RE: [Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - project organisation

[Eyler, Patrick]

Thanks for passing this along Paul, it's great news.  I'll reply to individual 
points below, but have some thoughts from OSCon that I wanted to pass along to 
the devel list.

Tim O'Reilly talked a lot about web services, platforms, and social software in 
his keynote, and there were some ideas that seemed to make sense for the Koha 
world (especially in light of discussions on oss4lib about modularizing the 
ILS).

   Web Services for users/clients:
 reviews/ranking  (this is a nice bit of participatory social software too)
 search
 patron info
 reserves
 reading club (or similar) tools

   Web Services to make use of (from other sources):
 amazon reviews/ranking
 amazon buying circle info
 ibiblio
 cddb
 imdb

   Social/Participatory Software:
 how can we give patrons more control over their own data?  (make it 
relocatable when/if they move to a new library, make it optionally sharable in 
the form of reading/favorites lists, make it collaborative in the form of 
reading clubs and the like.)
 
 sharing data among libraries (can we move past ILL to share anonymized 
circulation data a'la amazon buying circles? how about sharing ranking/review 
data?)

 what value/information can be distributed beyond libraries?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of 
> Paul POULAIN
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:53 AM
> To: Emiliano Marmonti; Koha-devel
> Subject: [Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - 
> project organisation
> 
> 
> Hi Emiliano & al,
> 
> For al : this mail was sent in my mailbox, but it seems we have a new 
> future major contributor in Koha, so I answer on koha-devel.
> 
> Emiliano Marmonti wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul

[elided]

> 
> Koha 2.4 ROADMAP
> ============
> The 2.2 is too close from official release to have such features 
> correctly tested & integrated. Because they interact with the 
> actual DB 
> (I don't speak of barcodes printing here, of course).
> So, we should begin 2.4 roadmap (feel free to create a page 
> on the wiki, 
> it will be completed)
> What is your own roadmap for those features, in term of date I mean ?

I agree completely.  It would be good to start assembling our 2.4 roadmap.  
Would it be possible to look at the 2.2 roadmap in terms of where we are today? 
 I think both of these have some value.


> 
> KOHA PROJECT ORGANISATION
> ==================
> The management team should be reorganise, because we lack 
> some/lot of roles. If your involvement in Koha is expected to 
> last, maybe your arrival is 
> an occasion to reorganize.
> 
> The first position that you could take, because it's free, is 
> "test/quality manager". Are you interested ?
> 

Instead of signing up for a position now, it's probably better to meet as a 
group and decide which roles we need and who wants to step up to them.  I agree 
that a test/qa manager is a very important role to fill.  Paul and MJR have the 
development/stable release management roles pretty well in hand at the moment 
as well.  I think we might want to look at documentation and the overall 
project management position as well.  

[elided]

> > PD3: I could not talk with you very often in irc-koha by timezone
> > problems (I really start working when you leave...)
> 
> Last year, we used to have chat sessions planned. We had the problem 
> with timezone, so I often went to bed very late... But with 
> kiwis (new 
> zealand), australia, W-europe and America (south & north), we 
> can't have 
> everybody waked up at the same time...
> If we reorganize the Koha team, we should probably plan an 
> IRC meeting 
> for all volunteers at beginning of september.
> Any opinion on this everybody ?
> 

I think this would be a great idea.  How does Tuesday, Sep 7th (Wednesday the 
8th for the NZers) sound?

-pate

> -- 
> Paul POULAIN
> Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
> responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
> 
> 
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