[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposal to change Evergreen versioning scheme

[Rogan Hamby]

I will concur with Lebbeous that library directors  do learn about
PostgreSQL and Linux - not in the same way, not based on the same data
points that a systems administrator does but they do.  And that's a bit of
my point, the versioning is a data point short cut for them, a short hand
if you will to communicate things that we sit down and dig in more depth
for.  And I say we here, but my day job is actually not IT but as an
administrator (HR, ordering books, etc...) and I can tell you that
directors and others are interested in FOSS and they do know names like
Linux and SQL.


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley <
lebbeous at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Alexey,
>
> I think you're way off when you say that there's a wider audience dealing
> with Evergreen directly than with PostgreSQL and Linux.  You must know that
> the former has many thousands of direct users, and the latter millions.
>
> Plenty of people concerned with those projects are in the management layer
> at various organizations that use F/LOSS for all kinds of things.  It's odd
> to me that you suggest that Evergreen is special in that library directors
> and other people besides developers are interested in it.  That situation
> isn't unique to Evergreen at all.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich <
> alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2013-01-04, at 14:23 , Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net>
>>  wrote:
>>
>> > As a postscript,
>> >
>> > P.S.
>> >
>> > My previous statements are not an argument against change.  As I said
>> before, I have nothing against eating my liver hash (apologies to those who
>> like liver) for greater health but I want the benefit to be clear and
>> substantial for the hassle I can guarantee you I (and others) will have.
>>
>> Hi, Rogan. Why would there be any more hassle than during a regular
>> upgrade to a new version?
>>
>> Aleksey Lazar
>> PALS
>> IS Developer and Intergrator
>> 507-389-2907
>> http://www.pals.org/
>> alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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