January 2006 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Organizational Meeting
by Joshua Ferraro 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi all, We're gearing up for a major code sprint in the month of February, mainly to finalize the Perl-ZOOM integration and mod_perl2ize Koha's circ functions. I'd like to get one organizational meeting in beforehand so we can make sure we're all on the same page. I've sent emails to several of you already, most are OK with a date of Monday January 30, 2006 at 19:00 GMT. Here's the date in your timezone: http://tinyurl.com/cd7oj I've put up a barebones agenda on our Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/bkjfa If you have anything to add, please feel free to do so. Finally, if you're new to Koha and are looking for a way to get involved (programming, promotion, documentation, QA/testing, package management, etc.), this is a great chance to introduce yourself and let us know how you'd like to help out. As always, if you have any questions or ideas let me know. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Studies of functional specifications for OPACs?
by lars＠rovaniemelainen.com 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

I'm wondering if anyone on the Koha-devel list knows of studies outlining the functional requirements for OPACs, subscription modules, ILL modules, and other library systems. I'm not looking for anything specific, new or old, but would like to get an idea of what's been studied or layed out in the past. There are plenty of HCI and UI studies, but I'm looking for actual descriptions of what the systems should do or the workflow they should enable. -Lars ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/

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prog templates (once again)...
by Paul POULAIN 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Sorry to bother you once again with this subject... I really tried to code with prog templates. But that's a pain... Because there are some features that have to be coded in the template. Like javascript or some important css/html things that can't be removed imho. Just one example : in acquisition directory, there is a doNotPrint css (in default templates) that makes a table column to be NOT printed (through a media=print stylesheet) we should not remove this stylesheet or we loose a feature ! I agree that actual default templates have to be improved. - doc-head-open and doc-head-close in prog templates are a good idea. - dividing menus in mainmenu / submenu is also a good idea. - we could have a unique id for each div (bloc). It's name could be the template name+ a number. With this a local stylesheet could remove a feature unwanted through the stylesheet. My idea is that the templates should be only one, and includes directory / stylesheet being local. That could give enough freedom to template designers. Let me know what you think, and maybe have a meeting on irc to definetly decide something. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Default (index) pages?
by Owen Leonard 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Since we're moving things around in HEAD and breaking things anyway, I have a question: Is it possible to set up the Koha directory structure so that each directory can have a default index page? So that if I go to: mykoha.com/cgi-bin/koha/circ/ I get, say, the main circulation page instead of "Forbidden?" The main page of each section isn't always intuitively-named, and even when it is ("aqui-home.pl"," admin-home.pl") it's not the default document. Is this doable? -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us

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prog templates status + my roadmap for next week
by Paul POULAIN 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hello, I've been working on prog templates yesterday and this morning. I'm finally OK to work on them, and think they are a good thing. Joshua, I think you can announce default templates are definetly deprecated and must not be used anymore in HEAD. What I already did : * write a wiki page : http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=TemplatingManual * "translate" *acquisition module* for prog templates (finished, tested) * "translate" cataloguing module & MOVE the directory from acqui.simple to cataloguing. This is more explanatory !!! It's not finished, i'll take care of the rest of them. * "translate" *catalogue module* & MOVE the directory from / to catalogue. It's not 100% done, but something like 60%. What is not done should cause an internal server error or a "unknown script" i'm afraid... * "translate" the *serials module* & MOVE the directory from bull (that is french) to serials. About 80% done. Some scripts/templates have been renamed to have a more explanatory name. * "translate" the *members module*. Some scripts have been moved from / to members (like pay, readingrec...) About 50% done. All other modules not done : circulation, authorities, reports, parameters. I would be happy not to be the only one working on this. If someone could announce here it takes care of the 4 remaining modules, it would be nice. I plan to work on friday on ending the templating of catalogue & cataloguing modules. Next week i'll work on zebra to have zoom-driven cataloguing tools & basic zoom search. I think the directories moves should make cvs more clean & self explanatory. Plus it will be useful for modularization long goal. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Whats this ???
by Andres Tarallo 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Every time I send an email to koha-devel I receive back this bounce. I'm not suscribed in that group, please the person who is forwarding the mails to the that group fix this. Andres

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Call For Paper (in brazil)
by Paul POULAIN 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hello, if someone interested : http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/?q=en/node/88 WSL 2006 - Call for Papers of International Track WFS2006 - 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE AS PART OF THE FREE SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2006 -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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head badly broken
by Paul POULAIN 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hello, i've made some/many moves in koha-HEAD. I've removed unused script. So koha-head is badly broken atm. don't update your copy unless you want to debg a LOT of things. -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Updates to Koha Users Guide
by Stephen Hedges 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

New material has been added to the Koha Users Guide to bring it up to date with version 2.2.5. There is also new material on acquiring MARC records (Z39.50 and file imports) and templating. View the Users Guide at http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/ -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Koha 3.0 : myISAM or innoDB for mySQL ?
by Paul POULAIN 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hello all, I'm working a little on head atm. I'm wondering why we still use myISAM tables in Koha. innoDB tables seems highly better, as, for example, they support foreign keys, and such feature could strenghten the database I think. It also seems innoDB is a little better in perfs. so, is there a good reason to use myISAM or can I siwtch to innoDB and improve the DB scheme ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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