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

anyone have plans to update Koha's MARC21 framework?
by Mason James 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

hi Folks does anyone have any plans to update the MARC21 fields and subfields, for Koha? (...or has someone already done this, and is about to send a patch) i plan to start on this task soon, and i wanted to do a quick check that i was not duplicating this work ps: i have seen some awesome patches from Bernardo++ recently! - updating some 008 and 007 stuff ;o) cheers, Mason

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RFC: Plugins QA
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Hi, with the inclusion of a plugin system we provide a convenient way of injecting functionalities to Koha. I was about to write one myself for implementing some cute graphics (jqPlot) and circulation statistics we had in our 3.0.x fork prior to our 3.8 upgrade. Then I came to think this should indeed be proposed as a new Koha feature (for which there's even a bug). I ended up thinking: - Plugins provide a convenient way to deploy some stuff early (which I need for our 3.12 move), like stuff won't make it into a specific release. - If I succeed I should post it somewhere so people can use it. - There's not a convenient way for it to get QAed so we cannot provide any warranty (not legal but in terms of confidence on Koha as a product) it won't break sensitive stuff (a reports plugin sounds harmless but what limits are imposed to plugins? I guess none). So, I belive we should discuss the creation of a sort of "Official plugins repository" where QAed plugins could be uploaded. I'm thinking out loud and not an native english speaker, so I'm sorry if this is not understandable. Just let me know :-D Regards To+

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May 2013 Koha Community Newsletter has been published
by Daniel Grobani 31 May '13

31 May '13

Hi, The May 2013 edition of the Koha Community Newsletter has been posted to http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-may-2013/. Cheers, Daniel Grobani Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Packaging: Adding a perl dependency
by Marcel de Rooy 31 May '13

31 May '13

Hi Robin or one of the other packaging guru's: On report 9032 I plan to add Email::Valid. After adding it to PerlDependencies.pm, some things may need to be done for packaging. Could you give some steps or add a wiki page for such ? Or should I just leave it to you :) Thanks, Marcel

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"IP address has changed. Please log in again"
by Paul Poulain 31 May '13

31 May '13

Hello koha-devel, Some of our customers are reporting that they sometimes need to login after getting this message on the staff interface. - one of them is running Plack (in production), he faces this problem many times an hour, on every workstation (we've commented the lines in C4/Auth.pm to avoid this problem, because it was really a nightmare) - some of them are in CGI mode, behind a proxy, and the problem occurs a few times a day, or even less. Has anyone faced this problem ? how did you solve it ? -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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Memcached support in packages
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 29 May '13

29 May '13

Hi, i want to add out-of-the-box support for memcached for packages. There are two possible approaches to this: - As a required or suggested dependency that enables it globally if present - As an optional enable/disable per instance service. I'd like to hear what you devs see as the best approach with pros and cons. Regards To+

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Storing current circ policy in the loan record
by Galen Charlton 25 May '13

25 May '13

Hi, There's been some discussion in the comments for bug 10120 [1] about the notion of storing whether an loan is hourly or not in the loan record itself. I'd like to expand this discussion to include the notion of storing a copy of all relevant circ policy in the loan. In particular, I'm thinking of - fine - finedays - chargeperiod - issuelength - lengthunit - renewalsallowed - renewalperiod - overduefinescap Doing this would help solve the immediate problem for bug 10120 of allowing us to (cheaply) determine if a loan is hourly and therefore should always have its fines recalculated upon checkin, but it would have some other advantages: - it would make it easier to decide if a given due date display should include the due time or not - it allows staff to change circ policies (and in particular, fine policies) without having to worry about affecting current loans. On the other hand, perhaps there are times when some libraries *do* want to make a policy change affect current loans -- I'd appreciate hearing about real life examples if this is the case. Another possibility would be simply storing a reference to the applicable policy. If we do it that way, we could give issuingrules an opaque primary key, but I think we'd then also have to have to teach that table how to keep track of old policy rows as well. Thoughts? [1] http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10120 Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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Koha 3.12 Live DVD released
by Vimal Kumar V. 24 May '13

24 May '13

Dear Friends, Live DVD based on Koha 3.12 and Xubuntu 12.04 has been released. Following are the key features of Koha Live DVD, Easy installation steps Koha installation based on Ubuntu packages Koha customised for ready to use Zebra server enabled Customised MARC fields in cataloguing Scheduled database backup. Build on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Detailed Read Me file Post installation manual included in the DVD Sample reports Easy to upgrade to new version of Koha like any other Ubuntu packages. You can download the Live DVD from here, https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd/files You can also download an installation manual from the same place. Regards, -- 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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Two Jobs available
by Eric Bégin 23 May '13

23 May '13

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Old bugs to check
by MJ Ray 23 May '13

23 May '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=5196 006 subfields 01-17 should be populated depending on the 00 value http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3982 History Start Date Not Populated http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5553 can click buttons when error appears on circ http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6041 Errors from _koha_modify_item are ignored in ModItem (C4/Items) http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6344 Hold priority displayed incorrectly when "Toggle Lowest Priority" option is used http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=Bug ID Summary http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5242 Simplify the import of members http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5613 search by 'on order' http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5855 printable lists should have less on them http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3530 Auto label batch generation feature of the bulk import tool fails http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5764 not for loan message in staff client repeated http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3935 Schedule tasks periodically http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4363 Support the patron internet resources field in Sip2 http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6447 Add a button to allow people to choose 'Next Budget' when ordering http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6293 Add a button to the intranet for registering with the Koha community http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5279 Add option to limit label item search by homebranch http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5273 Publication Details for serial subscriptions not showing when in item record edit http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6381 New script needed to populate 856$q field based on contents of 856$u http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5656 Add Checked only adding first checked item to batch -- 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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