Hello everyone, as of the last IRC meeting, we have a LiveCD manager and that leads us one step into the direction of an »official«, maintained Koha LiveCD as opposed to various more or less outdated disks that are to be found scattered across the interwebs. I was wondering if we should start to gather some ideas of what we would agree on to be deserving the label »official Koha LiveCD« -- or if we would not want that label at all. Some things that came to minds (to my own and those of others in discussions about it) are - being up-to-date One of the problems now is that a lot of the available liveCDs are very outdated, thus carrying bugs and security risks. LiveCDs are old as soon as they get out by default. It would be important to have the latest stable version ready. I don't know if it is realistic to expect a fresh disk each month (or even two, for stable and oldstable)?! Would there be less stressful release cycles imaginable for this kind of release? - promoting liveCDs for testing, not for production LiveCDs are very common in GNU/Linux land and a nice way to try things without having to go through a more or less complicated installation routine and maybe breaking what you had running before. But I think once you tested and decided to use the system, you should go for a real installation and I'd like to see that promoted to avoid having people run outdated versions forever. There is even the idea of an expiration date for LiveCDs to decrease the number of outdated, insecure Koha systems. - promoting package installation Having the choice to install directly from the live medium after testing would be desirable. The best/ easiest/ recommended way of installation is an installation with Debian packages. I hope to see the inclusion of this way of installation as a goal of the development of an »official« disk. - bug tracking/ transparency Koha development happens mostly in the open and can be observed on bugzilla and git. It would be nice to see a »LiveCD« section on bugzilla that is assigned to the LiveCD Manager to be able to give feedback on bugs specific to this form of release, discuss development and also have some people test new releases of the disk before release. There is probably a lot more I forgot but I thought it might be useful to start a discussion about it. What are your thoughts on the points given here, what other things do you consider important? I'd be particularly interested in Vimal's views of course, but also like to see participation by everybody else. I send this email to both lists but I would propose to discuss on [koha-devel]. Vimal, are you subscribed to the developer list[1]? That would be a good thing to do if you have not done so already. -- Mirko [1] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel