[Koha] News of koha 3.0 and poll [important]

Fri Mar 23 01:01:52 NZST 2007

For us: I'd say we're at TWO: i've just installed 2.2.8, and life is 
well, no immediate need for version 3.

I'd rather have a better and more stable version three, even if that 
takes a few months.

I must say that I VERY much like the sample screen shots!! 
(http://kados.org/stuff/yui_borrowers.png)

Regards,
Mourik Jan

Kyle Hall wrote:
> Personally, I'm a 2. I can't say what John or Cindy would prefer. But 
> it looks like we'll be rolling out with dev_week in a matter of weeks, 
> so I'd rather wait until 3.0 is more polished code-wise since we are 
> no longer waiting for 3.0 before making our transition.
>
> Kyle
>
> On 3/21/07, *MJ Ray* <mjr at phonecoop.coop <mailto:mjr at phonecoop.coop>> 
> wrote:
>
>     This is a translation of the email of Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:25:44 +0100
>     from paul POULAIN to koha-Infos.  The original is at
>     http://ob.paulpoulain.com/pipermail/infos/Week-of-Mon-20070319/002112.html
>     <http://ob.paulpoulain.com/pipermail/infos/Week-of-Mon-20070319/002112.html>
>     if you want to spot my mistranslations.
>
>     *I would like to hear global-list views on the 1 / 2 / 3 survey
>     below.*
>
>
>     So, the message from paul POULAIN:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     As usual, I'm going to give you some news of Koha 3.0.  *The second
>     part of this email is extremely important for the users among you.*
>
>     Progress
>     ========
>
>     * Joshua (the release manage for v3.0) and his company LibLibe have
>     started tests on this version.  He's found some bugs, as expected,
>     but
>     finds that it's in an encouraging shape.
>
>     The installer has been developed by Henri-Damien as his construction
>     job: once the sysadmin installation is done, the initial configuration
>     (language, MARC type, catalogue tables, ...) are set through a web
>     interface.  It's very practical and more than that, it can be extended
>     easily.  We can therefore give "public library" example settings, a
>     "society trust" example, that can be installed in a few clicks.
>
>     The hosting platform for koha development (savannah.gnu.org
>     <http://savannah.gnu.org>) had a
>     very large problem at the start of the month.  In summary, multiple
>     disks broke simultaneously.  It required three days to bring the
>     platform back up.  But more annoying, it's lost two days of work in
>     the meantime.  Everyone has had to commit their work of those two days
>     anew (this concerned LibLime more than anyone in fact, but was within
>     36hours of causing me problems...) In short, a good week of loss, lots
>     of energy and stress.
>
>     Continuing work (and the survey)
>     ===============
>
>     Joshua (and it's his role as release manager) would like to improve
>     three things before releasing the version:
>
>     1- fix the bugs.  No-one can dispute the necessity of that.
>
>     2- Finish the code cleanup.  Antoine, who worked for me for four
>     months on this, didn't finish 100% of the work.  That won't change
>     anything much for the user, but, in the long term, it's important: it
>     makes for a more stable software, easier to develop and perhaps also
>     more attractive for other contributors.  And then 90% of the work is
>     already done, with 10% to do.
>
>     3- Revise all the templates to make something very polished.  He
>     proposes to use YUI (Yahoo User Interface), some components "freed" by
>     Yahoo that we can therefore integrate.  Graphically, that will give
>     something like http://kados.org/stuff/yui_borrowers.png and
>     http://kados.org/stuff/moremember.png - pretty, isn't it?
>
>     There is a problem in doing all that: the time that it takes.  Joshua
>     doesn't know enough to estimate that for the moment and me neither.
>     But I'm certain that it won't take days or weeks, but months.
>
>     Now, some among you are waiting for Koha 3.0 with barely-contained
>     impatience.  As I've always promised to put the users first, I ask
>     your opinion:
>
>     1- Argh!  We must release Koha 3.0 as soon as possible.  The code
>     clean-up concerns you developers alone, so do it afterwards.  And the
>     improvement of user interface can wait too.  But I need 3.0's features
>     now!
>
>     2- Damn!  Bad news.  But good, we're working with 2.2 well enough and
>     we can wait 3 months more.  But not more than 3 months, even so.
>
>     3- Pah!  I'm very happy with Koha 2.2.  Koha 3.0 can take another 6
>     months to arrive and I won't be unhappy.
>
>     You can just reply 1 / 2 / 3, but you can also say more.  It's
>     essential that you reply, as many as possible, so I will know in which
>     direction the francophone community points and so communicate it to
>     Joshua (who reads us otherwise, even we must translate because he
>     doesn't speak French ;-) ).
>
>     I say that the argument "there's bug XXX in Koha 2.2, so I want koha
>     3.0" isn't good - if there's a bug in 2.2, we'll fix it in 2.2.x!
>
>     PS: to reassure Pascale Nalon, who's done the translation to VF: this
>     shouldn't impact the translation, or very marginally.
>
>     Translatedly,
>     --
>     MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
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