Website Administration

Servers, websites and services

The koha-community.org servers are hosted by a variety of libraries and companies. The Koha project intentionally distributes the hosting and administration of various parts of the infrastructure to encourage the maximum amount of participation and to allow for redundancy in case of server glitches.

(DNS and the main website are listed first, then ordered by server/service name)

koha-community.org DNS

Host and administrators

The koha-community.org domain is registered to the Horowhenua Library Trust. The administrative contact is Jo Ransom at HLT, and the technical contact is Katipo.

The following people have rights to change entries in the DNS:

1. Galen Charlton
2. Chris Cormack
3. Jo Ransom

System details

The registrar for koha-community.org is iWantMyName, who is a reseller for 1API GmbH. Primary DNS service is provided by iWantMyName. Secondary DNS service is not in effect at present.

koha-community.org

Host and administrators

Hosted by Liz Rea

The following people have shell access:

1. Liz Rea - Admin (Sysadmin, Wordpress SuperAdmin)
2. Galen Charlton - Sysadmin rights, Admin (Wordpress)
3. Chris Cormack - Sysadmin rights

System Details

Runs Wordpress, auto updating. Server is located in a Linode based in London, UK

https certificates provided by LetsEncrypt, all access https.

koha-community.org/calendar

Administrators

The following people have access:

1. David Nind
2. Fridolin Somers
3. Jonathan Druart
4. Martin Renvoize
5. Tomás Cohen Arazi
6. People from koha-US (for adding SIG and koha-US meetings)

System Details

Google Calendar iframe.

api.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

This service is run using docker, through the portainer service . It is run on the same host the portainer server runs. It is maintained by Theke Solutions.

Maintenance

The static site is built on each push to the community repositories. The underlying docker images are generated using a Gitlab pipeline, triggered by webhooks.

The following individuals have access to generate the API documentation:

1. Martin Renvoize
2. Tomás Cohen Arazi

bugs.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

The bugs database is hosted by Chris Cormack. The following individuals have shell access:

1. Galen Charlton
2. Chris Cormack

The following individuals have web admin level access:

1. Martin Renvoize
2. Jonathan Druart

System Details

Bugzilla version 5.0.6 hosted on a linode instance in Dallas, TX, USA

dashboard.koha-community.org

This is on the bugs.koha-community.org server

debian.koha-community.org

The Koha Debian apt repository is hosted by Equinox. The following individuals have shell access

1. Galen Charlton
2. Robin Sheat
3. and everybody who has shell access to wiki.koha-community.org, as it is the same server.

System Details

Currently Robin uses rsync to update the apt repository. If additional people get involved in the Debian packaging effort, an upload queue could be added.

download.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

The Koha download service is hosted by Chris Cormack. The following individuals have shell access:

1. Galen Charlton
2. Chris Cormack
3. Liz Rea

The currently elected release managers/maintainers for all supported versions have the ability to upload Koha releases.

System Details

Uploads are done using sftp. The home page is created using Apache's mod_autoindex with the addition of custom header and footer HTML files, which are located in the /var/www/download.koha-community.org/include/ directory. The relevant part of the Apache configuration for the fancy index page is:

  IndexOptions +FancyIndexing +TrackModified +XHTML +SuppressIcon +SuppressRules
  IndexOptions +SuppressHTMLPreamble +HTMLTable +SuppressDescription
  IndexOrderDefault Descending Date
  IndexIgnore robots.txt /include
  HeaderName /include/header.html
  ReadmeName /include/footer.html

git.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

The Koha Git service is hosted by ByWater Solutions. The following individuals have shell access to the server:

1. Jonathan Druart
2. Kyle Hall
3. Nick Clemens
4. Tomás Cohen Arazi
5. Liz Rea

System Details

Gitea

The following individuals have gitea administrative access

• Chris Cormack (Catalyst)
• Galen Charlton (Equinox)
• Jonathan Druart
• Tomás Cohen Arazi
• Martin Renvoize (PTFS Europe)

hea.koha-community.org

Hea is hosted by BibLibre.

irc.koha-community.org

This is on the bugs.koha-community.org server

jenkins.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

The Jenkins service is run using docker, through the portainer service . It is run on the same host the portainer server runs. It is maintained by Theke Solutions.

The service relies on the jenkins/jenkins:lts-jdk11 official image.

Backups

Backups are configured to be run daily, and stored on the BackBlaze object storage. This is the default setup for Theke servers.

Gitlab

We are leveraging on Gitlab.com for some projects and they are also using the execution nodes.

Execution nodes

Jenkins tasks are ran in separate servers that are set differently for testing purposes:

There are 3 lists with some contradictions:

• 1st: https://jenkins.koha-community.org/computer/
• 2nd: Continuous_Integration#The_nodes
• 3rd here:
  • Docker_1 (jenkins): Debian 8 (Hosted by ByWater Solutions)
  • Docker_2 (jenkins): Ubuntu 18.04 (Hosted by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
  • Docker_3 (jenkins and gitlab): Debian 9 (Hosted by kohaaloha)
  • Docker_4 (jenkins): Debian 10 (Hosted by The National Library of Finland)
  • Runner_1 (gitlab): Debian 10 (Hosted by Theke Solutions)

lists.koha-community.org

The koha-community.org mailing lists are hosted by BibLibre.

mana-kb.koha-community.org

Mana KB is hosted by BibLibre.

Contact: Alex Arnaud

meetings.koha-community.org

The koha-community.org meeting archives are hosted by Galen Charlton.

paste.koha-community.org

This is on the bugs.koha-community.org server

perldoc.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

The perldoc is hosted by Equinox.

portainer.koha-community.org

The Portainer service is hosted by Theke Solutions. Portainer provides us with a control panel for deploying services using Docker Swarm (through docker-compose stack definitions). Services can be run on the same physical server, or on remote ones provided by other companies/institutions/individuals.

It provides us with a good amount of flexibility in terms of working groups and permissions to access the underlying services.

Host and administrators

The following individuals have shell access to the server:

1. Tomás Cohen Arazi
2. Thomas Dukleth
3. Jonathan Druart
4. Martin Renvoize
5. Mason James

System details

• OS: Ubuntu (20.04 LTS)
• 6 Cores | 16GB RAM
• Jenkins LTS (docker)
• IP: 75.119.140.119

schema.koha-community.org

This is on the bugs.koha-community.org server

splitter.koha-community.org

This is on the bugs.koha-community.org server

translate.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

The server is hosted by BibLibre. The following individuals have shell access to administer the server:

1. Tomás Cohen Arazi
2. Jonathan Druart

The following individuals have administrator privileges on the Weblate application:

1. Bernardo González Kriegel
2. Tomás Cohen Arazi
3. Martin Renvoize
4. Jonathan Druart
5. Katrin Fischer

System Details

4 CPU cores, 8Gio RAM, ~90Gio ROM. Weblate using the docker image.

More details on the dedicated wiki page.

wiki.koha-community.org

Host and administrators

This service is run using docker, through the portainer service . It is run on the same host the portainer server runs. It is maintained by Theke Solutions.

1. Tomás Cohen Arazi
2. Thomas Dukleth
3. Jonathan Druart
4. Martin Renvoize
5. Mason James

The following individuals have administrator privileges on the wiki application:

1. Galen Charlton
2. Thomas Dukleth
3. Nicole Engard
4. Chris Cormack
5. Paul Poulain
6. Magnus Enger

See also the list of administrators on the wiki itself.