[Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha development

[Marshall Breeding]

Paul,

This estimate helps quite a bit.  Part of what I'm working toward is being able to have a figure for Koha that corresponds to what the vendors developing proprietary products allocate to product development.  They also have lots of staff devoted to things like marketing and administration, but the point of comparison is the FTE allocated to development.  My hypothesis is that the overall development allocation for Koha is similar to that for proprietary ILS products and I hope to be able to document that to some degree.

-marshall



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Le 12/02/2015 15:07, Marshall Breeding a écrit :
> To the Koha development community,
Hi Marshall,
> Could each of the support firms or individuals involved in Koha development please either post to this list or send to me individually the FTE that you or your organization contributes for each of the major categories of activity?
>
Really : it's impossible to evaluate properly.
some numbers can be evaluated, some can't.

For example, BibLibre :
  * has Jonathan working full time on Koha. Half time dedicated to the community, half time dedicated to development sponsored by customers (but still on Koha, and for a direct benefit of the Koha community). So, OK, jonathan = 1 FTE
  * has Fridolin being Release Maintainer. He releases a version every month (4 hours to package it, roughly), plus a variable number of hours to push patches (between 1 and 10 ? it depends on what is waiting to be pushed. Let's say an average of 5 hours). 1 version every month, 9 hours per version = 9*12 = 118 (this number is wrong, it's an estimate)
  * has a support team of 3 (including fridolin), that regularly submit bugfixes. Frankly, we don't count the specific time dedicated to fixing a bug and submitting a patch vs the time dedicated to the customer.
  * has other developers regularly submitting patches (julian, matthias,
...)
  * has me ... who does not submit patches anymore, but I'm trying to organize all the work at BibLibre, do some non-dev things for the community. Should I count this ? I think yes, because (I hope), the project also move through non technical work.
  * has all our staff participate to the hackfest in Europe, 1 full week in march = 17*40 ?
  * has 2 or more ppl going to the KohaCon every year.

Overall, I really really can't calculate the involvment of BibLibre as you ask, I'm sorry. Maybe saying 3 FTE is a rough-not-illogic estimate, but it's an estimate !

HTH

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Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, expert du logiciel libre pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software for libraries expert

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