Busy Saturday

Yesterday was a pretty full on day, it started with the Island Bay market day, which was pretty small but neat anyway. Laurel found a fellow refugee from the US selling funnel cakes, and I found a fantastic jar of zucchini pickle.

Next on the agenda was the Greek Food Festival down in the overseas terminal. It was all a bit crowded and almost impossible to navigate with the push chair, but I did manage to buy some fantastic Calamari.

Then it was off to Te Papa for the 10th birthday celebrations. We missed the giant lamington cutting, but saw a awesome steam powered street organ, some Cook Island drummers, and the NZSO playing with Mere Boynton, Whirimako Black, Debra Wai Kapohe and Derek hill. Once again so many people but pretty cool.

Kahurangi’s favourite part of the day, was the big spinning marble ball in the foyer of Te Papa

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He was smacking at it so fast my cheap cellphone camera couldn’t focus fast enough.

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The day ended with the Island Bay Parade, which was even shorter than usual this year. My highlight was the mermaids riding bicycles

Last day at work

Tomorrow is my last day at work in my current job. I start a new job on March 3rd. I will still be hacking on Koha, but not as my day job anymore, just in my spare time. It’s all pretty hectic at the moment trying to finish everything off, so not many patches from me at the moment. Once things get settled down I’ll be getting back into it. 

A fun Waitangi Day

We had a good day today. We went down to Waitangi park to partake in the fun community activities. Kahurangi loved the tap dancing, and tried his best to dance along with them. I was utterly stoked as there was a stall selling creamed Paua, which is pretty much the best food in the world.  Later in the evening we had a lovely dinner with Matt and Meredith, while mr destructo tried to break their house and vomit chips on Matt’s foot.All in all a great day. 

Kohabot mostly working with Koha 3.0

I spent some time the other night working on the Koha bot to get it to work with the new search API in Koha 3.0. So now you can fire the bot up, and it will hop on AIM and then people can query your catalogue through it.

Next is getting the login function going again so you can use the bot to check what items you have overdue etc.

Koha 3 alpha is out

After a ton of hard work by a lot of people, the alpha version of Koha 3.00 was released. Here is the email from the Release Manager.

Hi folks,

I’m happy to announce that a packaged alpha release of Koha 3 is now
available. You can download from the usual location:

http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-alpha.tar.gz
http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-alpha.tar.gz.sig

You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying the provided
GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 checksum:

4fbd715cc6cd197264bba12b53391e42  koha-3.00.00-alpha.tar.gz

I’ve also tagged this in Git as “version 3.00.00 alpha” v3.00.00-alpha

This is the first packaged release of Koha 3. Prior to the official stable
release of Koha 3.0, software issues, bugs, and unimplemented features must
be addressed. These are documented on Koha’s Bugzilla:

http://bugs.koha.org

and organized on the 3.0 RM’s QA notes Wiki page:

http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0

The release notes for this alpha version are pasted in below, and will also
on the koha.org website sometime over the weekend.

Cheers,

—
Joshua Ferraro
Koha 3.0 Release Manager

 

Check it out, test it, report bugs .. send patches to fix those bugs. First patch sender gets a chocolate fish 🙂