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Call for Development news - April Newsletter
by Koha Newsletter 17 May '14

17 May '14

Koha Development community ~ If you have any bugs or projects you'd like us to highlight or promote in the monthly newsletter, please let us know. Maybe it'll attract some additional eyes, testers and sign-offs. k o h a news AT gmail dot com Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Joanne Dillon Editors, Koha Newsletter

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Call for news for May Newsletter
by Koha News 17 May '14

17 May '14

Fellow Koha users ~ We're collecting news for the May newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- * News items can be of any length. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let us know and we'll include it in the development section. -- Chad Roseburg Joanne Dillon Editors, Koha Newsletter

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Which version for MARC::Record ?
by Zeno Tajoli 16 May '14

16 May '14

Hi to all, in C4/Installer/PerlDependencies.pm the module MARC::Record is set to 2.0.6. 470 'MARC::Record' => { 471 'usage' => 'Core', 472 'required' => '1', 473 'min_ver' => '2.0.6' 474 }, In fact we need it (see bug 11096) But this is not the version of the module in debian stable (it is present in debian ustable). And it is a mandatory module. The situation now is the everyone wants to install Koha 'master' version needs to install it by CPAN. I suggest we can use a more complex setup of repository, inset MARC::Record in our Koha repo and use 'pinning', https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences to prefear our repo (or jessie) instead of whezzy stable. Bye Zeno Tajoli

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Deprecating the Non-XSLT display on Detail and Search/List Results
by David Cook 15 May '14

15 May '14

Hi folks: What do people think about deprecating the non-XSLT display on detail and search/list results pages? The XSLT display provides more data in a much more attractive way than the non-XSLT templates. They're also easier to maintain (as you don't need to modify the Perl scripts to feed data forward). We already have default XSLTs so it would be trivial to use these as fallbacks where people haven't specified a XSLT with the global system preferences. Going forward, I much rather maintain one set of templates than two. I don't know about the most recent versions, but in the past (e.g. 3.8) there were issues with the non-XSLT displays not showing data in the right order and not having as much data. Rather than update these displays, it seems much more logical to deprecate them and switch everyone to using the more modern templates. -David

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Re: [Koha-devel] Removal of the prog and CCSR themes in 3.18
by David Cook 15 May '14

15 May '14

+1 for removal of prog and ccsr OPAC themes -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:36:05 +0000 From: Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl> To: Koha Devel <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Removal of the prog and CCSR themes in 3.18 Message-ID: <809BE39CD64BFD4EB9036172EBCCFA31422F7370(a)S-MAIL-1B.rijksmuseum.intra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" +1 for removing these deprecated themes.. Please do not remove prog at the staff side :)

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Very big patch (over 1000 lines) -- SQL for MARC21
by Zeno Tajoli 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi to all, the translation of MARC21 SQl files into italian is ready here: http://translate.koha-community.org/files/it/ What is it the best workflow to insert those SQL into git tree ? I can create a patch, but it will be very big (more that 1000 lines). I see two option: a) I create the patch and I attach it to a bug in bugzilla, dimentions are not a problem Someone sign-off/qa it as normal. b)I create a gzip with the .sql and I attach it to a bug in bugzilla, sign-off and qa only writting a comment Or are there others options ? Bye Zeno Tajoli

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Removal of the prog and CCSR themes in 3.18
by Galen Charlton 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi, Just as a reminder, here's a section from the release notes for 3.14.0: "The 'prog' and 'CCSR' public catalog themes are deprecated as of the release of Koha 3.14.0. Existing Koha sites are encouraged to switch to the Bootstrap theme as soon as convenient. The 'prog' and 'CCSR' OPAC themes are slated to be completely removed in the second major release of Koha after 3.14.0, i.e., in the release currently contemplated for November 2014." That release currently contemplated for November 2014 is, of course, 3.18.0. At this point, I'd like to request positive confirmation that folks are still happy with that course of action; if we decide to change our minds, we should do so prior to the release of 3.16.0. Assuming that we don't change our minds, then as of now, there would be no requirement that new patches update the prog theme. 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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Re: [Koha-devel] Removal of the prog and CCSR themes in 3.18
by Paul A 12 May '14

12 May '14

At 08:00 AM 5/12/2014 -0700, Galen Charlton wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc(a)esilibrary.com> wrote: > > Assuming that we don't change our minds, then as of now, there would > > be no requirement that new patches update the prog theme. > >Also, I have opened bug 12233 for the removal of the themes. Any >concerns about the mechanics of removing the deprecated themes should >probably go there. Hi Galen, Your bug report mentions "if the opactheme system preference is set to either 'prog' or 'ccsr', it should be changed to 'bootstrap'" Ours (3.8.5) is set to 'prog' because we don't have any choice :=} Is there some sort of document somewhere that I could look at to understand the evolution/options? We're currently in the middle of our two-year cycle to upgrade our servers (either Ubuntu 14.04 or Debian 7.5) and when that's stabilized will look at upgrading Koha (not a top priority, as for our specialized needs -- not a lending library -- 3.8.5 "cutomized" is working extremely well.) So anything to do with OPAC appearance is of great interest to me. There was a previous email noting that 3.8.x has no "maintainer." I had offered (and am still willing), but have not yet been able to wrap my head around git. However, there is a possibility that we will stick with 3.8 in production. tnx and br -- Paul

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serial control issue
by Mohamed zalabany 06 May '14

06 May '14

Dear allhow to receive more than one copy in serial control module the system permit to receive and register only one copy does i need to make serial control record for each copy. Mohamed el-ZalabanyEGPV

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Koha 3.16 beta available; string freeze belong
by Galen Charlton 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi, The beta release of Koha 3.16 is available from http://download.koha-community.org/. For more details, please see http://koha-community.org/koha-3-16-beta-released/. As of now, a string freeze is in effect. 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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