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

tools should they be command line executable as well ?
by Paul Poulain 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hello all, On http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5636 Ian asked a question last month no-one answered. So I ask it here: > Style question to the community: should core pages in the staff client (like > tools/cleanborrowers.pl) have both a templated page in the staff client AND a > command-line presence, or should the commandline tool be a separate script in > misc/? > > At this time, there doesn't seem to be any precedent for inclusion in the core > script. Before passing this patch for QA, I'd like to get some feedback, as > this may both open doors for us, as well as create additional work to create > consistency of implementation for existing jobs. My answer is: * right, there is no precedent * This feature to clean borrowers from command line is highly useful : most libraries want to define a rule, and have it applied every week, through a cronjob. But some want to clean manually. So it's meaningful to have a script for both cases. * I think it's fair to have this script run from both, and it's better than having 2 scripts for that, it's easier to maintain * I think a few other script could usefully have the same feature : import_borrowers, batchMod (that does both mod and deletion of items), and that's probably all. So, overally, my choice is : let the need decide. If it's useful for some, do it, but double check for security issues. -- 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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KohaAdminEmailAddress error - Koha 3.05
by Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

For sending emails .... Is there a way to make the To: and From: addresses different in the auto generated messages? I am getting error messages that we are sending to and from the same address. It looks like koha is using the admin address (KohaAdminEmailAddress) for both. I am wondering if there is a configuration setting we are missing. David W. Hartman Global Business Technology Strategy Library

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Notices/Overdues Meeting Reminder
by Elliott Davis 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi All, I'd just like to remind you that there will be an IRC meeting tomorrow September 15, 2011 at 1800 UTC. Feel free to visit the wiki<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Notifications_RFC> and see what we have currently laid out. Best Regards, Elliott Davis

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Database Schema
by Chris Cormack 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hi All For everyone who writes reports, or develops on Koha, we have a new site available to help. http://schema.koha-community.org/ This, combined with the work Nicole has been doing to add comments allows for nice information like this http://schema.koha-community.org/tables/biblio.html It is up to date with master (what will be 3.6.0 on October 22), and will continue to track master thereafter. Thanks to Robin for rediscovering SchemaSpy and to Nicole for adding comments. Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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Recall: KohaAdminEmailAddress FW: User Request for update of Record.
by Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library would like to recall the message, "KohaAdminEmailAddress FW: User Request for update of Record.".

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FW: User Request for update of Record.
by Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

I am getting this error message when I try to send admin notices. Can anyone help? _____________________________________________ From: postmaster(a)int1.disney.pvt [mailto:postmaster@int1.disney.pvt] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:05 PM To: Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library Subject: Undeliverable: User Request for update of Record. Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists: david.w.hartman(a)disney.com<mailto:david.w.hartman@disney.com> NOTE: If you are sending a message to an ESPN employee and using Outlook 2007 on a PC, click the To: field and click on the name in the Global Address List to add it. Then click OK. The recipient's e-mail address was not found in the recipient's e-mail system. Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please check the e-mail address and try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator. Diagnostic information for administrators: Generating server: int1.disney.pvt david.w.hartman(a)disney.com #< #5.1.1> #SMTP# Original message headers: Received: from WW-R-ITLWDW1K5M.wdw.disney.com ([ww-r-itlwdw1k5m.wdw.disney.com [172.16.190.240]]) by int11.disney.pvt with ESMTP id p89K51ud009424 ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 20:05:01 +0000 Received: from WW-R-ITLWDW1K5M.wdw.disney.com (WW-R-ITLWDW1K5M.wdw.disney.com [127.0.0.1]) by WW-R-ITLWDW1K5M.wdw.disney.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CF63DAAD for <david.w.hartman(a)disney.com>; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:03:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: User Request for update of Record. Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:03:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" To: <david.w.hartman(a)disney.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: <david.w.hartman(a)disney.com> Message-ID: <20110909200334.B7CF63DAAD(a)WW-R-ITLWDW1K5M.wdw.disney.com>

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kohacon11 : Update..
by Koustubha Kale 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi All, My apologies for missing yet another meeting. I had an accident. Right arm ( my working arm ) bone & elbow broken. Had to be hospitalized and operated on. I had actually logged in for the meeting with my mobile & left thumb but I was overwhelmed by the medicines during the 3.4 discussion. Anyway I am home now with a couple of weeks compulsory rest. Kohacon11 program as put up by Brooke here<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohacon2011>( http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohacon2011 ) looks good. All ground preparations are in hand by VPM authorities. I have requested an additional hall/classroom may be made available in case we require it to run parallel tracks. I will communicate more details about the planned cultural program & dinner, planned one day Mumbai trip for 3rd November etc.. So looks like we will have a great Kohacon11. Looking forward to meeting you all there.. 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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FW: [Koha] Commentary on Paul's Koha 3.8 Release Manager proposal
by Marcel de Rooy 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

I think both proposals (from Paul and Ian) contain very good points, are ambitious and motivating for the community. With people like Ian and Paul in the release team, we will definitely reach a Koha 4.0! I would however not favor working in parallel on Koha 3.8 and 4.0 as well as maintaining 3.6.X (and possible even 3.4.X for a while). I think that three or four versions together with lowering quality standards will not result in a better product, but could imply more bugs, rebasing problems and time lost on synchronizing between versions, testing in multiple versions, etc. Why not keep it simpler? Develop in master (heading to 4.0 and solR), and keep 3.6.X stable (as soon as 3.6.X is there, declare 3.4.X end-of-life too). Just focus on those two versions. A long feature list for 4.0 is very nice and Ian's development plan may theoretically be the best way to go, but probably hard to realize in practice. A simpler approach would be: as soon as solR and searching is ready and stable, we reach 4.0. This could be after 3.8, 3.10, .. (Stick to the 6m cycle.) We have been growing into a higher QA standard when we came from 3.2. I think it would be a pity if we already lower that standard too quickly. A problem is obviously the longer time between submission and pushing. Probably, we could improve in that area by adding some persons at the QA level (Ian may have two assistants in 3.8?), asking the bug wranglers to test older patches first and let them communicate more about these patches, and doing QA first on these older signed patches. Currently, time does not really rule selection of a patch in signoff or QA, but other factors like author, size, attractive title, etc. At the same time we could allow people perhaps to sign the more easy, trivial patches themselves (especially if they have them running in production already somewhere). If QA would disagree, they could lower the patch status back to Needs signoff for getting another external test. We could make a proposal how to change current procedures for this without compromizing quality. What we should avoid, is large, very large patches without test plan. These patches did not come through now too. Which is quite understandable. Such patches should be broken up into manageable units with a test plan. Hope this helps, Marcel > Everyone, > > > Enclosed is my response to Paul Poulain's proposal for Koha 3.8 Release > Manager. The details of his document can be found here: > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Proposal_paul_p_RM38 > > I thoroughly agree that the time has come to start thinking beyond the > next stable release, and on to Koha 4.0. Those of you who have seen > either my presentation at KohaCon 2010's hackfest or KUDOScon 2011 know > I'm very excited about the possibilities of where we can take Koha in > it's next major iteration. However, I disagree with a couple of the > details of Paul's proposal. > > The major disagreement is with the timeline. The proposal as it stands > is to start working on Koha 3.8 and Koha 4.0 in parallel, with Koha 3.8 > releasing April 2012, and Koha 4.0 releasing Oct. 2012. I feel that > going from Koha 3.8 directly to 4.0 is unwarranted. To my mind, there > are many possible releases between 3.8 and 4.0, like 3.10, 3.12, 3.14 > and so forth. This is supported by the actual database version numbers > in Koha: the current release is actually 3.04.04; the zeros are squashed > out for convenience. > > I would counter that, while we should continue releasing new features > every 6 months on the 3.X line, Koha 4.0 should be defined by it's > features. Paul's proposal calls several features to be key, including > Solr integration, database abstraction, updated online help, improved > authentication stack and automated tests. I agree that all these things > are important and should be worked towards, but I'm not convinced they > should be the sum total of the changes that define Koha 4.0 > > I would like to see the following in Koha 4.0: > > * arbitrary metadata formats (beyond MARC) > * arbitrary biblio relationships > * full support for authority records, including uploading through > the GUI, automatic linking, "explode" searching and more > * improvements to the borrower data structure (fewer pre-defined > data fields, more flexibility) > * separation of "receiving" and "payment" in acquisitions > * serials import and export (MFHD, prediction patterns, etc) > * many, many more things > > I think that the community should meet and discuss what features are > both desirable and reasonably likely to be completed in the next few > years (is there interest by libraries to sponsor these developments, or > from developers to code it "for fun"?). > > Once a feature set is agreed on to "define" Koha 4.0, the developers of > these features would meet to hash out what underlying structural changes > would be required to make them happen. Hopefully commonalities could be > found, so that the underlying structure could be developed in a way that > accommodates multiple developments at once. Identifying these > prerequisite changes early on would reduce the difficulties of rebasing > developments, since we'd all be working off a similar set of base > assumptions. It would also provide a reasonable basis for excluding or > delaying developments that don't fit into the overall plan. > > Once the features were chosen and a framework for their development > agreed upon, it would be time to code. The development and submission > process would be the same as it is now (basing patches off master and > submitting to the patches listserv and Bugzilla). As new features > become ready, they would be incorporated into the time-based 3.X > releases by the release manager for that particular cycle. This way, > what works is made available, and what needs more time continues to be > tested until it's stable for production use. Once all the agreed upon > features were ready, it would be time to release Koha 4.0. Hopefully, > that would be with 1-2 years, but there would be flexibility here. > > One of my other issues with the proposal was the "lightening" of Quality > Assurance standards for the first 3 months of the 3.8 release cycle. If > operating under the 1 year time frame for Koha 4.0 as outlined in Paul's > proposal, this would seem necessary in order to get everything included > in time. Unfortunately, while the next 3 months would be dedicated to > clean up of features rolled in, there is never any guarantee of bug > fixes being generated in a timely fashion. You cannot force people to > write or sign off on bug fixes; we're all free agents here. So code > that has not been rigourously tested could get in and stay in for a long > time, long after 4.0 would release, because no one knows how to test it > or fix it. > > However, if we operate under my proposed model, all code could continue > to operate under the same quality assurance standards, and nothing that > is broken or otherwise incomplete would make it in until it was ready. > Releases would still come out every 6 months, even if a major > development was inoperable, until that development could be completed. > > This has been a long email, so let me sum up. I think: > > * we should continue to release Koha 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 etc on 6 month > cycles using the current community practices for feature inclusion > * we should, as a community, meet and decide what features we want > to define Koha 4.0 > * the developers of those features should get together and come up > with a unified plan for accomplishing them all, in a way that > requires minimal rebasing > * as new features become stable and tested, they should be folded > into the 3.X line until all the features defined as "Koha 4.0" are > ready > * Once all the agreed upon features are complete, Koha 4.0 is then > released. > > I've already gotten some feedback on this in today's Koha IRC meeting, > but I'd very much like to hear what the rest of the community thinks > about this, particular in relation to Paul's proposal for 3.8 Release > Manager. Our time is limited for discussion, as the election time draws > near, but hopefully I've made my thoughts clear enough for a dialogue to > get started. Please let me know if I've been at all unclear. > > Cheers, > > > -Ian > > -- > Ian Walls > Lead Development Specialist > ByWater Solutions > Phone # (888) 900-8944 <tel:%28888%29%20900-8944> > http://bywatersolutions.com > ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com <mailto:ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> > Twitter: @sekjal > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Roles for Koha 3.8
by Paul Poulain 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hello, A reminder: Everyone that plan to volunteer for a position in next Koha 3.8 version is welcomed to file his/her name on the wiki page: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.8 The following positions are (desperately) empty: * Translation Manager * Documentation Manager * Documentation of DB * QA Manager * Specific Module maintainers * Release Maintainer * Packaging Manager 2nd reminder: on july IRC meeting, we decided: 1. /AGREED/: Express interest via the mailing list for Nominations by 22 September. Elections in October (see http://librarypolice.com/koha-meetings/2011/koha.2011-08-02-02.00.html ) so, you still have 21 days left... -- 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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Fwd: [Zebralist] Zebra 2.0.49 available
by Ian Walls 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Everyone, Just an update. Apparently "scan" was broken. -Ian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Dickmeiss <adam(a)indexdata.dk> Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:41 AM Subject: [Zebralist] Zebra 2.0.49 available To: Zebra Information Server <zebralist(a)lists.indexdata.dk> Zebra 2.0.49 is available. Packaged for Debian, Ubuntu , CentOS and Windows 32-bit. This version includes fixes for scan. ______________________________**_________________ Zebralist mailing list Zebralist(a)lists.indexdata.dk http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/zebralist<http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zebralist> -- 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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