Currently there is a bug in the Koha installer, in that one of the columns in one of the tables is using a word that is reserved in MySQL 5, but wasn’t in MySQL 4.
This will be fixed for new versions of Koha, but for now the fix for it is detailed here
Category: Koha
Koha Foundation?
John has done a good post about how a Koha foundation might work. Have a read and see what you think.
Working on Koha more
With some changes at work, I know have more time available to work on Koha. So hopefully there will be a lot more commits by me in the coming months.
137169 MARC Records
Once the import of these records finish, and the rest of the data is imported (which takes about 17 minutes, vs the 5 hours to import the MARC) we should have the 3rd public library in NZ ready to go with Koha.
So all things going well tomorrow, by Saturday Koha should be all running live.
Heres a bit of a blast from the past
Motivated by Pauls cvs statistics pages, I dug up the old Koha repository,
back from when it was called Kumara, before it got released to the world,
and ran cvschangelogbuilder over it. The results of that are here . Look at
that big spike before Jan 2000 and those 4am commits, … those were the
days 🙂
CVS stats for the week 1/6/2006 to 8/6/2006
Quite a big week for the Koha developers, this is just the weekly stats.
Paul has much more detailed
and interesting stats on his site.
Koha CVS statistics
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Koha CVS statistics generated by cvstat These statistics are provided purely for interested developers, and are not intended to reflect quality -or- quality of work done by any given developer in CVS, merely to show activity of operations in the CVS repository performed by all developers. If you want to use them to motivate yourself, that’s fine, but keep in mind that a bit of useful work is more meaningful than a lot of useless work. Created by Juli Mallett |
Merging from dev_week to HEAD
Joshua and I started merging in the changes we made in the dev_week branch
into the main trunk(HEAD) of the koha cvs this weekend. I didnt get as much
done as I wanted to as I got distracted by the fact I turned 33 yesterday,
so spent the day eating yum cha and watching movies and only doing some cvs
work.
The reason we have a dev_week branch is because at dev_week we wanted to
work on the rel_2_2 branch as this has had a number of fixes made to it that
hadnt been made on the HEAD also. So instead of busting things in the
rel_2_2 which would have made our host Paul (the 2.2 release maintainer)
annoyed we branched rel_2_2 and called it dev_week. We are now in the
process of merging all the changes into head so nothing is lost.
Dev Week
Laurel and I arrived in Marseille at 6am on Monday, the Dev week was set to
kick off at 10am that morning, so we checked in, I had a quick shower and
then Laurel went to sleep and Russ and I headed off in cars to CMI which is
where the Developers week was to take place.
We started off with introductions so everyone got to know who everyone else
is, it was great to put faces to names. We then had a group meeting to
divide up tasks and split up into groups to tackle the tasks. I was in the
Zebra group along with Joshua, Henri Damien, Tumer, Bruno, Antoine and Arnaud for the
first day. We decided to branch the rel_2_2 branch of cvs into a dev_week
branch and work in there, Tumer committed a bunch of useful stuff and we got
to work testing.
We broke for lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant which
was about all that was open as it was VE Day, and thus a public holiday.
Day 2
Joshua, Henri Damien, Tumer, Bruno and I worked on zebra integration again
on day 2. We got it to a point where add/modify/delete plus searches was all
working, a very positive result. The cafeteria was open, so we had lunch
there and I must say it was absolutely fantastic and great value for money.
Day 3
On day 3 I started off working with Pierrick doing some bug fixing for the
morning, the rest of the day was taken up with some really fruitful
discussions. Which are written up on the wiki (which is the process of being
reorganised (started at the dev week)).
In the evening we went to Cassis
we arrived just in time for sunset which afforded some great
photo opportunities for a great
meal of which Bouillabaisse was the
star.
Some more bugfixing and lots more discussions this day. With a slightly
later start, 10am instead of 9am, due to mainly the fact that we didnt get
home from Cassis until pretty late or night (early morning even) and a fair
amount of wine was consumed.
That evening we want to Ouest Provence to visit the library there, they are
in the process of converting to Koha at the moment. Their library is great,
I really liked the layout and the vibe of the place.
Day 5
The last day.
This was mostly a reporting back day, all of the groups reporting on what
they worked on over the week, and handing out some tasks for people to do in
the next few weeks. It was sad that the week had to end, but I think it was
a really valuable exercise, if all that came out of it was the developers
meeting each other, that would have been enough. But lots of productive
work, and great ideas resulted as well.
KohaCon day 2
Koha Users day
This day was for existing Koha users and the presentations were more about
the new features coming, or planned for 3.0 and beyond. It went pretty well,
lots of seeds were planted and lots of good questions asked.
KohaCon Day 1
Discover Koha
This day was for people interested in learning more about Koha. There was a
really big turnout I estimate about 80 people. My talk went well, Russel did
the slides, it was a little tricky as we couldnt use my laptop as the
refresh rate on the graphics card was too high for the projecter to handle.
So we ended up using Pauls, which meant we had to copy the files over …
but we had no network, USB memory sticks to the rescue. Some of the other
talks were interesting, and there was no shortage of questions and
enthusiasm so that was all good. It is really really tiring try to listen
and pick up what you can understand with people talking french all the time.
So we were pretty shattered by the end of the day, but we are only in Paris
for a few days so we went with Paul, Joshua, Irma and Pascale to the
Bastille to eat dinner. It was a lot of fun.