[Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org

[Kyle Hall]

> I think some of the root of this problem is that LibLime considers (or really wants to consider) itself to BE the Koha community.  I
> believe that LEK is not a fork to them; it's just the natural progression of the software, and Koha is the fork.

Liblime has already stated that it is indeed a fork. From that
statement I would assume they are fully aware that they have forked
the code, and not visa versa. Besides, a community of one is no
community at all.

> If Koha wasn't
> continuing to develop, or just developing slowly in a the middle of a long-term stable release, this attitude might better match
> reality, but since Koha is about to jump to 3.2, LEK is what's going off in its own direction. If/when a LEK tarball is released,
> perhaps the idea is that it will be so amazing, so perfect and so difficult to merge with Koha, that Koha will just replace itself with
> LEK, and we'll all move forward together again.

Which would mean throwing out hundreds of man-hours of work on
features that other Koha customers wanted and needed, or spending many
more hours integrating them into LEK. We would also lose the entire
repository history, which let's us know who wrote what. I don't know
if that's extremely important, but if a feature is having a problem,
it can help locate the developer who would know that code best.

I think the more likely situation is some of the Koha devs see
particular features in LEK, and spend the time porting those features
to Koha. I doubt we could ever move every feature over, since without
Git we won't know what has changed without close inspection.

> Again, just my opinions, but these thoughts have been brewing for some time, and it feels good to express them.

I think in this community, everyone's opinion is valuable, that is one
of this community's strengths. I thank you for bringing these ideas
and views to the table, even if I don't agree with them fully.

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )

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> -Ian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Paul Poulain
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:35 AM
> To: kohalist at agogme.com
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org
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> Thomas Dukleth a écrit :
>> The French demonstrations at the French Koha
>> website, http://www.koha-fr.org/ , are run by BibLibre but they do not
>> contain anything which could be construed as an advertisement for
>> BibLibre.
> The exact link for french demo is http://demo.koha-fr.org, and, yes, we
> (BibLibre) host this demo (as well as the mailing lists), as a
> contribution (is it a "koha" in maori ;-) ?) to koha project.
>
> We (community) lived with www.liblime.com/koha for years, but now, the
> main problem is that it is not a demo of the Koha anyone can download.
> And it is even not open source. So it has nothing to do on www.koha.org
> There is another related problem: liblime host & own koha.org domain name.
> So we can't do a lot of things about that, except crying & asking (which
> we must do, for sure, thanks owen to have pointed this problem)
>
> note: the (very small) positive point is that the community can see whas
> LEK contains... for example
> /cgi-bin/koha/admin/branch_transfer_limits.pl (many other available at :
> /cgi-bin/koha/admin/admin-home.pl)
>
> --
> Paul POULAIN
> http://www.biblibre.com
> Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc
> Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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