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

3.2.x Maintenance Reminders
by Chris Nighswonger 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi folks, Its great to see all of the hard work being done on Koha of late. Over 850 commits have been pushed to master since the 3.2.0 branch, and over 525 commits have been pushed to the 3.2.x branch since that same time. With the big push on to QA and push commits in before the string freeze for 3.4.0, this is a good time to draw our attention to a couple of good maintenance practices. Please, 1. ensure that commits which should be backported to 3.2.x apply cleanly to the 3.2.x branch _before_ submitting them for sign-off. 2. clearly note [3.2.x] in the subject line of patches intended only for 3.2.x. 3. sign off on _both_ versions of a patch if there are two versions. If these things are done, there is far less of a chance of a patch being dropped and not making it into 3.2.x. Thanks again for all of the hard work that goes into making Koha the great ILS that it is! Kind Regards, Chris Nighswonger 3.2.x Release Maintainer

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Hacker's corner, week 12
by Paul Poulain 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hello, What happened this week on koha source code ? First of all, just a number: 425. This is the number of mails i've recieved from bugzilla last week. Each mail is related to a change on a bug. It means we had *a lot* of changes ! 1- bugs fixed ======== 40 bugs have been marked fixed. Once again, Julian did most of them, but Liz, Marcel, Jared, Colin and Nicole closed at least one. The list of bugs "pushed, please close" continues to go lower and lower. As some have been added to this list, the 55 remaining last week minus the 34 fixed this week result in ... 40 remaining. I feel something like 20-30 is a "normal" number, so a little effort is still required, but the situation tend to be better every week. 2- Patches pushed ========== 26 bugs have been pushed at the end of last week. They are now waiting to be marked "fixed". Most of the pushed patches are related to bugfixes and/or minor improvements (ie: an improvement that does not change a lot Koha). The new features that have been pushed are: - a new report for holds has been added - A new tool has been added to do "static source code analysis". It will be used on jenkins (continued integration server) soon, and will let us know/check the perlish quality of the source code. 3- Patches to sign-off ============= 27 patches have been signed-off. Thanks to Katrin, Frédéric, Nicole, Jared, Julian, Chris_n, Owen, Marcel, that all have signed-off at least one patch. The challenge I gave us last week failed: in the mean time, 37 patches have been set "please sign-off". It means more bugs have been added than solved ! Once again, I encourage everybody to take a few hours every week to deal with a few patches. As of today, 139 patches are waiting for sign-off. 4- to discuss ======== Reminder: every feature or bug that is not signed-off is not integrated into Koha. It means that the soft you'll install when Koha 3.4 will be released will either be released with a bug, or without a feature that can be interesting for everybody. Sometimes signing-off a patch requires a lot of work, if you need help, don't hesitate to ask on the bug itself or on koha-devel mailing list. See you next week for Hacker's corner, week 13 ! -- 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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Koha 3.4.0 release schedule - April is coming fast
by Chris Cormack 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi All After 5 (soon to be 6) on schedule 3.2.x releases we are closing in our 6 month target for a 3.4.0 release. Release date is April 22 2011 So in light of that, here are some key dates we all need to be aware of April 1st : Feature freeze April 8th : String freeze Aprit 22nd : Release day So what do these dates mean for you Feature Freeze: Any patches for new features submitted on or before April 1st will be considered for inclusion. This means you don't have to have your patch signed off by the 1st, but it does have to be submitted, and attached to a bug by then. String Freeze: Patches containing changes to the templates will not be accepted after this date (barring security fixes) After the string freeze we have 2 weeks for the translators to translate, and for the rest of us (who should have been tested like mad already, to keep testing). On about the 20th, I will remove any partially completed features, or any that cause regressions, and the release will go ahead on the 22nd. One other important note. On the 1st I propose to merge new/enh/bug_5917 (which is the Template::Toolkit work) into master. I will branch another branch at that point that people can continue to use for signing off any patches that contain .tmpl changes. I will take care of merging the changes to master. From then on, any newly submitted patches should be against the .tt files. You can help this go a lot smoother by testing 5917 now. Thanks Your friendly neighbourhood release manager Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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Koha 3.2.6 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.2.6. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.06.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.06.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.06.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.06.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.2.6 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.6 - 22 March 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 3.2.6 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.06.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation Koha 3.2.6 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.2.6 ====================== Some of the higher profile bugs addressed in this release are: 3624 Basket group delivery place 2975 Offline circ tries to circ on biblio-level "itemtype" 5824 Creating a circ rule for a library other than default causes set library anomalies 3341 fines calculation erroneous when a repeatable holiday is added. 4438 incorrect "Budget total exceeds period allocation" error when editing fund 4853 Rights needed to renew a document 5064 Poor response time on acquisitions screen 5527 Reports: Patrons who haven't checked out misses active users from issues table 5595 can't search 'searchable' patron attributes 5818 date picker broken on label batches Bugs fixed in 3.2.6 ====================== 1953 remove possible SQL injection attacks 2742 Wrong language name in the preferences 3319 Need a nicer error message when attempting to add a patron with no libraries defined 4072 hidelostitems hides all results when searching (nozebra) 4290 search for author in repository 5157 borrowers top issuers filters problems 5693 if parentheses used in ccode then searches against ccode fail 5736 Fixing some zebra configuration errors in marc21/biblios/record.abs 5819 No toolbar in record view when quotes present in title 5820 funds/budget language inconsistency when ordering 4852 Facets doesn't work with direct CCL queries 4885 Only 1 ISBN shows in non-XSL detail view 5642 Item field serial enumeration (enumchron) should be longer 5703 Content of the $9 subfield is shown for series when in Normal view. 5799 language inconsistency 5812 Tag Cloud - capitalized words come before lower-case words 5814 Style error message on manage staged records page according to standard style 5846 mod_gzip can missing compressing Javascript files 3670 Why is DUE all caps on enhanced messages 5569 addbiblio fails while editing and deleting mandatory repeatable subfields 5813 ersatz file in source tree 5733 Empty cart in intranet when session is closed 5792 new reference icon for bridge set 5831 rebuild_zebra.pl does not respect -r flag Bugs with no bug number fixed in 3.2.6 ====================== Adding release dates and 2 new developers BZ3624, proposed patch for kohastructure.sql rewritten Fixing a utf8 issue with the translator tests Fixing license and copyright statement for updatedatabase.pl Fixing the translatable tests to work in french locales update INSTALL* to acknowledge the use of mod_deflate System requirements Translations new/updated in 3.2.6 ====================== de-DE es-ES nl-NL pt-BR pt-PT ru-RU tet-i tr-TR uk-UA ====================== Changes since 3.0: * The minimum version of Perl required is now 5.8.8. * There are a number of new Perl module dependencies. Run ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m to get a list of any new modules to install during upgrade. Upgrades ====================== The structure of the acquisitions tables have changed significantly from 3.0.x. In particular, the budget hierarchy is quite different. During an upgrade, a new database table is created called fundmapping that contains a record of how budgets were mapped. It is strongly recommended that users of Koha 3.0.x acquisitions carefully review the results of the upgrade before resuming ordering in Koha 3.2.x. 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, several translations of the Koha manual are available: English: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/ Spanish: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-es/ French: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-fr/ 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://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html 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 3.2 is Release Manager: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt(a)gmail.com> Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigallofwax.co.nz> Release Maintainer (3.0.x): Henri-Damien Laurent <henridamien.laurent(a)biblibre.com> Release Maintainer (3.2.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.2.6: Nahuel Angelinetti TomÃ¡s Cohen Arazi Colin Campbell FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla Galen Charlton Chris Cormack StÃ©phane Delaune FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians Marcel de Rooy Nicole C. Engard Katrin Fischer Janusz Kaczmarek Henri-Damien LAURENT Owen Leonard Chris Nighswonger Paul Poulain MJ Ray Robin Sheat Reed Wade Ian Walls We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. The 3.2.x Release Maintainer especially thanks the 3.4 Release Team and all who participated in QA for their diligent labors in testing and pushing well over 500 patches since the 3.2.0 relese. Their continued work very much makes possible the release of 3.2.6 on its announced schedule. 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 3.2.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.2.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.4.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.

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Kohacon11 accommodation
by Koustubha Kale 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi All, I have added a few hotels information in Kohacon11 website's accommodation section here http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11/schedConf/accommodation The table has hotel name, link to its website, room type, single or double occupancy rates, hotel phone & email. The select button at the end of each row allows you to indicate your choice of hotel, room type, single or double occupancy etc. It leads to a small form where you can put in your contact information. This data will help us in talking to hotels for bulk booking so please do fill up the form if you need accommodation assistance. Don't rush to book on the hotels site. We are trying for bulk booking and discounts :) Will add more hotels information asap. Please indicate your choice of accommodation by clicking Select in the row and filling up the small form that comes up. This will help us in determining numbers & negotiate better deals from hotels. Once we have negotiated rates from all hotels in the vicinity, we will link the form to VPM's online secure payment gateway where you can actually make payment for the room selected and book the room for duration required by you. At that time I will link the above form to the payment gateway and also send the payment gateway link to those who have already indicated their room choice. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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Call: March Newsletter Articles
by Nicole Engard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi all, It's that time again - please get me your newsletter articles by the 23rd (your time zone) of February so that I can include them in the newsletter. Thanks a bunch, Nicole C. Engard

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Re: [Koha-devel] Hacker's corner week 10
by Marcel de Rooy 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Paul, This is more than helpful! Very GOOD. I think we should indeed have a weekly mailing of bugs needing attention. Just a few additional remarks: An alinea with some statistics like you gave would be nice each time. Hopefully, the number of 150 needing signoff goes down (it was like 170). Pushed to close: imo they should be closed by the one who reported, wrote the patch or signed the patch, and not by someone else. Mentioning these bugs is not the first issue. Some abbreviations could be explained: blo=blocker for instance. Some of us would maybe like to add a few bug numbers for attention or discussion: would it be handy to open a page on the wiki for that purpose? To mention a few: discussion on 5572 (I mailed the list already, but no response yet). Discuss reopening 2173 (I would favor restoring OpacNav on detail screen). Etc. Etc. In order to keep drawing attention, the mail should not be too long of course. Marcel -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] Namens Paul Poulain Verzonden: zaterdag 5 maart 2011 23:36 Aan: koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org Onderwerp: [Koha-devel] Hacker's corner week 10 Hello all, As announced during the last IRC meeting, i'll try to write a weekly summary about bugzilla/developer activity : bugs submitted, patches submitted,... Let me know if you find this handfull, if you'd like to see another information, i'll do my best to report what is interesting ! I'll try to announce usually : * what's new since last week * what's still waiting For this 1st mail, i'll concentrate on what's waiting. In one word: it's huge, *WE NEED YOU*. Just a few numbers = 102 bugs are "patch pushed" and are waiting for someone to close them after checking the bug or the feature is OK in master. 149 bugs are "waiting sign-off": remember Koha 3.4 should be released on late april, and it would be too bad if so many patches were not integrated just because they have not been signed-off by anyone ! I've added some links on http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Bugzilla that will let you see the details of what's summarized in this mail. 1- bugs closed ========= 19 bugs were closed last week. 2- bugs pushed to close ============== There are 102 bugs that have a patch pushed and require someone to check and close the bug. The oldest is the 1883, and there are some critical ones, like the 5423, 5611, 4141, 4857, 5041, 5824. 3- bugs to sign-off =========== There are 149 bugs to sign-off. #2795 = The oldest is also a CRI one Offline circ tries to circ on biblio-level "itemtype" <http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2975> #3624 = a BLO one ! a patch has been submitted to update the DB structure. Without this patch, the DB is inconsistent on update #5449 = another BLO one ! JSON malformed in Koha - Blocker with jQuery 1.4.x <http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5449> There are 7 CRI, that are waiting for someone to check = 2975, 3652, 4276, 4993, 5027, 5379, 5646. But the 149 are worth a check, of course. 4- to discuss ======== I also have found that those bugs should/could be discussed #5009 = Dobrica Pavlinusic <mailto:dpavlin@rot13.org> has submitted a patch to add autocomplete="off" to borrowernumbers and barcode forms Owen has closed the bug, I think it's worth more investigation. Please give your opinion ! #5390 = library choice not remaining when searching opac. Nicole E. ask an interesting question, jump in the discussion & send a patch if you've an idea! #5533 = marking item lost diff in two places, same thing, jump in the thread Nicole starts ! PS: (once again) congratulations to chris_c => i've searched for patches signed-off waiting (waiting to move to "pushed, pls test"). It's easy, there are only 3, 2 of them being only a few hours old, and probably not here anymore when you'll read this mail. HTH -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/

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New Holds Reports in Koha
by Nicole Engard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Today the holds reports were pushed to Koha - I know I signed off on the patch, but now I'm wondering if this report actually works. I didn't have any holds data and the report wasn't throwing errors, but now that I have a bunch of holds I'm not seeing any numbers in this report. Can anyone else confirm that it works? Nicole

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Adding items in Acquisition 3.2
by Marcel de Rooy 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, The new feature (in Koha 3.2) of adding items in Acquisitions with the framework display is quite promising. It appears however that the framework plugins cannot be activated there. Do I overlook something? Or is anyone still working on this functionality? Regards, Marcel

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barcode question
by pete huerter 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi list, I am trying to understand all code related to barcodes. 1. It appears that C4::Barcodes is only used in additem.pl. Additem.pl appears not to be involved in batch processing. 2. 952$p (barcode) does not appear in the Add Item Koha screen, so the plugin is not callable. If all this is true, then whey is there a barcode.pl value_builder? When would it be called? Is the barcode.pl value_builder only invoked when AutoBarcode type is "NONE"? In which case the code in barcode.pl value_builder effectively replaces that in C4::Barcodes? (the logic of the various barcode types appears to be duplicated in barcode.pl). Can I just customize barcode.pl to effectively solve the problem of assigning barcodes leaving C4::Barcodes, and C4/Barcodes/* untouched? -or- are is modification of both methods necessary for some reason? Thanks, Pete.

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