RE: [Koha-devel] docs

[Anthony W Youngman]

Ummm ...

 

Open source is a coalition held together by mutual self-interest. If you ask ten developers, you'll get eleven different road maps ... open source is there to take YOU where YOU want to go - but we expect YOU to put a load of effort into getting there yourself. We're just here to help you because we gain personally by doing so.

 

So. As far as Koha goes, you need to download it yourself. You need to play with it yourself. There'll be a DOC directory, read it. Once you have (or maybe even better if you haven't) understood it, help with writing more and better documentation.

 

Maybe Koha does what you want. Write a personal appreciative email to the guy who wrote the little bit you find useful (find his name and email in the source - don't send it to the list). Maybe Koha doesn't do what you want, or doesn't do it right. Ask (politely!) to the list "why not?". There's plenty of ways to get it added - do it yourself, pay someone else, write a spec for someone else to use as a project ...

 

Basically, Open Source is "if you want to really gain from it, you muck in and help".

 

Cheers,

Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: Abu Obeida O. Bakhach [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 16 October 2003 16:53
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Koha-devel] docs

Hi there

This is actually a test email. But I would like to ask something,

I am new to the idea of open source packages. So I am not sure of the norms and practices.

But, isn’t there some design docs or code roadmap that I can read??

 

Would really appreciate it

Thank

Obeida

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