Author: ranginui

Setting the record straight

I’ve been thinking for a while about the right way to clear up some rumours that were unceremoniously spread about me over the years. Rumours that I just let be for various personal and professional reasons. I think that now that the sale of Liblime to PTFS has been finalised it’s the right time to make just a few things clear.

My clarification is short and sweet – and long overdue. Contrary to what has been said over the last few years, I was not fired from Liblime – in fact I have never been fired from any job in my life. I resigned from LibLime simply because I felt that was what was best for the project and for my family.

Friday afternoon funnies

(13:37:27) lazza barr: atarau quite perplexed by baby doll
(13:37:33) chris.cormack: oh?
(13:37:44) lazza barr: starring at it
(13:37:48) lazza barr: patting its head
(13:37:49) chris.cormack: hehe
(13:38:00) lazza barr: lol and now hitting it with wooden mallet
(13:38:11) lazza barr: lol
(13:39:10) chris.cormack: lol
(13:39:15) chris.cormack: he’s awesome
(13:39:53) lazza barr: hes into that “must hit this with that” phase
(13:40:02) chris.cormack: hehe
(13:40:31) lazza barr: this morning he was hitting his own knee making the reflex kick him in the face

koha-community.org

Today in a community meeting in irc it was decided to continue on with the koha-community.org domain and begin migrating things other than just the website to it.

From the email from Galen

The log of the meeting can be found at

http://stats.workbuffer.org/irclog/koha/2010-03-02#i_403276

I recommend that all members of the Koha community read through this
carefully.  Highlights of the meeting include:

* The draft rules for the Horowhenua Library Trust’s Koha Committee
have been assented to (with some revisions that were discussed during
the meeting) by HLT and the attendees of the meeting.

* As negotiations concerning the transfer of the US Koha trademark and
koha.org domain have completely stalled, we decided to adopt
http://koha-community.org/ as the main website of the Koha project and
to start transferring services such as the wiki, the bugs databases,
the Git repository to new hosting under the koha-community.org domain.

The next community handover meeting is scheduled for 19:00 UTC+0 on 6
April 2010.

New release of the Koha Live CD

From Miztik’s site

This release adds the much-requested Zebra support and updates Koha to 3.0.5. You don’t need to configure anything, as I have pre-configured zebra daemons to start automatically and added the crontab for indexing, which will be there as soon as the Live CD starts up. You do need to select to use Zebra when you go through the web-installer wizard, as well as selecting “Marc21″ when asked.

So go ahead check out the project page and give it a whirl

Hide and snake

Tonight before bed I said to Kahurangi “One more game before bed”, Kahurangi said “Let’s play hide and snake”. I said “I don’t know how to play that” he said “I’ll show you” then he ran off and got his toy snake, then got a blanket and climbed under it with the snake and yelled “Find me daddy!”.

I’m still not totally clear on the rules but he seemed to enjoy it.

Kohacon10 registrations open

If you are planning on attending Kohacon10 in Wellington later this year, please go to http://kohacon.appspot.com/2010/registration/ to register.

Registration is free but we do need to know numbers. If you wish to donate to help with running costs there is a paypal button as well. Space is limited so please register only if you are coming.

Full git stats for Koha

So after the great article by Eric Hellman on his blog about the copyright to Koha code I decided to learn about subtree merging so I could combine the old koha repo, with the new one. That way instead of having the stats broken into 2 different ones, pre 2000 and post 2000, I can generate stats for the whole of the history of Koha.

Github has a great tutorial that I’m not going to repeat here. But if you follow it, you will end up with a repository that combines as many other repositories as you need.

So here’s the stats report. Some interesting things:

  • If you look at at the activity tab, you can see that we have pretty even coverage for all 24 hours of the day.
  • If you look at the general page you will see we average 3.2 commits a day .. doesn’t sound that much until you realise that is 3.2 commits average for 3755 days!!
  • Out of the last 32 weeks, there is a only a single week where commits dipped into single figures

So whatever might be happening elsewhere, main trunk development of Koha is as strong as ever. Tis good to see.