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Call for news: November 2016 Newsletter
by kohanews 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Fellow Koha users ~ I'm collecting news for the November newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events -- **** one month back is the cut-off ***. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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What's on in Koha devel #7
by Jonathan Druart 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Hello librarians and developers, Koha 16.11 will be released soon, in 1 week only (November 22nd). We are entering the string freeze which means that only bug fixes without string changes will get pushed. But developers are already focused on 16.12, the next development version :) Note that we have a blocker (for the release) and we should get a signoff on it ASAP, see bug 17522. = Refactoring = I have continued to move the C4::Members code to the Koha namespace. It's quite easy code and so easy to rewrite, but I tried to cut it into small chunks of code and it's very hard to create a tree of bug dependencies. You can help me testing the orange boxes of this dependency graph: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=16846 (scroll to the right!) The shifting of the biblioitems.marcxml field to another table (bug 17196) is still in the needs sign off queue. = Elastic search = We are adapting our code to the new 2.4 version of Elastic search, see bug 17255. This can be tested on kohadevbox (Search for "elasticsearch_version" in the README file) = Developer tools = == KohaDevBox == KohaDevBox 2.0 has been released. It now works under Windows and Mac OS. See the announcement on koha-devel: http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-November/043272.h… Thanks Tomas for the great work! == Koha misc4dev == I will maintain an external repository where I will write some misc for dev. The goal is to provide useful scripts to fill the database with extra data, auto configure features,etc. See the announcement on koha-devel: http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-November/043277.h… The next dev meeting is on December 14th https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_14_December_20… 13UTC. You can still fill the poll to find the best 2 slots for dev meetings: https://framadate.org/3dAEB8zqQLzzTptD Cheers, Jonathan

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KohaDevBox and Xenial
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Hi everyone, recently I changed the Xenial box that KohaDevBox has configured. But it seems I didn't find (yet) the right box. I managed to have it working by upgrading to Virtualbox 5.1, and using the latest Vagrant from their site (1.8.7). If you find a better packaged Xenial image, please let me know, or fill an issue to talk about it on KohaDevBox's github site. -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Koha misc4dev
by Jonathan Druart 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Hi devs, Just to let you know that I have created a new repo for handy scripts I use everyday. A couple of weeks ago I decided to submit stuffs on bugzilla to have more scripts in the misc/devel directory. But actually it takes me too much time trying to integrate them into the Koha codebase (I always need to apply my patches locally when I need them, fix conflicts, etc.) I have closed these 2 bugs: Bug 17529 - Add a --with-records option to populate_db.pl Bug 17534 - Press a button and get a fresh DB And move these changes outside of bugzilla. I prefer to create my own repo, it will be easier and quicker to maintain. You can have a look on https://github.com/joubu/koha-misc4dev It just does a few stuffs so far: - populate the DB with all sample data - create a superlibrarian user - insert some data (this is new): * insert records * insert a default circ rule * configure the self registration and self-checkout features * insert acquisition data (budget, fund, vendor and basket) - rebuild zebra I should not have submitted populate_db.pl and create_superlibrarian.pl, but they have already been backported to stable so it seems easier to let them in the Koha codebase. Feel free to fork or pull request! Cheers, Jonathan

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Koha development meeting reminder - 9 November 2016
by Nick Clemens 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Hi All, The next Koha development meeting is on IRC tomorrow 9 November 2016 at 19:00 UTC You can see what that is in your local time here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+I… Agenda is here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_9_November_2016 Please make sure to add any topics you wish to discuss. I will be chairing the meeting so I can learn, so attend and be nice :-) -Nick

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Redundant infrastructure for Koha
by Chris Cormack 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

On 8 November 2016 at 08:50, Michael Kuhn <mik(a)adminkuhn.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > We are looking for a solution to build a redundant infrastructure for Koha. > > What we want to do is shown in the diagram > http://adminkuhn.ch/download/Redundant.png > > The main objective of such a solution is: If one of the Application Servers > goes down the other will take over the job without losing any time. If the > DB-Server Master goes down we will be able to build the Master out of the > Slave and create a new Slave next to the new Master. > > Has anyone ever built such an infrastructure with Koha and can give us some > advice how to proceed? Is this possible with Koha anyway? Will shift this to Koha-devel Yes this is possible and quite easy to do. What makes it tricky is Zebra, which you have left out of your diagram. You either need to have the full zebra index on both your application servers (which means modifying rebuild_zebraqueue to make sure it gets built by each machine) Or you need to use something like nfs or another distributed filesystem. Or use rsync etc. It becomes a lot easier with elasticsearch of course, because you just have your elastic cluster and they talk to that. Hope this helps Chris > > Best wishes: Michael > -- > Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis > Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz > T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik(a)adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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koha on redhat
by Divya Batra 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Dear, Greetings I want to know about the procedure and entire method for installing koha on redhat. Ours is a government organization and servers with redhat installed is available for us to use and complete redhat support is also available. As it is a government organization internet access is as such not available on the server system so offline installation is needed to be done. Koha is an open source system, so it should be possible to install it on any linux machine. I want to know how we can do that. We want to install a stable koha version on a stable redhat version. Hoping for a positive reply. Thanks & Regards Divya Batra

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Koha meeting reminder
by Chris Cormack 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hi All The next Koha meeting is on IRC at 2 November 2016 at 20:00 UTC You can see what that is in your local time here https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+IRC+General+… This is an important meeting as we confirm the roles for the 17.05 release Agenda is here https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_2_November_2016 Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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Create autocomplete for addbiblio.pl
by Rodrigo Santellan 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hi, I'm trying to create an autocomplete for a few fields when adding a biblio. My problem so far is that the ids generated are things like this: *tag_110_subfield_a_361770_300725* (I'm trying to create an author autocomplete). One quick fix for me will be to add to the fields a class containing this: tag_[% subfield_loo.tag %]_subfield_[% subfield_loo.subfield %] Should this will be helpful to anybody else? Is there a better way to do this? Regards

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