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Bug statistics for March 2012
Bugs can go through many states, and the same bug may go through a few states in the same month, so these numbers are not mutually exclusive. The same bug may be counted in the Signed Off, Passed, Failed QA and pushed, and it may even be marked some of them twice.
- 212 bug fixes/enhancements were signed off
- 36 marked patch does not apply
- 172 Passed QA
- 98 Failed QA
- 154 Pushed to Master
And who were the people who did the sign offs?
- Jared Camins-Esakov – 34
- Katrin Fischer – 19
- Nicole C. Engard – 13
- Liz Rea – 12
- Owen Leonard – 11
- Alex Arnaud – 10
- Matthias Meusburger – 9
- Marc Veron – 8
- MathildeF – 7
- delaye – 6
- Kristina Hoeppner – 6
- Magnus Enger – 6
- Chris Cormack – 6
- Julian Maurice – 6
- M. de Rooy – 6
- Koha Team Lyon 3 – 6
- Ian Walls – 5
- Julien Sicot – 4
- Pierre Angot – 4
- jmbroust – 3
- Elliott Davis – 3
- Paul Poulain – 3
- Marijana Glavica – 3
- Adrien SAURAT- 3
- laurenthdl –
- MJ Ray (software.coop) – 2
- Jonathan Druart – 2
- Dobrica Pavlinusic – 2
- Corinne BULAC – 1
- Srdjan Jankovic – 1
- Shane Sammons – 1
- Leila – 1
- Melia Meggs – 1
- Marc Balmer – 1
- Robin Sheat – 1
- Francois Charbonnier – 1
- Frederic Demians – 1
Koha 7287.12.2
The Koha Herd are pleased to announce the release of Koha 7287.12.2; our most advanced release yet. It is so good we had to jump from 3.6.4 to 7287.12.2 in one release.
To make it webscale and cloud ready, respecting both the nimbus and cumulus standards we rewrote everything in aspx, which we then pre compiled into cobol. We also decided to replace the RDBMS layer with Oracle and sqlite. This has the side effect of needing 872 GB of HD to install, but we feel the lack in performance, flexibility and loss of freedom is well worth it to be buzzword compliant.
Effective communication aka making your point without being a jerk
It seems like common sense, but all too often in the tech sphere people forget a really simple rule.
It doesn’t matter how correct you are if the way you communicate only serves to alienate those you seek to persuade.
Koha has fortunately been quite lucky in this regard 99% of the people involve understand that the project is about far more than code and that people are what really matters.
But it can happen anywhere even occasionally with Koha. It’s even more unfortunate when it is a goal people agree is well worth it. So people agree with the message but the delivery of it only serves to make people less likely to listen.
Unsung Koha heroes – 23 Frère Sébastien Marie
Most people will never have heard of him, but Frère Sébastien Marie has been helping out with security in Koha. He has spotted AND fixed a number of security issues and can always be relied upon to offer good advice.
I think it’s another example of how lucky we are in the Koha community to have people with a very diverse range of backgrounds, from people in Monasteries fixing security issues to Scouts installing Koha for a merit badge. The community is a great place to be.
Using Koha and Citation management
If you are using Koha, obtained from the official site http://koha-community.org, you can use it with numerous citation management systems.
This is free software, so of course it should be any rational person’s first choice. To use Koha with Zotero just point your web browser to the page, and Zotero will automatically recognize the citation.
If for some mad reason you have to use proprietary software, Koha also supports
- Endnote
To use Koha with Endnote download the record in “RIS” format. Depending on how your system is set up, Endnote might automatically import the file. Otherwise, you can import your citation by opening Endnote and selecting File->Import and then locating your file.
- Refworks
With RefWorks you have two options. The first is to use the script described at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Add_direct_export_to_RefWorks_link_to_OPAC – this is the easiest way for the patron, and is very easy to set up. Second, you can download the record in “RIS” format, similar to the way you did for Endnote, then choose “References,” “Import,” set Import filter to “RIS Format” and Database to “RIS Format UTF-8,” and select the text file.
There are numerous other citation managers as well, most of which will support importing from either BibTeX or RIS files. So as you can see the latest official releases of Koha support multiple citation management systems, which is a very useful tool for Academic and Special libraries.
Statistics for Koha 3.6.4
- Processed 180 changesets from 40 developers
- 14 employers found
- A total of 210428 lines added, 198574 removed (delta 11854)
| Developers with the most changesets | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chris Nighswonger | 34 | 18.9% |
| Paul Poulain | 26 | 14.4% |
| Owen Leonard | 13 | 7.2% |
| Chris Cormack | 11 | 6.1% |
| Frédéric Demians | 10 | 5.6% |
| Liz Rea | 7 | 3.9% |
| Srdjan Jankovic | 7 | 3.9% |
| Garry Collum | 7 | 3.9% |
| Robin Sheat | 6 | 3.3% |
| Julian Maurice | 5 | 2.8% |
| Marcel de Rooy | 5 | 2.8% |
| Sam Sanders | 5 | 2.8% |
| Katrin Fischer | 4 | 2.2% |
| Jared Camins-Esakov | 3 | 1.7% |
| Adrien Saurat | 3 | 1.7% |
| Tomas Cohen Arazi | 3 | 1.7% |
| D Ruth Bavousett | 2 | 1.1% |
| Maxime Pelletier | 2 | 1.1% |
| Kyle M Hall | 2 | 1.1% |
| Aleksa Vujicic | 2 | 1.1% |
| Kate Henderson | 2 | 1.1% |
| Jono Mingard | 2 | 1.1% |
| Colin Campbell | 2 | 1.1% |
| biblibre | 1 | 0.6% |
| Matthias Meusburger | 1 | 0.6% |
| Jonathan Druart | 1 | 0.6% |
| Magnus Enger | 1 | 0.6% |
| Nicole C. Engard | 1 | 0.6% |
| Juan Romay Sieira | 1 | 0.6% |
| Duncan Tyler | 1 | 0.6% |
| Janusz Kaczmarek | 1 | 0.6% |
| Alex Arnaud | 1 | 0.6% |
| MJ Ray | 1 | 0.6% |
| Henri-Damien LAURENT | 1 | 0.6% |
| Peter Lorimer | 1 | 0.6% |
| Connor Dewar | 1 | 0.6% |
| Bart Jorgensen | 1 | 0.6% |
| Jorgia Kelsey | 1 | 0.6% |
| Stéphane Delaune | 1 | 0.6% |
| Christophe Croullebois | 1 | 0.6% |
| Developers with the most changed lines | ||
|---|---|---|
| Frédéric Demians | 205105 | 96.1% |
| Chris Nighswonger | 2813 | 1.3% |
| Julian Maurice | 1586 | 0.7% |
| Owen Leonard | 829 | 0.4% |
| Srdjan Jankovic | 489 | 0.2% |
| Tomas Cohen Arazi | 460 | 0.2% |
| Liz Rea | 311 | 0.1% |
| Paul Poulain | 207 | 0.1% |
| Jared Camins-Esakov | 182 | 0.1% |
| Jonathan Druart | 141 | 0.1% |
| Robin Sheat | 129 | 0.1% |
| Colin Campbell | 120 | 0.1% |
| Alex Arnaud | 98 | 0.0% |
| Garry Collum | 90 | 0.0% |
| Katrin Fischer | 50 | 0.0% |
| Sam Sanders | 43 | 0.0% |
| Jono Mingard | 40 | 0.0% |
| MJ Ray | 38 | 0.0% |
| Chris Cormack | 37 | 0.0% |
| Bart Jorgensen | 25 | 0.0% |
| Adrien Saurat | 24 | 0.0% |
| Marcel de Rooy | 22 | 0.0% |
| Kate Henderson | 15 | 0.0% |
| Christophe Croullebois | 14 | 0.0% |
| Maxime Pelletier | 13 | 0.0% |
| Aleksa Vujicic | 11 | 0.0% |
| Peter Lorimer | 11 | 0.0% |
| Henri-Damien LAURENT | 9 | 0.0% |
| Jorgia Kelsey | 9 | 0.0% |
| Magnus Enger | 8 | 0.0% |
| Kyle M Hall | 7 | 0.0% |
| Juan Romay Sieira | 7 | 0.0% |
| Matthias Meusburger | 6 | 0.0% |
| Connor Dewar | 4 | 0.0% |
| D Ruth Bavousett | 2 | 0.0% |
| biblibre | 2 | 0.0% |
| Nicole C. Engard | 1 | 0.0% |
| Duncan Tyler | 1 | 0.0% |
| Janusz Kaczmarek | 1 | 0.0% |
| Stéphane Delaune | 1 | 0.0% |
| Developers with the most lines removed | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chris Nighswonger | 2384 | 1.2% |
| Paul Poulain | 109 | 0.1% |
| Colin Campbell | 22 | 0.0% |
| Adrien Saurat | 10 | 0.0% |
| Juan Romay Sieira | 7 | 0.0% |
| D Ruth Bavousett | 1 | 0.0% |
| Developers with the most signoffs (total 351) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chris Nighswonger | 146 | 41.6% |
| Paul Poulain | 71 | 20.2% |
| Jared Camins-Esakov | 35 | 10.0% |
| Katrin Fischer | 17 | 4.8% |
| Chris Cormack | 13 | 3.7% |
| Chris Hall | 12 | 3.4% |
| Liz Rea | 12 | 3.4% |
| Owen Leonard | 12 | 3.4% |
| Nicole C. Engard | 9 | 2.6% |
| Marcel de Rooy | 9 | 2.6% |
| Jonathan Druart | 3 | 0.9% |
| Aleksa Vujicic | 2 | 0.6% |
| Alex Arnaud | 2 | 0.6% |
| Julian Maurice | 2 | 0.6% |
| Adrien Saurat | 1 | 0.3% |
| Melia Meggs | 1 | 0.3% |
| Ian Walls | 1 | 0.3% |
| Magnus Enger | 1 | 0.3% |
| Robin Sheat | 1 | 0.3% |
| Frédéric Demians | 1 | 0.3% |
| Developers with the most reviews (total 0) |
|---|
| Developers with the most test credits (total 0) |
|---|
| Developers who gave the most tested-by credits (total 0) |
|---|
| Developers with the most report credits (total 0) |
|---|
| Developers who gave the most report credits (total 0) |
|---|
| Top changeset contributors by employer | ||
|---|---|---|
| Biblibre | 41 | 22.8% |
| Foundations | 34 | 18.9% |
| (Unknown) | 32 | 17.8% |
| Catalyst | 27 | 15.0% |
| ACPL | 13 | 7.2% |
| Tamil | 10 | 5.6% |
| Rijksmuseum | 5 | 2.8% |
| ByWater-Solutions | 4 | 2.2% |
| BSZ-BW | 4 | 2.2% |
| C & P Bibliography | 3 | 1.7% |
| PTFS-Europe | 2 | 1.1% |
| NEKLS | 2 | 1.1% |
| Libeo | 2 | 1.1% |
| Libriotech | 1 | 0.6% |
| Top lines changed by employer | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tamil | 205118 | 96.1% |
| Foundations | 3154 | 1.5% |
| Biblibre | 2129 | 1.0% |
| ACPL | 834 | 0.4% |
| (Unknown) | 788 | 0.4% |
| Catalyst | 676 | 0.3% |
| NEKLS | 273 | 0.1% |
| C & P Bibliography | 182 | 0.1% |
| PTFS-Europe | 120 | 0.1% |
| BSZ-BW | 53 | 0.0% |
| Rijksmuseum | 23 | 0.0% |
| Libeo | 13 | 0.0% |
| Libriotech | 8 | 0.0% |
| ByWater-Solutions | 4 | 0.0% |
| Employers with the most signoffs (total 351) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Foundations | 146 | 41.6% |
| Biblibre | 79 | 22.5% |
| C & P Bibliography | 35 | 10.0% |
| Catalyst | 23 | 6.6% |
| BSZ-BW | 17 | 4.8% |
| ACPL | 12 | 3.4% |
| (Unknown) | 12 | 3.4% |
| ByWater-Solutions | 11 | 3.1% |
| Rijksmuseum | 9 | 2.6% |
| BigBallOfWax | 5 | 1.4% |
| Tamil | 1 | 0.3% |
| Libriotech | 1 | 0.3% |
| Employers with the most hackers (total 42) | ||
|---|---|---|
| (Unknown) | 14 | 33.3% |
| Biblibre | 10 | 23.8% |
| Catalyst | 5 | 11.9% |
| ByWater-Solutions | 3 | 7.1% |
| Foundations | 1 | 2.4% |
| C & P Bibliography | 1 | 2.4% |
| BSZ-BW | 1 | 2.4% |
| ACPL | 1 | 2.4% |
| Rijksmuseum | 1 | 2.4% |
| Tamil | 1 | 2.4% |
| Libriotech | 1 | 2.4% |
| NEKLS | 1 | 2.4% |
| PTFS-Europe | 1 | 2.4% |
| Libeo | 1 | 2.4% |
Bug/Ehancement Statistics for February
There were 152 bugs/enhancements marked signed off in February
- Jared Camins-Esakov – 33
- Liz Rea – 22
- Nicole C. Engard – 16
- Katrin Fischer – 14
- Owen Leonard – 11
- Paul Poulain – 11
- Chris Cormack – 11
- Kyle M Hall – 8
- M. de Rooy – 6
- Jonathan Druart – 4
- Ian Walls – 3
- Frederic Demians – 3
- Julian Maurice – 3
- Adrien Saurat – 2
- Alex Arnaud – 1
- Brendan Gallagher – 1
- Gaetan Boisson – 1
- Melia Meggs – 1
- Magnus Enger – 1
124 Bugs/Enhancements were marked Passed QA
- Paul Poulain – 55
- Ian Walls – 47
- M. de Rooy – 13
- Jonathan Druart – 4
- Jared Camins-Esakov – 3
- Owen Leonard – 2
72 Were marked failed QA
111 Enhancements or Bug fixes were pushed to master
Code slow down from me
I’m doing the solo dad thing for the next few weeks, so will be much less productive on Koha. But there is plenty happening that it most likely won’t even be noticed. Both 3.6.4 and 3.4.9 will be released in the next week. 3.6.4 is in string freeze now for the translators to work on.
Unit testing in Koha
There are currently 9229 unit tests in Koha, that is up from 8200 when 3.2.0 was released (15 months ago). So in the last 15 months 1009 unit tests have been added to Koha.
Well done to all those people adding tests, the coverage is slowly climbing, and errors are being caught before release time. So if you want to contribute to Koha, but don’t know where to start, write a unit test, we’ve had 14 year olds do it 🙂
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