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

Utilising 3rd party book covers
by clint.deckard 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Greetings all, Many schools in New Zealand use a paid-for cataloguing service that provides access to book covers via a link http://somewebsite/getopacimage.php?isbn= How to utilise this in Koha? From my research there seems no straight forward way to do this. What would be involved in implementing this. Sadly I am not a developer, in fact, I am code challenged. Despite a number of efforts during my life to learn a number of programming languages they have all ended in utter failure. Take pity on me... Clint. -- Clint Deckard RD1 Takapau Central Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

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Call for news for the August newsletter
by Daniel Grobani 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Dear Koha kommunitarians, I'm harvesting news for this month's newsletter. Please send me by the 20th anything you think your fellow community members might like to know about. "News" can be as short as a sentence or as long as a paper. I especially encourage you to send me a line or two for the gossip/society column about what you're currently working on. And if you know of a go-live not announced on the list, please be sure to let me know about it. Thanks, Daniel Grobani

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How to clean transaction table?
by Vimal Kumar V. 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Dear Friends, Today our Koha officially started in production mode. Trial transaction (checkout, checkin, fines etc) details are still in Koha. We wish to clean all transaction details from Koha and start the transactions fresh from today. If old transactions persist in Koha, auditors create problems at the year end. How can we clean the transaction table and get ready for a fresh startup? Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant 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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Quick poll: DOM as default in packages for the stable branch?
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Hi folks, Galen has just pushed patches to the master branch that let the user choose the desired indexing mode for both bibliographic and authority records. It also defaults to DOM for both (until now the default was biblio:grs1 auth:dom) [1]. I think it is worth cherry-picking for the stable branch, but would like to know if fixing it to make GRS-1 the default for biblios would be preferable (i.e. keep the current brhaviour). Thanks in advance. To+ P.S. I will push it once its been tested enough, and prefer defaulting to GRS-1 for biblios, but maybe someone can convince me otherwise. [1] http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8507

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Bug 10549
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

I've just pushed 10549 into the stable branch 3.12.x. It changes the encoding of the ILS-DI webservice. As I don't use it, I'm not aware if the different clients correctly parse this encoding change. If you use it, please test the current stable branch so we don't break anything for people. Regards To+

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Bug 7684: inventory
by sonia lemaire 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hi, I know, Global bug squashing day is over (I won't be late for the next one ;-) ) but the patch for bug 7684 still needs signoff. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7684 : inventory : datatable fix actions etc. This patch is very important for French libraries because inventory should be done every year and it's impossible without this module. Can someone test it, please? You can find a test plan in comment 19. Thank you for having a look! -- Sonia Lemaire Biblibre - Pôle support

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3.14 RM update #2 posted
by Galen Charlton 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hi, I have posted my second formal update on the status of 3.14 to: http://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-release-managers-update-2/ 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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GBSD: 2013-08-09 is done, next is 2013-08-23!
by Magnus Enger 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Dear Community! Global bug squashing day 2013-08-09 just ended. Here are the numbers before: Needs Signoff...157 (54 bugs) Signed Off.......90 (46 bugs) Passed QA........28 (12 bugs) Failed QA.......150 Doesn't apply....26 In Discussion...119 and after: Needs Signoff...138 (44 bugs) Signed Off......116 (62 bugs) Passed QA........29 (13 bugs) Failed QA.......145 Doesn't apply....26 In Discussion...121 "Needs signoff" went from 157 to 138, which is not too shabby, considering this is probably a time when a lot of people are on holiday. In fact, this was so much fun/use, the next GBSD will be in just 2 weeks time, on 2013-08-23: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2013-08-23_Global_bug_squashing_day So mark that date in your calendars, drop all your other appointments and come join the fun! Best regards, Magnus

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Global bug squashing day - come join the fun!
by Magnus Enger 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Dear community! GBSD just ended in NZ, but wherever you are you can choose to abide by any timezone, so if you choose Hawaii time there is still almost 22 hours to go! When we started the numbers looked like this: Needs Signoff...157 (54 bugs) Signed Off.......90 (46 bugs) Passed QA........28 (12 bugs) Failed QA.......150 Doesn't apply....26 In Discussion...119 And a couple of hours ago they looked like this: Needs Signoff...144 (43 bugs) Signed Off......112 (62 bugs) Passed QA........28 (12 bugs) Failed QA.......147 Doesn't apply....26 In Discussion...119 As you can see, some progress has been made, but there is still a lot of fun to be had. So let go of everything else and come join the fun! Get your name on the dashboard for the first time or see if you can climb in the ranks! Maybe you can even beat Kyle as the #1 signoff hero of August? http://dashboard.koha-community.org/ Not sure how you can help? Jump on the IRC channel and we will help you figure it out! http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/ Best regards, Magnus

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Global bug squashing day 2013-08-09
by Magnus Enger 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Dear community! There will be a Global bug squashing day on 2013-08-09 (in the timezone of your choice): http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2013-08-09_Global_bug_squashing_day Come join the fun! Not sure what you can do? Jump on the IRC channel and we will help you figure it out! Current stats are: Needs Signoff - 169 (57 bugs) Signed Off - 77 (38 bugs) Passed QA - 26 (12 bugs) Failed QA - 144 Patch Doesn't apply - 21 In Discussion - 119 ...so there is plenty of fun to be had! Best regards, Magnus Enger

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