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The kids are growing up so fast

Kahurangi started at his new Kindergarten this week

And Te Po Atarau had his first swim

Release Manager for 3.4 elected

And in the final (maybe) piece of Koha news today. I have just been voted in as the Release Manager for the 3.4 release of Koha. The next general meeting will include the voting for the other positions, such as Translation Manager, QA Manager, Bug wrangler etc.

I will be staying on as Translation Manager until a new one is elected and we hand over, and for the remainder of the 3.2 release (alpha due any day now) Galen is the release manager still.

I’m honoured that the community has placed this much faith in me, and I know I have a huge act to follow after Galen. It has been almost 8 years since I was last Koha release manager … there have been 83 new people who have committed to the Koha code base in that time, and a much larger pool of active developers. I will do my best to remain open in communication and to listen to all opinions. My proposal for 3.4 can be read here, it is of course not set in stone.

PTFS acquires Liblime

Some big news in the Koha world today, as well as the fantastic news that Biblibre and Bywater are partnering to offer services in the US comes the news that PTFS have acquired Liblime.

Over the last year PTFS has grown into a participating and valued member of the Koha community. Its developers are active on irc, the mailing lists, bugs.koha.org and the koha wiki. Patches are regularly sent from PTFS for bugfixes and new features. The fact that PTFS is an active member of the community leads me to treat the news of its acquisition of Liblime with great optimism.

I am hopeful that this will mean that previously unreleased code will be released and that the community can work together advancing Koha for the benefit of all. This quote from the press release

PTFS has supported ILS solutions for 15 years and is committed to resolving community differences and advancing Koha open source library technology

leads me to believe that PTFS understand that the way forward is to be part of the community, with all the benefits that brings.

Congratulations to PTFS and I look forward to it’s continued and increasing participation in the growth of Koha.

ByWater Solutions and BibLibre partner in US

Some great news today, that ByWater Solutions and BibLibre have partnered to offer services to Libraries in the US. BibLibre is a long time member of the Koha community with a long track record of full, open and honest participation. I have known Paul for over 9 years now, and the other owners of BibLibre for nearly that long also. Not only have they grown into respected and trusted members of the Koha community, I am proud to call them my friends too.

ByWater, while a relative newcomer, includes within its ranks Nicole Engard, Koha documentation manager and champion of openness and freedom. Added to that, ByWater has already proven to be an asset to the community with Brendan and Nate active in all spheres of Koha development.

I am confident this partnership can only bring good things for Koha, and offer my congratulations to BibLibre and ByWater solutions.

Koha benchmarking

Plain old CGI

Authentication successful -------------- Koha circulation benchmarking utility -------------- Benchmarking with 200 occurences of each operation and 10 concurrent sessions Load testing staff client dashboard page 127347ms 1.57051206545894 pages/sec Load testing catalog detail page 131230ms 1.52404175874419 biblios/sec Load testing patron detail page 128608ms 1.55511321224185 borrowers/sec Load testing circulation transaction (checkouts) 132053ms 1.51454340302757 checkouts/sec Load testing circulation transaction (checkins) 132129ms 1.51367224454889 checkins/sec Load testing all transactions at once 374410ms 2.67086883363158 operations/sec

mod_perl
Authentication successful -------------- Koha circulation benchmarking utility -------------- Benchmarking with 200 occurences of each operation and 10 concurrent sessions Load testing staff client dashboard page 10578ms 18.9071658158442 pages/sec Load testing catalog detail page 1450ms 137.931034482759 biblios/sec Load testing patron detail page 10318ms 19.3836014731537 borrowers/sec Load testing circulation transaction (checkouts) 16046ms 12.4641655241182 checkouts/sec Load testing circulation transaction (checkins) 11541ms 17.3295208387488 checkins/sec Load testing all transactions at once 38375ms 26.0586319218241 operations/sec

Circulation at least seems fine under mod_perl, I will do more testing but with a 1000% speed increase, this is definitely where we want to spend some quality testing time.

Quiet January so far

Apologies for the lack of blog posts, we haven’t even got around to doing a post about christmas yet. I think we are still in the post holidays haze, trying to get back into real life again.

I have a busy January and February coming up, with lots of Koha work to do, plus Linux Conf Australia, and Baacamp to attend. Should be fun and educational. Linuxconf.au is in Wellington this year, so will be home in the evening to help Laurel out with the kids.

Kahurangi starts at Kindergarten next week, which will be interesting, hopefully he settles in nicely. It is a really nice Kindergarten, brand new with great teachers so I think he will be fine. Te Po Atarau has 2 bottom teeth with more on the way so he is being a bit of a cranky pants, but apart from that he is mostly good.

We didn’t take many photos at all over the xmas break, so we are counting on some good ones from Laurels dad and brothers.

Well that’s about it from here for now, stay tuned for some good news about Koha in this part of the world in the near future. *Sneak Preview – Another Public library system is migrating to Koha in NZ*

Music that moves me

A while ago my friend Penny did a post about music that made her homesick. Well I’m home already, but here is some of the music that means home to me.
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Ernie

Ddub – Give it some

Kiri te Kanawa – Tarakihi

Strawpeople – Sweet Disorder

Rhian Sheehan – My Absolution

Ka panapana & Ruaumoko

Starting 2010 right

Owen has done a fantastic blog post about the final run on Koha 3.2. This bit really caught my eye, and sums up my feelings also.

This is what working on an open-source project is all about: contributing our work to the project to make the best software we can. And the best thing about it is it�s a lot of fun

Venue and Dates booked for Kohacon10

So we now have a venue (The Wellington Townhall) and we have dates:

October 25 – November 2 2010

3 day conference
followed by 4 day hackfest

The conference has a website http://kohacon.appspot.com/ which is pretty sparse at the moment but will be filled with more information as we get it.

If you blog, use twitter, identica or flickr … please use the #kohacon10 hashtag to tag you posts/pictures/tweets.

And as always any help offered, or suggestions gratefully received.

Koha 3.0.5 Released

Koha 3.0.5 was released a couple of days ago. It is a stable release of the 3.0.x tree and includes about 100 patches with bug fixes and translations:

The full release notes are here.

Due to the fact the Release Maintainer does not have access to the download.koha.org site (don’t ask) it is hosted at the koha-fr.org site until someone at Liblime puts it in the right place.

If you are familiar with git you can upgrade that way
git fetch git reset v3.00.05 export KOHA_CONF=/path/to/koha-conf.xml export PERL5LIB=/path/to/src perl installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl cd misc/translation install-code.pl yourlanguage