May 2022 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Koha 21.05.15 release
by Andrew Fuerste-Henry 29 May '22

29 May '22

The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of version 21.05.15. For full release notes, please visit https://koha-community.org/koha-version-21-05-15-released/ Thanks! -- Andrew Fuerste-Henry Educator (he/they) ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com Phone:(888)900-8944 <(888)%20900-8944> What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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Please remove!
by Frank Raines 27 May '22

27 May '22

I didn't ask to be on this email thread, can you please remove me? Frank RainesFRisTCB(a)aol.comCell 301-641-3700

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Developing/Testing Zebra using Docker
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hi nerds, Ever feel like Zebra is an intimidating black box of mystery? Well, you're certainly not alone. That's how I felt when I first encountered it over 10 years ago. Over the past decade, I've read through the C code and submitted issue reports to Indexdata, but it wasn't until the other day that I decided I'd try hacking on Zebra to try to understand its operation better (especially faceting). I kept notes of my process for developing and testing Zebra and I've posted them to https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Developing_Zebra. Using these straightforward steps you should be able to hack, compile, and run Zebra. (At some stage, I might actually provide a Dockerfile or Docker image that is even more convenient.) When looking at faceting, I wasn't able to solve the problem, but I was able to isolate the problematic function by hacking on Zebra, and now I'm waiting to hear back from Indexdata for advice. So I think it was a useful exercise. I think Tomas has already hacked on Zebra, so he probably doesn't need this, but I thought it might be interesting for people to review and try if they were interested. 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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Automatic graceful reloading of Koha after plugin install/upgrade
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hi all, How good would it be to have automatic graceful reloading of Koha after plugin install/upgrade? Andreas Jonsson suggested it at https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21366#c8 and it looks like it's easily doable using a SIGHUP as a web user. (Admittedly, I've just sent the SIGUP as the relevant CLI user, but it should be fine as a web user as well.) Having to manually restart Koha after a plugin install/upgrade is rather annoying and even impossible for some libraries, so it seems like this would be a big improvement. Thoughts? 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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CSS on OPAC not Bootstrap CSS?
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hi all, Is it just me or is the CSS on the OPAC not using Bootstrap CSS? It uses Bootstrap JS but not the CSS? The CSS looks 100% bespoke? 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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OPAC search results not displaying correctly on smaller device screens
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 25 May '22

25 May '22

Hi all, Does anyone else have an issue with the OPAC search results not displaying correctly on smaller device screens? I've opened up https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30841 as I think I see a flaw for screen sizes between 768 and 991 pixels in width. 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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Development IRC meeting 25 May 2022
by Fridolin SOMERS 25 May '22

25 May '22

Hi, We will be pleased to see you at : https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_25_May_2022 Last meeting of 22.05 cycle, then release 🚀 Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Re: [Koha-devel] Koha-devel Digest, Vol 198, Issue 14
by Alex Buckley 24 May '22

24 May '22

Thanks very much David for your thoughts on bug 30684, I'll proceed with making the proposed stop then start changes to the koha-* scripts! Thanks, Alex On 20/05/22 22:00, koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha-community.org wrote: > Send Koha-devel mailing list submissions to > koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha-community.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > koha-devel-owner(a)lists.koha-community.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Koha-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Plack graceful restart / reload (Bug 21366) > (dcook(a)prosentient.com.au) > 2. Bug 30684: Requesting community feedback on change to restart > behaviour of koha-* scripts (Alex Buckley) > 3. Re: Bug 30684: Requesting community feedback on change to > restart behaviour of koha-* scripts (dcook(a)prosentient.com.au) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 11:35:47 +1000 > From: <dcook(a)prosentient.com.au> > To: "'Koha-devel'" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> > Subject: [Koha-devel] Plack graceful restart / reload (Bug 21366) > Message-ID: <08bd01d86be9$fb41b8d0$f1c52a70$(a)prosentient.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi all, > > > > For years, we've been talking about providing a graceful restart for > Starman. > > > > Today, I needed it for a production instance to enable plugins without > disrupting anyone's Koha usage, so I ran: kill -SIGHUP $(cat > /var/run/koha/<instance name>/plack.pid) > > > > It worked so well. > > > > I'd be happy to provide a patch, but I imagine there might be some debate > about the precise implementation. So if folk could comment on > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21366 that would > be great. > > > > 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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Koha 20.11.19 released
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 24 May '22

24 May '22

Hello! :) The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 20.11.19 The full release notes can be found at: https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-19-released Debian packages should be available shortly. Thanks to everyone involved :) Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Zebra facets: yay or nay?
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi all, Do you use Zebra facets? I think a lot of people have found them very useful for small databases but too slow on larger databases? I noticed how the word "the" could make a difference on a Koha database with 1,000,000+ bib records. Maybe Indexdata can give some insight into that one: https://github.com/indexdata/idzebra/issues/35. I took a look at the Zebra code but I'm neither a C expert nor a Zebra code expert, so nothing obvious jumped out at me. But it seems to me that the facet calculation isn't being done correctly on the result set, as a result set of 3325 records can get 1 facet in 2 records whereas a result set of 3323 records can get 1 facet in 60 seconds (ie too slow to return correctly in Koha). Unfortunately, I don't have a ready-made solution for that one (unlike https://github.com/indexdata/idzebra/issues/34) so I don't know if it'll progress. But fingers crossed! 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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