[Koha] To companies selling Koha but rarely contributing or self-hosted libraries: testing enhancements or bug fixes is one of the easiest ways to give back and keep your product relevant in the future

[Victor Grousset/tuxayo]

Hello :)

To companies in Asia, like India or Pakistan (Koha seems very popular 
there :D) or any other country, be it in the Americas, Europe or Africa:
If you are making a living out of Koha, it's a good and cheap business 
decision to test one or two patches from time to time. So you take part 
in keeping Koha competitive on the long run and secure all the time you 
invested in learning how to deploy and use it. That will help to ensure 
your customers will stay satisfied with Koha staying a state of the art ILS.

Maybe there are bugfixes or enhancements that you are waiting to be 
released? There are more than 180 enhancements or bug fixes waiting and 
that means most of them wait months and some years to be released.
It wastes a lot of developer time to keep the proposed patches working 
when the rest of Koha changes. So there is a big need to have more 
people test patches to rebalance the Koha development process and remove 
this big bottleneck.

Again, cheap in time, it's doing your part in exchange for the software 
you got for free ready to be sold/use, and a long run investment to keep 
it a good sellable product.

See my previous email about planning testing sessions:
https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2022-July/058259.html
Don't hesitate to message me if you want to try on your own outside the 
testing sessions. I will be very happy to help anyone that want to start 
testing patches from time to time.

Cheers,

-- 
Victor Grousset/tuxayo
Just some Koha contributor.