September 2020 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

On Koha::Object->store
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi, I've been fixing a bug in Koha::Item->store, and I remembered I wasn't sure why we keep the current behaviour instead of making ->store return the ->get_from_storage result like: return $self->SUPER::store->get_from_storage; I know this is 'how DBIC works' but I don't think there's much gain by avoiding it, and anyone calling ->store and doing something else afterwards, needs to remember ->discard_changes (or better ->get_from_storage) needs to be called in order to have the auto generated/updated fields the DB handles (autoincrement fields, timestamps, etc). So, is there a reason to keep this as-is? -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Time to translate: string freeze for 19.05.x has begun
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Hi, saluton, hola, bonjour, String freeze will be into effect now 15 September for the 19.05.x maintenance branch. The 19.05.15 release is scheduled for the 25th of September. This means it's the right time to head over to the translation platform: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/ Important reminder: if you add or change a translation in version 19.05, then you must also copy it to 19.11 and 20.05. Otherwise your work will be lost for future versions. Happy translating, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Call for news: September 2020 Koha Newsletter
by Koha Newsletter 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

I'm collecting news for the September 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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String freeze for 19.11.x
by Aleisha Amohia 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Hi all, String freeze will go into effect end of on Tuesday 15 September 2020 for the 19.11.x maintenance branch. 19.11.10 release scheduled for Tuesday 22 September 2020. Thanks -- *Aleisha Amohia*(she/her) Koha Developer Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source Solutions

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Using Template::Toolkit WRAPPER in Koha plugins
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Hi all, I just wanted to share how I've used Template::Toolkit WRAPPER in a Koha plugin. All the details are available at https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26381, but basically it boils down to creating 1 wrapper template, and then invoking that using the WRAPPER directive in individual Koha plugin templates like report-step1.tt. It reduces the boiler plate required for each plugin template whether that wrapper template is provided by the Koha plugin or by Koha (both approaches have pros and cons). For a long time, I've wanted to use WRAPPER with Koha more broadly, but Koha plugins provide a great opportunity for using them with no refactoring of existing code. Anyway, I hope that others find this useful. I'm going to have a bit of fun with it. David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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Koha nighty builds and KTD
by Mason James 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

hi folks would people like the latest build for stable, oldstable and oldoldstable branches be used by KTD? i checked the KTD git history, and it seems that historically the latest build from the master branch was used by all KTD branches what do people prefer?

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ERROR IN ACQUISITION MODULE
by Library Online 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

I am using koha 18.11.04 running on ubuntu 18.04 I am trying to set up the acquisition module. i have set a library budget and created funds. afterwards, when i create a vendor and save. i now go to manage orders to search for the vendor i just created. the error seen below pops up. please how do i resolve this? thanks in advance. Dinesh Software error: Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.26/DBI.pm line 2081. For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([no address given]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. *Thanks&Regards* * Dinesh Kumar* Mobile Numebr-9616146991

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Cleaning git project list
by Jonathan Druart 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hello everybody, As you may know I am migrating the git server to a new fresh one. Do you know any good reasons to keep one of the following git projects: mm/jcamins.git MM repo for authorities Jared Camins-Esakov 6 years ago mm/chrisc.git MM repo for testing Chris Cormack 6 years agolog | tree koha-archive.git Old Koha topic branches Koha Project 7 years ago wip/koha-equinox.git Equinox work in progress Galen Charlton 7 years ago koha-small.git main Koha release repository Koha Project 8 years ago wip/koha-catalyst.git Catalyst work in progress Chris Cormack 8 years ago wip/koha-chris_n.git Personal work in progress Chris Nighswonger 8 years ago wip/koha-biblibre.git BibLibre work in progress Henri-Damien Laurent 9 years ago wip/koha-fbc.git Foundations Bible College... Chris Nighswonger 9 years ago wip/koha-ptfs.git PTFS work in progress J. David Bavousett 10 years ago http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha-archive.git;a=summary They all seem very old and no longer used. Moreover they don't seem to contain useful history information. If you have any doubts please let me know and I will keep them (or some)! Cheers, Jonathan

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Review on Koha Order Module/plugin API
by Ola Andersson 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Dear Koha Developers, Here in Sweden we have started a task group in the Swedish Koha User Group to build a Order module/plugin to Koha that allow automatic influx of order data directly from a book vendor into Koha. The API draft is described here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13EIWxTlN3Wo-8OtJuwu5serQu-dl-zdpK1qY5BN… We have had it posted for review in the Swedish user group - but we are thinking it would be valuable to get the larger Koha community to give feedback before we hire contractors to build the module/plugin. Please share thoughts on the API and how to best implement it in Koha from a developer/QA perspective. All comments are appreciated and anyone looking at the Google docs above can send comments/suggestions into the document. When the API is becoming more stable and comments have been looked at we could move it into the Koha wiki site. Please leave comments before 21 September 2020. /Swedish Koha User Group - the book vendor module/plugin task group

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Request for sign-off: component part records feature (Bug 11175)
by Joonas Kylmälä 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hi, there has been this long-standing feature pending from 2013 for Koha for listing component part records in the host record biblio details page. I have rescued the original patches by submitting follow-ups but now I haven't got any sign-offs for 2 months. I think the issue is that this needs developers to do the sign-off since the zebra index needs to be re-indexed to test this. So if you are a developer of a library that uses component part records I would like to ask you take a look at this bug 11175 [1] and sign-off if you just can! Thanks already beforehand! :) [1] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11175 -- Joonas Kylmälä Tietojärjestelmäasiantuntija Kansalliskirjasto Kirjastoverkkopalvelut PL 15 (Unioninkatu 36) 00014 Helsingin yliopisto

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