[Koha] Fwd: Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi Vimal,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vimal Kumar V. <vimal0212 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
To: Koha-List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>

> I finished Koha 3.12 Live DVD making.
> I have still doubt where I host this to make available to Koha users.
> Nobody from developing team given an answer.

Great to see such fast turn-around on the LiveDVD! Cheers to that! :)

I have seen you repeatedly raise the question about the hosting the
ISO. Now, I'm not a mind-reader, but i can probably guess what may be
the possible reason for it.

A LiveDVD goes stale the day it is released. And I do not mean just
Koha, the *entire* s/w stack placed on the LiveDVD which unless you
have the necessary bandwidth to do an 'apt-get upgrade. Within a few
days of release, you will be missing out on security patches, fixes,
updates and upgrades. Overtime, the software becomes vulnerable to
serious security holes and other issues that get detected.

The LiveDVD is stricty a test-run use-case, unfortunately not all the
people coming in are not aware of that, and when it does not work as
they expect, it can do more harm than good.  As a training /
self-learning tool it is excellent, however attempts to use it in
production mode or even for pilot trials opens it up to people
requesting for community support, fixes, patches and upgrade paths,
all thanks to the "Official" label.

With all that baggage to bear, the label of "Official Koha LiveCD/DVD"
brings in serious issues about Koha's project governance and quality.

Just my guess!

cheers

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