June 2023 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

git-bz update
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Hi all, I wanted to mention that the 'apply_on_cascade' branch for git-bz has been updated with a merge request from Andrii and Slava to upgrade it to Python 3. It should be bundled in the latest KTD. Kudos for them, and any issues you may find, please file a report on the project site [1]. Best regards [1] https://gitlab.com/koha-community/git-bz -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Long-running inventory.pl causing timeout? There's a solution...
by David Cook 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Hi all, I imagine everyone has encountered situations where a long-running inventory.pl has caused a timeout? Well, at https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31744 I have a solution (ie workaround). It requires running inventory.pl in CGI mode and without compression, so that it can stream null data out until the actual inventory output is ready. This prevents proxies from timing out while waiting for the inventory to process and print out its output. It works for both HTML and CSV output too. Ideally, it would be nice to have inventory.pl process in the background, but I think this is a very practical workaround that keep inventory.pl working until we can implement that more ideal solution. I'm going to have some libraries test the solution behind their corporate HTTP forward proxies and I'll let folks know on Bugzilla how that goes. I'm optimistic since all my testing has gone well so far. 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 docker debian container
by Waylon Robertson 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

is there a pre-rollled bullseye docker container with koha, elasticsearch, and memcache all pre-setup and ready to go, somewhere? one that i can koha-create, then import a old koha database into?

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Call for news - Newsletter June 2023
by Koha Newsletter 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Hi I'm collecting news for the June 2023 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com News criteria: * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. Text format criteria: * Just structured plain text, or * HTML text to include tables or similar For events: * Consider adding your event to the Koha Community calendar at https://koha-community.org/calendar/ Thank you! Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Useful fix for client IP address in plack.log for anyone running Koha behind a proxy
by David Cook 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

Hi all, Koha::Middleware::RealIP gives you the real client IP address in the Koha code when running Koha behind a proxy. However, I noticed that this real client IP address wasn't showing up in plack.log, and it really started to bug me. I discovered that Koha::Middleware::SetEnv was compromising the flow of the $env variable through the Plack middlewares, but I've fixed it: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33967 It was a crazy-making problem, but it was a very simple fix, and it will make your plack.log files much more useful. Simple yet comprehensive test plan too, so I hope that folk take a look at it. 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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Integrating MarcEdit on Linux with Koha
by David Cook 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

Hi all, Recently, I've been running the MarcEdit CLI tool cmarcedit.exe on Linux (using mono) to run task automations that were created by librarians using MarcEdit on Windows. I'm hoping to put together a Koha plugin to allow librarians to upload the tasks and choose which Koha MARC records to run them on. (In this case, it will be for export purposes rather than in-place updates, but easy enough for someone to change.) Does anyone think that sounds interesting? (Once the Koha REST API builds up a bit more for biblios/items and search, I was thinking of getting in touch with Terry Reese to see about improving the Koha integration in MarcEdit as well.) 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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Rewrite of URLs, flushing all empty arguments
by Philippe Blouin 08 Jun '23

08 Jun '23

Hello all! New issue (in 22.05 here, but might be anywhere): https://somedomain.net/cgi-bin/koha/tools/letter.pl?op=delete_confirm <https://v22-test-intranet.hapax.inlibro.net/cgi-bin/koha/tools/letter.pl?op…>_&*branchcode=*&module=suggestions&code=ACCEPTED_ When somedomain is onto one of our debian box (bullseye, 11), the branchcode= disappears on landing. Be it on the connection page or letter.pl, we do not have the branchcode= anymore, and the code throws an error (branchcode being undefined) When running onto our laptops (Ubuntu) that doesn't happen. We have no custom RewriteRule, so I'm trying to figure out WHERE this rewrite comes from. All suggestions welcomed, Best regards, -- Philippe Blouin, Directeur de la technologie Tél. : (833) 465-4276, poste 230 philippe.blouin(a)inLibro.com inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>

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Koha 23.05 packages are available 🎁
by Mason James 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

kia ora community, the latest Koha 23.05 packages are available an installation guide is below... https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian cheers, Mason

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A case against our release dates
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Hi all. Having served as Release Manager for the project a couple times, I'd like to ask y'all to think about the dates we've chosen and have stuck to the last few years for our releases. I know they are somehow aligned with our regular yearly meetings, and one each semester. But my experience says: - We all want to implement things we discuss in the Hackfest, but the release is too close. So we either push too late in the cycle, or need to cool down our brains/ideas for 'after the release in two months'. - The other scenario, which I suffered a lot recently (and will soon) is summer holidays in the northern hemisphere: you're all out when we should be pushing the riskier things to have enough time to fix things, and we end up rushing things... on the last third of the cycle. I don't have a proposal right now, but wanted to say my perception is the dates are not ideal as-is. And hear back from you all. Cheers! -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Configuration inheritance/override
by David Cook 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Hi all, I think that we've all noticed that it's easy to add a new configuration item to koha-conf.xml for new instances, but that it's much harder to update koha-conf.xml when upgrading existing instances. A strategy that I (and others) have used on other projects is to have a core/base configuration file with defaults, and then the local config file is used to override those defaults on a per-instance basis. The core/base config file can be replaced as part of a Debian package upgrade, and it can be used to push out updated configuration to all instances with 1 click. This methodology also means that the local config file can often be fairly small too as it's only overriding specific configuration items. Anyway, it's easier said than done for Koha, but it's a thought, especially as we move forward. I know this is a problem that we bump into often in Koha and it would help to solve it. 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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