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Call for news - Newsletter December 2021
by Michael Kuhn 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Hi I'm collecting news for the December 2021 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 -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik(a)adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch

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Next dev meeting 8 dec
by Fridolin SOMERS 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hi, Dev meeting in coming soon : 8 December 2021, 15:00 UTC https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_8_December_2021 I've written a few points, I hope we will be productive. Like I said, schedule has not changed even if for Pacific users is will be really early in the morning. I'll have a litre of coffee to keep me awake :D Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Documentation Team - IRC meeting this week and a general update
by David Nind 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hi everyone. Thanks for those volunteering to be part of the documentation team for the 22.05 release cycle - It's great to have you as part of the team! *Next IRC meeting* I've set up a meeting for the end of this week, 9 December 2021, 16:00 UTC - this will be the first documentation meeting for a while. The agenda is available at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Documentation_IRC_meeting_2021-12-09 - please add any agenda items for things you would like to discuss. I found it a bit difficult to come up with a time that accommodates most people (from Europe, Canada, USA timezones) from what I know of the time zones team members are in - if having it earlier (or later) would mean that more could make it, I'm happy to change it (as long as I actually wake up!). If this week doesn't suit, I'm happy to move it to next week (although that might clash with any KohaCon 2021 events that are on).. Please let me know if you would like the date or time changed, otherwise I will go ahead with it as it is, and we can adjust the time for future meetings. *General update* Firstly, my apologies for the lack of activity and communication for the last release cycle (21.11) - I was originally going to have plenty of time available to work on the documentation, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way. So for this cycle we have the 21.11 changes to incorporate into the manual as a starting point. To identify what documentation changes are required I have setup a spreadsheet - linked from bug 29473 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29473 I'm progressively working my way through the list - there were quite a few architecture and other changes in this release that don't affect the documentation, so it is not as bad as it first appears. I have setup the same spreadsheet for 22.05 on bug 29460 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29640 Using a spreadsheet is probably not the best way to manage release documentation tasks, but I hope this will help initially. Other things I've been working on: 1. Tidying up the Documentation Team pages on the wiki linked from https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Documentation_Team 2. Setting up tasks in Bugzilla for current GitLab issues, projects, and any other tasks I can think of - hopefully I will have this finished by the time of the meeting. 3. Working on my plan to change our approach from a monolith narrative style manual, to a more more modular, topic-based approach - the first step is for me to setup a prototype so you can see what I mean, and for us decide whether this is a better (but more challenging) approach, or not (see the documentation plan for initial details of this). I've talked about this in the past, but not made much actual progress (see my last presentation about this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TWnsuh2Vts6wJA4PyEKh2Sio0AXaSrYR/view?usp=… ) 4. Thinking about adding a "What's new" section - basically a more "librarian friendly" list of new features, enhancements, and things fixed - that eventually links to the updated section(s) in the manual. I've created bugzilla task https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29649 - feel free to comment on whether you think this would be a good idea, or not. Hopefully it will make it easier for Koha Community members to identify what's new in a release, and save some of the work that is repeated by support providers (or at least create a good starting point!). 5. Setup "Office hours" or drop-in session times - this is an experiment to see if it will be useful having a time where you can drop-in and ask any questions, discuss or just cjhat about any issues to do with documentation - we'll see how it goes. For details see https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Documentation_Team_-_Office_hours That's probably enough for this update - I intend to do a weekly (or perhaps fortnightly) update during the 22.05 release cycle, so let me know if this will be useful and anything you would like to see covered or included. David Nind | david(a)davidnind.com 387 Whartons Road, RD 10D, Oamaru 9492 p. +64 3 4395 306 | m. +64 21 0537 847

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Ignore this test
by Marcel de Rooy 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Just testing if these signatures did not come along now anymore 😉 Have a great day, Koha. Marcel

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Koha 21.12.00 is there
by Fridolin SOMERS 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hi, Here it is, my first push to master. (Look at upgrade text) I've also pushed some Passed-QA. Like promised I will work as RM each morning. A big challenge is to keep communication the community world-wide while working in UTC-10. I start by email and be on IRC when possible. Maybe we can think of some tool later. Taiga may be useful for some todo list. Bugzilla as always our main tool. As for Dev meeting, it will be for me at 5 AM. I can manage so I propose not to change for the moment. Next one is 8 December 2021, 15:00 UTC. See you there. Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Proofreading request of Koha's Wikipedia article release history table
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(software)#Releases Let me know if something is wrong. For 19.11 being oldoldoldoldstable , it's getting ridiculous but it should be correct. 20.11 is oldoldstable 20.05 even though it's EOL it's now oldoldoldstable So 19.11 must be oldoldoldoldstable XD Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Koha 20.05.18 released (last release for 20.05.x)
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hello! :) The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 20.05.18 This is the last release for the 20.05.x branch, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to later releases in order to continue to get security and bugfix support as well as translation updates. The full release notes can be found at: https://koha-community.org/koha-20-05-18-released/ Debian packages should be available shortly. Thanks to everyone involved :) Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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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 21 Nov '21

21 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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