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

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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Discussion of account types / labels
by Barton Chittenden 01 May '19

01 May '19

The accounts system uses the following codes to show what kind of fee or credit has been issued: A = Account management fee C = Credit F = Overdue fine FOR = Forgiven FU = Overdue, still accruing L = Lost item LR = Lost item returned/refunded M = Sundry N = New card PAY = Payment W = Writeoff The labels, such as 'Account management fee' and 'Overdue fine' are hard coded in various template toolkit files. This is problematic for a number of reasons: 1) It's not obvious where these are defined -- most other constants in Koha are in authorized values. https://koha-community.org/manual/18.05/en/html/faq.html#fines-table is the only place where a koha user can find them all in one place. 2) Because they're not in the database, they can't be used in reports (at least without kludgy case statements). 3) They're not available outside the web interface, so SIP2 and any API endpoints must show the raw codes. 4) 'FU' is a common abbreviation for an obscenity in English, and this has a tendency to show in up in a lot of places where it really shouldn't.

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Serial: numbering patterns: how to make it more clear that months and weekdays start from 0 ?
by Victor Grousset 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Hi :) , That might not be clear, even for developer, and even less for a librarian. How could this info be delivered reliably to the user? To avoid running in circle during too long before realizing that? Even more hard to understand when there are cases like biannual where if you start from February, it will work even if you assumed that January was 1. But if you start from February, there will be issues after one year. Should there be tooltips? The related fields are marked with a red dot in the following screenshot. https://framapic.org/4P2ZzbgJpuvA/SIleKzEuYVaG.png Cheers, -- Victor Grousset, dev support/maintenance BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Libre/Open Source software and services for libraries

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Koha Community Newsletter: March 2019
by kohanews 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

The Koha Community Newsletter for March 2019 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-march-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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Auto-increment problem has re-emerged
by Bob Birchall 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

We're running multiple instances of Koha 18.05.06 installed on stretch from packages. In recent days we've struck the auto-increment problem several times, in relation to issues / old_issues. Known fixes are applied. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thanks, Bob Calyx

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Koha 17.11.17 release
by Fridolin SOMERS 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.17. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-17-11-17-release/ Debian packages will be upgraded in a few days. /!\ Important /!\ I will end this maintaining with next release 17.11.18 that will contain only critical bugs. Consider upgrading :D Regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre, France - software and system maintainer

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importing from a UNIMARC backup will import biblio records but not items
by giuseppe 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hello again, today I'm playing the following game (with Koha 18.11.03): 1) create two empty instances, A and B, both in the UNIMARC flavour; 2) populate A with ten bibliorecords, two ones with associated items; 3) create a backup from A so that only UNIMARC records having items are exported; 4) import the backup into instance B; 5) contrary to expectations, see that B now contains two biblio records but no items associated to them. If I inspect the records in the catalog of B, I see that they are void of the field 995 ( https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Holdings_data_fields_%289xx%29#UNIMARC… <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Holdings_data_fields_%289xx%29#UNIMARC…> ). However, the records staged in the temporary area of B during import phase do have that field. Any suggestions (before I file a bug report)? Thank you, Giuseppe -- Sent from: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-devel-f3063671.html

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Koha 18.11.04 release
by Renvoize, Martin 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.04. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-11-04-release/ Debian packages will be uploaded in a few days. Best regards and thanks to all those who have contributed to this release *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager *Phone:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *Mobile:* +44 (0) 7725 985 636 *Email:* martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com *Fax:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384 www.ptfs-europe.com Registered in the United Kingdom No. 06416372 VAT Reg No. 925 7211 30 The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at info(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Website: Update needed on some of the mailing lists viewers
by Victor Grousset 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

Hi :) https://koha-community.org/support/koha-mailing-lists/ > If anyone else is running a Koha list and would like it added, please > join and send a note to the Koha Developer’s List above. So I guess update requests should be also sent here. https://www.mail-archive.com/find.php?q=koha => not found solution: update the URL https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=all&q=koha http://web.archiveorange.com/ => hosts another thing unrelated now -- Victor Grousset, dev support/maintenance BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Libre/Open Source software and services for libraries

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Koha and MariaDB 10.3
by Mason James 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

Hi Folks, Has anyone upgraded to MariaDB v10.3, using the MariaDB community repo? https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/ If so... any problems? thanks, Mason

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