Re: [Koha-devel] [IMPORTANT] some time to spend on Koha 3 : what to do next ? + SAN goals

[Joshua Ferraro]

Hi Paul,

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:53:58PM +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'll have some time to spend on Koha 3 at the beginning of august. What 
> could be usefull according to you ?
> 
> (knowing that Antoine still works on code cleaning : he works on 
> acquisition module ATM)
> 
> I thought testing & debugging & unimarc'ing on dev_week could be 
> interesting.
> I would also be interested by synch'ing dev_week & head, depending on 
> the stability of dev_week.
Both of those sound good to me. Just to clarify the status of dev_week,

  * The API is identical to rel_2_2 except that the Search API has changed.

  * There are some new functions to search and save records in zebra

  * This means that on the whole, dev-week is quite stable, having rel_2_2
    as the basis, the new search and record management functions could use
    additional testing and work.

  * There is also a minimal wrapper for the old search API that could use some
    improvements (ie, it is a bare minimum that  only does a keyword search
    for everything). 

  * I plan to continue working on dev_week until it's ready for production, 
    at which point I will release 2.4.

  * due to time and budget constraints I'm only able to work with what
    my customer's need: MARC21 + NPL tempaltes, but I would be happy to
    see other flavours and templates supported.

In the meantime, it would be very interesting to sync dev_week with HEAD, 
though when we do that we need to look carefully at the changes to the API
that already exist in HEAD -- a task beyond my resources right now.

> SAN goals :
> -----------
> In september, SAN want to start working on testing & teaching 
> librarians. The goal being to start working in production in January, 1st
> I told them I will make all my best to have something working in 
> september, at least beta stage.
> They need zebra (dev_week)+ all what btoumi & alaurin worked on, (head) 
> thus the merge of dev_week & head is something urgent for them.
> 
> PS : dont tell me their goal is impossible to reach, they would be very 
> unhappy with this. I told them it will be hot/hard, but not impossible.
I think it's definitely possible to do this.

> Maybe it's time for an irc meeting (next monday ? it's OK for me)
Sounds good, I'll post a separate email about the meeting.

Cheers,

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