (reminder : koha.org is "owned" by LL...) * in late 2009, early 2010, PTFS bought LL * in early 2010, the koha community (ie : everybody except LL & PTFS) decided to move to http://www.koha-community.org because we had no control & easy access over the content of the other website. All developers tools were also moved for the same reason. So, as of today : * PTFS/LibLime has a LLEK software that is not Koha, and you can't download * PTFS/LibLime has a "Harley" release of Koha, that is OpenSource, patches have been submitted, I think 50% of them are now in Koha. But it is not Koha and unless i'm mistaking, it does not evolve (and is based on 3.0.2 version of Koha). The remaining 50% may be included in Koha, or replaced by someone else dev that achieve the same goal. * Koha-community.org has the "uptodate" version of "the community". Hoping I answered you questions. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08