[Koha] [Koha-devel] version 3.0.4 on download.koha.org

[Chris Cormack]

Hi Joshua

Good to hear from you again, it's been a while.

2009/10/28 Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com>:
> Hi Henri-Damien,
> Every time you roll a release and announce it there should be a version
> incremented, even if the change was a minor one to correct an error in your
> previous distribution. This is the generally accepted procedure for release
> management/maintenance.

I'm sure Henri Damien will take your advice in the manner you intended
it, but the truth is he is the elected Release Maintainer and he is
the one who decides what a release is numbered.

> To date, LibLime haven't been editorializing your files at all, just adding
> and removing files as requested. The primary reason for this is that your
> signatures on the release will be invalid if we change the filename.

That is precisely why people sign things, so third parties don't
modify them. I would hope the reason you haven't been editorialising
them is because Henri Damien is the elected release maintainer and
making releases is what he has been elected to do.

> Therefore, we haven't changed 3.00.04_final to 3.00.04. We have left both of
> those files up on download.koha.org because both of them were announced as
> part of the project's history and download.koha.org is an archived history
> of releases to date.
> You need to send us a new distribution package complete with matching MD5,
> .asc, and .sig files, all with the correct file name. Please call the new
> one 3.00.05 rather than 3.00.04_final (or some derivation thereof) and
> adjust the version string as appropriate in the kohaversion.pl and
> updatedatabase.pl.
> In the future please do not send a public announcement to the Koha lists
> that a release is available until you have confirmed that the file has been
> uploaded to download.koha.org and is actually available. This will alleviate
> much of the confusion caused by this last announcement.

If Liblime are unable to provide access for the 2 people elected to
provide releases of Koha, then perhaps they could change the dns to
point download.koha.org elsewhere where that can be done.

If you are willing I can provide an ip number for that.

> Note that writing to one of the lists, petitioning for "some LibLimer" to
> respond is not as effective at getting our attention as is writing us
> directly as you have done in the past.

While you are there, could you or someone at Liblime change the home
page of www.koha.org to to reflect that 3.0.4 is now the current
stable release.

Thanks

Chris