April 2014 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Orphaned biblioitems
by Paul A 01 May '14

01 May '14

Can anyone please suggest where I could start looking in the code for what might cause orphaned biblioitems? Running the following query: SELECT GROUP_CONCAT('<a target="_blank" href=\"/ cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=',biblionumber,'\">',biblionumber,'</a>' SEPARATOR ', ') AS BibNums, EXTRACTVALUE(marcxml,'//controlfield[@tag="001"]') AS Id FROM biblioitems GROUP BY Id HAVING count(Id) > 1; finds ~0.1% of our total catalogue with orphans -- often, but not quite always, they are consecutive biblionumbers leading me to think that this happens during cataloguing (but there seems to be no rhyme nor reason as to how it happens, we cannot purposefully duplicate the error.) It's fairly trivial to correct with a " DELETE * FROM biblioitems WHERE biblionumber=123456; " but I'd like to stop it from happening in the first place. Thanks for any suggestions, Paul

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3.16 release calendar
by Galen Charlton 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Hi, I'm setting the following dates for the next steps in the Koha release cycle. Note that date for deadlines should be interpreted to mean that they finish at 23:59 in my time zone, which is presently UTC-08:00. Wednesday, 23 April: alpha release -- I will clear the passed QA queue and roll a tarball. Monday, 28 April: feature freeze -- any new feature or enhancement bug must have reached Passed QA by the end of that day to be considered for inclusion. Note that I may grant the new cataloging editor up to two days of leeway on this deadline. Wednesday, 30 April: beta release -- by the end of the day, I will clear the Passed QA queue and roll a beta release. A soft string freeze will start upon release of the beta; at this point, translators can be confident that there won't be major string changes. Monday, 5 May: at the end of the day, a firm string freeze will beginning. I will not call it a hard freeze, as security bugs and release blockers will trump string stability, but translators can expect that there will be no unnecessary changes. Monday, 19 May: I will cut the release candidate Thursday: 22 May: General release. 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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Perl 5.18
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

The latest Ubuntu LTS release includes Perl 5.18. One of the main noticeable consequences of this is that some 5.10 features are now marked as experimental, and hence warnings appear everywhere. One example could be the use of '~~' (C4/Search.pm:536). These warnings can be avoided using the following pragma [1]: no if $] >= 5.018, 'warnings', "experimental::feature_name"; I'd like to know your opinion on how to cope with this. I guess we already had this kind of problems in the past. Regards To+ [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.18.0/pod/perldelta.pod#Lexical_$__is_now… -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Prosecretaría de Informática Universidad Nacional de Córdoba ✆ +54 351 4333190 ext 13168 GPG: B76C 6E7C 2D80 551A C765 E225 0A27 2EA1 B2F3 C15F

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March towards 3.16.0 #1
by Galen Charlton 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hi, I apologize for calling the dev meeting, but not being able to attend it, but I have other unavoidable responsibilities today. Here is a quick update on 3.16.x: - Feature freeze is still end of Monday, 28 April in the PDT time zone. Any patch that reaches passed QA by that point will be considered for 3.16.0. As I mentioned before, I'm granting leeway to the new cataloging editor; I will also grant leeway to multiple transport type enhancements, as there are a number of separate bug reports, some of which have not yet gone through QA. If there are things that you believe are close and worthy of leeway, please reply to this thread. - I will not be cutting an alpha today after all, but will still cut a testing release on 30 April. I may call it alpha or beta depending on how stable it feels to me. 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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git-bz update
by Galen Charlton 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Hi, A couple days ago the latest security release was applied to Koha's Bugzilla installation. The security update included changes to login handling to protect against CSRF attacks; this happened to break git-bz's ability to upload patches and modify bug information. I've pushed a patch that restores git-bz's ability to authenticate to the 'fishsoup' branch of git://git.koha-community.org/git-bz. If you use git-bz, please update now. 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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Release is coming ...
by Fridolin SOMERS 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Hie all, I plan to release the 3.14.06 only next week. I did not spent enough time to backport on stable branch : some vacations, a lot of work, some business trip ... I'm rely sorry and I'd like to spend more time for community. So next week I'm on it. I would like to integrate some important patches like Bug 12134 - Members are restricted even if the debarment is ended - if he reaches to be pushed to master next week. Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS Biblibre - Pôles support et système fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com

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Liberian Vacancy Position
by MHE I.T. Admin (DRR) 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Dear all, One of our universities at the city of Koya in Kurdistan region of Iraq is looking for a experienced librarian with good skills in Koha application and server side issue. Please if you know anyone direct them Koya University (koyauniversity.org) emails to jobs(a)koyauniversity.org http://library.koyauniversity.org Thanks, -- *I.T Admin (Dr. D.R. Roshani)* *Ministry of Higher Education <http://www.mhe-krg.org>* T. +964.XXX.XXX XXX *|* E. admin(a)mhe-krg.org

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Re: [Koha-devel] Automatic renewal feature
by Holger Meissner 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Dear Koha devs, two weeks ago I proposed a patch for bug 7413: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7413 The new automatic renewal feature (bug 11577) will be dependent on that patch. I'd greatly appreciate someone testing it, before I continue the work, just to be sure that I don't build on top of a mistake. I also added a few things to the RCF: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Automatic_renewal_RFC Some feedback would be great, especially on whether a syspref should be used or not? Thanks! Holger

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Koha consulting service in Mongolia /open call/
by Cybermon 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Dear All, I writing this email behalf of Ulaanbaatar Public Library(UBPL). UBPL was using the Koha ILS with Libki 1.0 version. for OPAC and Public computers managed by Libki. We have 4 branch libraries around Ulaanbaatar city. UBPL would like to ask any individual and organizations to support a consulting, implementation, development service to extend Koha for daily operation. Service should be included following services: - Circulation service include items of home loan, in-house /home loan's fine amount 1000(local currency) per day for item/ - Cataloging advise and clarify of previous MARC convert. - Patron card create for plastic card, Branch libraries should have create patrons via Internet. - SIP2 integration with Libki 2.0 /include public computers of branch libraries/ - SIP2 integration with Ezproxy or shibboleth - Inventory/stocktaking - training - Library entrance by patron's barcode /with daily, monthly and annually visitors statistics, by branch libraries/. Please remind it was without RFID solution. We have a solution of RFID library entrance control system. - other related supports PS: UBPL's opac: http://koha.pl.ub.gov.mn Please send your proposal and other related information to me. It will be good before 1st May 2014. Thank you very much for your time. Gana, UBPL

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Get Listed Paid Support Request
by Carlos Rodrigo Cordova Sandoval 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

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