LIVE DVD is the best into to a general person of KOHA! I remember back when I first tried to install it on red hat and there were all these unsatisfied external things and kati kaui or what ever you call him was PAT so that is .... 10 years ago or? do not do away with live dvd it may be one of the best marketing tools you have to entice new users. Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC In a message dated 8/26/2013 11:04:42 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, vimal0212@gmail.com writes: Dear Jared, Don't conclude that Live DVD's are bad idea. Developers and librarians view points are different. Librarians are end users of Koha, developers are not end users, they are facilitators. I am not trying to under estimate the role of developers. Without a Live DVD Koha is a hard nut to break, majority of LIS professionals are not Linux experts and they can't try Koha. No need to release Live DVD with every version updates. One live DVD for entire 3.12.x release cycle is enough. Koha installed inside Live DVD by following Koha packages, users can upgrade to new version updates by executing commands or running update manager. I would like to listen other members opinions about this matter. Regards, On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov < jcamins@cpbibliography.com> wrote:

Why Nguyen Quoc Uy name appeared in release notes of 3.12.3?

...

In my knowledge Live DVD of 3.12.3 or 3.12.4 have not released yet.

My knowledge matches yours, and I would agree that this is a perfect example of why live DVDs are a bad idea, and why endorsing one as a

project

was a big mistake. His name is on the release notes because his term started after yours ended, the day after the live dvd for 3.12.0 was released. This is no different from your name being on the release notes for 3.10.whatever because you were Live DVD Manager during that release. If your name is not on the appropriate release notes (i.e. the ones that were released during your term), I would encourage you to submit a patch against those branches.

Regards, Jared

P.S. I can't recall whether you've submitted any patches before, but if not, http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Version_Control_Using_Git is a good page to get you started. Good luck!

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