August 2003 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

LITA national forum
by paul POULAIN 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hi all, I think the LITA forum can be interesting for readers here playing with Koha. We are a part of "collaborative projects in the digital age" aren't we ? It seems that yes, as I read in the program : http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/LITA/LITA_Events_and_Programs/LIT… : *Open Communication for Open Source Software Development: The Koha Experience* /Presenter: / Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington Does anyone from Koha project know who is Brenda ??? Does anyone from Koha mailing lists intend to go to forum ? PS : i'm on vacation... now, and be back in Sept, 2. ORIGINAL MAIL posted on PERL4LIB mailing list : ============= 2003 LITA National Forum "Putting Technology Into Practice" is the theme for the sixth annual Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum, to be held October 2 - 5, 2003 at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside, Norfolk, VA. Three exciting general sessions anchor the event. R. David Lankes, Executive Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, will speak on the current state of digital reference services. Liz Bishoff, Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program, will discuss collaborative projects in the digital age. The closing session features David Seaman, Director of the Digital Library Federation, speaking on major trends in digital libraries. More than 25 concurrent sessions provide a wealth of practical information. Topics include virtual reference consortia, digital library collection management, database-driven websites, metadata standards (including OAI), XML databases, open source portal management, cross-database search projects, managing access to GIS repositories, usability studies, and much more. In addition, for the first time, the 2003 Forum includes poster sessions, presenting unique technology applications that solve specific problems, such as digital rights management in the academic environment, PDA use in health sciences libraries, and link maintenance and repair. Add to the Forum experience with a choice of preconference workshops, a full day on "The Library as a Place in the Digital Age," or a half day on either "Handheld Library Programs: New Levels of Service" or "Creating, Managing, and Using Open Source Software in Libraries." Corporate sponsors of the LITA Forum help to bring the programming and networking opportunities to attendees. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Endeavor Information Systems, Inc., Veicon Technology, Inc., and Swets Blackwell. An opening reception, generously sponsored by Endeavor Information Systems, Inc., will be held in the Grand Promenade of the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside, overlooking the picturesque Norfolk Harbor. Other networking opportunities include Saturday lunch, continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks, as well as Saturday evening dinner groups organized by LITA leaders. Registration is limited to 500. Advance registration closes Friday, September 19 at 2pm CST. Register by August 29, 2003 to save $40! For complete details, visit http://www.lita.org/forum03. LITA is a division of the American Library Association http://www.ala.org ------------------------------------------ Miriam Blake Library Without Walls Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Voice: 505-665-5724 Fax: 505-665-6452 http://lib-www.lanl.gov/lww/welcome.html -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Re: installation w\o apache.conf
by Seltzer Water 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

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Re: [Koha] MARC importing tool?
by MJ Ray 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Moved to -devel. Christopher Hicks <chicks(a)chicks.net> wrote: > And I seriously doubt that a quest to have Koha work with full referential > integrity checked by the databse wouldn't be a worthwhile endeavor unless > we're seeing data corruption heisenbugs that need to be tracked down. [...] I used to think that, but I'm better now. The cure is a significant amount of non-academic experience doing development projects on a team with a *real* DBA. Having data stores that are just as easy to use and more difficult to corrupt is a very very very good thing. That's not saying that a full formal rejig is the best thing for koha just now, but there are some odd things in today's db design that we can fix, and some that we possibly can't (eg foreign keys, views -- claim these are not useful tools and I show you an anti-RI wonk). Long term, these probably will be fixed (eg the features are coming to MySQL later), but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to do radical brain surgery before 2.0. > That's a pretty normal developer pattern. Push things along in personal > cvs until it's worth worrying about merging. How do you use personal cvs, or do I not want to know? That was one thing that made me move to arch. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ *UPDATED* Kit for sale at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ads.html

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Re: [Koha] MARC importing tool?
by Chris Cormack 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Shifting this to the devel list where it more aptly fits On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:49:46PM +0200, Wolfgang Pichler said: > MJ Ray wrote: > > >Wolfgang Pichler <wolfgang.pichler(a)ivv.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > > > > > >>i appreciate your and your colleague's work very much and i could > >>contribute heavily as perl hacker, but it is VERY hard to do just > >>reverse engineering because no architectural or other docs helpful to > >>analyze the beast are available besides bare code. also cvs seems not to > >>be the latest *common* effort, or am i not right in this case ? > >> > >> > > Have you had a look on the wiki ? http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaProject http://koha.modern-alchemy.net/current-filemap.html is a useful tool linked to from there. > > > SO WHERE IS AT LEAST THE LATEST CVS ? sf ? looked at dates : seems, > everyone keeps it's own copy and check-ins are rather rare. > Nope the cvs at sourceforge is the latest copy. Theres usually a commit or 2 every day or so, its been quiet lately, as lots of ppl are busy at work, or on holiday. As an aside I see you have an austrian email address, did you know UNIDO in Vienna are using Koha to run their library. Chris

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opac search results count wrong
by Owen Leonard 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

When I do a search in the OPAC, the search results listing says "Results 2 through 22 of 721 records." What happened to result number one? I thought I remembered a bug relating to this problem, but I couldn't find it. Does that ring a bell for anyone? -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library Koha 2.0.0-pre2-R2

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RE: [Koha] LITA national forum
by Brenda Chawner 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Bonjour Paul, and hello everyone else I'll be going to this, and would be happy to report back on sessions that would be of interest to Koha participants. If anyone else on the list is going, perhaps we can arrange to meet at the conference and have a chat about Koha and open source software in general. Paul asked "who is Brenda?". I am a lecturer in library and information management here in New Zealand, and teach courses in information technology and business information sources. I have been following Koha developments for a while now, and hope to be more involved with the project in the future. Here is the abstract for my presentation at the LITA National Forum 2003: Abstract/Outline: What is involved in managing and participating in a distributed open source software development project? What options are available for organisations that choose to implement open source software? Koha, the world's first open source library management software package, was originally developed for the Horowhenua Library Trust, based in Levin, New Zealand, by Katipo Communications Limited, in Wellington, New Zealand. It was released as open source software under the GPL in 2000, and there are now 27 registered developers (and 84 subscribers to the development discussion list) working on new releases, in New Zealand, Canada, the United States and France, Poland, Germany, Spain, and New Caledonia. The Koha kaitiaki (project manager) is in the state of Washington, USA. Koha is currently being used by libraries in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, and the United States, and people from India, and South America have also expressed interest in it . This session will cover the various Koha participant roles (such as project manager, developer, documenter, user), as well as the range of tools and techniques used by Koha participants to communicate with each other, using a case study approach. These include email discussion lists, IRC, and a wikiwikiweb (or wiki for short), as well as a bug tracking utility. I wrote the abstract quite a while ago, and know that the number of developers and list of countries using Koha are out-of-date - I hope to have these updated for the presentation. I expect that the handouts from the talk will be available on the LITA website following the conference - I'll send the URL to the list when (and if) it's available. You might also be interested in the bibliography of articles and other material about open source software for libraries I have made available at http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/brenda_chawner/biblio.html I hope to have an updated version of the bibliography done by the end of September. -- Brenda Chawner School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600 Wellington NEW ZEALAND (04) 463 5780 fax (04) 463 5446 brenda.chawner(a)vuw.ac.nz

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see you in september
by paul POULAIN 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Hi all, I'm off for 2 weeks. Will be back in september, 2 In a few days, mjr/slef should release a 2.0.0pre3. Take care of it, help fixing a lot of bugs, and see your in September for a 2.0.0rc1 hopefully :-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Meeting report
by MJ Ray 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

OK, if you weren't on IRC, here's a summary of what you missed: Headline figures: 66 bugs open, 313 fixed awaiting verification, 6 verified (thanks owen!), 12 new bugs this week. Of those 12 bugs, 6 were labelled as enhancement requests, 1 has been fixed already, 1 looks like it may have been fixed (questions asked of people involved) and 2 are duplicates of bugs already reported. The other new bugs are: 577 nor P2 All tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca NEW Move HTML out of authorised_values.pl and marctagstructure.pl 579 nor P2 PC chris(a)katipo.co.nz NEW biblioitems.classification not available to search results template Visit bugs.koha.org now, claim them, fix them and get undying gratitude of the masses! Other things discussed included how to handle bugs we can't reproduce (ask for help on user list, then label as INVALID if we still can't), when to release pre3 (maybe next week, while Paul is away), why it's not rc1 (upgrade scripts still almost totally missing) and much else. Personal update: I've still got 9 installer bugs to play with. I hope to have a little time this week to clear 2 or 3 and enough next week to clear the rest, depending on whether pre3 is released or not. Transcript with all its lovely errors on http://www.koha.org/irc/ -- see you at 1900 UTC next Wednesday! -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: Edwin A Abbott wrote about trouble with Windows in 1884

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Serials and Archives
by MJ Ray 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

I gather that serials have been discussed elsewhere. Could someone summarise here the discussions so far, please? I know people who are interested in them. Is anyone discussing handling document archives yet? Amike, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ jabber://slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Thought: Edwin A Abbott wrote about trouble with Windows in 1884

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bug 512 in 2.0.0 branch
by paul POULAIN 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Hi all, I've a problem with the bug 512 (http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=512) I don't understand what is the problem, & box4email(a)yahoo.com didn't answer a mail I sended a few days ago. does someone have encountered this bug ? Otherwise, i'll mark it as invalid. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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