On 2011-06-7, at 6:19 AM, Clay Fouts wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Chris Nighswonger > <[email protected]> wrote: > standard. In the Koha community that standard has long been the code > base in the main repo. So every fork is by definition only as nearly > "Koha" as it conforms to that standard. Thus, the larger the delta > between the fork and the main repo, the less the fork can be said to > be "Koha." Its an inverse relationship if that is clearer. At this > point in history, LibLime's fork has a pretty large delta and so is > less "Koha" than other forks. > > You speak like you haven't looked at the BibLibre diffs. I don't know that > they're at any less of a delta than LibLime, and it's only getting larger. > They are a very productive group. Where is your indignation when they call > their product Koha? Software Coop, who apparently has no ambition to back > port their own code, sells "Koha" support. Do you tell people that their > software isn't really Koha?
> These folks are obviously selling work that differs remarkably from "Koha" as > you've defined it, and to my knowledge they don't even differentiate it with > a "BibLibre Koha" or a "Software Coop" Koha the way that LibLime has chosen > to do. the big difference is that Biblibre, software-coop, (and all other Koha support companies) do *not* make their own Koha releases, unlike PTFS/Liblime BL and SW-COOP understand that having many company-releases of many Koha-forks is harmful to the reputation of the Koha project, so they respectfully choose not to do that... (a subtle point that only PTFS/Liblime fail to understand) ... instead they continue to invest their energy submitting their enhancements and bug-fixes into the Koha codebase PTFS/Liblime is the *only* company that continues to release its own 'Koha', and the only company to renege on it commitment to integrate its enhancements back to the Koha codebase PTFS/Liblime seem to have missed the fundamental point of participating in the Koha project. > The frequency with which we hear the phrase "New Zealand Koha" at conventions > suggests the confusion may be deeper and more widespread than you have led > yourself to believe. Clay, i think that confusion exists only around conversations with PTFS/Liblime staff, at those conventions ;) Mason _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
