August 2002 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Koha Press Release
by Pat Eyler 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Nelsonville Public Library Chooses Open Source Aug 26, 2002 The Nelsonville Public Library will migrate its existing server to the open source Koha library system and will contribute to the further development of the Koha project. Nelsonville, OH, Aug 26, 2002 -- "We're going to move our library services onto Open Source platforms, culminating with the conversion of our existing server system to Koha." says Stephen Hedges of the Nelsonville Public Library (NPL). "We want to use the Internet to offer some cutting edge information services to our library patrons, but we realized that this would require us to have control of our automation and database software. We needed the freedom to change things, to change the code if necessary, because the types of things we want to do are not going to appear in commercial library software for years." Koha, being open source, provided the access that NPL required and the level of stability and functionality that they needed. NPL has committed to help support the development of Koha by funding some of the work on three specific projects. This support is seen as a wise investment, NPL expects to save as much money per year as they initially invest in Koha. More importantly, they will be able to offer what they consider to be "the best online services available anywhere in the world." "NPL's involvement is a real validation of our model." says Pat Eyler, Kaitiaki (manager) of the Koha project. "We've got a solid base system. As people want to add onto it, they can make a small investment to fund the work (far less than they would for a comparable closed source solution) and everyone will benefit. I hope that we'll see other libraries pitching in too." About the Nelsonville Public Library: NPL provides services to approximately 36,000 active borrowers through seven branches. Their collection includes over 250,000 items. For more information about the NPL, please see www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us About Koha: The Koha project started in 1999 in New Zealand when the Horowhenua Library Trust commissioned Katipo Communications to write a new library system for them. The system went live in 2000, and was released as Free Software during that year. Since then it has been installed in numerous libraries and has sprouted an active developer community that encompasses more than nine countries on four continents. For more information about Koha, please see www.koha.org or www.katipo.co.nz Contact: Please contact info(a)koha.org

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[Bug 73] finishreceive.pl tries to call missing makeitems() subroutine
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 25 Aug '02

25 Aug '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73 finlay(a)katipo.co.nz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From finlay(a)katipo.co.nz 2002-08-26 12:16 ------- Merged in the 1.5 version from the main branch and now its working fine. makeitems() has been replaced with newitems(). ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 84] New: broken link
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84 Summary: broken link Product: Koha Version: unspecified Platform: All URL: http://koha.org/mailing/ OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: www.koha.org AssignedTo: chris(a)katipo.co.nz ReportedBy: ewan(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz QAContact: koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net The link "How can I contribute" on the page http://koha.org/mailing/ is mis- spelled (http://koha.org/contrbute/ - missing an "i" in contribute). ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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Koha press opportunity
by Pat Eyler 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

This morning, I picked up my local newspaper and saw (on the front page) that the Seattle Public Library is going top be sutting down for a week in a cost savings measure. I'm planning on contacting the writer to see about doing a follow up article highlighting Koha. If any of you are interested/willing to be interviewed (no promises, the article might not even happen) please send me your contact information by private email. Along with email address and phone number, please let me know if you're a librarian, support staff, or developer and if you're actively working with Koha, reviewing it for possible use, or just idly looking on. I'd like to be able to give the writer a sorted list of contacts. This all comes at a nice time for us, because there is a large library (seven branches and over 250,000 items) who is ready to announce their adoption of Koha. (Look for a story about it before September!) thanks, -pate Kaitiaki/manager the Koha project

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unit testing in MyLibrary
by Pat Eyler 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Chris Gray (over in the MyLibrary project) is very interested in Unit Testing perl and refactoring their code base. As this is a topic near and dear to my heart, I thought I might give everyone a pointer to the notes he's keeping. http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?UnitTestingMyLibrary happy hacking, -pate

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[Bug 79] Can't search by Item Number from main catalogue page
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79 chris(a)katipo.co.nz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 79] Can't search by Item Number from main catalogue page
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 18 Aug '02

18 Aug '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79 chris(a)katipo.co.nz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Additional Comments From chris(a)katipo.co.nz 2002-08-19 14:03 ------- Found the problem catalogue-home.pl or the /catalogue/index.html has the input name for the item number being item search.pl is expecting itemnumber So we can either change search.pl or the html ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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From The Kaitiaki
by Pat Eyler 17 Aug '02

17 Aug '02

Aug 17, 2002 To the Koha community; Hello all, No note last week, and a late note this week. My life has been a bit turbulent of late, and I'm afraid that this note is one of the things which has slipped. Given the slower pace of activity during the summer months and my own reduced amount of time to work on things Koha, I'm going to be writing this note on a bi-weekly basis going forward. 1.2 Steve has been pressing forward on the 1.2 tree and has just release RC10 of 1.2.3. This series represents quite a few pieces of new functionality and bear some good testing. If any of you have the time and resources to load it up and give it a try, your work would be appreciated. Community There's a nice new article about Koha in the offing. I've just seen a draft of it, and hope to see it in publication soon. If anyone else has the time and interest in writing about your experiences with Koha, I'd be happy to provide what help I'm able. I think that www.linuxgazette.com (or the Linux Journal, its 'big brother') would look kindly upon a well written submission. There are some interesting developments in the Library Free Software community. The most interesting to me has been the recent conversations in the MyLibrary project about how to proceed, how to set goals, and how to improve the quality of programming within the project. There are several ideas floating about, but I was intrigued at the idea of adding survey or logging to their software. This is obviously something that would need to be done very openly and very carefully to avoid any privacy or trust issues. My questions to you are: 1) What feedback should the Koha developers be getting to help steer future development of Koha? 2) How can we get that feedback frequently, but without causing undo work for our users or violating their privacy (or that of their patrons)? Translation As seen from recent postings to the Koha mailing list, our Hindi and Bengali translations have started. In addition, we now have two individuals in Germany who are working on translating Koha into German as well. Things are proceeding apace. As always, I'm excited to be a part of Koha's growing wave of success and popularity. I hope that everyone else is too. See you in two weeks. Thanks Pat Eyler Kaitiaki of the Koha Project

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Bangla , Hindi translation
by Md. Aftabuddin 17 Aug '02

17 Aug '02

INSTALL ----file translated in Bangla __________________________________________________________________ _________ Koha - Aabashyakata ebong drutho-aarombho pratisthapan niredeshaboli Otirikto tathaya jemon aaponar Configuration file kemon hobe, tar jonyo Hints file dehhoon. Proyojonio.... Sofolyer songe Koha byabohar korte hole kichu otirikto software proyojon: Ekti webserver ( Iha Apache-er sohit cholar jonyo gothito, kintu iha annyanya webserver byabohar kore na cholar kono karon nei ). Mysql ( Aaponi postgres athoba anayo sql dhormi database byabohar korte paren ). Perl (mod_perl er proyojoniota nei, jodio koha -r mod_perl er songe chola uchit -- drostobya je iha ekhono porikhito noy ). Perl Modules: Date::Manip DBI Set::Scalar DBD::mysql (ba onya je kono database ja aaponi byabohar koritechhen ) AuthenDBI (jodi aaponi Database jukto authentication byabohar korite chahen ) CDK (telnet interface er jonya proyojon kintu jodi aaponi web based circulation chhahen tobe nisproyojon) C CDK libraryguli o sthaponer proyojon http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html ( CDKModule er sommasya aachhe ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Druto - aarombho Protisthapan Nirdeshika 1. Ekti nuton mysql database toiaar koroon dhorun naam dilen Koha Nirdesh line hoite nirdesh likhun: mysqladmin -uroot -ppassword create Koha Koha bitoroner er sohit ekti database protisthaponer shell script deoa aachhe. 2. mysql e ekti Koha -r user ebong tar password toiaar koroon mysql e probesh koroon : mysql -uroot -ppassword jokhon "localhost" hoite nirdesh jari koritechhen "koha" namok ekti user "Koha" database e jar sompurno odhikar achhe toiaar korite , mysql nirdesh line e nimnolikhito nirdesh likhoon: grant all privileges on Koha.* to koha@localhost identified by 'kohapassword'; Enter teeponi tipoon, jodi aaaponi kono bibhanti na dekhen taha hoile \q likhia mysql hoite bahir hoiyaa jaan. 3. table guli toiaar korite mysql script byabohar koroon mysql -uusername -ppassword Koha < koha.mysql 4. koha.conf sompadona koroon database name er line e aaponar toiaar kora database er naam likhoon, hostname localhost hoyei thakbe ( jodi na aaponi database tee webserver chada annya kono machine e sthapon korite chaan ) user ebong password aaponar toiaar kora database er username ebong password er motoi hoibe. Output.pm file e path poriborton korar poriborte apponi koha.conf file e "includes= " ebong aaponar includes folder er path likhte paren - Hints file e udaharan dekhoon. 5. koha.conf fileteeke /etc/ te copy koroon koha.conf file er anumoti hoibe kothor, kenona fileteete datbase er password thake. compokhhe, apache user jeno iha podite pare, ebong annya je kono user jini circ run koriben. Aamar prostab je www-data.libadmins e others er kono rokom odhikaar thakbe na. libadmins e somostho koha byabohar karira thaken. (Jodi aaponi www-data ke owner koren tobe apache ke www-data hisabei chalate hoibe) 6. Aaponar database table guli update korun perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase 7. Scripts and html documents er jonya directory guli toiaar korun. Ekhane aaponake thik korite hoibe je kothay aaponar scripts ebong html file guli thakibe. Ebong seimoto modules/C4/Output.pm file teete poriborton korun. Set $path= jekhane aaponar includes aache' udaharon swarup: $path="/usr/local/www/koha/htdocs/includes"; Aaponake uha korite hoibena jodi aaponi etipurbei koha.conf file e includes er path nathi boddho koria thaken ( oporer udaharon dekhun) Tarpor C4 directory tike (modules/ er moddhey) aaponar perl path e kothao copy koroon jemon /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/ Jodi aaponar default perl folder e file copy koribar porjapto odhikar na thake ( hoite pare je aaponi aaponar ISP er hosting server byabohar koritechen) tobe aaponi jekono sthane module guli copy koroon ebong apache.conf file e ekti line jogg koroon jemon : SetEnv PERL5LIB "/usr/local/www/koha/modules" C4 directory tike modules folder e copy koroon (Hints file e bistarito udahoron dekhoon) 8. Aaponar Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) gothon koroon OPAC er jonyo ekti webspace gothon koroon: udahoron sworup : Aaponi /usr/local/www/opac ... toiaar korite paren ebong apache te sei directory byabohar koribar jonyo ekti virtual host gothon korite paren Aaponar opac directory er moddhey htdocs name ekti directory toiaar koroon ebong opac-html/ er sobkichhu uhate copy koroon. Aabar aaponar opac directory er moddhey cgi-bin name ekti directory toiaar koroon ebong opac-cgi/ e .pl extension jokto file guli uhate copy koroon, jemon copy opac-cgi/*.pl /usr/local/www/opac/cgi-bin/koha/ Aaponar gothito virtualhost khanikti eirokom hobe: <VirtualHost opac.aaponar.site> ServerAdmin webmaster(a)aaponar.site DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/opac/htdocs ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /usr/local/www/opac/cgi-bin/ ServerName opac.aaponar.site ErrorLog logs/opac-error_log TransferLog logs/opac-access_log </VirtualHost> Kora hoile, punoray apache aarombho koroon ebong browser e opac.aaponar.site er thikana likhoon ebong ihatei dekhite paowa uchit (kintu database e kono data na thakle bishes kichu dekhibar thakibe na !) Hints file e otirikto nirdesh ebong config udahoron guli dekhoon 9. intranet/librarian interface gothon koroon Anaya ekti webspace dhorun koha gothon korite notun directory guli toiyari koroon ebong httpd.conf file e otirickto poriborton guli koroon. Udhahoron swarup : Je directory ti aaponi ekhoni toiari koriachen tar moddhey ekti htdocs ebong ekti cgi-bin directory toiyari koroon intranet-html/ directory er somostho kichu htdocs directory te copy koroon intranet-cgi/ directory er somostho .pl file guli cgi-bin/koha directory te copy koroon Aaponar virtual host je ei somosto directory guli bayabohar korite paribe sei bayapar e nischito houn Punoray apache aarombho koroon ebong browser e koha.aaponar.site er thikana likhoon ebong ihatei dekhite paowa uchit 10. Librarians/Intranet Interface er SECURITY Configure koroon Jodi aaponi authentication er jonyo AuthenDBI bayabohar koritechen tahole, aaponake koha database er users table e kichu user jogg korite hoibe. ebong intranet site er jonyo jahate AuthenDBI bayabohar kora jai apache er conf file edit kotite hoibe. Annoyothay, koha/htdocs/ ebong koha/cgi-bin directory gulite htaccess file guli gothon koroon Aaponi sadharon .htaccess jonito surakhsha byabostha grahan korite paren. librarian er interface er jodio password jukto surakhsha byabostha er proyojon karon ei sthan hoite aaponi item guli jogg korite ba muchia felite paren, sadasyader jorimana mokub kirite paren ebong sadharon bhabe bipotti ghotate paren. 11. Prodan, Feroth ebong Telnet interface Jehetu aamora aagei scripts/C4 directory theke file guli aamader perl source tree te kothao copy korechi Aamader ekon sudhu matro proyojon scripts/telnet/ theke scripts ke perl er path jemon /usr/local/bin e copy kora Taha hoilei hoiya jaibe : circ type koroon ebong prodan o feroth er jonya prostut. Release 1.1.0 hoite tothay ekti web-based circulation module aache, sutorang prodan ebong feroth sekhan theke aothoba circ theke kora jaaibe. Aaponi kichu config udaharon Hints file e paaiben ____________________________________________________- Md. Aftabuddin

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Bangla , Hindi translation
by Md. Aftabuddin 17 Aug '02

17 Aug '02

README ----file translated in Bangla ___________________________________________________________________________ 30/7/2002 aftab(a)cubmb.ernet.in Koha GPL licence er odhine bitorito hoi, bishod biboroner jonney doya koria LICENSE file porun. Jodi aaponi Linux systeme Koha sthapon korite chahen, taha hoile directory moddhey "installer.pl" script chalan. Aaponi INSTALL file porite paren jodi manual bhabe sthaponer nirdesh chaan. ____________________________________________________- README file translated to Hindi _____________________________________________________________________________ 30/7/00 aftab(a)cubmb.ernet.in Koha bitaran hota hai GPL lisence ke adhin, kripa karke bishad bibaran ke liye LICENCE nathi padhiye. Yadi aap Linux System per Koha sthapan karna chahatain hain, to yeh directory mai "installer.pl" run kijiae. Aap manually sthapana ke liye INSTALL nathi bhi padh saktain hain. ____________________________________________________________________________ Md.Aftabuddin

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