[Koha] Freight in aquistions?

[Joe Atzberger]

> Finally, I'd again like to point out that out and out removal of
> functionality is not a bug solution.
>

It may not be a solution for the feature, but it is a bug solution *for that
release version*.


> If it were bugged, then I as a user would like whatever bug (or more likely
> combination of bugs) it was fixed before something new was added to the core
> programme.
>

Easily said, but practically impossible to accomplish.  And surely other
users would prefer to have their favorite feature integrated into a release
without waiting for every outstanding bug in unrelated, orphaned features to
be addressed, especially if they are paying developers to accomplish just
that.


> If removal is the only option, I don't think it's asking to much to take a
> poll on this list instead of solely discussing things on the developer's
> list.
>

A poll doesn't matter much when there isn't code to back it up.  I think it
would be counterproductive to conduct a poll that suggests itself as a
mechanism to accomplish something when in fact it is unrelated to
accomplishing it.  If the group being polled had a developer they could
dedicate to the task(s), or even a set number of developer hours, then it
would be a totally different situation.


> Librarians other than me are very patient. One of my favourite things to
> relate in terms of new features is the 27 year bookmobile feature
> implementation. Yes, we're waiting for it. Yes, we've not forgot this year.
> Do you have it yet? No? When will you have it done? It's been a while...
>

I have no idea what a 27-year bookmobile feature is, but we have sizable
libraries using the existing offline circulation code for their bookmobile
transactions.  I suspect this would work in your case as well.  I hope you
don't mean that you've been waiting 27 years for an implementation!  (Koha
of course hasn't been around half that long.)


> The pickle is in telling us something will be done by a certain date and
> then not meeting that, OR in promising a feature that you never deliver
> upon, in which case we use our Awesome Powers of Nagging.
>

Heh.  As fearsome as those powers surely are, in my experiments, they are
not impressive to the perl compiler running our Kohas.  Unfortunately.

I'm not sure what features/dates you are referring to, or who you think
promised them.  But in general, for a codebase that is moving rather
quickly, I think the developer community has been reasonably pragmatic in
its decisions.

--Joe
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