Who am I?

• Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha
• One of the original Koha developers
• Kaihuawaere Matihiko at Catalyst IT
• Lives in Wellington, New Zealand

Nō hea ahau?

The name - Koha

1. (noun) gift, present, offering, donation, contribution - especially one maintaining social relationships and has connotations of reciprocity.

Koha

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

History of the project

The beginning

CC-BY-SA Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

• Started in late 1999
• Y2K fix
• Horowhenua Library Trust

The first year

• Went live January 3 2000
• 1.0 released June 2000
• First full web ILS
• 4 people have code in Koha

2001-2005

• Bugzilla set up
• Koha wiki set up
• MARC standards added
• HTML::Template
• End of 2005 - 39 People have code in Koha

2006-2010

• First Kohacon
• Move to Zebra
• Move from sourceforge cvs to savannah cvs, then to git
• The Liblime issue
• By end of 2010 - 130 people have code in Koha

2011-2015

• Switch to time based releases - 3.4 the first
• Switch to Template::Toolkit
• Trademark battle over
• End of 2015 - 305 people have code in Koha

2015-2021

• Version number changes - 16.05 first
• Manual switches to sphinx
• Elasticsearch added
• As of 2021 449 people have code in Koha

2021 - Now

• Recalls added
• ERM feature added to Koha
• Staff site redesign
• As of now 481 people have code in Koha

Growing the community

Everyone was new once

Rules are good

Text

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CC-BY Lisa @ Sierra Tierra

Guidelines are better

• Guidelines can bend, rules can only be followed or broken
• Rules assume you know all possible situations when you make the rules
• Guidelines evolve as the project evolves
• Rules need police guidelines need guides

With knowledge comes responsibility

Helping each other

CC-BY-SA Susanne Nilsson

Patience

CC-BY Cindy Shebley

Assume people mean well

CC-BY Jennifer

Mana tāngata

To be a person is not to stand alone, but to be one with one's

people, and the deeper the oneness the more we are truly persons

and have that mana tangata.

- Michael P Shirres : 2000

Whakatauki

What we are going to do today?

• Talk about the development workflow
• File and find bug reports
• Show you how to fix a bug
• Show you how to do a sign-off
• Help you submit a first patch
• Hopefully answer all your questions!
• Learn about Documentation
• Learn about translation

Links

Development Workflow - https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_workflow

Bugzilla - https://bugs.koha-community.org

Dashboard - https://dashboard.koha-community.org

Sandboxes - https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes

Koha testing docker - https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker

Translation site - https://translate.koha-community.org/

Documentation - https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-manual

Sphinx

• reStructured Text

• Easy to provide different formats:
  HTML, PDF, epub

• More modular,
  multiple smaller files

• Easy to read

• Requires no software for editing

• Hard to break

Demo!

Translations