May 2018 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Can we do away with items.onloan?
by Barton Chittenden 21 May '18

21 May '18

One of my first trouble-shooting experiences with Koha involved a report of search results where an item was showing as 'available', but the detail showed it checked out to a patron. Some helpful bywaterian pointed me to items.onloan, and issues.date_due, and showed me that they didn't match. A database update and a zebra re-index later, and the problem was solved. We've never figured out the circumstances under which these get out of sync... we always find out about it after the fact. I'm sure that we could find everywhere that they're written, and put the writes to the items table and the issues table into a single transaction... but wouldn't it be better to simply add the due date to the marcxml record from the issues table at the time of indexing and remove the possibility of error entirely? It's a paper-cut of a problem, but it's always bothered me. --Barton

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Release candidate of Koha 18.05.00 available
by Mirko Tietgen 18 May '18

18 May '18

Good news everyone, the first release candidate (RC1) of the upcoming feature release Koha 18.05.00 is now available from the UNSTABLE repository: koha-common_18.05.00~~rc1-2 !!! This is a test version and NOT considered ready for use in production !!! If you test the RC1, please report any bugs you may find at the community bug tracker.[1] Please refer to the Koha wiki for information about the repository configuration.[2] Information for developers: The version number is lower than the versions in the NIGHTLY repository, which have been bumped to koha-common_18.05.00~git[…]. If you have the NIGHTLY repository in your apt configuraton and want to test the RC1 of 18.05.00, you should disable the NIGHTLY repository. Cheers, Mirko [1] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/ [2] https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian#Follow_a_suite:_stable.2C_oldst… -- Mirko Tietgen mirko(a)abunchofthings.net http://koha.abunchofthings.net

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accountlines.dispute
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 18 May '18

18 May '18

I've filed bug 20777 [1] removing that column. If you are familiar with that pre-3.0 column and its usage, please speak up on the bug! Thanks! [1] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20777 -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Call for News: May 2018 Newsletter
by kohanews 16 May '18

16 May '18

I'm collecting news for the May 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. Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Turn Koha into a Mojolicious application
by Julian Maurice 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hi all, I've been playing with Mojolicious recently and I thought it would be great if Koha was a Mojolicious application (like the REST API already is). Some pros: - Easier deployment - Testable CGI scripts (Test::Mojo) - All Mojolicious features (routing, commands, plugins, ...) - Koha already uses Mojolicious, so there's no new dependency. I wrote a POC here : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20582 I'd like to gather opinions on it, and for that I want to try something new. I created a "Koha" group on framavox.org, an instance of Loomio (a free software designed to make decisions). In this group there is a discussion named "Bug 20582 - Turn Koha into a Mojolicious application" where you can add comments. And in this discussion there is a proposal where you can vote (Agree, Abstain, Disagree, Block) and add a reason for your vote Group link : https://framavox.org/g/iAKeRC8Q/koha Discussion link : https://framavox.org/d/tTGf0Bzd/bug-20582-turn-koha-into-a-mojolicious-appl… To keep things clean, please - use the framavox group to discuss about the idea of turning Koha into a Mojolicious app (not the implementation) - use the bug report to discuss about the implementation - reply to this mail for anything else (feedback about framavox.org for instance) Thanks -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre

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HTTP::OAI
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi, I've successfully built master packages with my patch (forcing HTTP::OAI@3.x dependency)[1]. They also install with no issue in Stretch. Here's what you need to test yourself: https://cloud.theke.io/s/AyfTWpXt6R87epe Basically download everything somewhere and: $ vagrant up $ vagrant ssh v$ wget -q -O- https://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add - v$ echo 'deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha unstable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list v$ apt update v$ sudo dpkg -i /vagrant/libhttp-*.deb v$ sudo apt -f install v$ sudo dpkg -i /vagrant/koha-deps*.deb v$ sudo apt -f install v$ sudo dpkg -i /vagrant/koha-perldeps*.deb v$ sudo apt -f install v$ sudo dpkg -i /vagrant/koha-common*.deb v$ sudo apt -f install Voila. [1] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20437 -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Documentation Sprint!
by Lee Jamison 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hello all, as you know the May 22nd release is fast approaching so to prepare for the release I'll be spearheading a documentation sprint. The order of priority (from top priority down) is as follows: *- New features* *- Enhancements* *- Everything else* Any questions or comments can be directed to me and I'll be happy to address them Thank you! -- Lee Jamison Automated Library Technician Marywood University 570-961-4586 ldjamison(a)marywood.edu

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Reminder: General IRC meeting 16 May 2018 / 18.11 Elections
by Katrin Fischer 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi all, there is a General IRC Meeting scheduled soon to hold the elections for the 18.11 release team: Agenda: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_16_May_2018#Agenda Time and date: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+General+IRC+… At the moment almost all roles have candidates, with the exception of one important role, the 18.05 release maintainer. Please consider putting your name on the wiki page if you are interested to fill the role! https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_18.11 Hope to see you there! Katrin

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Official Docker image
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 12 May '18

12 May '18

Hi everyone, on the CI front, I have recently introduced (successfully) the broad use of Docker images to run the full test suite. This project, named koha-testing-docker [1], evolved into a usable development environment too. Right now I'm trying to spend some time on porting kohadevbox things into it. This Docker image is built and published automatically by our Jenkins server, and then used in the three nodes we have to run the tests. We also have a Docker image for building koha-* packages wherever we need to (yes, we want to automate this, and properly test the generated packages using the CI infrastructure). [2] With this knowledge, and the infrastructure part of it solved, I would like to start publishing an official Docker image of Koha. Once we have this, the koha-testing-docker tools would be rebuilt on top of it. I raise the subject in light of recent discussions about supported OSs, Perl versions and dependencies. [1] https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker [2] https://gitlab.com/tomascohen/koha-dpkg-docker -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Roles for 18.11 | REST API 'module maintainer'
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, I've resurrected the 'module maintainer' roles for the 18.11 release for the specific case of the REST API work that needs to be done and coordinated. Anyone willing to talk about my proposal, please contact me on pm, and we can talk about it. Thanks! -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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