Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Blog stats from 2012
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 14 years to get that many views. In 2012, there were 62 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 272 posts. [...]
In: Geek · Tagged with: blog, statistics
Yes, you should rewrite it. NO! Not like that!
Something I hear and have heard a lot in my life as a programmers is We should rewrite this, I have no idea what it is doing Now, your instinct to rewrite is almost always the correct thing to do, but almost always the implementation is wrong. Why is this? Well it’s because of the [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: Koha, refactor, tests
Effective communication aka making your point without being a jerk
It seems like common sense, but all too often in the tech sphere people forget a really simple rule. It doesn’t matter how correct you are if the way you communicate only serves to alienate those you seek to persuade. Koha has fortunately been quite lucky in this regard 99% of the people involve understand [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: Koha, planetcatalyst
Unit testing in Koha
There are currently 9229 unit tests in Koha, that is up from 8200 when 3.2.0 was released (15 months ago). So in the last 15 months 1009 unit tests have been added to Koha. Well done to all those people adding tests, the coverage is slowly climbing, and errors are being caught before release time. [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: Koha, testing
Signoff Statistics for January 2012
In January 2012, 82 bugs were marked signed off, here are the people who signed them off. Jared Camins-Esakov – 14 Chris Cormack – 13 Nicole C. Engard – 9 Katrin Fischer – 8 Owen Leonard – 8 M. de Rooy – 7 Liz Rea – 4 Jonathan Druart – 3 Gaetan Boisson – 3 [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: Koha, Signoff
Statistics for 3.6.3
Koha 3.6.3 (the latest stable release) was just released. Here are the statistics for it Processed 137 changesets from 35 developers 14 employers found Developers with the most changesets Chris Cormack 15 10.9% Katrin Fischer 14 10.2% Owen Leonard 12 8.8% Duncan Tyler 11 8.0% Paul Poulain 10 7.3% Frédéric Demians 8 5.8% Marcel de [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: git, statistics
Sign off statistics for December 2011
In December 2011, 146 bugs were marked signed off. Katrin asked me if I could run some statistics on the signoffs, so here goes. Chris Cormack – 68 Katrin Fischer – 28 Nicole Engard – 9 Owen Leonard – 9 Duncan – 7 Liz Rea – 7 M. de Rooy – 4 Jared Camins-Esakov - [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: git, Koha, signoffs
Te Rōpū Whakahau Hui-ā-tau 2012
I was very privileged to attend the 20th Birthday Hui-ā-tau of Te Rōpū Whakahau last week at Waipapa marae in Tamaki Makaurau. It was a fantastic few days, and did wonders recharging my batteries. All the talks were great, and at least as importantly the conversations, between and after the talks were also excellent. I think [...]
In: Geek, Maori · Tagged with: maori, presentation, trw
Statistics for Koha 3.6.2
Processed 139 changesets from 33 developers 16 Employers found Developers with the most changesets Owen Leonard 18 12.9% Chris Nighswonger 17 12.2% Chris Cormack 16 11.5% Paul Poulain 15 10.8% Katrin Fischer 8 5.8% Nicole C. Engard 7 5.0% Marcel de Rooy 6 4.3% Robin Sheat 5 3.6% Ian Walls 4 2.9% Frdric Demians 3 [...]
In: Geek, Koha · Tagged with: Koha, statistics
Fixing whitespace when applying patches with git
The way the Koha project works is that we require any patch to be signed off at least by 2 people, usually 3, ideally even more. So we do a lot of applying of patches. Using git-bz this is very easy, but occasionally when applying a patch you spot whitespace errors and if you are [...]
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