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

Maintenance on git.koha-community.org
by Ian Walls 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Dear community, We have been experiencing downtime with community Git repo the last few days, mainly from insufficient system resources. ByWater Solutions, as the maintainer of this server, has decided we need to allocate more resources to the server in order to mitigate this issue and provide better uptime. git.koha-community.org will be down for the next hour or so as we resize the server. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause; please check the wiki (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Public_Git_Repositories) for other public repositories, including mirrors, if you need to obtain updated patches in this downtime window. I will notify everyone on this thread when the server is once again available. Thank you all for you patience and understanding. Cheers, -Ian -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal

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Re: [Koha-devel] Sending acquisition orders per email: confirmation
by Edgar Fuß 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Regarding the feedback that the email has actually been sent, I can think of three ways to do that: 1. Add a field 'closeaction' to the basket hash complementing the 'closedate' field. Set that to empty, 'print' or 'email'. Display that information in acqui/booksellers.pl, acqui/basket.pl and acqui/bsketgroup.pl. 2. Use the message queue. 3. Don't send the email to the bookseller, but to yourself; forward it manually. I'll probably look into implementing variant 1.

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Notifications RFC
by Elliott Davis 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hey Guys, I have noticed of late that notifications is in quite a state of disarray. At my library we have had to resort to running queries from a script and manually sending out mail because notifications just don't work in a usable way. I am proposing an overhaul of the notifications system. The only information I have to go on is what my library wants but since we are an academic library that may vary from what the vast majority of Koha wants. Before I made an official wiki for this RFC I wanted to get a general feel for how everyone felt about this. I also wanted to see if someone or a group was willing to pitch in and help me out with some coding. Essentially what I would like to do is model notifications to do the following: 1. Base notification rules on patron type, item type, and a new grouping I am hoping to write that I am calling the collection code 2. Define a frequency for notifications based on the previously stated groupings 3. Base the start time and end time for notifications on the due date rather than the checkout date I am very open to other suggestions and I hope to get some. I know that this idea is far from fully developed. Best, Elliott Davis

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Official Koha Newsletter : Volume 2, Issue 8: August 2011
by Daniel Grobani 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

[Below is the text of the newsletter. For active links and a more readable format, please visit http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-2issue-8-august-2011] Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 2, Issue 8: August 2011 Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor. Table of Contents Koha Developments Koha 3.4.4 Available Koha 3.6 Update Koha 3.2 End-of-Life Koha Community New Koha Libraries Community Gossip Past Koha Events New Zealand Koha Users Group Meeting Global Bug Squashing Day #3 August General IRC Meeting Upcoming Koha Events Global Bug Squashing Day #4 September General IRC Meeting KohaCon11 KohaCon12 Koha Developments Koha 3.4.4 Available by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.4. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.4 are below the fold. Come and get it! Continue reading “Koha 3.4.4 Available” Koha 3.6 Update by Chris Cormack We are rapidly closing in on the 3.6.0 release, so I thought it would be good remind everyone of the key dates. Feature freeze – 22 September 23:59 UTC – From this point on, no new features will be considered for inclusion into 3.6.0 String freeze – 8 October 23:59 UTC – no bugs that change templates accepted after this point. This allows the translators to translate without things changing on them Translations finished – 18 October 23:59 UTC – Translations submitted, so that they can be tested before release Release – 22 October Koha 3.2 End-of-Life It was decided at the August general IRC meeting that Koha 3.2 has reached the end of its life. Koha Community New Koha Libraries C.G. Jung Institute of New York (via ByWater Solutions) CAUSE (Comfort for America’s Uniformed Services) (via ByWater Solutions) Centenary College (via ByWater Solutions) Central Kansas Library System (via ByWater Solutions) All schools in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island are now using Koha. Community Gossip Paul Poulain of BibLibre is assisting 3.6 Quality Assurance Manager Ian Walls in reducing the backlog of patches waiting for QA testing. Lori Bowen Ayre is working on a spreadsheet comparing Evergreen & Koha features. Brenda Chawner asked community members several years ago to complete a survey as part of her PhD research on factors affecting satisfaction with the experience of a free/libre open source software project. Brenda recently thanked the community and provided an abstract of her PhD thesis. For more info, see http://markmail.org/message/gdofvpmbgseao2vb. Joy Nelson joined ByWater Solutions as their Migration Support Specialist. Melia Meggs joined ByWater Solutions as their Operations Manager. Hal Bright reports that the Farmington Libraries has integrated its Koha database into a mobile app powered by the Boopsie company in cooperation with its vendor, ByWater Solutions. For more info and a demo, see http://flct.boopsie.com. Equinox Software is looking to hire a Library Data and Support Specialist. ByWater Solutions is looking to hire a Perl developer for their support desk. Past Koha Events New Zealand Koha Users Group Meeting by Chris Cormack Today I had the great fortune of attending the first New Zealand Koha users group meeting, in the birthplace of Koha, Horowhenua. There were 51 attendees and even road closures and snow didn’t stop people attending. There was a really good mix of Library types, I think 18 from Publics, 18 from specials, and the rest schools, corporate and academic. It was run as an unconference so the first task of the day was to decide what would be talked about the rest of the day. The programme that we came up with was: The community – How to get involved and make the most Installation/migration/training and why should we use Koha Features – what’s there, and what would we like added Serials, acquisitions, cataloguing Managing digital resources Consortia And one other I have forgotten The discussions went really well, with lots of participation. It definitely won’t be the last meeting, I think we are leaning towards 2 a year but that’s something that will be decided on the mailing lists. While we were busy plotting plans to take over the world, (or at least New Zealand) Koha 3.4.3 was released. Global Bug Squashing Day #3 by Magnus Enger Global bug squashing days are dedicated to getting bugs and patches moving toward resolution. The third GBSD coincided with holidays and other obligations for some people, but we still managed to move a fair number of bugs along. These numbers below show how many bugs were moved to a new status during the day: Needs Signoff: 13 Signed Off: 12 Passed QA: 6 Pushed: 11 Resolved: 30 For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-08-05_Global_bug_squashing_day. August General IRC Meeting The August general IRC meeting was held on 2 August 2011. Highlights from the meeting include: Koha 3.2 has reached its end of life. The bare minimum requirement for a vendor to be listed on the community website is a visible link to the community website on the main Koha page of the vendor’s website. Daniel Grobani is the new newsletter editor. Those interested in a role in 3.8 should express interest to the mailing list by 22 September for an October election. For more info, including links to the minutes, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_2_August_2011. Upcoming Koha Events Global Bug Squashing Day #4 The next GBSD will occur on Friday, 2 September 2011. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-09-02_Global_bug_squashing_day. September General IRC Meeting The next general IRC meeting is 7 September 2011 1800 UTC. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_7_September_2011. KohaCon11 KohaCon11 will be held 31 October 2011 to 6 November 2011 in Thane, India. The organizers have extended the deadline for submitting papers from 15 August to 30 August 2011. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:KohaCon11 or http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11. KohaCon12 Proposals for KohaCon12 are being accepted until 1 September 2011. Voting will take place through 1 October 2011. Proposals have been made by software.coop in the UK and Washoe County Library System in Reno, Nevada, USA. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:KohaCon12.

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Regarding locale setting on Debian 6.0
by Somasekhar Rao K 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

Hi, I tried to set using 'dpkg-reconfigure locale'. But still I got same errors. Is there any alternative way of doing this? alos what should be the values of these locale settings. LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = (unset) Thanks & Regards, Somasekhar Rao K ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:02:18 +0530 From: Somasekhar Rao K <raosoma(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 3.4.4 is now available To: Mason James <mtj(a)kohaaloha.com> Cc: koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org Message-ID: <CAPzijStim=LBMg8eO4sKo=aOk4mimNM-cFBYrfKfbaF0bMtXpQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, Operating system: Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) using rackspace.com cloud server After execution of command sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade the output is something like this... Get:284 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main xfonts-utils amd64 1:7.5+2 [96.2 kB] Get:285 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main x-ttcidfont-conf all 32 [23.9 kB] Get:286 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main xml-core all 0.13 [23.4 kB] Get:287 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main wfinnish all 0.7-17.3 [2008 kB] Fetched 183 MB in 34s (5244 kB/s) perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = (unset) are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = (unset) are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 155, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 155, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 155, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Use of uninitialized value $classprefix in concatenation (.) or string at /tmp/dictionaries-common.config.8987 line 174, <STDIN> line 31. Regards, Sekhar On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Mason James <mtj(a)kohaaloha.com> wrote: > > On 2011-08-24, at 3:22 PM, Somasekhar Rao K wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Looks like the installation procedure on debian has changed. > > I tried to install on Debian 6.0 (squeeze) machine. I used rackspace.comcloud server. It didn't work out. > > > > Many errors. > > and those many errors were...??? > >

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Koha 3.4.4 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.4. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.4 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.4.4 - 22 August 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 3.4.4 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.03.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 3.4.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.4.4 ====================== 4415 critical child record only using parent's info 6269 critical can't undefine a printer profile 6611 critical patron barcode removed when editing an attribute 6634 critical manager_id not populated when paying fines 6635 critical Can't page through results in label batch 6643 critical Able to download patron card batches as an unauthorized user 6686 critical Can't delete messages 6713 critical marc import not matching 2629 major Diacritics not being ignored when searching 4873 major Debian packaging should avoid /var/run and /var/lock in the package 5131 major XSS vulnerability in the OPAC search results interface 5713 major Intranet - Circulation - Fines : debug calculation when fines are reversed then re-payed 6476 major Baker & Taylor Content Not Working after Upgrade 6614 major CSV Basket Export gives blank lines 6641 major Specially crafted URL can allow unauthorized download of MARC files from staff client 6642 major Able to download label batches as an unauthorized user Bugs fixed in 3.4.4 ====================== 1604 when doing a 'scan', "count" isn't displayed 1643 moredetail.pl allows item deletion with no warning and irrespective of independentbranches 4002 Issues with borrowernumber set as NULL 4433 $a displayed in front of topical subjects in authority search 4497 Acq > Manage suggestions contains untranslated strings 5072 Filling an order page with no budget defined causes a 500 error 5098 overdue script and csv 5660 Webinstaller should check if KohaOpacLanguage exists in staff 5737 ZOOM connection problem in merge_authority.pl when trying to do a batch merge. 6034 Shelving cart feature can wipe permanent shelving location in certain circumstances 6139 Automatic incrementation of call number does not work if given prefix contains a ' 6181 Remove CGI::scrolling_list from C4:Budgets 6235 "Saved" message in sysprefs never gets hidden on IE8 6280 Invalid SQL being passed in circulation checkout 6291 Cart printing truncated in Firefox 6369 Formatting problems on some items when printing an order form (PDF). 6373 The mandatory fields validation popup doesn't appear in IE8 6410 Returns use wrong borrower number var name 6458 incorrect parsing result in translation processing 6461 BiblioDefaultView has no impact on how record are displayed when going from results list 6468 Authorities browsing error in OPAC 6480 Koha produces a lot of apache logs for UNIMARC 6484 Due date sorter on 'my summary' missing 6521 Editing a patron fails with blank cardnumber 6578 serial items have misaligned columns in holdings table 6598 OPACFineNoRenewals syspreference does not stop user renewing in opac 6601 Dictionary items not adding to query 6632 [security] XXS on list name (on admin part) 6638 Columns misaligned on serials claims 6690 If multiple issues are received in serials-edit.pl, changing the status of any issue changes the date of the first issue. 6701 language on timeout system preference is wrong 6714 opac.css uses files in the /en/ directory when using other languages 6743 displayFacetCount not working 3605 Invalid XHTML in z3950_search.tmpl 4959 Language inconsistencies on basket groups; skip confirmation when closing basket. 5468 libyaz3 debian dependency 5662 Show control number without organization code in OPAC URLs 5663 Show control number without organization code in staff URLs 6057 Improve finding next stock number 6080 Total is wrong in acqui-home.pl 6116 Adding child patron: library not set 6135 Insert fields ordered in C4::Biblio::ModBiblioMarc 6144 Cant hide constraints when showed at subfield edition 6290 Fixing uninitialized warnings on homebranch in XSLT.pm 6311 end_patron_session always reports a non-existent error 6346 Patron search results should be valigned top 6412 notes on pay fine full of spaces 6474 Automatic incrementation of call number does not work if given prefix contains a - 6503 Variable $sth is declared 3 times (with keyword "my") in "makepayment" sub of "Accounts.pm" 6599 Don't show dictionary definition table if there are no definitions 6622 Remove closing style tag from staff-global.css 6626 Packages require sudo to work, but it's not a dependency. 6678 Fix some problems with the standard NORMARC framework 6260 Missing space in availability information of OPAC XSLT results 6527 Table striping not working on cataloguing search 6702 BiblioAddsAuthorities pref says too instead of to 5719 Update UNIMARC plugins 5922 Show waiting items for patron on return 6078 Patron with no checkout Report overload the server 6150 UNIMARC field 225 plugin: allow $a value data entry 6259 AllowHoldPolicyOverride ON causes every staff hold to require override 6309 subscription table sorter in the opac 6482 koha-create makes assumptions about the mysql username 6486 Need a quick way to access mysql as the user for a koha instance 6534 Duplicate opac renew buttons at the top of the checkouts list 6540 Add more options to koha-create 6553 Parentheses in corporate author break tracings 6612 Sort pulldown for messages in alphabetical order 6692 Change 'Set' to 'Set library' 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 3.4.4 Alex Arnaud Colin Campbell FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla Chris Cormack Christophe Croullebois StÃ©phane Delaune FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians Nicole C. Engard Magnus Enger Katrin Fischer Srdjan Jankovic Janusz Kaczmarek Owen Leonard FrÃ¨re SÃ©bastien Marie Ricardo Dias Marques Julian Maurice Sophie Meynieux Chris Nighswonger Paul Poulain preprod34 MJ Ray Liz Rea Marcel de Rooy Brice Sanchez Jean-AndrÃ© Santoni John Seymour Robin Sheat Juan Romay Sieira Jane Wagner 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

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Importing checkout records into Koha
by Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hello, I have what my patrons have checked out in CSV format .... name, then barcode .. next line - name then barcode .. etc. is there a way to import this quickly into Koha? Or do I need to manually input who has what checked out .. Thanks! David W. Hartman Global Business Technology Strategy Library Team Disney 336N 407 828 4250 (8-222) FAX 407 828 4868 FOLLOW MY RESEARCH on Backlot<http://backlot.disney.com/> & Yammer<http://www.yammer.com/>! Learn about our research partners in the 2011 IT Research Competency Center<http://tink.corp.disney.com/?i=ko0> GBTS CAST can click to request AV Equipment<http://tink.corp.disney.com/?i=jbo>, Books<http://tink.corp.disney.com/?i=jbp>, & Research<http://tink.corp.disney.com/?i=jbn> WATCH the GBTS Library (Video) Update<http://tink.corp.disney.com/?i=2f0> ! CLICK for the GBTS VIRTUAL LIBRARY<http://tink.corp.disney.com/?i=1wn>portal site!! "This communication is confidential, intended only for the named recipients above and may contain trade secrets or other information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication by anyone other than the named recipients is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by calling (407) 828-4250. Thank you." [cid:image001.gif@01CC560B.7F6FBCC0]Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail [cid:image001.gif@01CC560B.7F6FBCC0] Think Environmentality! Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

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4221 and 6092 bugs
by Fridolyn SOMERS 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hie, I'm working on both 4221 and 6092 bugs. I think this bug are duplicates. The two corrects the problem of default sort oder and field in sysprefs : - 4221 sets the default values in SQL database creation script. - 6092 sets the default values in Perl code. We should choose wich one is the rigth solution. In my opinion, it is more simple to set it in the code, like many other preferences do, to make it work whatever is in database. Regards, -- Fridolyn SOMERS ICT engineer PROGILONE - Lyon - France fridolyn.somers(a)gmail.com

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Use Item Location instead of BranchCode in Circulation
by Bernard Shiundu 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

A koha library I manage has multiple branches but the lending rules are based on sections within the library and all the branches have the same sections. The way I see it, the way to manage this is to change the circulation and issuing rules to use location rather than branchcode. Is this a feasible project and any alternative ideas on how best to manage this? -- *Bernard Shiundu* ***------------------------------------------ **S**trathmore University Library* *P.O.Box* 59857 - 00200 City Square - Nairobi, Kenya *Tel*: +254 020 6006155 *Fax*: +254 020 6007498 *Mobile*: +254 733 618135/722 205 428

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Key Dates for 3.6.0
by Chris Cormack 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

We are rapidly closing in on the 3.6.0 release, so I thought it would be good remind everyone of the key dates. * Feature freeze – 22 September 23:59 UTC – From this point on, no new features will be considered for inclusion into 3.6.0 * String freeze – 8 October 23:59 UTC – no bugs that change templates accepted after this point. This allows the translators to translate without things changing on them * Translations finished 18 October 23:59 UTC – Translations submitted, so that they can be tested before release * Release 22 October Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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