January 2022 - 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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Staff interface redesign: Update
by Owen Leonard 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

As Paul announced in December (https://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2021-December/046841.…) Biblibre is sponsoring a refresh of the staff interface design. They have hired a graphic designer, Thibaud Petit, to create some proposals, and will have an intern starting in February who will be able to devote six months to assisting in the implementation. Yesterday we had our first meeting: Paul, me, Thibaud, Mark Gavillet of PTFS-Europe, Lucas Gass of ByWater Solutions, and Brooke Johnson, friend of Koha. We discussed the possibilities and the difficulties involved in the task and talked about the possible scope of the changes. Some major points: - Style can be "easily" affected by global CSS changes. We've done this before, 10 years ago (!) with Bug 7979, https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7979 - The scope of other changes will be limited by the difficulty involved in making global changes to the many staff interface templates. The opportunity is there to implement some global changes via global includes, e.g. header, footer, sidebar menus. - I hope that we can have an upgrade to jQuery before the implementation starts, and an upgrade to Bootstrap either before or as part of the redesign. - We have not instructed Thibaud to limit his proposals to the green color scheme we currently associate with Koha. We hope to review some design proposals in two weeks on February first. Thanks to everyone who participated, and thanks especially to Paul and Biblibre for spearheading this effort! -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries (740) 737-6006 https://www.myacpl.org

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Koha Community Newsletter: January 2022
by Koha Newsletter 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

The Koha Community Newsletter for January 2022 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2022/ 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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Loosing owner permissions under koha-testing-docker (solution)
by Jonathan Druart 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Hi devs, If you are using koha-testing-docker and you write patches, you certainly also use the koha-qa.pl script (alias `qa`). That may cause you permission problems. There is a workaround I explained on https://gitlab.com/koha-community/qa-test-tools/-/issues/57 Cheers, Jonathan

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How to install Koha plugins for development
by Samu Heiskanen 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Hi, I am a new Koha developer from windy and cold Finland. As new to the Koha-community, I'd like to wish all the best for everyone in the community. I have a problem with installing Koha plugins. I tried to find guidelines how install plugin from Git-repository, but haven't found. I'm forking a plugin and setting up an environment for development and testing. What is the the preferred way to install plugin from Git? Best Regards, Samu Heiskanen

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Time to translate: string freeze to prepare Koha 19.11.25 has begun
by Wainui Witika-Park 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Hello, String freeze is into effect as of now for the 19.11.x maintenance branch in preparation for the 19.11.25 release. The minor release is scheduled for January 24. This means it's the right time to head over to the translation platform: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/ Reminder: if you add or change a translation in version 19.11, then you must also copy it to 20.11, 21.05 and 21.11. Otherwise your work will be lost for future versions. Happy translating! Wainui Witika-Park (she/her)

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Listing as a Koha Support provider - https://koha-support.eu/
by Mark Hofstetter 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hi, we are the HKS3 (Hofstetter, Klausner & Schmidt) OG and started providing support for koha about 1,5 years ago - and would like to be listed as "Koha Support provider" Company Name: HKS3 Contact Person: Mark Hofstetter Contact email: office(a)koha-support.eu Website: https://koha-support.eu/ Telephone: +43 676 7345660 this week our biggest project so far went live this weekend at: https://katalog.landesbibliothek.steiermark.at/ ( around 600k records) we are long time perl and database developers and want to (and already did) participate in the great & very welcoming koha-community some (and future) contributions https://github.com/HKS3/ cheers & thanks Mark

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hackfest in Marseille !!!
by Paul Poulain 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hello world ! According to my announced agenda, BibLibre is supposed to invite you for a Koha hackfest in Marseille, March 28th - April 1st. The pandemic is at a high level now, but specialist are optimistic for the next quarter. So, I'd like to be optimistic too and say : "OK, let's do it ! we'll meet in Marseille in late March". As usual : the hackfest is open to anyone willing to contribute to Koha, not only to developers: librarians are warmly welcomed and can contribute a lot ! It's a hackfest so no schedule, we decide day after day who work on what. If you can't join us for the whole week, that's OK, but joining 2 days is a minimum, 3 days being better (and 5 days the best, of course ;) ) And as usual, there will be the legendary French cheese lunch ;) If you want to join, just drop me an email ! -- 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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