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

Devel list admin OK? was: [Koha] Vote for KohaCon 2011
by MJ Ray 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:43:01 -0000 (UCT) > From: "Thomas Dukleth" <kohalist(a)agogme.com> [...] > X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:32:02 +0100 15-2 = 13 days. Does the devel list need more admins? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha

2 2

Workgroup on data persistence
by LAURENT Henri-Damien 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Hi back in 2010, we talked about data persistance. And soon release is coming soon. So it is now time we make something about Data Persistance. Some tests have been done. Some results can be used. I propose we set some meeting next week any day in the morning between 8AM UTC to 12AM UTC. I donot set up a doodle. You can answer this message, I will try to gather trends. Hope that helps. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT

4 3

reminder when editing JS -- (IE hates you)
by Reed Wade 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

I've just been fixing some of these which cause random versions of IE to fail in random ways so thought I'd send a reminder to the list. Compare this: Calendar.setup({ blah : "pie", blarg : "cake", }); with this: Calendar.setup({ blah : "pie", blarg : "cake" }); That spare comma after the cake in the first example will cause some flavours of IE to choke. Most browsers aren't so fragile on that point. It's easy to accidentally leave these laying around when changing args around and they don't tend to break for most browsers. Maybe we can add in a test for these at some point in the future. I can imagine a regex that should catch the bulk if not all of them. -reed

2 1

Intro and question
by Doug Dearden 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hello all, I realized I had never introduced myself on this list. I am the "do everything" guy at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. We are a non-profit research facility and have an on-campus library where we are currently running Koha. I am responsible for all computer support, networks, servers, etc. on campus except for our public web site - that is handled by a couple of other very capable guys. As such I get into programming infrequently, but have enough of a history coding in different languages that I can usually figure out what I need to do by hitting online references and such. I would definitely not characterize myself as a full time developer, but feel comfortable tweaking existing code to get things working the way we want. On our current Koha install I modified the xsl files to display links stored in the 856u field as images instead of text link, a feature our librarian wanted to function on a particular database that she is using to catalog some archival photos. I am now working on getting this working in a way that I can contribute back and hopefully have integrated into Koha - see bug 5738. I have this working for the MARC21 files - I got it working on the OPAC last week and on the Staff Client today, but also wanted to get the unimarc files modified as well. I have done some coding but realized I needed to test this. And here is my question. I did another DEV install, and chose unimarc during the when answering the questions. That question only seemed to apply to zebra though. Looking at the koha-conf.xml it looks like it is pointing to the MARC21 xsl files. What do I need to do to get a unimarc dev install working? I have not yet connected to the admin page as I didn't want to populate the database with MARC21 info. Does it happen automatically there? Any guidance appreciated. Thanks, Doug Dearden Director, IT School for Advanced Research (505)954-7220 sarweb.org

2 1

Partneship between BibLibre and Catalyst to sponsor development on Koha
by Paul Poulain 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Just FYI : http://www.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/partneship-between-biblibre-and-catal… Friendly -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

3 2

3.2.4 Release Schedule
by Chris Nighswonger 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Well, its that time again! 3.2.4 is on track to be released on February 22, 2011, however, there is another important date between now and then which you should be aware of. On February 15, 2011, 3.2.4 will enter a string freeze to facilitate finalization of translation updates. After this date the only patches introducing string changes which will be pushed for 3.2.4 will be those addressing blocker bugs or security issues. All others will be pushed to 3.2.5. Patches not introducing string changes will be pushed up to the time of the release. Keep up the good work! Kind Regards, Chris Nighswonger 3.2 Release Maintainer

1 0

Koha and IE7
by savitra sirohi 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Folks, one of our customers is looking to use Koha with IE7. We will probably need to test Koha on IE7 and then fix all significant issues in a short period of time. We don't want to overcommit, so should we take this on? How many issues are we likely to find? And of what type - css, js? I really appreciate any input on this. - Savitra

2 3

Solr and Z3950 server some news.
by LAURENT Henri-Damien 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hi We are getting a pretty nice working z3950 server for solr there. We are parsing RPN queries quite generally using a perl module Regexp::Grammars::Z3950::RPN and RPN2Solr It is working quite well for simple usage (no exp1 or gils queries). But at the moment it is serving right only marcxml and not ISO2709. I think we may have to try and determine exactly what type of data the Z3950 server is supposed to send to yaz-client when serving "MARC" data. It comes with the wip/solr branch. I hope I will be able to add some information as of how to set a box on that branch soon. Hope that helps. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT

2 3

Koha 3.4 sprint-week organised by BibLibre
by Paul Poulain 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hello, For those not following our blog, pls take a look at: http://www.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/koha-34-sprint-week-from-apr-4th-to-8… All BibLibre will work on this sprint week, and we hope many ppl will join us ! If someone in America,Oceania, Asia, Africa, or Artica want to join, he will be welcomed, but maybe it's even better to organize your own sprint-week in your area ;-) friendly -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

3 2

Seeking comments on Bug 5234 - Remove unused CSS files
by Owen Leonard 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

These CSS files look like they're a relic of pre-3.0 days: intranet-print.css intranet.css intranet2.css intranet2popup.css This one hasn't been touched sine 2007: staff-global2.css ...Is it used by anyone? What about blue.css? http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5234 Thanks, Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

5 5