You may notice some inconsistencies with the 3.2 manual while I work on it this week.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
3.2
Working on the 3.2 Manual
July 20th, 2010Koha 3.2 beta released
June 25th, 2010I have released the beta of Koha 3.2. The release tarball can be downloaded from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz
Checksums and signatures to verify the download can be retrieved from:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz.sig
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz.MD5.asc
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz.MD5
A list of the bugs patched since the release of the second alpha can be found in the email announcing the beta release. I would like to thank all who have been working on closing bugs, and I would like to give a special tip of my hat to Lars Wirzenius for his work on the Debian packaging of Koha and to Katrin Fischer for enhancing the German localization of Koha and working on other translation glitches.
At this point, I am declaring a string freeze with the following exceptions:
- forward ports from 3.0.x (for which translated strings can
presumably be grabbed from the 3.0.x translations) - remaining 3.2 release blockers.
Development Statistics for May 2010
June 20th, 2010This is just looking at the master branch (what is soon to be 3.2.0)
199 Commits
22 different Authors
A total of 5046 lines added, 2374 removed (delta 2672)
You can see more statistics at http://git.koha-community.org/stats/koha-master/
New Debian apt repository for experimental Koha packages
May 26th, 2010Lars Wirzenius has been working on packaging Koha for Debian, and has set up an apt repository at http://debian.koha-community.org/. From his email to koha-devel:
I have built some Debian packages for Koha, and configured an apt
repository for them at debian.koha-community.org, kindly set up by
Galen. Right now, only I can upload packages to the repository, but if
that turns out to be a problem, we’ll add an upload queue later. This
way, we got something to work now.See http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/README for instructions.
Note that the repository and the packages are ALPHA level. I have tested
them a bit locally, but I do not know if they will work for anyone else.
Also, I may have forgotten some important steps from the documentation.
Please notify me of any problems, I will attempt to fix them promptly.DO NOT install this on a production server. It will break things.
There are two packages:
* koha, if you just want a Koha up an running
* koha-common, if you want to host several Koha instancesEither way, you’ll need to do some post-installation configuration. I
have not attempted to make the Debian packages configure everything
automatically, or to use debconf to ask questions from the user and use
the answers to configure things. At least at this stage, I think it is
better to go for something simple that works.
As Lars says, this is experimental and should not be used for production systems, but if you want to test the Koha package, you can do so by following the instructions in the README.
Monthly #koha Meetings
May 3rd, 2010For all who are interested the following monthly IRC meetings on #koha will be held this week:
Handover Meeting 04 May 2010 @ 1900 UTC
Community Meeting 05 May 2010 @1900 UTC
Please review the meeting agendas by selecting the links above. You may also click on the meeting date to convert to your timezone. If you are unfamiliar with or do not have access to an irc client on your computer, you may use the web based Mibbit client by clicking here. Please use the ‘/nick’ command to change your nick to something meaningful. (ie. /nick jdoe)
Koha 3.2 bugsquashing session 2/10
February 3rd, 2010Join us in #koha (server irc.katipo.co.nz) all day on Wednesday, 2/10/2010 for a general bug squashing for 3.2
Don’t have an IRC client? That’s ok, just use our Mibbit widget to connect directly to our channel through your browser.
Tarballs of Koha 3.2 alpha available
February 3rd, 2010Tarballs of Koha 3.2 alpha are now available for download. Two versions are available; the first is a compact version that includes the PO files for translations but doesn’t expand them into koha-tmpl, while the second version is the traditional full package that includes every language. Because the full package is ten times larger than the compact one, please download the compact one unless you absolutely require the full version with the translations already expanded.
Compact, preferred distribution:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz (the package itself)
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz.MD5 (checksum)
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz.MD5.asc (signed checksum)
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz.sig (signature of tarball)
Version with all translations expanded:
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz (the package itself)
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz.MD5 (checksum)
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz.MD5.asc (signed checksum)
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz.sig (signature of tarball)
In order to expand all translations from the compact package, after expanding the tarfile, do
cd koha-3.02.00-alpha/misc/translator
./install.pl
Then run the normal installation process. To expand a particular language, e.g., fr-FR, do
cd koha-3.02.00-alpha/misc/translator
./install-code.pl fr-FR
As a reminder, as with any alpha release, this is not recommend for use in a production setting. To report bugs in the alpha, please visit http://bugs.koha.org/.
Koha 3.2 alpha tagged in Git; alpha testing period begins
February 3rd, 2010I have tagged v3.02.00-alpha in Git, thereby kicking off the alpha period for 3.2. The corresponding DB revision is 3.01.00.111; I’ll switch the DBrev to 3.02.00.000 for the beta. I will prepare a tarball tomorrow.
At this point, 3.2 is feature complete and development should now be in pure bugfixing mode. Only the following types of patches will be accepted for inclusion in 3.2, starting now:
- bugfixes
- translations, including a mechanism to translate the new system preference editor
- documentation improvements
- necessary forward ports to preserve enhancements that were added to 3.0.x but which were not submitted to HEAD.
I reserve the release manager’s prerogative to bring in a few more minor enhancement patches that have already been submitted, and also reserve the right to add in one more enhancement I promised a library – permitting bibs to be cataloged without requiring any use or generation of authority records. However, if that should prove too unstable, I will not consider that last enhancement a blocker for the
general release of 3.2.
At this point, my criteria for moving to beta are as follows:
- all HEAD and 3.2 blocker bugs are resolved, recategorized, or intentionally targeted for 3.4.
- we have proof of a clean upgrade path from 3.0.0 to 3.2.0.
- we have proof of a clean upgrade path from 3.0.5/6 to 3.2.0 – because of the numerous functionality enhancements in the 3.0.x series, this upgrade path is definitely distinct from the path originating in 3.0.0.
- we have a completely clean pass of all test cases on (at least) Debian Lenny.
Regarding management of branches in git.koha.org repository, I intend to start a 3.2.x branch and have bugfixes patches flow from HEAD to 3.2.x. I recommend that patches meant for inclusion in 3.4 be applied to a new 3.4-future topic branch, but leave final word on that up to Chris.
Translators can consider a soft string freeze to be in effect – string changes to fix en-US typos will be accepted, but by and large strings should now be stable.
I’m working on full release notes, but notable improvements in 3.2 include but are not limited to:
- A revamped acquisitions module
- An improved system preference editor
- Improved patron card and item label creator
- email checkout slips
- branch transfer limits
- support for Syndetics, LibraryThing, and Babeltheque enhanced content
- improvements in Koha’s ability to express circulation policies
As with any alpha release, 3.2-alpha is not recommend for use in a production environment.
