[Koha] Koha releases

[vtl at scls.lib.wi.us]

Thanks Reed.  This is a good explanation of the issues.

Vicki

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Reed Wade <reed at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> It's a bit anti-optimal (for everyone) to let your feature mods age
> for 6-12 (or more) months. But it also depends on the next step. Is
> PTFS/LL going to submit them to the current release manager as patches
> against a recent Koha release or just make some random code available
> someplace that implements those features in some old or private
> version of Koha and call it done?
>
> Unless it's delivered in a useful way then entities hiring PTFS/LL to
> perform development work are funding features that are only ever going
> to usable by current PTFS/LL customers. Even the funder loses the
> ability to use those features unless they keep buying maintenance
> services so they have access to the private code (I would expect).
>
> Lot's of speculation--as always it would be sweet to hear from them.
> Maybe after the americaland holiday.
>
> For those new to software development, a question to ask anyone you
> hire to add features to Koha would be "When could I expect this to be
> in an official Koha public release?" Things like the Harley tar file
> are nice (and way better than nothing) but are missing the work of
> taking the code that next critical step and instead depend on the
> chance that others will pick out those features of interest and
> perform the additional work.
>
> (PTFS/LL, please join this conversation so that we're not just
> speculating on what your future actions might be.)
>
> -reed
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