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

[Kyle Hall]

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> 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
> 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) 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,
> --
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