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Contents 1 How features are added into Koha 1.1 Announcing your work 1.2 Publish soon / publish often 1.3 Integration into official release 1.4 RFC Template

How features are added into Koha

When you plan to do some nice stuff on Koha, you must do 2 things :

• announce what you'll work on. That will anyone else interested in your work jump in, make suggestion, share ideas. Or even maybe share work !
• publish soon and often: more often you'll publish, the easiest it will be to have your stuff integrated into Koha.

Announcing your work

• add an RFC on the wiki. Be as detailled as possible. Specify an expected date of availability (deadline if sponsored), if it's sponsored (and if you want, by who). Use the template RFC (see below) to fill your template
• click on the applicable categories : If you think/plan that your new cool feature will be ready for version X.Y, then click on "RFC for X.Y. (don't click on Version X.Y (it will mean the feature IS (or has been) added into version X.Y ! )
• file a bug on our bugzilla : http://bugs.koha-community.org (see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Enhancement_Request_Guidelines if needed)
• send a mail on koha-devel mailing list (http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel)

Publish soon / publish often

• Don't forget to add your git repository to http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Public_Git_Repositories
• develop the feature on a branch that has the same name as the bug number (BZ5482 for example), on your local repository
• rebase your branch on master as often as possible/needed
• inform koha-devel mailing list of any noticeable progress

Integration into official release

You can find global Koha roadmap on this page: <<page to be discussed & added>>

Each major version has is own roadmap page.

• For Koha 3.4, it's : http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roadmap_to_3.4
• Ask the Release Manager as soon as possible to see if your dev can/will be added in the next release (depending on Koha roadmap and your expected/deadline). You can ask the RM on koha-devel mailing list (so, anyone can jump in the discussion in case there's a need to) Please note that the RM has the "final cut" to integrate your branch in the release. If something isn't integrated in a release, it does not mean it won't be added in the next one, don't worry, and try again.
• when the feature has been added into the master branch, and will thus be available for the next release, then the category "version X.Y" can be checked. (the category RFC for X.Y can be kept checked as well, to keep track of what was planned)

RFC Template

You'll find a RFC wikimedia template for your RFCs. To file an RFC,just add a page with the following content:

{{RFC
|title=An example
|date=2011-01-01
|sponsor=no-one
|developer=lot of ppl
|bug=<bugzilla number>
|desc=this is my description bla bla bla
|repo=link(s) to currently published work on this RFC
}}

Check appropriate lowermost categories in the category selection interface below the main edit text box or add a new category as follows. Please use spaces which will be substituted for underscores internally. Please avoid characters which have special meaning in URLs such as '&'.