Re: [Koha-devel] Koha 23.05 released

2023-06-01 Thread Field, Jonathan
Great work Tomas (and ALL the team who have been involved in this!). Appreciate it is a huge amount of work for you so we thank you. Lots to be excited about in this release! Jonathan On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 20:50, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > The Koha community is proud to announce the release of

[Koha-devel] A case against our release dates

2023-06-01 Thread Tomas Cohen Arazi
Hi all. Having served as Release Manager for the project a couple times, I'd like to ask y'all to think about the dates we've chosen and have stuck to the last few years for our releases. I know they are somehow aligned with our regular yearly meetings, and one each semester. But my experience say

Re: [Koha-devel] A case against our release dates

2023-06-01 Thread Philippe Blouin
Of course I'm coming with my northern hemisphere perspective, and have no horse in the race really as being far from RM, but I always thought those dates were the best available. Seems earlier (04, april) makes it closer to the hackfest you referred.  Later makes it closer to summer holidays.

Re: [Koha-devel] A case against our release dates

2023-06-01 Thread Tomas Cohen Arazi
My personal feeling is we should have a release right before the hackfest. So the hackfest sets the path for the next cycle. That could mean moving the hackfest a couple a bit later too Add for the second part of the year, I'm not sure yet. I just have the perception everyone is out in the months

Re: [Koha-devel] A case against our release dates

2023-06-01 Thread David Cook
I think that it never hurts to review an established tradition! In the southern hemisphere, I often catch up on a lot of work in December as many clients go on holiday early, and then I have my summer holidays in January. In April, I’ll take the latest point release of the November version (

[Koha-devel] Configuration inheritance/override

2023-06-01 Thread David Cook
Hi all, I think that we've all noticed that it's easy to add a new configuration item to koha-conf.xml for new instances, but that it's much harder to update koha-conf.xml when upgrading existing instances. A strategy that I (and others) have used on other projects is to have a core/base co

Re: [Koha-devel] A case against our release dates

2023-06-01 Thread Marcel de Rooy
I opt for keeping the release dates as-is. There will be no date that suits everyone. A hackfest in March allows you to sign off on all stuff that gets in the queues after say December, and could reach .05. New devs from the hackfest should not be pushed hastily in the .05 but have all chance