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Building Koha Debian packages in Docker
by David Cook 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone had a Docker image for building Koha Debian packages. I scouted around a bit and found this image from Jonathan https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-dpkg-docker but nothing else. So I've put together my own project which you can find here: https://gitlab.com/minusdavid/koha-deb-builder-docker The "build.sh" script is still rough around the edges, but it all works. Basically you build the Docker image, dump a tarball into "input" (generated using git archive with a properly formatted prefix and filename), run a container, run the build.sh script, and then when the process is done you should have some Debian packages in your "output" directory which is shared with your host computer. Happy to accept pull requests or talk about it in general. The Docker image is pretty heavy, but that's because the Debian packaging tools are heavy. The build process is also a bit long because it has to install all the "build dependencies", although I think we could tweak the debian/control file so that we don't have to install everything just to build the packages. Also I couldn't get the tests to complete successfully on the first go so I've turned them off for now. Fixing the image or the tests so that they can run would be cool. Anyway, just thought I'd share that with everyone. 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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Koha 18.05.06 release
by Renvoize, Martin 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.06. This is my final release as the 18.05.x maintainer, but I will be returning next cycle as the next stable (18.11) maintainer. The 18.05.x series will live on in the capable hands of Lucas Gass and Jesse Maseto. This is a maintenance release containing 67 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-05-06-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days Many thanks to everyone involved, *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager *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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Koha 17.11.12 release
by Fridolin SOMERS 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.12. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-17-11-12-release/ Debian packages will be upgraded in a few days. Regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre, France - software and system maintainer

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What is biblioitemnumber for?
by Barton Chittenden 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Just out of curiosity, why does biblioitemnumber exist? There should be a one-to-one relationship between biblio records and biblioitem records ... so why not use biblionumber as the primary key for biblioitems? --Barton

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Hackfest in Marseille in 2019
by Paul Poulain 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hello Koha, I wrote a while ago that the hackfest in Marseille will not take place in spring, because of the KohaCon in Europe (congratulation Dublin). We've chosen : sept 30th - oct 4th. It may be a little bit early to book your flight but you can already set the dates in your agenda ;) -- 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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Notices and slips documentation RFC
by Barton Chittenden 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Koha doesn't currently have a single point of truth for documentation of notices and slips, which has lead to a proliferation of markup syntaxes, especially in regard to repeating detail, e.g. DUEDGST/PREDUEDGST: <<items.content>> ODUE* <<items.content>> or <item> </item> CHECKOUT/CHECKIN/RENEWAL ---- Detail here ---- These have been documented in https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Customising_Notices_and_Slips#Notice_M… , but this has gotten out of date as new notices get added in each version of Koha. Work to be done: Add Koha/Notices.pod which will document the following for each notice in the Letter table: * Letter Code * Source file where the notice is populated * Logic that triggers the notice * Detail syntax (if any) * Available data (tables and substitutions) * Message transport restrictions The output from this pod should be used as the basis for the Koha user documentation. See Bug 21858 and https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Notice_documentation_rfc

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Permission to remove /misc/cronjobs/staticfines.pl
by Renvoize, Martin 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hi Everyone, In a quest to clean up an unused database field in the issuingrules table (Bug 21753 - issuingrules.chargename is unused and should be removed) I found a fines script which I've never seen before. It looks like a good candidate for removal after a quick query to the irc channels but I wanted to open it here to check if anyone is indeed still using this particular mode of calculating fines. Many thanks, *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager *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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Koha plugins Apache Alias
by Fridolin SOMERS 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hi, For Koha plugins, there is in etc/koha-httpd.conf : Alias /plugin/ "__PLUGINS_DIR__/" I dont see this in debian/templates o_O Since we allow plugin to add load of JS/CSS files for intranet and OPAC, should be add this alias for both ? Looks like this is needed for actual EDS plugin. https://github.com/ebsco/edsapi-koha-plugin/ Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre, France - software and system maintainer

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Filtering inventory results by cn_sort vs. callnumber
by Eric Phetteplace 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

I'm in support of using cn_sort wherever sorting occurs as that's its purpose. If I'm not mistaken, it's already being used in some places without an existing system preference, and I don't see how the Inventory tool is categorically different. Is it possible, perhaps in a plugin, to configure new normalization methods for different classification sources? That seems to be the purpose of the Classification Sources admin settings but I'm not sure. To answer Heather—I think your second question is correct, the two problems are not intertwined. One deals with LC numbers being improperly normalized and another deals with the normalized strings not being used as the sorting value in places. Best, ERIC PHETTEPLACE Systems Librarian libraries.cca.edu | vault.cca.edu | 510.594.3660 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618 1111 8th St., San Francisco, CA 94107 Preferred Pronoun(s): he/him :(){ :|: & };: On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:01 AM Hernandez, Heather < heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov> wrote: > Hi, Nick-- > > I read through Bug 21629 and if I'm reading it correctly, it says that call > numbers are sorted correctly using cn_sort, but Bug 17269 describes how > call numbers are not sorted correctly using cn_sort, specifically the ones > with colons in them in the G Library of Congress classification schedule. > > Has Bug 21629 been tested using LC call numbers with colons in them? Or is > the problem of incorrect sorts of LC call numbers with colons in them > unrelated? > > Thank you! Cheers, > h2 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Heather Hernandez > Technical Services Librarian > San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center > 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 > 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez(a)nps.gov > Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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Signoff request
by Marcel de Rooy 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hi all, Please help getting bug 21774 into the next release by signing off. Marked as critical last week. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21774 Thanks, Marcel

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