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Koha Roles for the 3.2 release

On Saturday morning NZ time, a significant number of the Koha developers met on #koha, on irc.katipo.co.nz to discuss people to fill the roles for 3.2

You can read the full log here

A quick summary is

3.2 Release Manager – Galen Charlton, LibLime
Translation Manager – Chris Cormack, Catalyst
Documentation Manager – Nicole Engard, LibLime
3.0 Release Maintainer – Henri-Damien Laurent, BibLibre

QA Manager is still to be filled.

As well as these roles filled several other decisions were made

Galen will set up gitosis on git.koha.org to allow Henri-Damien to push patches to the 3.0.x branch.
Henri-Damien announced that minor revisions of 3.0.x will be packaged and released every two months.
Galen announced a date of 10 October 2008 for the developers to complete review of the RFCs for 3.2. I will also send out another schedule proposal for the 3.2 development cycle.

My first task is going to be setting up a populated pootle and getting some people using it. I plan to work on that this evening

Further to the halloween costume question

I whacked up a little form, (like we did for Kahurangi’s name), that lets people suggest costumes, and rate other peoples suggestions.

Koha repo

MC will be pleased to know I’ve fixed my gpg key and resigned my repo (and packages).
Im currently working on the .config file to preconfigure the package.

Write Free Software, and people will send you peanut butter

We got a neat little present in the mail yesterday.

Its just like a magic penny,
Hold it tight and you want have any,
Lend it, spend it & you’ll have so many,
They’ll roll all over the floor.

Ok, the 2nd crack of my debian package is up in my repo now
Add
deb http://apt.workbuffer.org/ hardy all
To your /etc/apt/sources.list
And then
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libkoha-perl
And if you are willing you can checkout my package branch, and build your own package, for your architecture.

git clone git://gitorious.org/koha/mainline.git koha
OR
git clone http://git.gitorious.org/koha/mainline.git

Then
git -r branch
Will show you the remote branches,
git checkout origin/package

Gets you the package branch, then you run
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -tc -us -uc

If you want to make any changes, and build a new package with a higher patch number, run
dch -i
Then commit the debian/changelog file and rebuild your package.

Any patches gratefully accepted, once I have it fully working with debconf and the preinst, postinst, postrm scripts all going I will submit patches to patches@koha.org.

Oh, and Marc from Biblibre informed me I forgot to tell people how they can get my public key. You can get it from biglumber.com
Or simply by running
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 557F7779

UPDATE

I have removed the packages as people were trying to use them for purposes other than just testing.

Tidying up my repository

Ive tidied up my repo a bit, if you are using ubuntu hardy, I have packages for amd64. To use them, add

deb http://apt.workbuffer.org/ hardy all
To your /etc/apt/sources.list

For Debian unstable, I only have i386 packages
deb http://apt.workbuffer.org/ unstable all

Then
sudo apt-get install cpan-libkoha-perl
If you want to try my expiremental, Koha package, or if you just want to install the bundle of Koha dependent modules, to make the rest of the install easier, then.

sudo apt-get install cpan-libkoha-support-bundle-perl

First crack at a Koha3 .deb

Well ive managed to build a package, with the correct dependencies, its set up to do a standard install, using the default values.

chris@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install cpan-libkoha-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: cpan-libalgorithm-checkdigits-perl cpan-libansicolor-perl cpan-libbiblio-endnotestyle-perl cpan-libcgi-perl cpan-libclass-adapter-perl cpan-libconstant-perl cpan-libdata-dumper-perl cpan-libdigest-md5-perl cpan-libexporter-perl cpan-libgetopt-long-perl cpan-libhtml-template-pro-perl cpan-liblocale-codes-perl cpan-libmime-base64-perl cpan-libmodule-pluggable-perl cpan-libparams-util-perl cpan-libperl-ldap-perl cpan-libpod-parser-perl cpan-libscalar-list-utils-perl cpan-libsms-send-perl cpan-libtest-manifest-perl cpan-libtest-simple-perl cpan-libtext-csv-perl cpan-libtext-csv-xs-perl cpan-libtext-tabs-wrap-perl cpan-libtime-hires-perl cpan-libunicode-normalize-perl cpan-libxml-libxml-perl cpan-libxml-rss-perl libbarcode-code128-perl libclass-returnvalue-perl libdata-ical-perl libdigest-perl libgd-barcode-perl libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libpdf-reuse-barcode-perl libpdf-reuse-perl libschedule-at-perl libtext-vfile-asdata-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: cpan-libalgorithm-checkdigits-perl cpan-libansicolor-perl cpan-libbiblio-endnotestyle-perl cpan-libcgi-perl cpan-libclass-adapter-perl cpan-libconstant-perl cpan-libdata-dumper-perl cpan-libdigest-md5-perl cpan-libexporter-perl cpan-libgetopt-long-perl cpan-libhtml-template-pro-perl cpan-libkoha-perl cpan-liblocale-codes-perl cpan-libmime-base64-perl cpan-libmodule-pluggable-perl cpan-libparams-util-perl cpan-libperl-ldap-perl cpan-libpod-parser-perl cpan-libscalar-list-utils-perl cpan-libsms-send-perl cpan-libtest-manifest-perl cpan-libtest-simple-perl cpan-libtext-csv-perl cpan-libtext-csv-xs-perl cpan-libtext-tabs-wrap-perl cpan-libtime-hires-perl cpan-libunicode-normalize-perl cpan-libxml-libxml-perl cpan-libxml-rss-perl libbarcode-code128-perl libclass-returnvalue-perl libdata-ical-perl libdigest-perl libgd-barcode-perl libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libpdf-reuse-barcode-perl libpdf-reuse-perl libschedule-at-perl libtext-vfile-asdata-perl 0 upgraded, 41 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 3156kB of archives. After this operation, 24.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Setting up libpdf-reuse-barcode-perl (0.05-1) ... Setting up cpan-libperl-ldap-perl (0.36-1) ... Setting up libschedule-at-perl (1.06-1) ... Setting up cpan-libmodule-pluggable-perl (3.8-1) ... Setting up cpan-libparams-util-perl (0.33-1) ... Setting up cpan-libsms-send-perl (0.05-1) ... Setting up cpan-libtext-csv-perl (1.06-1) ... Setting up cpan-libtext-csv-xs-perl (0.52-1) ... Setting up cpan-libtext-tabs-wrap-perl (2006.1117-1) ... Setting up cpan-libtime-hires-perl (1.9715-1) ... Setting up cpan-libunicode-normalize-perl (1.02-1) ... Setting up cpan-libxml-libxml-perl (1.66-1) ... Setting up cpan-libtest-manifest-perl (1.22-1) ... Setting up cpan-libxml-rss-perl (1.33-1) ... Setting up cpan-libdigest-md5-perl (2.36-1) ... Setting up cpan-libkoha-perl (3.00.00-stableRC1-1) ...

chris@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/share/koha/ bin doc intranet lib man misc opac

Next phase is to get it using debconf to allow the user to set the values themselves.

Making installing Koha dependencies easier

I did some work with CPANPLUS specifically using cpan2dist and CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb to create a distribution using Bundle::KohaSupport as the base.

So now we can do this, add a line to our sources.list
deb http://apt.workbuffer.org/ unstable main

run apt-get update
Then
chris@ubuntu:~/git/koha.git$ sudo apt-get install cpan-libbundle-kohasupport-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: cpan-libalgorithm-checkdigits-perl cpan-libansicolor-perl cpan-libbiblio-endnotestyle-perl cpan-libcgi-perl cpan-libclass-adapter-perl cpan-libconstant-perl cpan-libdata-dumper-perl cpan-libdigest-md5-perl cpan-libexporter-perl cpan-libgetopt-long-perl cpan-libhtml-template-pro-perl cpan-liblocale-codes-perl cpan-libmime-base64-perl cpan-libmodule-pluggable-perl cpan-libparams-util-perl cpan-libperl-ldap-perl cpan-libpod-parser-perl cpan-libscalar-list-utils-perl cpan-libsms-send-perl cpan-libtest-manifest-perl cpan-libtest-simple-perl cpan-libtext-csv-perl cpan-libtext-csv-xs-perl cpan-libtext-tabs-wrap-perl cpan-libtime-hires-perl cpan-libunicode-normalize-perl cpan-libxml-libxml-perl cpan-libxml-rss-perl libbarcode-code128-perl libclass-returnvalue-perl libdata-ical-perl libdigest-perl libfile-temp-perl libgd-barcode-perl libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libpdf-reuse-barcode-perl libpdf-reuse-perl libschedule-at-perl libtext-vfile-asdata-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: cpan-libalgorithm-checkdigits-perl cpan-libansicolor-perl cpan-libbiblio-endnotestyle-perl cpan-libbundle-kohasupport-perl cpan-libcgi-perl cpan-libclass-adapter-perl cpan-libconstant-perl cpan-libdata-dumper-perl cpan-libdigest-md5-perl cpan-libexporter-perl cpan-libgetopt-long-perl cpan-libhtml-template-pro-perl cpan-liblocale-codes-perl cpan-libmime-base64-perl cpan-libmodule-pluggable-perl cpan-libparams-util-perl cpan-libperl-ldap-perl cpan-libpod-parser-perl cpan-libscalar-list-utils-perl cpan-libsms-send-perl cpan-libtest-manifest-perl cpan-libtest-simple-perl cpan-libtext-csv-perl cpan-libtext-csv-xs-perl cpan-libtext-tabs-wrap-perl cpan-libtime-hires-perl cpan-libunicode-normalize-perl cpan-libxml-libxml-perl cpan-libxml-rss-perl libbarcode-code128-perl libclass-returnvalue-perl libdata-ical-perl libdigest-perl libfile-temp-perl libgd-barcode-perl libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libpdf-reuse-barcode-perl libpdf-reuse-perl libschedule-at-perl libtext-vfile-asdata-perl 0 upgraded, 42 newly installed, 0 to remove and 39 not upgraded. Need to get 3046kB of archives. After this operation, 23.6MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

The trick thing is, it will use the packages in the main debian repo first (like libfile-temp-perl above) and then use the package built from cpan if it can’t find one (like cpan-libtest-manifest-perl)

Ive only built packages for amd64 at this point (well a lot are architecture independent), but if others would find it useful I can add i386 packages to my repo as well.

A geeky way to spend your lunch break

So I spent 20 mins whacking some caching in around the _build_langauges_arrayref subroutine in C4::Languages in Koha.
Before and After. Ill take that as a win. All that needs to be done now is add code to the script that handles updating the language syspref, so that it clears the cache when its changed.

Koha profiling

So far ive only profiled opac-search.pl and opac-main.pl, the results are here. From them I can see doing some caching in the C4::Languages module might speed things up. If you look here you can see its doing a lot of work, and it does this work for each page. So if we cache the data structure resulting from the build_langauges_arrayref, and just return that in the subsequent calls, we should win some decent performance.
Ill work on that tomorrow night, and post the new profiles

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