Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Can you help Koha?

The Koha project is seeking:
  • Quality Assurance manager(s), to review all patches that are sent in to uphold a particular level of quality among the Koha code base. It was suggested that perhaps this be a funded position through an organization or the KUDOS user group since it would take a significant amount of time. It was also suggested that if a QA manager can not be found that developers do more peer review and sign-off on each others patches.
  • Bug wrangler(s), to review the bugs at http://bugs.koha.org and make sure that old bugs are closed and all bugs are valid. The number of open bugs listed at the Koha bugzilla site is currently 827.
  • Funding or development of core code re-factoring, to clean existing Koha structure, make the entire development process more efficient, and increase code speed and readability. It is hard to find a specific library to want to sponsor an enhancement that would be something that only takes place behind the scenes, so it was suggested that this may fall to a group like the KUDOS user group.
These are just a few of the major roles that the Koha project is looking to fill. The project can always use more developers, documentation writers, translators, bug testers, and community adovocates. Anyone looking for more information on getting involved in the Koha project can visit http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php

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