May day. Not Mayday. All well

I was not going to write this post until prompted by more returning visitors enquiring about Bika LIMS development 'ending'... As per click bait title in News item of 4 January. Thanks everybody for your consideration, heartening. Bika is here, sweet sixteen*, and all is very well.

Blogged 1 May 2018, Lemoene Smit, Cape Town,
where the drought is broken

FOSS LIMS full steam ahead

Development did stop in the Bika repositories yes, but lives on in Senaite's where it evolved to. Four man years of code has been added by ten+ contributors since.

Learning from OpenERP / Odoo, to clear Bika naming confusion and please search engine crawlers, we continue to use Bika Senaite on these pages.

The process is a migration stimulating to observe, Professional Open Source meritocracy in full flight;

POS LIMS combines a traditional community of enthusiasts with professional engineers and fee paying lab sponsors who benefit from industry quality code, and best of breed design, testing and traction enabled by the user community.

It is powerful because customers, developers and users are all self-motivated to behave in ways that are beneficial to themselves and, as a side effect, to all.

Or as Linus sees it, Open Source is not a call to sit around the camp fire singing kumbajah... it only really works if everybody is contributing for their own selfish reasons. That puts conventional kitty herding cowboys to pasture too!-)

Bests

On the hoof, Lemoene

* Bika is eighteen years young when one adds the Delphi prototype of 2000 and then early Zope version, Bach, after the lead dev's favourite composer. Was a Wine LIMS too...

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Current lay of the shifting land

Roadmapping

Got more complex. Holding True South, stand by.

Code

In the Senaite repos. Framework and stack.

Tech and installation questions

Best posted well researched to Github messaging lobby Gitter. The devs remain extremely busy.

Bugs

Please log bugs in the Github tracker.

Improvement and feature requests

Have to include code per pull request in the Github tracker. A forum for functionality discussions is now available.

Please continue posting user questions to the Bika LIMS user lists and Slack room, and improvement requests in Jira, LIMS, Health. These continue improving design.

User Manual

Replies make very good content for a Bika Senaite User Manual started recently, presentable now. Plan is to open it for direct contributions, and eventually the texts to be used towards the long cherished goal of the manual being dynamically maintained from the source code.

Bika Cannabis

Much Bika Cannabis code made it into the Senaite trunk already, more submissions in the wings. Good enough for an online demo at Cannabis.Bikalims.org. For this one we want to get the most out of the alliteration in Bika Cannabis!-)

Demo Installations

Both LIMS and Health demos are on fresh Senaite code versions too.

Soon, Water Quality and Environmental Management