Glen Stewart
Glen Stewart was the first developer outside of Katipo to submit code to Koha. To this day, nearly 10 years later, the code he wrote for decoding cuecat barcodes is still being used. Glen was only involved in Koha for about 6 months but by being the first contributor outside of the original developers, he has a special place in the history of the project.
I spent a little time playing with plack again this weekend, first I benchmarked apache2.
Benchmarking opac.koha.workbuffer.org (be patient)
Server Software: Apache/2.2.12
Server Hostname: opac.koha.workbuffer.org
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
Document Length: 7754 bytes
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 356.021 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 8113454 bytes
HTML transferred: 7754000 bytes
Requests per second: 2.81 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 1780.103 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 356.021 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 22.26 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 4 6 2.7 5 51
Processing: 776 1773 291.0 1768 2648
Waiting: 767 1755 290.2 1741 2642
Total: 780 1779 291.2 1772 2661
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 1772
66% 1922
75% 1986
80% 2031
90% 2149
95% 2248
98% 2406
99% 2519
100% 2661 (longest request)
Then next with nginx and plack.
Benchmarking opac.koha.workbuffer.org (be patient)
Server Software: nginx/0.7.62
Server Hostname: opac.koha.workbuffer.org
Server Port: 82
Document Path: /cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
Document Length: 7737 bytes
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 17.453 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 8087000 bytes
HTML transferred: 7737000 bytes
Requests per second: 57.30 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 87.263 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 17.453 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 452.51 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 3 7 3.6 7 22
Processing: 41 80 28.8 75 359
Waiting: 34 71 28.1 66 349
Total: 44 87 29.4 82 364
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 82
66% 92
75% 99
80% 104
90% 116
95% 125
98% 139
99% 222
100% 364 (longest request)
The speakers page on the Kohacon website has been upated (Thanks Kristina) and since Jo did a great blog post about the presentations, which included her personal highlights, I thought I would do one too.
I agree with all of her choices, but wanted to add a couple more myself.
Anthony Ching-Chen Mao – Koha Taiwan
Anthony has been around Koha for a long time, using it, promoting it, translating it. In his talk he will be talking about a student organized volunteer group Library Service Team at the Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University. Who since 2000, have helped more than 50 schools and local govt organisations set up their libraries. Since 2006 they have been deploying Koha in these libraries. They even set up Koha remotely across the Pacific at the library of the University of Belize.
If you send a team of dozen students to a remote Chinese county library, they do not only set up Koha but also show the patrons how to start a people’s library. I want to share our story about Koha, a Taiwanese primary school library and my lovely students.
Olugbenga Adara – Koha uptake in Nigeria: Prospects and challenges
Olugbenga Adara is a consultant on implementing open source software projects in Projektlink Konsult Ltd. He specialises in intranets, website design and library automation. He has served as a consultant to library automation projects at Bowen University Iwo, National Mathematical Centre Abuja, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Ibadan and the Kwara State Government House Ilorin, all in Nigeria, among others.
In his talk he will be talking about the recent upsurge in uptake of Koha as the Library Management System of choice in Nigeria. At present, at least over 12 institutions have adopted Koha in Nigeria in the past 18 months. His presentation seeks to highlight the issues faced by the adopters and present a viewpoint from a developing country.
Presentations like this are ones that remind me of how much good people working together can achieve, who would seriously have thought a library system that started out in small town New Zealand, would be helping people in Taiwan, China, Belize, Nigeria ….
I’ve been playing with gitdm, it generates some quite neat stats, you can view them here
http://stats.workbuffer.org/gitdm/
If there is a changeset you want me to run stats for let me know.
So, I decided on a whim to work out how many of the 4668759 lines in Koha were last edited by each person. So using this
git ls-files | xargs -n1 -d'n' -i git blame {} | perl -n -e '/s((.*?)s[0-9]{4}/ && print "$1n"' | sort -f | uniq -c -w10 | sort -r
I then realised that as translation manager, I had the .po files credited to me so the numbers were too high, so I then ran
git ls-files -x *.po | xargs -n1 -d'n' -i git blame {} | perl -n -e '/s((.*?)s[0-9]{4}/ && print "$1n"' | sort -f | uniq -c -w10 | sort -r
To just get the numbers without the .po files
Without the .po the official master koha branch has 947177 lines broken down by person like this:
1 brendan
1 David Bavousett
1 Frère Sébastien Marie
1 lavide
1 Magnus Enger
1 QA Manager
1 Robin Sheat
1 Ryan HIggins
1 sergerenaux
2 James Winter
2 NYUHSL
3 acli
3 Brendan A. Gallagher
3 Cindy Murdock Ames
3 Matthew Hunt
3 Nicolas Morin
4 kados
4 Koha User
4 Koustubha Kale
4 shedges
4 szrj1m
5 Marcel de Rooy
7 NCE
8 Frédéric DEMIANS
8 Koha
8 plugz
9 dnmeid
10 amit gupta
10 Nahuel Angelinetti
11 amillar
11 Chris
11 Stan Brinkerhoff
13 dnmeid
13 pate
14 PTFS Contractor
14 tonnesen
15 toins
16 Chris Catalfo
17 Clay Fouts
17 Cory Jaeger
17 koha
21 Daniel Sweeney
21 truth_nz
21 Vincent Danjean
24 Koha Production
29 root
35 koha
36 Jared CAMINS-ESAKOV
36 PTFS
39 stan
40 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
42 Liz Rea
46 Srdjan Jankovic
48 Christopher Hyde
51 Brian Harrington
55 savitra.sirohi
59 Nahuel Angelinetti
67 Danny Bouman
68 pate
69 DeAndre Carroll
71 genjimoto
71 hpassini
78 Ian Walls
81 Nahuel Angelinetti
87 slef
98 alaurin
99 Sébastien Hinderer
120 Nahuel Angelinetti
129 Zeno Tajoli
130 David Birmingham
135 sushi
167 acli
167 John Soros
168 Rick Welykochy
180 J. David Bavousett
190 wolfpac444
216 Wolfgang Heymans
229 btoumi
257 Will Stokes
258 doxulting
260 David Goldfein
265 Alex Arnaud
332 brendan
334 finlayt
335 Donovan Jones
342 plg
364 Kyle Hall
366 rych
382 Allen Reinmeyer
494 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
522 Pianohacker
529 Darrell Ulm
529 joshferraro
537 bob_lyon
563 MJ Ray
615 tgarip1957
631 Paul Poulain
673 MJ Ray
684 arensb
754 kados
797 Marc Chantreux
890 Paul POULAIN
897 tonnesen
926 Mason James
1105 Kyle M Hall
1110 thd
1185 Garry Collum
1275 Andrew Elwell
1480 paul
1680 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
1853 root
1918 oleonard
2148 John Beppu
2150 oleonard
2152 Stephen Edwards
2343 Jean-André Santoni
2469 Nicole Engard
2652 Colin Campbell
2923 Michael Hafen
2935 Ricardo Dias Marques
2968 acli
3925 Ryan Higgins
4024 Lars Wirzenius
4317 Frédéric Demians
4720 Jesse Weaver
4831 Jane Wagner
4940 Matthias Meusburger
6003 hdl
6198 toins
10333 Andrew Moore
11565 Ryan Higgins
17381 Joe Atzberger
21592 Henri-Damien LAURENT
27268 Chris Cormack
33829 Joshua Ferraro
36276 Russel Garlick
36947 Owen Leonard
42002 Galen Charlton
45025 Frederic Demians
46317 Katrin Fischer
48135 thd
48371 Piotr Wejman
62207 Chris Nighswonger
85964 Paul Poulain
283600 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
Out of curiosity I did the same with PTFS’ Harley release which without the .po files is 603087 lines. Broken done by person it looks like
1 brendan
1 Frère Sébastien Marie
1 hdl
1 Paul Poulain
1 QA Manager
1 Ryan HIggins
1 sergerenaux
2 rangi
3 Brendan A. Gallagher
4 Andrei V. Toutoukine
4 kados
4 Koha User
4 shedges
4 szrj1m
5 NCE
6 lavide
6 Magnus Enger
6 oleonard
6 root
6 tipaul
6 tipaul
9 Frédéric DEMIANS
11 amillar
11 Chris
11 dnmeid
11 Stan Brinkerhoff
12 James Winter
12 Paul Poulain
13 dnmeid
13 pate
13 Paul Poulain
13 plugz
14 tonnesen
15 PTFS Contractor
15 toins
16 Chris Catalfo
17 Clay Fouts
17 Cory Jaeger
17 David Bavousett
19 Liz Rea
20 Daniel Sweeney
21 Ian Walls
22 truth_nz
22 Vincent Danjean
24 Koha Production
24 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
31 kyletest
34 Nahuel Angelinetti
36 hdl
39 stan
43 Paul Poulain
49 Ian Walls
51 Brian Harrington
52 Andrew Elwell
52 Danny Bouman
53 toins
54 doxulting
55 Christopher Hyde
56 Arcadia Koha
56 savitra.sirohi
56 Zeno Tajoli
59 Nahuel Angelinetti
59 Paul POULAIN
64 koha
65 dev3
71 DeAndre Carroll
71 hpassini
72 pate
73 genjimoto
91 Paul Poulain
91 slef
93 PTFS
100 kyletest
105 alaurin
110 Sébastien Hinderer
124 Katrin Fischer
127 acli
143 Matthias Meusburger
156 toins
167 acli
171 Rick Welykochy
188 Nahuel Angelinetti
221 Wolfgang Heymans
222 wolfpac444
232 doxulting
238 btoumi
256 sushi
295 David Goldfein
365 Paul POULAIN
368 rych
379 finlayt
416 Allen Reinmeyer
451 acli
485 Jean-André Santoni
533 joshferraro
541 MJ Ray
564 plg
579 Kyle Hall
582 Darrell Ulm
608 Kyle M Hall
678 Mason James
719 MJ Ray
728 bob_lyon
755 arensb
762 Pianohacker
794 Marc Chantreux
943 kados
946 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
948 Garry Collum
986 Nahuel ANGELINETTI
989 Paul POULAIN
1057 tonnesen
1110 thd
1181 tgarip1957
1309 Nicole Engard
1362 rangi
1471 paul
1722 Frédéric Demians
1918 oleonard
2161 John Beppu
2278 Stephen Edwards
2365 oleonard
2421 acli
2932 Michael Hafen
2937 Ricardo Dias Marques
3104 Paul POULAIN
3452 David Birmingham
3770 Colin Campbell
3962 Ryan Higgins
4648 Jesse Weaver
4714 Paul POULAIN
4967 Jane Wagner
6490 hdl
6517 PTFS
7167 toins
9670 J. David Bavousett
10373 Paul POULAIN
10706 tipaul
10920 Andrew Moore
10987 Henri-Damien LAURENT
11886 Ryan Higgins
18508 Joe Atzberger
34379 Owen Leonard
36286 Russel Garlick
42306 Galen Charlton
46674 Chris Cormack
48135 thd
48166 Joshua Ferraro
50450 tipaul
56119 Chris Nighswonger
62542 Frederic Demians
I have been working on finalising the programme for Kohacon10, and the good news is all except a couple of the presenters chosen have confirmed they will present.
Which means we have presenters confirmed from Nigeria, Taiwan, Pakistan, Malaysia, UK, France, USA, Australia and New Zealand. The conference will go up online in the next few days so be sure to check it out and register to come along.
Over the years of working in software development I have come to realise that it is as important to look after your clients long term needs as it is their short term needs. It is something that is easily overlooked when you are in the throes of resolving issues that impact the client right here and now. But it is important that an equal amount of energy is spent on long term wellbeing as on getting the short term results.
In software engineering there is a concept called ‘Technical Debt’ it basically boils down to making choices that win you something in the short term, but you end up paying for in years to come. When working on a free software project this concept is still applicable, but an added dimension comes into play … lets call it ‘Social Debt’. There are often times you can make a decision that may afford you a short term gain, but may detrimentally impact the relationships with other members of the project. I posit that while Technical Debt is bad for the project as a whole, Social Debt usually hurts the debtor far more than the project. It is also far harder to recover from than Technical Debt.
Therefore I think it is in the best interests of any developers clients, that the developer takes care to not only make decisions that cause minimal Technical Debt, but also ones that cause minimal Social Debt.
In the course of looking through the PTFS public repository with an eye to integrating the code into koha, I thought it would be nice to pull out a list of the libraries who had sponsored the code.
Apologies to anyone I have missed, and corrections accepted.
So a big thanks to all these libraries.
PTFS have just made a lot of previously unreleased code available in their public repository
http://github.com/ptfs/Koha-PTFS
This includes the just released ‘Harley’ branch. It’s great to see the code seeing the light of day, and now the release management team will have the fun job of integrating it for 3.4.0. 🙂
Congratulations to the people at PTFS who worked hard to get this code written and released, and I’m sure there will be many an hour spent discussing how best to integrate it into mainstream now.
I have cloned the harley branch and pushed to both my home and work repositories.
UPDATE
Thanks to the awesome Galen Charlton (current Koha release manager) we now have a wiki page tracking integration of the code into mainstream.
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/PTFSHarleyIntegration
UPDATE 2
Pat Eyler
Us old timers will remember Pat well, but the newer members of the community will not have had the opportunity to meet him. Pat was the first Koha Kaitiaki, and did a huge amount to promote Koha and to foster a strong community. Pat first became involved in Koha in April 2002, and became the 8th person to commit code to Koha. In May 2002 Pat was elected Kaitiaki, some of the neat things he did in that role were
There is little doubt in my mind, that without Pat Koha would not have made such inroads in the US. I know that Pat spent quite a bit of time talking with Stephen Hedges when Athens County Public libraries were first looking at Koha.
Pat thank you for all the work you put in. We think of you often
Kōrerorero 