Koha onboard presentation
- 1. Presented by Alex Buckley // 3 Feb 2017 On-boarding wizard demo and discussion
- 2. What’s the problem? ● The current web installer is flawed and confusing ● Users need easy installation and set-up process
- 3. Issues to fix in current set-up ● Not every step has options selected by default- Confusing for new users
- 4. Issues to fix in current set-up ● Mandatory data values are un-selectable
- 5. Issues to fix in current set-up ● Users have no account to log in with
- 6. Issues to fix in current set-up ● Users faced with error messages when they log in for the first time
- 7. Future direction of Koha we had to consider ● Koha As A Service - Reduced support by Catalyst Koha team for Koha clients paying $900 a year ● So we have to make Koha easier to use reducing the support required
- 8. Design of the solution ● Koha team identified improving web installer and developing new on-boarding wizard as the solution ● Defined audience ● Looked at on-boarding installation wizards of other sites ● Drew blueprints and wireframes of improved installation process ● Wrote useage scenarios
- 9. Patch statistics ● 1 Bug report – Bug number 17855 ● 7 patches attached to bug
- 10. Patch statistics ● 4341 lines of code added ● 2469 lines of code removed
- 11. Patch statistics ● Currently 139 comments by 6 different developers on Koha Bugzilla ● 3 weeks full-time work by Mika and Alex and further 3 weeks full- time work by Alex
- 12. Live Demo ● Improved web installer process with updated web installer and new on-boarding wizard
- 13. Discussion