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REMINDER: Development IRC meeting 15 May 2024
by Paul Derscheid 14 May '24

14 May '24

Hi all, We have a Development IRC/Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_15_May_2024 Time converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+I… <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+I…> Please feel free to add any topics you’d like to discuss to the agenda or let me know and I am happy to add them for you. If you are lead or supporter of a roadmap project, we will be happy to get an update on progress. See you there! Paul

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Hard feature freeze / String warning for 24.05
by Fischer, Katrin 13 May '24

13 May '24

Hi all, we are on schedule to the 24.05 release and have now reached hard feature freeze. This means: * Boarding has completed. All enhancements and new features that will be included in 24.05 have been pushed. * An early draft of the release notes has been created: https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-release-notes/-/blob/main/release_not es_23_12_00.md?ref_type=heads * Any help in extending the descriptions of the new features and enhancements is much appreciated. Please also check for missing sponsorship notes. At the same time this means that this is a good time to start your translations, as we expect not many new additional strings now. Hard string freeze is scheduled for the end of the week. Katrin

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Call for news - Newsletter May 2024
by Koha Newsletter 13 May '24

13 May '24

Hi I'm collecting news for the May 2024 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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Time to write release notes!
by Fischer, Katrin 06 May '24

06 May '24

Hi all, please remember to add some nice notes to your new features and enhancements pushed for 24.05 in Bugzilla! This makes the release notes much more useful and helps our documentation team for writing the manual as well. Katrin

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Koha Foundation Proposal
by Brendan Gallagher 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hello All - Good day to everyone! At the Koha Community Hackfest held in Marseille, France on 8th - 12th April 2024 community members once again raised the topic of governance and sustainability of Koha. Prior to that meeting Brendan Gallagher and Jonathan Field had done some background work to look into the prospect of putting the Koha project into a foundation. Although this is something that members of the community have explored previously, the feeling is now that the landscape has changed and it’s a good time to revisit this topic. There are numerous benefits of moving Koha into a Foundation for the long term sustainability of this Open Source Project. Koha is a mature, very large project and represents 177 years of collective work (hours) of development time (https://openhub.net/p/koha) First of all we think everyone should stand up and celebrate that fact - this project is Awesome! One of the big advantages of putting Koha into a foundation is that we can start to have a more formalised governance structure - which will improve our communication and our development processes. In addition, we will be protecting Koha for future generations to come. Part of the exploratory work involved talking to some community members, support organisations, non-library specific foundations, and looking at the Open Library Foundation <https://openlibraryfoundation.org/> (OLF). This included talking to an open source project (VuFind <https://vufind.org/vufind/>) that has recently joined OLF, as well as a discussion with the current President of OLF (Tom Cramer <https://openlibraryfoundation.org/about/leadership/>). We presented this work to the Hackfest on 10th April 2024 to the assembled gathering. There was a large consensus for the need of a foundation and that OLF would be a good home for Koha. There was a request that we hold a vote to include a wider audience of Koha libraries, community members, and support organisations in the decision. We would therefore like to submit the following proposal: “Open Library Foundation (OLF) should become the home for creating a new Koha Foundation spot. The structure of the OLF is that each project establishes its own legal identity where each project can create governance models that fit for their open source project, establish banking accounts for fund raising and supporting community focused programs, allow for consolidated technology resources (website, bug tracker, mailing list forums, etc.), and have legal advice/practice available to support and protect the project.” Before putting this proposal to a vote, we would like to leave a window of opportunity to ask questions and discuss. We have included the background and research that we did, please take a look at the document (attached). Once you have digested this information please feel free to discuss via IRC, post questions to the Koha mailing lists or join the new chat facility at https://chat.koha-community.org/. There is also a Koha community meeting on the 15th May <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_15_May_2024>where any questions can be answered. Alternatively, contact brendan(a)bywatersolutions.com or jonathan.field(a)ptfs-europe.com who would be happy to take any questions you may have. After a period of discussion, we will send out a link to a vote. We would request that as many members of this community who have an interest in the future of Koha participate in this vote. Cheers and thank you, Brendan and Jonathan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher brendan(a)bywatersolutions.com <info(a)bywatersolutions.com> Follow us: <https://www.facebook.com/ByWaterSolutions/> <https://www.instagram.com/bywatersolutions/> <https://www.youtube.com/user/bywatersolutions> <https://twitter.com/ByWaterSolution>

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Bug 33092 - Add ability to search within a list
by David Cook 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hi all, Has anyone looked at this one? My first thought is that the list ID would need to be added to a repeatable subfield (e.g. 999$l) and indexed. That way it would be easy to allow any search engine query and then just wrap it like "(<query>) and (list_id=X)". But. it would mean that we'd have to re-index records for list operations, and I don't love that. Does anyone have any other ideas? Or happy to support this one? It would be a fairly significant change to lists, so I think it would need to be well thought out. 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 Community Newsletter: April 2024
by Koha Newsletter 28 Apr '24

28 Apr '24

The Koha Community Newsletter for April 2024 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-april-2024/ 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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IMPORTANT: Git branch master is now main
by Fischer, Katrin 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi all, we have made a lot of changes today to make sure that our git repositories are no longer using 'master', but 'main' as their main and development branch. Some small changes are required to make things work again: Translators If you have any bookmarks for translating, you might need to adapt them to the new branch name: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/koha/main/ git repositories Please note that this change doesn't only affect the Koha repository, but also our side project and tool repositories. In your local repositories you will want to rename the local branch to main and then set it to track main in the upstream repository: git config --global init.defaultBranch main git branch --move master main git branch -u origin/main git pull koha-testing-docker Switch the repository over to use main as detailed above. Edit your .env file and replace every occurrence of master with main, especially within the KOHA_IMAGE line. Run ktd pull to pull the new images. RMaints and RM release-tools: Edit etc/user.yaml and replace 'master' with 'main' in line 4. If you encounter any issues, please let us know! Many many thanks to everyone who has helped today to make this possible on short notice! Katrin

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Google OpenID Connect
by long_sam.tw 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi, all Google OpenID Connect is used in koha. Why does opac have this identity authentication login, but staff does not have this function? What is the main reason? With respect, long_sam

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Community positions for the 24.11 cycle
by Renvoize, Martin 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Hi everyone, We need your help! I'd like to advertise that we have a vote upcoming in the community for the roles for the next release cycle, 24.11. Please see the roles page at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_24.11 and add your name to a role if you would like to propose volunteering for it. The team vote will take place on May 2nd at the next community general meeting <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_2_May_2024>. We'd love to see some new faces on the team, and we value contributions from developers to help drive the project forward. Some roles I'd like to draw your attention to: * Bug Wranglers <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Bug_wrangler> - We can always do with more bug wranglers! These people love to keep things tidy and Bugzilla is always in need of your help. We need people to help manage 'the list', identify the duplicates, promote bugs to specialists and find people to do signoffs and testing. Everyone is invited to this party, we need you! This is a great first-time role to take on and it makes a real difference to active community contributors' lives! * Topic experts <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Topic_expert> - Do you know a particular topic or area in Koha well? Then why not let people know and put your name forward as a Topic expert! These people can help drive an area forward, adding detailed information to bugs in their respective fields, and adding highly respected signoff that may be treated as a quality assurance pass as well. * Quality assurance <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#QA_team_member> - The testing and quality assurance queues are always overflowing and we need more people to take on this role. There's plenty of work to go around and not all of it is as difficult as it sounds; We encourage you to step up and contribute your expertise to these critical areas of the project. I would be more than happy to personally mentor anyone who wants to join this team, guiding them on how to pick bugs and then work through them. Don't be scared, this role is vital to keep the project progressing, but it really isn't as scary as it sounds and the team around you are all lovely, friendly and knowledgeable. * Release maintainer <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Release_maintainer> - Koha strives to support 4 versions of Koha concurrently, including one Long Term Support version. To do this, we need people committed to maintaining those versions. There's a clearly defined process to this and a group of people willing to guide and help out. You'll need to be comfortable in git and happy to work closely with the other maintainers and release team members to keep your queues in check and make regular monthly releases. This role looks great on your CV and your sponsoring company's profile too 😉. There are lots of other roles and I'm more than happy to try and mentor anyone interested in taking any of them on. If it's not something I've personally taken on in the past, I'm confident I can find the right person to help you out. Looking forward to seeing some new names on the list and your active engagement. Martin Renvoize, MPhys (Hons) Head of Development & Community Engagement PTFS Europe [image: Phone icon] M: +44 7725985636 <+447725985636> | T: +44 1483 378728 <+441483378728> [image: Email icon] martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com [image: Link icon] www.ptfs-europe.com Sign up for our Newsletter. <http://eepurl.com/dPjjkn> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/ptfs-europe-limited> <http://youtube.com/@PTFSEurope> [image: Click to open PTFS Europe webpage] <https://www.ptfs-europe.com>

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