Re: [Koha-devel] Continue maintenance of 3.8?
At 07:38 AM 11/4/2013 +1300, Chris Cormack wrote:
On 2 November 2013 09:07, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
Yes - Paul Does this mean you're volunteering to be release maintainer for 3.8.x? If you'll accept a geriatric with a Ph.D. in Pure Maths (the term "computer sciences" hadn't been invented in 1964), with no experience of a "lending"
At 02:31 PM 11/1/2013 -0400, Owen Leonard wrote: library (14 years running a reference library) and who is always opinionated, occasionally not very diplomatic (so I'm told) - yes.
If you can find your way around git, and can test patches, then all good. Put your name on the wiki
Can test patches -- now have a dedicated 64 bit sandbox for Koha running Ubuntu LTS (quad core, 8 gigs RAM, bags of disk space.) The only caveat (as above) is that testing anything concerning specifically *lending* libraries might pose problems. Never used git; I have googled, and found the official [?] manual at <http://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html>, but you may have other suggestions. I'll try and clone the Koha git repository (if that's the correct expression) over the next little while and let you know how I get on. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong: when 3.14 comes out 3.8 will be "old" and perhaps more or less fall off the edge of the world (like 3.6 at <http://download.koha-community.org/>?) so are we talking about product enhancements/new features? all bugs? or security patches (critical bugs) only? Best - Paul
Paul A schreef op ma 04-11-2013 om 05:19 [-0400]:
Never used git; I have googled, and found the official [?] manual at <http://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html>, but you may have other suggestions. I'll try and clone the Koha git repository (if that's the correct expression) over the next little while and let you know how I get on.
To steal a quote, git is user-friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. I'd start here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Version_Control_Using_Git and also the user manual you mention. RM stuff will probably require more advanced knowledge and familiarity with git than is just in the wiki page. This will probably take some time, but as soon as you get a good mental model of how it works, things become easier. (The pure mathematics PhD ought to help here: it's really all just operations on acyclic directed graphs.) Knowing the patching workflow and how git works with that would be hugely beneficial though. Additionally, there won't be so much to do for 3.8, so you'll have plenty of time to get used to it. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
Paul, you need to read this http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Release_maintenance, and this http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Version_Control_Using_Git Regards, Bernardo -- Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel bgkriegel@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com>wrote:
At 07:38 AM 11/4/2013 +1300, Chris Cormack wrote:
On 2 November 2013 09:07, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
Yes - Paul Does this mean you're volunteering to be release maintainer for 3.8.x? If you'll accept a geriatric with a Ph.D. in Pure Maths (the term "computer sciences" hadn't been invented in 1964), with no experience of a "lending"
At 02:31 PM 11/1/2013 -0400, Owen Leonard wrote: library (14 years running a reference library) and who is always opinionated, occasionally not very diplomatic (so I'm told) - yes.
If you can find your way around git, and can test patches, then all good. Put your name on the wiki
Can test patches -- now have a dedicated 64 bit sandbox for Koha running Ubuntu LTS (quad core, 8 gigs RAM, bags of disk space.) The only caveat (as above) is that testing anything concerning specifically *lending* libraries might pose problems.
Never used git; I have googled, and found the official [?] manual at < http://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html>, but you may have other suggestions. I'll try and clone the Koha git repository (if that's the correct expression) over the next little while and let you know how I get on.
Also, please correct me if I'm wrong: when 3.14 comes out 3.8 will be "old" and perhaps more or less fall off the edge of the world (like 3.6 at < http://download.koha-community.org/>?) so are we talking about product enhancements/new features? all bugs? or security patches (critical bugs) only?
Best - Paul
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Hi, On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com>wrote:
Also, please correct me if I'm wrong: when 3.14 comes out 3.8 will be "old" and perhaps more or less fall off the edge of the world (like 3.6 at < http://download.koha-community.org/>?) so are we talking about product enhancements/new features? all bugs? or security patches (critical bugs) only?
It would be bugs and security patches only -- project policy is that maintenance releases do not get new features or enhancements after they become stable. Generally speaking, you would be watching the master branch for bugfixes that are relevant to 3.8 and that can be easily applied using a so-called cherry-pick of a patch that was pushed to master. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org
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