March 2013 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Checking ISBN validity in the MARC editor
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

A long standing bug needs ideas from the koha community, bug 906 [1]. Pascale raised the idea of including some kind of validation to the ISBN field (be it 10$a in UNIMARC or 20$a in MARC and NORMARC). Both cataloguing standards reserve the $z for saving an invalid ISBN. I've written a JavaScript checker that, hooked into the "Save" action, prints an error message provided a syspref is set to enable ISB validation (the same message dialog is used for missing mandatory fields). The patch is attached to the bug and is fully functional. The main concern of the QA team about it is that the approach is not modular enough, and it might be better tackled using plugins. It sounds perfect to me, but I'm not sure how plugins work. I might start reading that code (i will anyway) but as some of you have more experience in this kind of sutff I ask: What is the desired workflow actually (in the case of invalid ISBN)? and, does the (current) plugin implementation fit for it (perhaps using an AJAX call)? Regards To+ [1] http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=906

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Old bugs to check
by MJ Ray 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Would you check some of these rather old bugs to suggest what to do, please? Maybe some can be RESOLVED FIXED by now or need a question. Please leave your reply on the bug web page - I might not see replies to this mail. Ideally, tell irc.oftc.net #koha know that you're looking at a bug. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4862 "Browse by subject" is misnamed http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6255 patron import csv includes borrowernumber, but fails http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2465 availability of a reserved book http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4234 Automatic transfer shouldn't take precedence over a hold transit http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5573 delete lists when patron deleted http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3937 'sounds like' searching for tags http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6197 Capitalized or lowercased Turkish characters are not searchable http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5439 3M RFID sensitization http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=Bug ID Summary http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6266 Ordering from staged file gives perl error when no budget defined http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3162 Authority subfileds definitions and Show/Show Collapsed/Hide option http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3342 Changes to holds priority list should be logged for accountability. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2693 Tagging: Add filter by name http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2426 Management Permissions Deprecated http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4127 make OPACPatronDetails a choice with 3 options http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2442 add babelfish links to the bug display page header or footer http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4162 Inventory Tool Fails Silently http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5721 marc import summary should be filtered or customizable http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4126 bulkmarcimport.pl allows -b and -a to be specified simultaneously -- Email robot driven by MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Re: [Koha-devel] OpenSUSE
by Paul 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

At 11:48 PM 3/25/2013 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: >I belive install docs should be qa-ed for every release and cleaned. >Regarding OpenSuSE i know a few that run Koha flawlessly on it. At leat >3.6 i think. The main problem is there are not many volunteers to take on >the job of testing and rewriting. > >I've never used dpkg on a rpm-based distro, did the reverse thou. Recognizing that OpenSuSE and Slackware have "grown a bit apart" over the years, I did try Koha on Slackware 13.0 and got it running from the tarball without major problems (very slightly slower than Ubuntu 12.04 on the same machine.) At the time I played with deb2pkg (based on Volkerding's rpm2tgz) and makepkg, but failed. I don't remember spending much time on it though, basically because I (personally, YMMV) prefer the finer control using .tar Best - Paul >Regards >To+ > > >On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Mark Tompsett ><<mailto:mtompset@hotmail.com>mtompset(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Greetings, > >A person I know was telling me about a project they have in OpenSUSE. So, >I downloaded it. I'm installing it. And then I thought, "Hey, does Koha >work on this?" >The installation is downloading RPM's after all. So, I looked on the Wiki >for OpenSUSE. > >I thought my Ubuntu tarball instructions were super-long. These >instructions even tell the person how to install OpenSUSE?! Isn't that a >tad out of scope? Next, these are for 3.0, which again is out of date. And >lastly, these are so tarball oriented, when I currently have no reason to >believe that the debian repositories won't work. > >Any thoughts? > >GPML, >Mark Tompsett >_______________________________________________ >Koha-devel mailing list ><mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org >http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >website : <http://www.koha-community.org/>http://www.koha-community.org/ >git : <http://git.koha-community.org/>http://git.koha-community.org/ >bugs : <http://bugs.koha-community.org/>http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > > >_______________________________________________ >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/ --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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Re: [Koha-devel] OpenSUSE (part two)
by David Cook 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi again, Mark: (I should really read through all my digests before replying :P) I've been planning to put together a test box at home to re-test and re-document different installation methods (Git, Tarball, Packages) on different operating systems (Debian, OpenSUSE), especially using plain language that non-developers will understand. My main goal is to provide a set of installation documents that anyone interested in installing and using Koha will be able to pick up and go from point A to point K without too much hair-pulling. My ultimate goal is to empower the library students at my old library school, and then hopefully library students and librarians elsewhere. Of course, that's all on my personal time, so it hasn't been a priority yet. I'm hoping to get a box this week though, and to start testing...well...when I get some time. I actually do love documenting (I have an English degree and a touch of OCD :p), so it's just a matter of time. If you've already started doing some work, I have a colleague who has a recently installed OpenSUSE VM on his computer, and he would be more than happy to test out anything you've put together so far. To be honest, my first "project" is to test out some simplified installation instructions that Chris Hall has provided to me, but since we use OpenSUSE here at Prosentient, I'm certainly interested by this topic and I'm happy to help out if there's anything specific you have in mind. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems P/L ABN 31 078 409 168 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo NSW 2007 tel: 02 92120899 fax: 02 92120885 dcook(a)prosentient.com.au -----Original Message----- From: "Mark Tompsett" <mtompset(a)hotmail.com> To: "Tomas Cohen Arazi" <tomascohen(a)gmail.com> Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] OpenSUSE Message-ID: <BLU172-DS5CFF59527FD5BF60CD5FAC6D00(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Greetings, > I belive install docs should be qa-ed for every release and cleaned. +1 ? Yes, if the install instructions were QA-ed each release, the ?origin? vs. ?origin/3.10.x? would not be a concern of mine. > Regarding OpenSuSE i know a few that run Koha flawlessly on it. At leat 3.6 i think. > The main problem is there are not many volunteers to take on the job of testing and rewriting. Therein is the hassle for those of us who do not have a love of documenting. > I've never used dpkg on a rpm-based distro, did the reverse thou. I?m trying to stick with the installation paradigm of the distro I am playing with. GPML, Mark Tompsett

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Re: [Koha-devel] OpenSUSE
by David Cook 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hey Mark: I looked at those wiki instructions for OpenSUSE a while ago too, and they are rather terrifyingly long. I think it's completely unnecessary to mention how to install OpenSUSE. Since, if a person had the option, it would make more sense from a community support perspective just to go with Debian or Ubuntu. I'm not familiar with Debian at all at this point, except as a front-end user, but I don't see why the debian repositories "would" work. That said, I remember Chris Cormack saying that it might not be a bad idea for someone to put together RPM packages. I seem to remember him also mentioning that OpenSUSE is quite common amongst Indian Koha users, so maybe someone out there has a script for creating and disseminating RPMs. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems P/L ABN 31 078 409 168 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo NSW 2007 tel: 02 92120899 fax: 02 92120885 dcook(a)prosentient.com.au -----Original Message----- From: "Mark Tompsett" <mtompset(a)hotmail.com> To: <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> Subject: [Koha-devel] OpenSUSE Message-ID: <BLU172-DS2ECFE02287210BC93EB8BC6D70(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Greetings, A person I know was telling me about a project they have in OpenSUSE. So, I downloaded it. I'm installing it. And then I thought, "Hey, does Koha work on this?" The installation is downloading RPM's after all. So, I looked on the Wiki for OpenSUSE. I thought my Ubuntu tarball instructions were super-long. These instructions even tell the person how to install OpenSUSE?! Isn't that a tad out of scope? Next, these are for 3.0, which again is out of date. And lastly, these are so tarball oriented, when I currently have no reason to believe that the debian repositories won't work. Any thoughts? GPML, Mark Tompsett

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Koha 3.12 beta released (and you can help!)
by Jared Camins-Esakov 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

About an hour ago I cut a beta for Koha 3.12.0. The tarball is available at http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.12.00-beta1.tar.gz and the release notes at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob_plain;f=misc/releas… Packages will follow in the squeeze-dev repository sometime at the beginning of the week. As a reminder, Koha 3.12 is in feature freeze so any features that are not in the beta will not be in Koha 3.12, and I will not respond to any complaints about features that didn't make the cut-off other than forwarding them to the Koha mailing lists. So, what now? Now, we seek out and destroy bugs! If you have a spare testing server, take the beta for a spin, and try to break it. "Sure," you say, "I know that I can do that. But what can I help with that deserved an exclamation mark in the subject line?" I'm glad you asked. Here is a list of some things that need to be done before May 22: * Koha has to be translated. I will be asking the Translation Manager to pull the latest strings into Pootle so that the translation teams can get a head start (and if you know any language other than American English, you can help translate! Head on over to http://translate.koha-community.org/ and get started) * Koha's documentation has to be updated. We have a Documentation Manager, but if you have any ideas about how to document a new feature, or an old feature, or clarify instructions, you, too, can write documentation. Take a look at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Editing_the_Koha_Manual if you want to work on this. * Koha's installation instructions need to be updated. Some of the installation instructions that are included in the tarball were last updated (for all practical purposes) in 2010. That's a long time ago in computer time. If you have some thoughts on how the various INSTALL.* files in the tarball might be updated to be more clear, open up a text editor and send in your corrections (preferably as a patch, but if you have suggestions and are not comfortable with git, an e-mail to koha-devel will work too). * Enhancement bugs need to be reclassified. During the 3.12 release cycle we added a new category of bug report: "New feature." However, a lot of the new features that are going into 3.12 are still listed as "enhancements" in Bugzilla, which means the automated release notes generator doesn't pick them up properly. Any time the RM spends fixing that is time the RM does not spend fixing problems with Koha. This is is a task that anyone can do. All it takes is a bit of critical thinking and an account on Bugzilla: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/ * Open bug reports need to be (re)confirmed. We have scads of bug reports in Bugzilla, and many of them probably report bugs that have been fixed for weeks, months, or years. If we can get all the bugs that are already fixed closed, it'll be easier to focus on the bugs that still exist. Head on over to Bugzilla, choose some old bugs, and start testing! * Bugs need to be fixed. This goes hand-in-hand with the testing that you've all heard me to talk to death, but once a bug has been found, it has to be fixed. If you know how to fix a bug, please do! * Bug fixes need to be tested. There are many bugfixes already on bugzilla, and there will be many more being written in the next two months. After a patch has been written, it has to be tested by at least one third party (i.e. not the developer and not me) in order to move through the QA process to inclusion in Koha. Even if you don't have a spare server, you can test patches in the sandboxes hosted by BibLibre: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes * Volunteers must be found, recruited, and/or made for 3.14. If you want to be involved in 3.14, there's still time to volunteer for an open position. Just put your name on the ballot at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.14 Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1004
by Vimal Kumar V. 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Dear Friends, I got the following error at the step 3 of installation of Koha 3.12 alpha. My ububuntu version is 12.10. The following error occurred while importing the database structure: ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1004: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '`reservesallowed` smallint(6) NOT NULL default "0", `branchcode` varchar(10) ' at line 20 Please contact your system administrator How can I solve this error? -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Koha 3.12 feature freeze
by Jared Camins-Esakov 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello. It is 11:54pm on March 22 in Lima, Peru, and Koha 3.12 is now in feature freeze. This means that further enhancements and new features will not be considered for inclusion in Koha 3.12. We have the next two months to focus on fixing bugs and making Koha 3.12 the most stable Koha release ever. Sometime in the next few days I will be releasing a beta of Koha 3.12. I hope everyone will take some time to test it and shake out all the bugs before the final release on May 22. The next date to be aware of is May 1. On May 1 the master branch enters string freeze and no patches that make changes to the text of any part of the Koha web interface (including documentation patches!) will be accepted so that the translators have plenty of time to get 3.12 translated. Regards, Jared P.S. Any enhancement or feature patch that did not apply or that I marked failed QA today is not eligible for 3.12. P.P.S. There is one feature (bug 5343) that I pushed due to librarian and developer interest even though it was not 100% ready. I will revert it if unit tests are not provided by March 29, as noted on the bug. -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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Koha 3.12-alpha2
by Jared Camins-Esakov 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello. I have released a second alpha of Koha 3.12. This includes a number of bugfixes, including a high-priority bug fix to the search error problem reported on the list. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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Old bugs to check
by MJ Ray 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Would you check some of these rather old bugs to suggest what to do, please? Maybe some can be RESOLVED FIXED by now or need a question. Please leave your reply on the bug web page - I might not see replies to this mail. Ideally, tell irc.oftc.net #koha know that you're looking at a bug. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4304 autoBarcode should increment from user defind value http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5458 length of items.ccode disagrees with authorised_values.authorised_value http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2193 Lost Item Fines - Editable if $0 http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5394 Fatal error when searching for a non-existant item when receiving an order http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2158 Keep Search in Search Box on Staff Side http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5956 Highlight holds on check-in http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3116 ISBD parsing does not preserve subfield order http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5256 Merge bibs should work from cart http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4985 Edit a calendar entry for all branches http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5219 Perltidy code http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4040 Placing a hold on an item while it is in transit results in duplicate dialogs upon check-in http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5290 Problems after issuing a "norforloan" item http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4861 Debian packaging does not include translations http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5071 Make the 'koha' package set things up so that zebra etc. just work http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6079 Single parentheses in currency causes order to fail when updating http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3059 generate password with forgot password link http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5404 C4::Koha::subfield_is_koha_internal_p no longer serves a purpose http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5440 improvements on authorities links http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5153 Patron Import tool does not show progress of upload -- Email robot driven by MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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