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Re: [Koha-devel] Rv: [Koha] Announcing Koha 3.00.00
by Christian Calle Jahuira 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Estimados Amigos Agradesco muchisimo la cooperacion y la respuesta a este mensaje, no comprendo muy bien, solicite la version Koha-3.0.0 estable en Español, la traduccion completa al español. Si es este por favor necesito comprender y confirmar. Si alguien me comprende por favor estare muy agradecido Un abrazo Coordialmente ChristianJCJ 2008/8/13 Homero Almeida <homero1958(a)yahoo.com> > Estimado Christian > Esta es la dirección entregada por el duro de Liblime sobre donde puedes > encontrar la version estable y ultima de KOHA > espero que te ayude > hasta pronto > homero > > --- El *dom 10-ago-08, Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com>* escribió: > > De: Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com> > Asunto: [Koha] Announcing Koha 3.00.00 > A: "koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org>, > koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz, koha-translate(a)nongnu.org > Fecha: domingo, 10 agosto, 2008, 5:15 pm > > Hi folks, > > I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 > is now available. You can download from the usual > location: > > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig > > You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying > the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 > checksum: > > 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > > I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00 > > The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree > is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a > statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the > packaged release. > > This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent > releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include > any new features. > > New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond. > > A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla: > > http://bugs.koha.org > > The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are > pasted in > below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime > soon. > > Cheers, > > Joshua Ferraro > Koha 3.0 Release Manager > > ============================================================================== > RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0 > ============================================================================== > Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source > integrated library system. > > You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL: > > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > > These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new > Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to > Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the > new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally, > Known Issues with this > version. > > ============================================================================== > WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3? > ============================================================================== > > 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured > text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of > millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query > languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see: > > http://indexdata.dk/zebra > > Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as > relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy > operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc. > > Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling > limits by availability and statuses. > > Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac > interfaces. > > For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships > with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed > in the RDBMS. > > 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the > new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform. > > The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target > ('dev') that > can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision > control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process. > > 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and > retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50 > (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and > COinS/OpenURL > (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html) > > Also supported is the popular Internet standard: > OpenSearch > (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9. > > Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in > MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote; > and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new > export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed > through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a > separate parsing function. > > To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes > support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP > libraries (http://openncip.org) > > There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle > interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients. > These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over > bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more > information, see: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services > > Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and > Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module. > > Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and > Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich > bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and > comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the > catalog. > OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to > provide > an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and > editions > of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling > for these services, to keep within subscription limits. > > 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform > of your choice: Linux, > Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also > includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs > under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing. > > 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for > multilingual > libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left > languages > such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi). > > Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any > UNICODE > compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra > has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM. > > You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools, > or by visiting http://translate.koha.org. > > 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a > template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of > 100% > valid > XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 > and > W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All > Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser. > > 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing > modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC > staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data > dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more! > > ============================================================================== > REVISION CONTROL > ============================================================================== > > With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system > called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including > the > Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using > Git, please see > the Wiki page: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage > > ============================================================================== > VERSION NUMBERING > ============================================================================== > > With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to > Perl's: > > major.minor[.revision[.build]] > > * major: one digit > * minor: two-digit > * revision: two-digit > * build: three-digit > > This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change > or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' > number, > and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in > updater. > > Koha 3.0 Release Schedule: > > This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over > the beta release: > > * General Bugfixing (over 150 > bugs fixed since RC1!) > * Nomenclature cleanup > * Additional translations > * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog > > Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any > new > features. > > New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. > > ============================================================================== > UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA > ============================================================================== > > The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki > at the following page: > > Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30 > > Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0: > > Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to > upgrade > > ============================================================================== > TEMPLATES > ============================================================================== > > You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there > is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide > > Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their > contributions! > > ============================================================================== > TRANSLATIONS > ============================================================================== > > Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following > languages: > > OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), > fr-FR (French) > hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish), > > ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) > zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified > Chinese in Taiwan) > > Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian), > ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) > zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified > Chinese in Taiwan) > > Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following > languages: > > OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI > (Finnish) > gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese), > kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), > tet (Tetum) > > Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU > (Hungarian), > ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish), > > The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see > http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information > about > translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate > > ============================================================================== > DOCUMENTATION > ============================================================================== > > User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki > (http://wiki.koha.org) The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions; > please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > ============================================================================== > KNOWN ISSUES > ============================================================================== > > Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the > 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki > page: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > ------------------------------ > > Yahoo! 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Call for volunteers - Koha Documentation Manager
by Galen Charlton 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, While we're discussing project roles, I would like to suggest reviving the position of Documentation Manager, a position which appears to be unfilled at the moment. If I am mistaken and somebody is currently active as DM, I apologize. The documentation manager would be responsible for: * Working with the Koha user community to identify documentation needs. * Organizing the creation and updates of user documentation for Koha 3.x, including manuals, user help embedded in Koha, wikis, etc. * In conjunction with the 3.2 RM and the 3.0 RMaint, updating user documentation that resides in the Koha source tree. * Encouraging the user and developer communities to improve documentation practices. * Discovering and linking to public Koha documentation written outside the aegis of the Koha project. * Encouraging (with the help of the translation manager) the development of user documentation in as many languages as possible. * Maintaining user documentation on the various project websites, including wiki.koha.org, kohadocs.org, and the forthcoming Plone version of www.koha.org. Any volunteers? Comments on the list of responsibilities? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Where is the information about what username created/modified a "biblio" record saved?
by Ricardo Dias Marques 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi list, I'm using the last "snapshot" development version of Koha 3 from git, but I think my question is also applicable to older Koha 3 "versions" (and probably also to Koha 2.X versions). I'm using UNIMARC (but NOT using Zebra) in my Linux installation (running openSUSE 11.0). Basically, the question is the one that I put in the subject of this message, that is: "Where is the information about what username created/modified a biblio record saved?" When I say this, I'm thinking of a Library that uses Koha, and where several Librarians have a Koha username and password for logging in the "Intranet" area for adding / modifying bibliographic records in the Library's Catalog. So, what I'm asking is this: 1 - Does the Koha (MySQL) database include any table(s)/field(s) for the username that created/modified a bibliographic record? I couldn't find it in the most "obvious suspect", the "biblio" table. I *did* find a "datecreated" and a "timestamp" fields in this "biblio" table, though. 2 - Do the UNIMARC / MARC 21 standards include any tag / subfield where this information should / may be saved in a bibliographic record? I have consulted the "Log Viewer" that is available in the "Tools" page of the "Intranet" area of Koha, but could NOT find any entry for creation / modification of bibliographic records: http://192.168.0.2:8080/cgi-bin/koha/tools/viewlog.pl Am I looking for this in the wrong places? If this functionality has NOT been implemented yet, are there any reasons for NOT doing it (e.g: any legal restrictions related to privacy concerns)? Thanks in advance! Best wishes, Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net

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Announcing Koha 3.00.00
by Joshua Ferraro 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 is now available. You can download from the usual location: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 checksum: 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a koha-3.00.00.tar.gz I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00 The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the packaged release. This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any new features. New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond. A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla: http://bugs.koha.org The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are pasted in below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime soon. Cheers, Joshua Ferraro Koha 3.0 Release Manager ============================================================================== RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0 ============================================================================== Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source integrated library system. You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally, Known Issues with this version. ============================================================================== WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3? ============================================================================== 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see: http://indexdata.dk/zebra Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc. Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling limits by availability and statuses. Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces. For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed in the RDBMS. 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform. The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process. 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50 (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and COinS/OpenURL (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html) Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9. Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote; and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a separate parsing function. To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP libraries (http://openncip.org) There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients. These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module. Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the catalog. OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to provide an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and editions of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling for these services, to keep within subscription limits. 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing. 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for multilingual libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi). Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM. You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools, or by visiting http://translate.koha.org. 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of 100% valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 and W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser. 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more! ============================================================================== REVISION CONTROL ============================================================================== With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including the Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see the Wiki page: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage ============================================================================== VERSION NUMBERING ============================================================================== With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to Perl's: major.minor[.revision[.build]] * major: one digit * minor: two-digit * revision: two-digit * build: three-digit This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number, and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in updater. Koha 3.0 Release Schedule: This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over the beta release: * General Bugfixing (over 150 bugs fixed since RC1!) * Nomenclature cleanup * Additional translations * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any new features. New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. ============================================================================== UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA ============================================================================== The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki at the following page: Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30 Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0: Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade ============================================================================== TEMPLATES ============================================================================== You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their contributions! ============================================================================== TRANSLATIONS ============================================================================== Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following languages: OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), fr-FR (French) hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish), ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan) Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian), ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan) Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following languages: OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish) gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), tet (Tetum) Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian), ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish), The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate ============================================================================== DOCUMENTATION ============================================================================== User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki (http://wiki.koha.org) The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions; please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel ============================================================================== KNOWN ISSUES ============================================================================== Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0

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Call for Translation Manager
by Joshua Ferraro 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi folks, Well, 3.0-stable is finally out, and includes over 31 translations, and that's really amazing ... thanks so much for all your hard work these past months! I'm writing this email to let you all know that I'm stepping down as the unofficial Translation Manager for future versions of Koha. For 3.0, I was serving as the Release Manager, de-facto QA Manager and the de-facto Translation Manager, and needless to say, that's too much for one person to bear -- I need a break. Many of you had excellent ideas for how to improve the translation framework in Koha to ease the process of translation, and improve the quality of the translations. I wish we'd had time to implement those ideas for 3.0, and I'm hoping we'll have a chance to do so for future versions of Koha. So ... I'm requesting candidates for the (hopefully) official position of Translation Manager. Here's a rough outline of the responsibilities: * Maintain a mechanism for non-technical translation teams to contribute translations to the Koha project (similar to the kartouche tool I've maintained at http://translate.koha.org, though as many of you have pointed out, better tools exist. * Keep all the translation .po files up to date from release to release, including translations submitted via the project-wide translation tool, and translations submitted by others * Coordinate with the RM to set 'string freezes' and communicate to the translation community about such dates * Coordinate with the RM to prepare and install translations of Koha An ideal candidate would have the technical skills necessary to to set up (host), maintain, and customize whatever project-wide translation tool we pick to replace Kartouche; and would be able to improve the existing tools within Koha for creating .po files, as well as make suggestions for how to improve transaltion of areas not currently covered by that tool (MARC Frameworks for instance). Such a candidate should also be able to manage the process of pushing translations upstream to the RM using Git, and providing the RM with access to patches that can't be transmitted easily via email due to length or encoding. As as side note, LibLime will continue to host the Kartouche installation at http://translate.koha.org until another tool is available, and we're happy to coordinate changing the DNS when such a tool is available. Any takers? -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO 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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Translation of Koha to Spanish
by Evelio Martínez 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hello all! I have a question concerning translation of strings . We have customized the koha intranet templates in english and now are trying to translate it to spanish. The aim is to reuse strings already translated by others and add or change some other. We have used the following commands: 1) ./tmpl_process3.pl install -r -i /www/koha/usr_share_koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/en -o /www/koha/usr_share_koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/es -s po/es-ES-i-staff-t-prog-v-3000000.po 2) ./tmpl_process3.pl update -i /www/koha/usr_share_koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/ -s po/es-ES-i-staff-t-prog-v-3000000.po -r The install and update commands seems to be successful I suppose that tmpl_process3.pl can merge an old translated file like po/es-ES-i-staff-t-prog-v-3000000.po and merge it with the new english template. is it correct? I am not sure because some lines of the new spanish template are been taken and some not. is this normal? The string "New Preference" in line 234 has not been changed to "Establecer Preferencias" #: /www/koha/usr_share_koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/es/modules/admin/systempreferences.tmpl:234 #, fuzzy msgid "New Preference" msgstr "Establecer Preferencias" <li><a id="newstopword" href="?op=add_form">New Preference</a></li> </ul></div> but the string "System Preferences &rsaquo; Data Added" it has been changed. #: /www/koha/usr_share_koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/prog/es/modules/admin/systempreferences.tmpl:2 #, fuzzy msgid "System Preferences &rsaquo; Data Added" msgstr "Administración de Preferencias del Sistema" <title>Intranet BBVA Infoblue &rsaquo; Administration &rsaquo;  System Preferences &rsaquo; Modify system preference ''Añadir una preferencia del sistema System Preferences &rsaquo; Data Added Any help will be appreciated Thanks in advance ------ Evelio Martínez Director proyectos software C/ Garcilaso, 15-bajo 46003 Valencia Telf: 96 369 41 23 Fax: 96 369 34 39 www.masmedios.com

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Post-3.0 git branch and version numbering
by Galen Charlton 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, Congratulations to all on Koha 3.0 stable! But, no rest for the weary... To get the transition to 3.2 started, I plan to do the following later today: [1] Create a 3.0-maintenance branch from the current master HEAD. Future 3.0 packages and bugfix releases (e.g., 3.0.1) will be based on this branch. [2] Make several changes in HEAD to switch to 3.2 mode, including: - changing version string in kohaversion.pl to 3.01.00.000. - committing a separate copy of the 3.0-stable kohastructure.sql to t/data/db_schemas/ for use by future test cases that will validate the database update mechanism. Since a stable 3.2 will be months away, for current work I suggest we stick with using 3.1 as the version number, following the Linux kernel convention that an odd subrevision number signifies an unstable development version. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Wiki instructions for dealing with 3.0.x
by Galen Charlton 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, I've added instructions to the wiki about handling the new branch:: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage#create_a_branch_t… If anybody finds an error or a better way to do it, please update the wiki or let me know. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Koha 3.0.x Git branch created
by Galen Charlton 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hi, I have created a branch for maintaining Koha 3.0.x in the public Git repository located at git.koha.org. This branch and the master HEAD currently point to the same state of the Koha source tree, the 3.0-stable version, but this will change as patches are accepted for 3.1. Specifically, work destined for 3.1 will be added to the master HEAD, and patches for the 3.0.x maintenance versions will be cherry-picked from HEAD or added directly to the 3.0.x branch. The branch is called 3.0.x - I decided to use something shorter than "3.0-maintenance". For Git users, the next time you do a git fetch, a reference to the remote branch will be fetched automatically. If you want to make a local branch in your git repository that tracks the official 3.0.x branch, you can do git fetch git branch --track my3.0.x origin/3.0.x Here "my3.0.x" is the name of your local branch, and "origin/3.0x" is the name of the remote branch that is being tracked. To check out that tracking branch, do get checkout my3.0.x If you are running a dev-mode installation of Koha 3.0 and you *don't* want your installation to start following the 3.1 developments, you should fetch, create the tracking branch, and check out that branch BEFORE rebasing and going through the database update. Later tonight I will be pushing a patch to master's HEAD that updates the version number to 3.01.00.000. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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RFC 3.2 : Koha Offline Circulation
by Kyle Hall 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hello All, This is a request for comments regarding the file format for the offline circulation system. The specification for the Koha Offline Circulation (.koc) file format can be found here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=koha_offline_circulation_file_format which Andrew Moore and I have come up with. I believe it is simple but extensible in case we need to add new features to the offline circulation client in the future. Having a standardized format means that we can have more than one offline circ client. The code to process this file format is already completed for both the client and server side processors. Please let me know what you think. Kyle -- http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )

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