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Koha Newsletter January 2020: addendum
by kohanews 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

I overlooked a really great submission to the Jan. 2020 newsletter. Must be the lack of caffeine. ( Sorry about that, Marcel! ) Please take a look at the newly added entry in the community announcements section of the newsletter: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2020/#announce *Marcel de Rooy* blogs about the history and use of Koha at the Rijksmuseum <https://theartofinformationblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/3725/> over the last 10 years. Though rare, this isn't the first time I've overlooked tidbits and article submissions over the past few years and I've decided to start announcing my blunders while calling attention to the articles in an email addendum so they get the attention they deserve. Thank you! Chad -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Koha Community Newsletter: January 2020
by kohanews 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

The Koha Community Newsletter for January 2020 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-january-2020/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Elasticsearch recent works at BibLibre
by Claire Hernandez 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

Hi, This week, some devs work together to move forward concretely on Elasticsearch issues encountered. You will find below a focus on some points (some are at poc state today) written by Alex and Jajm from BibLibre. We would be glad to discuss these topics at hackfest in march and having user feedbacks too :) #1 Proof of concept for language analyzers bug 21357 - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21357#c32 It's an attempt at having a default ES configuration with stemming, elision, etc. that works with multi-languages catalogs You can read the comments and patch for more information. #2 Compatibilites for tomorrow Compatibility with latest version of Search::Elasticsearch - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24552 Compatibility with Elasticsearch 7.x : Problem: Search::Elasticsearch is not yet compatible with ES 7.x, so we are stuck with ES 6.x (unless we use something else...) #3 Querying Elasticsearch in a better way POC query_string => boolean query https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24555 This POC is about replacing the use of full text queries (query_string) with Boolean queries for biblio search Advantage: => No search craches with special character ( "!", ")" etc...) => Separate query context and filter context: - Search scores are not altered by facets, - Ability to use range filter (i.e for publication date facet) Regards, Claire.

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Write good commit messages
by Jonathan Druart 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

Hi devs, This is a gently reminder about the bug report titles and commit messages. At the last dev meeting we discussed if we should or not reinforce, at QA and RM step, the coding codeline about how commit messages are written. We voted yes :) Can you please read again the following wiki page:https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commit_messages And especially the "examples" section: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commit_messages#Examples The main point is: the bug report title must describe what the bug is, while the commit title must describe what the patch does, so most of the time you must not copy the bug report title to the commit title. Previous message to the list: https://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2017-August/043991.ht… Cheers, Jonathan

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Global Bug Squashing Day - February 14th 2020
by Renvoize, Martin 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Hi All, At the last Koha Developers Meeting, it was proposed that we bring back regular Global Bug Squashing Day events to help keep the bug queue moving along and encourage more people to get involved. As such, we are arranging such a day to take place on the 14th of February. We hope to see some new names added to the list of contributors: Testing, Signoff, Quality Assurance, Patch Writing, Documentation additions all count, and there will be friendly developers available to help throughout the day on IRC <https://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/>! If you have always wanted to get involved now is a good time, so spin up a devbox, try out a sandbox, or just visit us in IRC and ask everything you wanted to know about Koha and we will help as best as we can. Please see https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2020-02-14_Global_bug_squashing_day for more information. *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager Community Release Manager (19.11, 20.05) *Phone:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *Mobile:* +44 (0) 7725 985 636 *Email:* martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com *Fax:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384 www.ptfs-europe.com Registered in the United Kingdom No. 06416372 VAT Reg No. 925 7211 30 The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at info(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Just a test
by Marcel de Rooy 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Testing from another address.

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Signoff request for bug 21190 [GDPR logging]
by Marcel de Rooy 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Hi, See bug 21190. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21190 GDPR: Log successful/unsuccessful login attempts [part 1] Some people asked for it. I wrote something. I do not really need it myself. I waited three months, but to no avail. This is my last resort ;) If you are interested in such changes, please test and signoff. If no one is, I will not keep waiting but just happily close the report. Thanks, Marcel

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External Independent Security Audits of Koha
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Hi all, Sending this first to the dev list, and might send to the general list depending on responses. Has anyone in the Koha community commissioned an external independent security audit of Koha? I know people do their own pen testing and security audits, but has anyone paid for an external independent firm to certify Koha? Apologies for the vagueness. I'm asking this question on behalf of someone else. I don't think it's a source code audit (like has been done for open source encryption software like TrueCrypt). Rather, I think it's an audit of an implemented Koha. Of course, any audit of an implementation would be implementation specific, so I'm not quite sure of the intentions behind the original question, but there you have it. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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hackfest 2020 in Marseille, registrations are open !
by Paul Poulain 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Hello everyone, almost everything is in the title : you can register for the hackfest by sending me an email. As announced previously, it will take place in BibLibre office, Marseille, France, March 23-27 Some explanations for those who need them: * the hackfest is NOT a developer week. it's a week for anyone willing to contribute to Koha, whatever the kind of contribution (testing, documenting, ...) * the hackfest is free of charge (but you'll have to deal with your traveling costs, of course) * you can come for 5 days, or less. Don't come for 1 day, it's useless. coming for 2 days is very frustrating. Coming for 3 to 5 days is perfect ! * 40-45 ppl fit in our office. If we're more than this, we'll have to book an additional room [thanks to the company just next door] So register as soon as possible * there's no schedule, everyone comes with it's own ideas/goals/expectations * that's not a training session * if you need an official invitation, just ask by email Hoping to see you next month !!! -- 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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Koha 19.11.02 released
by Joy Nelson 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.02. This is a maintenance release which includes 13 enhancements, 48 bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-02-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days. -- 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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