[Koha] Proposal to form Koha Technical Committee (and Time Based Releases)

[Chris Cormack]

On 22 November 2010 20:11, Thomas Dukleth <kohalist at agogme.com> wrote:
> Reply inline:
>
>
> On Sat, November 20, 2010 21:33, Chris Cormack wrote:
>> * Lori Bowen Ayre (lori.ayre at galecia.com) wrote:
>>>    I want to pull out these paragraphs from David Lang's email because I
>>>    think it is an important point about the benefits of sticking to
>>>    time-based releases.  I think if we had stuck to this principle, we
>>>    wouldn't be having the troubles we are having (as a community) with
>>> some
>>>    of our biggest contributors needing to support versions of Koha that
>>> are
>>>    different from the latest official version.
>>
>> Wow.
>>
>> The single biggest contributor to Koha over time, in terms of a simple
>> lines of code metric, Biblibre, suggested we try a time based release
>> for 3.4. The community agreed.
>>
>> Biblibre have, and I have faith always
>> will, contribute all their code upstream. In fact they spent a serious
>> amount of time after the hackfest working with others to get their
>> patches in a state that they could go through QA.
>>
>> I am not sure who these other big
>> contributors that you speak of are? Galen, Joe Atzberger, Chris
>> Nighswonger, Owen Leonard, MJ, me?.
>>
>> I actually find it quite reprehensible to suggest that the forks
>> are the fault of previous release managers. Everyone with eyes and ears
>> knows the real reason.
>
> Chris Cormack's reading of David Lang's message as explaining some
> uncooperative behaviour may be a possible reading but I have some doubt
> that it was the intended meaning.  At least in this context, I think that
> David should be given the benefit of the doubt unless David would explain
> otherwise.
>
Thomas, I was replying to Lori, not David, which is why I quoted the
things she said, not David.

To clarify I had no issue with what David said.

Chris