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Hackfest in Marseille, registrations open !
by Paul Poulain 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

Hello everyone, As already announced, the next Koha hackfest in Marseille will be in March, 12th-16th. Registrations are open !!! Should I explain what is the hackfest ? OK, for newbies, I explain. That's a week for anyone interested in being involved into Koha. About 50 persons, librarians and developers, from France and other countries, meet to: * meet * test * document * translate * patch * talk * share * show * try * miss ... and ... retry * discuss how to conquer the world (at least libraries...) * eat and drink (OK, drink, it's after day-work. And it's not mandatory) The FAQ: *Q= what are the conditions to come ?* A= none, except wanting to contribute to Koha *Q= What is the cost ?* A= it's free (but BibLibre does not pay for traveling fees, hotel, or food) *Q= where does it take place ?* A= Marseille, 108 rue Breteuil, in BibLibre office. We provide coffee, desk, chairs, internet, video-projectors and cookies (many people come with their local candies) *Q= can I come only for a few days ?* A= yes, but at least 2 days, in just one day, no time do contribute anything. *Q= I need an official letter* A= Just drop me an email, I'll send one *Q= I have no laptop* A= mmmm.... tricky... we don't have any spare laptop, and it's hard to contribute without laptop... *Q= how to register ?* A= easy : drop me an email *Q= What about hotel, transportation,...* A= You'll be added to a Google doc when you register. *Q= I've heard about a cheese lunch, can you explain ?* A= lunches are organized by BibLibre, in our office (there's no restaurant large enough in the area), and each lunch has it's own theme. The legendary "cheese lunch" includes 30+ different french cheese, in a huge buffet (with some salads...). So you'll discover a part of French gastronomy. This year, it will be tuesday 13th (I've been asked a few times: "when is the cheese lunch, I can't be here the whole week, so I want to be here for the cheese") *Q= I'm veggie, can you take care of me ?* A= yes, for sure. Just tell me when you register *Q= I'm vegan, can you take care of me ?* A= sorry, but no, too complex. You'll be on your own. But you can eat with us, welcome. -- 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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Move C4::Members to Koha::Patrons - another big step
by Jonathan Druart 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Hi all, I have moved out of C4::Members the following subroutines: - GetMemberAccountRecords - GetMemberAccountBalance - Check_userid - Generate_Userid - GetPendingIssues - GetOverduesForPatron - patronflags See the remote branch https://github.com/joubu/Koha/tree/clean_c4_members There is a bunch of ~35 commits but do not be scared, they are all small and I wrote them to make them easy to read/review (well, at least it is what I think). Most of these subroutines were ugly and impacted performances (too many useless fetches from the DB). This whole stack will be hard to rebase and maintain, so it would be great to get it in soon. Several things can appear ugly or not perfect, but keep in mind that we are moving, improving and refactoring our code. The test coverage is better and this is just a step before the next one. I really want to start to take care of the very ugly code, but for now we need keep moving. C4::Members is almost dead and we are going to manipulate Koha::Patrons everywhere, which will ease the readability, maintenance and write of new improvements. Let me know if you have any questions. Note that patronflags is not completely removed as I need help to remove it from C4::SIP Cheers, Jonathan

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Meeting Reminder: General and Dev Meeting - 10 January 2018, 14:00 UTC
by Nick Clemens 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Hi All, Tomorrow we have both meetings scheduled for the same time, so we will run General followed by Dev. The agendas are short so we should be able to cover both. As always, please add anything you wish to discuss to the agendas: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_10_January_2018 https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_10_January_2018 Hope to see you all there :-) Nick (kidclamp)

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Koha 17.05.07 release
by Fridolin SOMERS 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.05.07. This is a maintenance release. It was a bit late because of vacations. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-17-05-07-release/ Regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre - software and system maintainer

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Koha Community Newsletter: December 2017
by kohanews 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for December 2017 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-december-2017/ 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. Thanks! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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MySQL 5.7 issues and Database Config
by Nick Clemens 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

HI All, At the last meeting it came up that the latest versions of MariaDB are enforcing sql strict mode: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/sql-mode/ This page on the wiki will need to be updated with the configuration tweaks needed for allowing koha to work: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages#Ubuntu_16.04… We should also focus on solving the issues here: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17258 If someone with the correct knowledge can update the wiki it would be appreciated. At the meeting folks were interested in helping anyone who can provide patches to work towards compatibility. Let us know if you can, what help you need, and let get this moving :-) -Nick (kidclamp)

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REST api RFCs
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Hi everyone. Following yesterday's dev meeting (I'm sorry I couldn't attend) it was clear there should be some votes on the changes that we belive need to be made. In order to organize the documentation on this decision making process, and have something more precise to vote on, I've put together a front wiki page: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/REST_api_RFCs in which all endpoint-specific RFCs can be found. I have added the endpoints I've been, am and will be working on. Also endpoints I know Biblibre is working on. As the discussion was about the patrons endpoint specifically, I started by creating an RFC for it: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Patrons_endpoint_RFC It is organized in two sections: actions and paths, and the object definition. The idea is that you can add your own column (put your name on it) with your personal proposal. Discussions can happen in other places like IRC or koha-devel. Please add your comments on each issue you think it is worth, and please contact me if you have any doubts or want to discuss specific stuffs. I will be spending the next days polishing this RFC and moving into the rest of them in the same way. Before adding new endpoints to that list, I would suggest we have a small conversation here in koha-devel to avoid polluting the front page with several variations of the same endpoints. This is just a suggestion, though. Thanks for your interest and feedback! Cheers -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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QA Sprint - Get your bugs ready!
by Katrin Fischer 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Hi all, just a quick note: the QA team will have a QA sprint on 21 December. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2017-12-21_QA_Sprint_Day You might want to make sure your patches apply, polish your commit messages and update your test plans! :) Katrin

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Recent TLS vulnerability (AKA ROBOT)
by Victor Grousset 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Hi, Here is a quick and dirty summary of what I have found: https://framagit.org/snippets/1131 Has anyone found something contradictory or complementary? Cheers, -- Victor Grousset, dev support/maintenance BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Libre/Open Source software and services for libraries

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Starman workers reload via signal
by Fridolin SOMERS 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Hi, We recently found some interesting Starman feature. Since it is a master/workers software there is, like in Apache, a way to "gracefully" rebuild the workers without stopping master : kill -HUP 123 (123 being the master PID). Unlike stop/start of starman, the used workers will not be stopped until there task is done. During that idle workers will indeed be killed and rebuild. This is useful when one wants to refresh Plack persistence on a production running server. See : https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Starman/script/starman#SIGNALS We used this in our systemd service for starman : ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP ${MAINPID} This may be usefull in koha-plack. Regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre - software and system maintainer

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