December 2019 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

String Freeze Notice
by Joy Nelson 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze will go into effect at the end of day 12/16/2019 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 23rd. Translations can begin on the 17th. Thanks! -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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update MARC::Transform in debian.koha-community.org
by Stéphane Delaune 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Hello, I'm Stéphane Delaune (aka reiveune) from BibLibre I am the developer of the Perl module MARC::Transform ( https://metacpan.org/pod/MARC::Transform ), this module is in version 0.003008 since april but, in debian.koha-community.org, the version is only 0.003006 that is 5 years old (2 versions late, including a bugfix) I would like to know if someone is able to update this package in debian.koha-community.org (and in https://packages.qa.debian.org/libm/libmarc-transform-perl.html on which the version is 0.003007) thank you in advance Stéphane Delaune

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Give a try to RabbitMQ (background jobs rewrite) - POC!
by Jonathan Druart 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi devs, I have submited a proof of concept (POC) on bug 22417 (Delegate background jobs execution). The idea would be to isolate our background jobs code (the one in the .pl) into module then use RabbitMQ to process them. More stuffs on the bug! https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22417 Cheers, Jonathan

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Out of sort memory, consider increasing server sort buffer size
by Philippe Blouin 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Good morning Koha, Newbie question: why do we have 16 fields in GROUP BYs ? Are they really all necessary to eliminate duplicate lines in budgets? Genuine question. When in acqui-home.pl, clicking certain entries linking to spent.pl just crashes with the error listed in the mail's object: Out of memory. Although I hate that solution, I went with it, increased sort_buffer_size 64x fold (I'm a generous guy). Still not enough. Removing most lines in GROUP BY of spent.pl solves it all, of course. -- Philippe Blouin, Directeur de la technologie Tél. : (833) 465-4276, poste 230 philippe.blouin(a)inLibro.com <mailto:philippe.blouin@inLibro.com> inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>

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Koha, jump
by Jonathan Druart 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

Hi devs, I have been spending some hours on a plugin lately. The plan was to understand a bit the new capabilities that were added recently. Also I wanted to quickly implement an idea I had few weeks ago. So far everything is dirty, but I wanted to share it as soon as I had something that was more or less working. The plugin is named "koha-plugin-jump" and is available on my gitlab repository. >From the README: """ It started with a simple idea then it got complex, as always. So far the UI, the design and the code are ugly. The first idea was to add a simple method to jump from one page to another, then came the idea to generate data on demand, then data that matches given conditions, then etc. What's possible so far: * Jump to the following entities: biblio, item, itemtype, libraries, list (shelves) * Create one of those entities, with or without attributes of your choices Example: * jump biblio The art of will display the list of bibliographic records matching "The art of" in their title, when selected you will be redirected to the selected record * create item will create a new item * create 10 item biblionumber=20 will create 10 items attached to the bibliographic record with the biblionnumber=20 """ I cannot continue to develop alone this plugin so I would love to get some help on it, if you think it could be helpful to you as well. To install it you will have to generate the kpz file (not released using the gitlab workflow yet): % git clone https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump % cd koha-plugin-jump % zip -r koha-plugin-jump.kpz Koha Then install the kpz using the Koha plugin tool page. Also if you want pretty data to be generated you should use patches from bug 24310 (do not forget to install libtext-lorem-perl) If you are lazy to try it, you can have a look at this screencast: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G01pr8IZH2m5W7_bxEibfi3MyzXAZF-5 (I have no idea why this stuff rendered so dark!) Enjoy end 2019 ;) Cheers, Jonathan https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump/blob/master/README.md https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump/blob/master/TODO

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Koha Community Newsletter: December 2019
by kohanews 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

The Koha Community Newsletter for December 2019 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-december-2019/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Koha 19.11.01 release
by Joy Nelson 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.01. This is a maintenance release containing 30 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-01-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days That just leaves me to wish everyone Happy Holidays and express my thanks to everyone involved in this release. Particularly Nick Clemens, Lucas Gass, and Martin Renvoize for stepping me through the various hoops in getting this done. Joy Nelson -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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Upgrade db to v19.11
by Paul A 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

I have the possibility over the next month or two of examining the upgrading Koha from 3.8.24 to 19.11 (latest stable release.) We have the hardware available, but have a couple of questions before I plan the workflow: a) database migration? I have looked at the schemas, and am worried that there are substantial changes. Our production servers contain some 250,000 items. We are not a lending library, so have no concerns with that side of library management -- only with pure cataloguing, for which we use over 100 custom reports, 900 "sources", ten customized biblio frameworks, etc -- how best to proceed? Is there a script (or multiple scripts) that would do it? b) server software? does "pure" Debian (which we have never used in production) have advantages over Ubuntu LTS (with which we are extremely comfortable)? c) We normally build from tarballs, but have received some criticism in the past. The reason is that once we have a server locked into production, we never (major security excepted) touch it; our 3.8.24 has now been running for 1,467 days without rebooting, and "if it ain't broken, leave it alone." Is the final installation package/tarball identical using the different methods? Thanks in advance for your advice. Season's greetings, Paul

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KOCT expected behaviors
by Jonathan Druart 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Hi devs, Two similar reports about the KOCT plugin: * Bug 21494 - No checkin notice created for offline circulation checkins * Bug 15751 - Koha offline circulation Firefox addon does not update last seen date for check-ins When a checkin is done, MarkIssueReturned will be called (not AddReturn) which has some side-effects, like what is described in those 2 bug reports. But, using AddReturn will change behaviors, which may be unexpected. For instance, do we want the checkin to be forced, without doing the usual checks (current behavior), or we want it to be blocked? There is a lot of things that is not done when an item is checked in via KOCT, no idea what we expect or not. Any ideas? Cheers, Jonathan https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21494 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15751

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Call for news: December 2019
by kohanews 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

I'm collecting news for the December 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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