December 2011 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Hackfest in Europe 2012 in march !
by Paul Poulain 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hello world, Last year, BibLibre has hosted a week of hackfest, where a lot of european people came to hack Koha. It was a very good week, so we decided to host a new one next year ! Last year, it was close to the release, maybe a little bit too close. So, for 2012 edition, it will be earlier. Last year, we had people coming from Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Norway. So, for 2012 edition, we hope to have more countries coming. We will warmly welcome ppl from Italy, Netherland, Croatia ! (If you want to come from NZ, US, AUS, IN, or anywhere in the world you're welcomed too, but it may be more expensive...) So, ask your boss, book your flight/train, and join us *** from monday, march 19th to friday, march 23 *** As last year: * the day start by 5-10 minuts meeting to assign tasks/goals. We work in groups of 2-3 dedicated to a given task = signing-off patches, testing, translating, fixing bugs, developing features,... * we work hard, and usually have a lot of things to eat or drink * the lunch is organised by BibLibre (one day pizza, one day sushi, one day, we have vegies at BibLibre so you'll be welcomed ;-) ), we share the fee (10€/lunch last year) * We're close to the center of Marseille, there are many hotels, from very cheap to very expensive ! If you plan to come, drop a mail to kim.nguyen -at- biblibre.com ! Disclaimer: this week is made for developers, it's not the place where you can discover Koha. For this, you'll have to wait a little bit, and go to the KohaCon11, in Edinburg, in June ! -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

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A few patches waiting for your signature...
by Paul Poulain 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hello world, Digging into bugzilla, I see there are a few patches that have been submitted more than 3 months ago and are still waiting for someone signing it... Here is the list: 6466 hung socket read causes SIP tests to fail SIP2 2011-06-06 6098 zebra conf NSB NSE indexed as space Searchin 2011-08-01 6115 Acquisition reports : date filter & sorting don't work Reports 2011-08-05 3431 Catalog by itemtype report pulling from holdingbranch Reports 2011-08-23 6800 Koha authentication should handle proxies better Authenti 2011-09-12 6917 Acquisitions reports: Dates filters doesn't work when they are not selected on row or column Reports 2011-09-26 I'm sure Koha will thank you if you give some of them a chance to become a part of the next release ! -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Improving permissions on lists (virtual shelves)
by Adalid Ortiz 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Excellent but I want to add a useful feature, list categories and subcategories like in this Koha fork called "Estantes virtuales": http://biblioteca.exactas.unlp.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?startfro… Saludos, Felipe Adalid Ortiz Anzaldo Bibliotecario de sistemas Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana Biblioteca Loyola http://clavius.tij.uia.mx Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 Playas de Tijuana 22200, Tijuana, B.C. 0 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 adalid(a)tij.uia.mx "En una jerarquía, el poder lo tiene quien guarda secretos; en una red el poder lo obtiene quien disemina información. -John Perry Barlow-> >Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving permissions on lists (virtual shelves) > From: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl> > Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:08:58 +0000 > To: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz>, > "koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> > >--===============0312935277== >Content-Language: nl-NL >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="_000_809BE39CD64BFD4EB9036172EBCCFA3137F0B6SMAIL1Brijksmuseu_" > >--_000_809BE39CD64BFD4EB9036172EBCCFA3137F0B6SMAIL1Brijksmuseu_ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Thanks all for responding to this inquiry. This was very helpful. > > > >I am merging here the results and will be posting them back to report 7310 = >or a wiki page. Feel free to correct me where I made the wrong conclusion. > > > >1 Public lists in OPAC: Currently, a user should be logged in to create a l= >ist. I would strongly recommend to keep that restriction. A new preference = >is added that allows opac users to create public lists or does not allow th= >at. > >Additionally, I would add the restriction that another opac user cannot cha= >nge the list type of a public list to private list or change the list permi= >ssions when he did not create it (currently possible); the owner can do tha= >t or a staff member with permissions in the staff client. > > > >2 Three new permissions per list: Add items, Delete own items, Delete other= > items. This makes the Open list type obsolete. > > > >3 Share private lists with another patron (as described before). Can be tur= >ned on/off with a preference. > > > >4 Staff client features: add an option under Tools to moderate inappropriat= >e list names for public lists and shared private lists. (A library is free = >to use it or not.) Add staff list permission: allow to manage lists (virtua= >l shelves). With that permission a staff member can moderate the list names= > as mentioned and access the staff Lists module. (He can change list type a= >nd permissions. He can take ownership of a public list if the owner has bee= >n deleted.) > >

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Koha 3.4.7 is now available [Corrected Version]
by Chris Nighswonger 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.7. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.7 are below the fold. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.4.7 07 Dec 2011 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.4.7 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.4.7 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.4.7 ====================== 7138 blocker Can't print basket group order pdf. 6628 critical [security] help system use insecure REFERRER for file inclusion 6629 critical [security] insecure use of Cookie for language selection 5945 major can't search patron's email anymore 6475 major Edit it's not possible subfield "0" in MARC framework 6977 major Support for repeated subfields when importing an authority into a biblio record field. 7069 major Javascript errors in tags/review 7095 major Merge Marker Test Issues Unclear Failure Messages 7134 major patron records getting funny birthdays 7207 major Cannot export label batches Bugs fixed in 3.4.7 ====================== 3958 normal Standardize vendor/supplier/bookseller terminology 5885 normal UNIMARC XSLT changes 5974 normal Bogus auth check for "StaffMember" role 6799 normal rebuild_zebra.pl -x produces invalid XML records 6895 normal Diacritics in Pootle/po files are broken in source text 6963 normal When creating a new order, the item isn't added if its barcode already exists in the items table. 6994 normal 'No budget defined' showing up although budgets and funds are defined 7076 normal shelfpage renders OPAC XSLT bloc for intranet Lists 7146 normal Update timestamps when deleting a biblio 4161 enhancement When adding Vendor default to active currencies 6471 enhancement column sorter on holds queue 7128 enhancement logged in and logged out states of opac-main.tt are hard to style 7184 enhancement have mysql returning errors 7188 enhancement case-insensitive grep of /mysql/ in C4::Context System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.2: * Template::Toolkit Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the english version of the Koha manual is available: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-4-manual/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese * Danish * English (New Zealand) * English (USA) * French (France) * French (Canada) * German * Greek * Hindi * Italian * Norwegian * Portuguese * Spanish * Turkish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.4 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> Release Maintainer (3.2.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> QA Manager: Colin Campbell Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.4.7 (The numeral in the first column represents the number of patches included in this release): 1 Nahuel ANGELINETTI 5 FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla 10 Chris Cormack 2 FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians 4 Katrin Fischer 3 Owen Leonard 1 Joy Nelson 4 Chris Nighswonger 2 Maxime Pelletier 5 Paul Poulain 2 Liz Rea 1 Marcel de Rooy 1 Salvador Zaragoza Rubio 6 Ian Walls We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.4.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.4.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.6.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 07 Dec 2011 16:48:02 Z #####

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on Bug 6802
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Hi, I've just heard of bug 6802, we are having some issues with that as it is holding a University from finishing its Koha official deployment. I'm willing to work on that, and would like to ask if something like this would be a good solution: somehow wrapping the "saveitem" block within if (C4::Context->preference("IndependantBranches")) { my $userenv = C4::Context->userenv(); unless (($userenv->{'flags'} == 1) or ($userenv->{'branch'} eq $item->{'homebranch'})) { # ERROR HANDLING CODE HERE } } might or not work. Hope we start a good discussion on this... Regards To+

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Koha 3.4.7 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.7. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.7 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.2 07 Dec 2011 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.6.2 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.02.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.6.2 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.6.2 ====================== 7285 blocker ILSDI service AuthenticatePatron doesn't work 6740 critical can add items at ordering but not remove items 6786 critical False detection of index names in Search; make index names case insensitive 6893 critical Order from suggestion does not remove suggestion from 'accepted' list 5211 major marking lost (long overdue) not charging fines 6022 major Auth_with_ldap check if categorycode is valid 6530 major item due notice label saying 'unknown' 7250 major stage_biblios_file.pl is missing options for encodings, wrongly passing the MARC flavour instead Bugs fixed in 3.6.2 ====================== 2346 normal consolidate duplicate methods C4::Overdues::UpdateBorrowerDebarred and C4::Members::DebarMember 4330 normal Copyright statements out of date 5974 normal Bogus auth check for "StaffMember" role 6291 normal Cart printing truncated in Firefox 6877 normal test for Libravatar::URL can cause scripts to abort 6894 normal Default currency on Acquisitions suggestion form 6926 normal overdue_notices don't send itemcount to notification 6966 normal Update Help Files for Koha 3.6 Release 6997 normal koha-remove leaves system in inconsistent state if there is an error 7105 normal Bad sql request in GetSubscriptions 7108 normal Lists of "Similar" languages break display across multiple lines in both Opac and Intranet 7120 normal After deleting order from order receive page redirect fails 7216 normal koha-restore doesn't set HOME 7251 normal Fields are separated by "t" when the delimiter preference is set to "tabulation" in overdue_notices.pl 7254 normal Show pending orders from baskets with closedate > 180 days 7268 normal Templates failing translation tests 7280 normal Can't place hold without selecting on list 2011 enhancement Link patron extra sort fields to authorized values 3385 enhancement Add checkout date and renewal date to display list of checked out items 4051 enhancement add columns to overdues export 4877 enhancement Create and update the manual pages for the koha-* scripts. 5327 enhancement Unit tests required for all C4 modules 6303 enhancement Display Organisation and Parent Organisation names when viewing a borrower of type organisation 7008 enhancement Sometimes zebra needs a tmp directory that it doesn't create itself 7041 enhancement Sort >1000 search results with sortmax parameter in zebra config file 7073 enhancement GetCOinSBiblio should take $record, not $biblionumber 7091 enhancement Patches required to make the packages know about the 3.6 release System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.4: * Perl 5.10 is required Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese (Taiwan) * Danish * English (USA) * English (UK) * French (France) * German * Italian * Portuguese (Brazil) * Spanish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.6 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com> Bug Wranglers: MJ Ray, Marcel Roy, Paul Poulain, Mason James Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Credits ====================== We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.6: * Los Gatos Public Library * NEKLS * East Brunswick Public Library * Athens County Public Libraries * Horowhenua Library Trust * Halton Borough Council * South Taranaki District Council We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.2. 1 Alex Arnaud 1 Greg Barniskis 3 Jared Camins-Esakov 2 Colin Campbell 2 FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla 8 Chris Cormack 1 Christophe Croullebois 1 FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians 1 Nicole Engard 1 Magnus Enger 5 Katrin Fischer 1 Chris Hall 1 Mason James 2 Srdjan Jankovic 1 Henri-Damien Laurent 7 Owen Leonard 9 Chris Nighswonger 1 Albert Oller 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 Maxime Pelletier 10 Paul Poulain 1 Liz Rea 2 Martin Renvoize 4 Marcel de Rooy 2 Adrien Saurat 3 Robin Sheat 2 Ian Walls We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.6.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.6.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.8.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 07 Dec 2011 16:41:07 Z #####

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[Koha] Koha fails to authenticate against a secured CAS server
by Auninda Rumy Saleque 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Hello everyone, Lately I tried to connect koha with a CAS server for testing purpose and everything seemed to work fine but when I tried to use a secured CAS server url for koha, the login keeps on failing and returns me to the koha login page with an invalid error msg 'Sorry, the CAS login failed.' am I doing something wrong here? Note: for an insecured CAS login url, both secured/insecured koha login works fine but it fails in both cases if i use a secured CAS url. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards -- Auninda Rumy Saleque Asst. System Programmer Ayesha Abed Library BRAC University Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Re: [Koha-devel] Version numbering, starting a discussion
by MJ Ray 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Paul Poulain <paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com> > === DB update numbering === [...] > What do you think of this idea ? Why should we keep the previous > numbering scheme ? Any other suggestion ? It doesn't really matter, so go with whatever's easiest to manage, but if you go back to plain numbers, I suggest starting from 4 so that it is still bigger than 3.7.whatever in one sense. > === Koha version numbering === [...] > This question arise because some of our libraries have problem > understanding what will be the next version number. It will be 3.8. And > the next one ? 3.10 or 4.0, depending on Solr or any other major change > being applied. And maybe, in april, Solr will be pushed, in this case it > would be called 4.0 (I don't think it will, but it's just for the example) > That's quite unclear for external people. All versioning numbers are hard for some people to understand. At least the current one has the advantage that Linux uses a similar one so there are already some education materials out there. > That's why I was wondering : why not use another, totally new numbering > schema. Because they're all less well-understood than our current one. You wouldn't believe the confusion the YY.MM Ubuntu-ish pattern seems to cause in new users. > There's also another interest with this idea: if we change completly our > numbering, we would not seem to be "late" against another software that > is currently numbered 4.8 (i've been in Greece recently, for a talk in > academic libraries. I saw that there is a big confusion here, and > changing the numbering would also help I think). Screw them. If that's the only reason, let's skip to 5.8 for the next release, or append ".not-a-LibLime-fake" to ours. But do we want to let them interfere with the real project in yet another way? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha

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Koha and Pazpar2
by SANDEEP BHAVSAR 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Respected All I would like to add Koha OPAC, open access databases and commercial databases (EBSCO, ProQuest) in pazpar2. Kindly guide me for integrating all these resources. -- Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601 MUMBAI. INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9029 345777 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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Global bug squashing day #7 - It's on!
by Magnus Enger 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Dear Community! Global bug squashing day #7 is almost an hour old - in Kiribati! http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-12-07_Global_bug_squashing_day And remember: you don't have to be a hard-core developer to make a difference! Take a look at the wiki page above to see all the fun things you can do! Best regards, Magnus Enger

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