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Koha – Community

Ett fritt biblioteksdatasystem – Kohakonferens,

Friday, 16th October 2015

Katrin Fischer

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Who am I?

Katrin Fischer [email protected]

• Librarian by education

• Working at BSZ in Konstanz

• Started with support of Horizon in 2007

• Working with Koha since 2008

• Quality Assurance Manager,

Koha 3.12 – current

Katrin Fischer | Koha | 16.10.2015

mailto:[email protected]



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What is BSZ?

Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum

Baden-Württemberg

• A public institution in the business area of

the Ministry of Science, Research, and

Art of Baden-Württemberg since 1996

• Headquarter in Konstanz

• About 65 employees

• Organized in 3 departments

• Union Catalog (SWB)

• Museums, Archives and Repositories

• Library Systems


http://www.bsz-bw.de/

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BSZ – Koha Installations


Academic Libraries

Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg

MHMK Macromedia Hochschule München u.a.

Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt Hamm, Lippstadt

Hochschule für Gesundheit Bochum

Special and Research Libraries

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach

Institut für Neue Materialien Saarbrücken

Bundesverfassungsgericht Karlsruhe

DIPF Frankfurt, Berlin

Psychologisches Institut Heidelberg

Haus der Heimat d. Landes BW Stuttgart

Staatliche Seminare für Didaktik und Lehrerbildung

Esslingen, Heilbronn, Rottweil, Stuttgart, Weingarten

Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium Berlin

Manuscript Catalogs

Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital

Bibliotheca Palatina – digital

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History - HLT

“We were a very ordinary public library in New Zealand, we had hardly any money and a library management system that was going to stop working on 1st January 2000 . . . . What else could we have done? And how hard could it be anyway? The librarians would tell the programmers how a library works and they would make it so. And we weren’t going to make a big deal of this, ok; 3 months is loads of time.”

How hard can it be? : Developing in Open Source,

Code{4}lib Journal Issue 7, 2009-06-26


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History - HLT


Horowhenua Library Trust, NZ

http://www.library.org.nz/

http://www.library.org.nz/

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Koha – the name


Koha is a New Zealand Māori

custom which can be translated as

gift, present, offering, donation or

contribution.

Koha is an example of the

reciprocity which is a common

feature of much Māori tradition…

Wikipedia: Koha (custom)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(custom)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(custom)

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International Community


3.000+ Libraries

50+ Support providers

284 Developers

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• Diverse international

community

• Different languages, cultures,

timezones

• Libraries of all types and

sizes

• Transparent and open

• Not only open source, but

also open discussion and

decision making

• Steered by libraries


KohaCon15, Argentina

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Communication

Online • IRC Chat #koha

• Mailing lists

• Newsletter

• Twitter #kohails

• Blogs, …

In Person • KohaCon

• Koha Hackfests

• Koha User Groups

• Other regional events, …


KohaCon11 – Thane, India

KohaCon15, Thessaloniki, Greece

Koha – Development

Ett fritt bibliotheksdatasystem – Kohakonferens,

Friday, 16th October 2015

Katrin Fischer

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Release Cycle


3.16 3.18 3.20 3.22 3.20.1 ... 3.20.2 …

November 2015 May 2015 November 2014 May 2014

3.16.1 3.16.2 ... 3.16.13

Bugfix Releases monthly

Feature Releases every 6 months – November and May

3.18.1 ... 3.18.9 …

Security Releases whenever necessary

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Release Team


Release Manager / Release Maintainers Responsible for releases – Feature Release / Bugfix releases

QA Manager + QA Team Quality assurance – functionality and code quality

Translation Manager Organizes translations and maintains translation tools

Documentation Manager Manages the Koha manual, documents features

Bug Wranglers Test bug fixes and new features, create and improve bug

reports, etc.

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Development Workflow


Developer publishes code for review

Failed QA Independent tester tests functionality

Signed Off

QA team member checks code and functionality

Release manager checks code and functionality

Passed QA

Failed QA

Pushed

Failed QA

Automated Tests

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Development


Release Major Features Enhancements Bugfixes

3.14 13 161 471

3.16 6 197 390

3.18 14 120 487

3.20 5 114 407

3.22 ? ? ?

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Releases - Highlights

3.14

• Bootstrap OPAC – responsive design

• Course reserves

• HTML5 offline checkout

• Checkouts without barcodes

• Revised serials module

3.16

• Multiple transport types for notices (E-mail, print, sms)

• Acquisitions: Improved order process from uploaded files

• Shared lists


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Releases - Highlights

3.18

• End of fiscal year rollover of open funds and orders

• On-site checkouts

• Automatic renewals

• SRU download

3.20

• Batch editing of records

• Discharge notice generation and management

• Several holds related preferences moved to circulation

matrix


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Release – In progress

• Alternate cataloguing module

• Enhancements for RDA

• Plack (better performance)

• Elastic Search

• Rest API

• …


http://dashboard.koha-community.org/

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Development - Tools

Koha Manual

• End user documentation

• Done with DocBook

• HTML and PDF versions

• Base for online help in Koha

Koha Wiki

• More technical documentation

• Coding guidelines!

• RFCs, feature planning

• Agendas/minutes of IRC meetings

• Lists of users worldwide…


http://wiki.koha-community.org/

http://manual.koha-community.org/

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Development - Tools

Dashboard

• Useful information at one glance

• Entry point for developers and testers

• Number of bugs in each queue,

Oldest bugs waiting for sign-off/QA,

Build status from Jenkins,

Yearly totals by person…

Pootle

• Translation tool

• Updated prior to every release


http://translate.koha-community.org/


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Development - Tools

Bugzilla – Bug tracking

• Bug number as central access point

• Bugs, enhancements, features

• Status reflects workflows

Git – Version control system

• Absolute transparency and

accountability

• Only Release managers/maintainers

can push to release branches

• Git-bz to automate processes

between git and Bugzilla


http://bugs.koha-community.org/

http://git.koha-community.org/

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Development - Tools

Splitter

• Combines Bugzilla and Git

• Shows bugs touching specific files

and their status

Schema

• Automatically generated

database documentation


http://splitter.koha-community.org/

http://schema.koha-community.org/

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Development - Tools

Developer documentation

• HTML version of the documentation

of Koha‘s perl modules (POD)

Jenkins • Continouus integration server

• Automatically runs the test suite after

every commit


http://perldoc.koha-community.org/

http://jenkins.koha-community.org/

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Ways to help out

• Share your experiences with Koha

• Answer e-mails on the mailing list

• Translate

• Test, test, test…


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How to get code into Koha

• Keep it simple

• Be patient

• Value the time of others

• Help others get their code into Koha


27 Katrin Fischer | Koha | 16.10.2015

Katrin Fischer

Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg

[email protected]




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Links

The Koha Community

http://koha-community.org

https://youtu.be/uHav6PL_4Bo (movie)

History

http://koha-community.org/about/history/

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638

Koha users worldwide

http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-processquery.pl?ILS=Koha

http://librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users

Development – some numbers

http://git.koha-community.org/stats/koha-master/

https://www.openhub.net/p/koha


http://koha-community.org/



https://youtu.be/uHav6PL_4Bo




http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638




http://librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha









https://www.openhub.net/p/koha

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Links

Community Resources

http://manual.koha-community.org

http://wiki.koha-community.org


http://translate.koha-community.org

http://bugs.koha-community.org

http://git.koha-community.org

http://splitter.koha-community.org

http://schema.koha-community.org

http://jenkins.koha-community.org

http://perldoc.koha-community.org
































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