Category: Geek

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 my talk went ok, and I got some nice positive feedback. I’m just glad I managed to do something that people found useful.

As you would expect at a gathering of Māori library and information workers, there were a lot of questions about Koha and the TM situation. I was happy to be able to report the lawyers had the situation under control and we were all looking forward to a positive outcome. I can’t imagine that the company who shall remain nameless will ever be doing business with any library that has any Māori influence on it.

Apart from the kōrero, there was amazing whanaungatanga and amazing kai. I would thoroughly recommend anyone Māori involved in libraries or information management join Te Rōpū Whakahau and get along to the Hui-ā-tau next year in Whakatane, I’m hooked that’s for sure.

 

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%
Frédéric Demians 3 2.2%
Brendan 3 2.2%
Colin Campbell 3 2.2%
Jared Camins-Esakov 3 2.2%
Magnus Enger 2 1.4%
Juan Romay Sieira 2 1.4%
Chris Hall 2 1.4%
Mason James 2 1.4%
Liz Rea 2 1.4%
Alex Arnaud 2 1.4%
Christophe Croullebois 2 1.4%
Adrien Saurat 2 1.4%
Frédérick Capovilla 2 1.4%
Srdjan Jankovic 2 1.4%
Martin Renvoize 2 1.4%
Sophie Meynieux 1 0.7%
Galen Charlton 1 0.7%
Frère Sébastien Marie 1 0.7%
Jon Aker 1 0.7%
Maxime Pelletier 1 0.7%
Albert Oller 1 0.7%
Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 0.7%
Henri-Damien LAURENT 1 0.7%
Greg Barniskis 1 0.7%
Developers with the most changed lines
Frédéric Demians 992243 86.6%
Magnus Enger 1798 0.2%
Owen Leonard 696 0.1%
Chris Nighswonger 586 0.1%
Paul Poulain 309 0.0%
Robin Sheat 223 0.0%
Marcel de Rooy 203 0.0%
Nicole C. Engard 164 0.0%
Chris Cormack 115 0.0%
Christophe Croullebois 113 0.0%
Srdjan Jankovic 98 0.0%
Mason James 77 0.0%
Katrin Fischer 75 0.0%
Frédérick Capovilla 61 0.0%
Jared Camins-Esakov 26 0.0%
Chris Hall 26 0.0%
Colin Campbell 24 0.0%
Martin Renvoize 16 0.0%
Ian Walls 15 0.0%
Jon Aker 13 0.0%
Galen Charlton 11 0.0%
Dobrica Pavlinusic 11 0.0%
Juan Romay Sieira 7 0.0%
Brendan 6 0.0%
Alex Arnaud 5 0.0%
Adrien Saurat 5 0.0%
Maxime Pelletier 5 0.0%
Albert Oller 4 0.0%
Liz Rea 3 0.0%
Frère Sébastien Marie 3 0.0%
Greg Barniskis 3 0.0%
Sophie Meynieux 1 0.0%
Henri-Damien LAURENT 1 0.0%
Developers with the most lines removed
Frédéric Demians 320882 32.3%
Paul Poulain 205 0.0%
Ian Walls 7 0.0%
Developers with the most signoffs (total 295)
Chris Nighswonger 122 41.4%
Paul Poulain 75 25.4%
Chris Cormack 36 12.2%
Katrin Fischer 20 6.8%
Owen Leonard 8 2.7%
Liz Rea 7 2.4%
Marcel de Rooy 5 1.7%
Julian Maurice 3 1.0%
Mason James 3 1.0%
Jared Camins-Esakov 2 0.7%
Robin Sheat 2 0.7%
Magnus Enger 2 0.7%
Frédéric Demians 1 0.3%
Brendan 1 0.3%
Albert Oller 1 0.3%
Sophie Meynieux 1 0.3%
koha 1 0.3%
Marijana Glavica 1 0.3%
Arslan Farooq 1 0.3%
Ulrich Kleiber 1 0.3%
Nicole C. Engard 1 0.3%
Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 0.3%
Developers with the most reviews (total 0)
Developers with the most test credits (total 0)
Developers who gave the most tested-by credits (total 0)
Developers with the most report credits (total 0)
Developers who gave the most report credits (total 0)
Top changeset contributors by employer
Catalyst 25 18.0%
Biblibre 23 16.5%
ACPL 18 12.9%
Foundations 17 12.2%
ByWater-Solutions 15 10.8%
BSZ-BW 8 5.8%
(Unknown) 7 5.0%
Rijksmuseum 6 4.3%
PTFS-Europe 4 2.9%
C & P Bibliography 3 2.2%
Libeo 3 2.2%
Tamil 3 2.2%
NEKLS 2 1.4%
Libriotech 2 1.4%
KohaAloha 2 1.4%
Equinox 1 0.7%
Top lines changed by employer
Tamil 1141252 99.6%
Libriotech 1798 0.2%
ACPL 742 0.1%
Foundations 620 0.1%
Catalyst 469 0.0%
Biblibre 458 0.0%
Rijksmuseum 206 0.0%
ByWater-Solutions 189 0.0%
KohaAloha 77 0.0%
BSZ-BW 75 0.0%
Libeo 66 0.0%
(Unknown) 44 0.0%
PTFS-Europe 34 0.0%
C & P Bibliography 26 0.0%
Equinox 11 0.0%
NEKLS 3 0.0%
Employers with the most signoffs (total 295)
Foundations 122 41.4%
Biblibre 79 26.8%
Catalyst 38 12.9%
BSZ-BW 21 7.1%
(Unknown) 9 3.1%
ACPL 8 2.7%
Rijksmuseum 5 1.7%
ByWater-Solutions 3 1.0%
KohaAloha 3 1.0%
Libriotech 2 0.7%
C & P Bibliography 2 0.7%
NEKLS 2 0.7%
Tamil 1 0.3%
Employers with the most hackers (total 34)
Biblibre 6 17.6%
(Unknown) 6 17.6%
Catalyst 4 11.8%
ByWater-Solutions 4 11.8%
Libeo 2 5.9%
PTFS-Europe 2 5.9%
Foundations 1 2.9%
BSZ-BW 1 2.9%
ACPL 1 2.9%
Rijksmuseum 1 2.9%
KohaAloha 1 2.9%
Libriotech 1 2.9%
C & P Bibliography 1 2.9%
NEKLS 1 2.9%
Tamil 1 2.9%
Equinox 1 2.9%

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 like me, you want to fix them, and if you are also like me, you are lazy.

What I have done is set these 2 options

git config --global core.whitespace trailing-space,space-before-tab
git config --global apply.whitespace fix

So this is what used to happen:

% git checkout -b 5729 kc/master
Previous HEAD position was 288c1a7... Bug 7139 : 
Log addition and deletion of circulation messages
Branch 5729 set up to track remote branch master from kc.
Switched to a new branch '5729'
% git bz apply 5729
bugs.koha-community.org
Bug 5729 - Add coins information to the intranet

Bug 5729 - Add CoinS to intranet
Apply? [yn] y

Applying: Bug 5729 - Add CoinS to intranet
/home/chrisc/git/catalyst-koha/.git/rebase-apply/patch:61: trailing whitespace.
[% END %]
/home/chrisc/git/catalyst-koha/.git/rebase-apply/patch:76: trailing whitespace.
[% END %]
/home/chrisc/git/catalyst-koha/.git/rebase-apply/patch:91: trailing whitespace.
[% END %]
warning: 3 lines add whitespace errors.

And now with the config set

% git bz apply 5729
bugs.koha-community.org
Bug 5729 - Add coins information to the intranet

Bug 5729 - Add CoinS to intranet
Apply? [yn] y

Applying: Bug 5729 - Add CoinS to intranet
/home/chrisc/git/catalyst-koha/.git/rebase-apply/patch:61: trailing whitespace.
    [% END %]
/home/chrisc/git/catalyst-koha/.git/rebase-apply/patch:76: trailing whitespace.
[% END %]
/home/chrisc/git/catalyst-koha/.git/rebase-apply/patch:91: trailing whitespace.
    [% END %]
warning: 3 lines applied after fixing whitespace errors.

Patch applied with the whitespace fix I can now  test then signoff

git commit --amend -s

And attach to the bug

git bz attach -e 5729 HEAD

Access 2011 – You shoulda been there.

This past week I had the privilege of attending my first ever Access conference. I had a great time and thought I should do a bit of a write up.

The venue

Access was held in Vancouver this year, which is an absolutely beautiful city. I spent most of Monday exploring Stanley Park. I got to see otters eating what looked to me like a flounder, and an eagle catch a fish too. it is a really neat place here are a couple of the photos I took on my crappy phone camera.

Tuesday started with Dim Sum, great food and great company, which I think was the theme of the entire trip. Following that I got to have a look around Tara’s library and then spent a few hours on Granville Island.

The Conference

The conference proper was awesome, there was really only one talk that I wasn’t interested in and lots that were great. The ones I enjoyed the most were:

  • Open to the Public: Indigenous Collections and the Ethics of Openness : Kimberly Christen and Alex Merrill
  • Open research data: fun, important, and in need of librarians : Heather Piwowar
  •  All together now: creating software ecosystems from open, interoperable components : Bess Sadler
The social events
These were fantastic, again great food and great company, adding in to the mix great beer too. As with any conference the talks are good, but the most important thing (for me anyway) is the hallway track. That is the conversations held with people after the talks spark some ideas in the brain. For me, hanging out with the Sitka team was a real highlight.
Id like to thank the organising team once again for the fantastic job they did and in particular Shirley and Tara for being utterly fantastic hosts.

Simple ascii representation of the commits to date for 3.6.0

Using the script here (with a couple of little mods) I generated this bit of ascii art showing the work on 3.6.0

2011-04 |######                                           24 commits 
2011-05 |##############                                   53 commits 
2011-06 |##############################                  113 commits 
2011-07 |######################                           84 commits 
2011-08 |########################################        148 commits 
2011-09 |######################################          142 commits

Some conferences I am attending

Taking a leaf from Nicole’s blog. Here’s some of the places I will be this year

  • ALA in New Orleans, LA, USA. June 24-28 (in the exhibition hall, then hackfesting, meetings in the evenings
  • Koha NZ users group meeting, July 26, Levin NZ
  • Access2010 Vancouver, BC, Canada. October 19-22 (Speaking)
  • LIANZA October 30- November 2, Wellington NZ (Manning a stand and presenting)