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

Explainshell entry for koha package utilities (and thoughts about ubuntu repos)
by Barton Chittenden 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Explainshell.com is a very nifty site that will parse the man pages that they know about, and then tell you what a given command line does. For example, given the command line yaz-marcdump -i marc -o marc -f utf-8 -t marc8 -l 9=20 filenametoconvert.mrc Explainshell will tell you what the -i, -o, -f, -t and -l options do: https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=yaz-marcdump+-i+marc+-o+marc+-f+utf-8+… I honestly wasn't expecting it to know about yaz-marcdump.... but since it does, I tried koha-create... and it doesn't know about that. Apparently it looks at Ubuntu's man-page repository ( http://manpages.ubuntu.com/) ... so ... we're not there. I don't know how much of a pain it is to get into, say, the ubuntu multiverse or ubuntu partner repos. I could see issues with some of our more bleeding edge dependencies... but it would be pretty awesome to just use a straight 'apt install koha' to get koha... and also to be able to use explainshell for koha-utilities.

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String Freeze (Maintenance Branches)
by Renvoize, Martin 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Hi All, Just a quick notification that we're not in string freeze for the maintenance branches, with the series of maintenance releases due on the 18th. Go forth and update your translations, Many thanks, *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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announcing Urungi, business intelligence made easy for Koha
by Paul Poulain 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Hello all, BibLibre is working for a while on a new tool to build statistics & dashboard (http://www.urungi.org) to complete the Koha reports module (Unix philosophy : 1 tool for 1 thing). I consider that it's now ready for production (we'll begin to deploy it to our customers) We still have many things on our roadmap (https://kanboard.biblibre.com/public/board/fc524fef4df4404a551f2315511d15d3…) What exist works well though What's next for the Koha community & developers ? * play a bit with our demo platform: https://demo-urungi.biblibre.com/#/home (test/test), linked to a koha DB (French inside !) * give it a try : https://github.com/biblibre/urungi/ * you'll need to create layers for Koha. The good news is that we already have made some for you. The bad news is that we made it in French. So, just ask, I'll send it to you, translate to English, the Koha community will thank you ;) * the "hidden" feature : URL #/export => export anything from Urungi #/import => import anything into Urungi * share your layers, dashboards, ... * join the fun, submit pull requests, ... PS: if anyone is using Mantis as support platform, we're also creating layers&dashboards for Mantis. Next will probably be Coral. PS2: if anyone is willing to sponsor some features, we're open, as usual. -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries

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by Mason James 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

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Call for News: March 2019 Newsletter
by kohanews 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

I'm collecting news for the March 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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by Mason James 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

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Using unsanitized data in regular expressions
by David Cook 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Hi all, I encountered a problem recently where create-pdf.pl was stuck in an infinite loop because a string passed into '$line =~ s/$1//;' in C4::Patroncards::Patroncard contained "(TEST)" and it was treating the parentheses as metacharacters and not literal values. I fixed the problem by changing the line to '$line =~ s/\Q$1\E//;', so that anything in $1 would be escaped, but it got me thinking about other parts of Koha. I'm not saying that it's necessarily a problem in other parts of Koha, but that it might be good to be mindful of it. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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OpenURL Link Resolving on Koha
by Gene Stevenson 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Koha family, We're in the midst of transitioning to Koha, but we're a non-traditional user. Instead of a library, we are an abstracting database working with Koha to make our service easier to use for our subscribers (mainly libraries). Think of us as a virtual library with our "patrons" being actual physical libraries. Each of our patrons need the capability of linking out from our database to their in-house full-text e-journal collections via OpenURL linking (link resolver). Do you all have ideas on how this might work? Thank you in advance for your time and consideration! Gene L. Stevenson, Executive Director Religious & Theological Abstracts 121 S. College St., Suite 106 Myerstown, PA 17067 USA Phone: (717) 866-6734 E-mail: <mailto:rtaed@rtabstracts.org> rtaed(a)rtabstracts.org URL: <http://www.rtabstracts.org/> www.rtabstracts.org

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Critical bug fix to prevent data loss (Bug 22395)
by Nick Clemens 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hello all, It has been discovered there is a bug in the stable versions of Koha, 18.05.09 and 17.11.15 which can cause quoted text in records to be deleted upon edit/save https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22395 If you have not yet upgraded to the most recent maintenance release please wait a few days as we are releasing a new version to fix the issue. If you are running these versions please be aware of this bug and we will be sending a notice when the new versions are available. Thanks, Nick

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Memcached problem with Koha
by Rémy DUCRY 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hello to all of you, I have a problem with Memcached that I am submitting to your expertise. I put you the link to the screenshot showing the server configuration: http://51.75.27.51/pref-sys.png , as you can see Memcached does not run when we have (normally) correctly configured it for. The server configuration: Koha Version 18.11.02.02.02.000 Ubuntu server version 18.04 Looking forward to your feedback, I wish you an excellent day.

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