[Koha-devel] koha-2.0.1 frozen, now in arch, will release soon

[MJ Ray]

I am declaring a freeze for koha-2.0.1 and have taken a snapshot of 
the CVS. I will test install this a few times in a few ways and then 
release. Admins, am I allowed to upload the final tarball to 
sourceforge when ready, or do you have to do that?

Now, info for developers, users and anyone wanting to be a new 
download mirror:

Info for developers
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As previously mentioned, I have moved koha 2.0.x into a GNU Arch as a 
test. If you have tla, you can find the archive name 
(mjr at dsl.pipex.com--koha20), location 
(http://www.mjr.dsl.pipex.com/koha20/), project name 
(koha--release2--0.1) and some instructions on how to checkout working 
copies at http://www.mjr.dsl.pipex.com/

Please, developers, help koha development by trying arch out. I am 
happy to answer questions by email, or I can join IRC sometimes (but 
may be slow to answer). I will update my docs in response to 
questions.


Info for users
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Well, if you read -devel, you must want to follow bleeding-edge code, 
right? If you don't have arch, you should be able to use the 
prerelease 2.0.1-beta0 anyway. The signed md5 checksum is at 
http://www.mjr.dsl.pipex.com/koha20/koha/koha--release2/koha--release2--0.1/base-0/checksum 
and it contains the (long) filename of the 4Mb-ish tar.gz file.


Info for mirror sites
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I need mirrors! My ISP probably won't allow infinite downloads! It's 
only 4Mb now, but it will probably grow. I will set up other UK 
mirrors if I need to, but if you have 20 or 30Mb of public http or ftp 
space spare, accessible as a local disk, sftp, ftp or webdav, I think 
you can mirror koha-2.0.1 with the commands:
   tla register-archive mjr at dsl.pipex.com--koha20-SOURCE 
http://www.mjr.dsl.pipex.com/koha20/
   tla make-archive --mirror-from mjr at dsl.pipex.com--koha20-SOURCE 
PATH/TO/YOUR/FILESPACE/
   tla mirror-archive mjr at dsl.pipex.com--koha20

So, if your space is accessible for uploads over sftp at the URI 
sftp://user@www.webhost.com/var/www/koha/, then put that as the last 
thing on the make-archive line.

Add that mirror-archive command to some timed execution. Tell me the 
URL people can access it through, where in the world it is (Country 
and ISP?) and how often it updates so I can add it to my page. Again, 
I'm very happy to answer questions about this, especially if I got the 
command above wrong.

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