November 2021 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

How to make self-referential URLs in Koha
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hi all, With some recent code, I've been using creating self-referential URL in Koha using CGI->url(), and passing it as a value. With CGI, the URL is correct (ie starting with /cgi-bin/koha). With Plack, it's not, because the OPAC is mounted as "/opac". I worked around this by rewriting the self-referential URL in my code, but I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on this. I've noticed there are a few places in Koha where we use CGI->url() and I'm guessing we may have unexpected bugs in Plack-enabled Koha as a result. Of course, one workaround would be to have /opac and /intranet aliases or URL rewriting in Apache, so that the self-referential URLs created by Plack still end up resolving. I wonder if that's the easiest path forward. In the past, I have wondered if we could get rid of "/cgi-bin/koha" as a path prefix all together (especially as cgi-bin scares security tools), but it's so deeply embedded in Koha at this point that it seems a huge task to replace it. Anyway, just throwing that out there. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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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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Embed see-from headings (authorities) into bibliographic records at OAI repository level
by Julien Sicot 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Hi all, An enhancement idea : It could be interesting to enrich the bibliographic records exposed in OAI with see-from headings, this would allow users who use koha with a discovery tool to be able to manage, normalize and index some authorities data ? This is something that could be done directly in C4::Biblio::GetMarcBiblio following the same method used for embedding items. We could use an optional parameter like embed_items (embed_seefromheading) and a function similar to C4::Biblio::EmbedItemsInMarcBiblio by reusing what was made for zebra with EmbedSeeFromHeadings (bug #7417 <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7417>). What do you think about this? Thanks for feedback, Best -- Julien Sicot Systems Librarian Université Rennes 2 02 22 51 44 41

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Opening bids for KohaCon22
by Katrin Fischer 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Hello dear Koha community, another year is coming to an end. It's time to turn our attention to the new year that's coming up, full of possibilities! If you or your organization would like to organize KohaCon22, please enter all relevant information on this wiki page: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon22_Proposals (if you do not already have an account to edit the wiki, you can request one, it is usually pretty fast to get access). The community has agreed that KohaCon conferences must be either hybrid with an in-person conference streamed online, or entirely online. Apart from keeping the community members safe, this will also allow for greater accessibility, so that everyone can attend and learn from each other no matter their availability, ability to travel, or budget. Know that the community stands behind anyone who volunteers to organize and that help is always available if you're unsure how to proceed. Call for proposals will end on January 8, 2022 at 23:59 UTC. If there is more than one proposal, we will organize a vote, which will be announced on this mailing list. Best regards, Katrin

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Koha packages are available 🎁
by Mason James 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

kia ora community, the latest Koha packages are available cheers, Mason

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Release of Koha 20.11.12
by Fridolin SOMERS 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hi everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 20.11.12 🚀 It is a maintenance release 🛠️ The full release notes are available here 📜 https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-12-released/ The packages will soon be available 🌼 This month is beggin of new cycle 22.05. So this is my last release because I upgrade to Release Manager, see https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_22.05 Best regards 🌊 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Koha Community Newsletter: November 2021
by Koha Newsletter 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

The Koha Community Newsletter for November 2021 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-november-2021/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to this newsletter! Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Discourse forum / mailing list
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

Hi folks, I'm still working on using Discourse locally so I figured I'd share my experiences. Overall, I like the functionality well enough so far, although it can be annoying to setup and develop against (ie for plugins). We should feel good about koha-testing-docker, because it works very well out of the box whereas Discourse's dev environment really expects you to be a solo programmer on a Ubuntu laptop with no other development projects. It's a bit painful. They also are so entrenched in their bespoke bash scripting around Docker that they refuse to use Docker Compose. It's sad. Anyway, I figure the Koha community would run up its own Discourse, but if we wanted to be lazy we could just use this: https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-communit y-friendly-github-projects/ David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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stylus on bugzilla
by Fridolin SOMERS 20 Nov '21

20 Nov '21

Hi, I'd like to share a trick very useful for our bugzilla. When backporting, bug dependencies are very important. You see that when there is no dependency there is an input field and there are hyperlinks for dependencies. So I had the idea of adding CSS via Stylus FF plugin : https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/styl-us/ Here is the rule : ==== #field_label_dependson + td > a.bz_bug_link::after { content: '⚠️'; } ==== It adds a warning emoji next to link. When there is no dependency there is no warning. I have also some other cosmetic rules : ==== body, td, th, input, select, dt, #titles { font-size: 16px; } .bz_comment_text { width: 100em; } .bz_time_tracking_table { display: none; } ==== Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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QA : List::Util any ?
by Fridolin SOMERS 20 Nov '21

20 Nov '21

Hi, This message is mainly for QA team but feel free to comment :) In https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=127606 ... unless grep( /^$i$/, @branchcodes ); In my opinion seeing two veru different $ is disturbing. Should we tell to use List::Util any ? It is already used in many places. Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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