Hi Vimal, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vimal Kumar V. <vimal0212@gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD To: Koha-List <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>

I finished Koha 3.12 Live DVD making. I have still doubt where I host this to make available to Koha users. Nobody from developing team given an answer.

Great to see such fast turn-around on the LiveDVD! Cheers to that! :) I have seen you repeatedly raise the question about the hosting the ISO. Now, I'm not a mind-reader, but i can probably guess what may be the possible reason for it. A LiveDVD goes stale the day it is released. And I do not mean just Koha, the *entire* s/w stack placed on the LiveDVD which unless you have the necessary bandwidth to do an 'apt-get upgrade. Within a few days of release, you will be missing out on security patches, fixes, updates and upgrades. Overtime, the software becomes vulnerable to serious security holes and other issues that get detected. The LiveDVD is stricty a test-run use-case, unfortunately not all the people coming in are not aware of that, and when it does not work as they expect, it can do more harm than good. As a training / self-learning tool it is excellent, however attempts to use it in production mode or even for pilot trials opens it up to people requesting for community support, fixes, patches and upgrade paths, all thanks to the "Official" label. With all that baggage to bear, the label of "Official Koha LiveCD/DVD" brings in serious issues about Koha's project governance and quality. Just my guess! cheers -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org