On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Owen Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > my question is about the advantages of KOHA 4 and LibLime, > > which presents differences. > > The advantage of using Koha (the latest version of which is 3.4.1) is > that it's part of a real open source project backed by a community of > developers from around the world. Koha will always be free software > and its development will always be done out in the open. > > Owen brings up the most important point here: Koha has a community around it, while LK only has LibLime. Anyone in the world can contribute to Koha, either with patches sent to the patches mailing list [1], with bug reports filed in the Bugzilla database [2], by sharing reports/jqueries/tips/tricks on either the discussion list [3], wiki [4] or newsletter [5], or by participation in IRC discussion [6]. LK has none of those community tools (at least not anywhere where I could find them!). A statistical work up of the two codebases has been done recently, which is interesting for what it's worth [7]. One can watch Koha's codebase grow daily [8]. LK, like it's predecessor Harley, seems to be a static release rather than a living, growing organism, though I've been told that LibLime does have versions 4.4 and 4.6 in use for their clients (though not released as open source at this time). As a Koha developer and officer, I'll readily admit my bias, but hopefully the links below, as well as other posts on this thread, can help folks make their own decisions. Cheers, -Ian 1. http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-patches 2. http://bugs.koha-community.org 3. http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha 4. http://wiki.koha-community.org 5. http://koha-community.org/category/koha-newsletter/ 6. http://stats.workbuffer.org/irclog/koha/ 7. http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2011/05/24/i-love-pulling-statistics-out-of-git/ 8. http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p\x3dkoha.git;a\x3drss -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Booth 732 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com [email protected] Twitter: @sekjal
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