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Gender-neutral pronouns
by Eric Phetteplace 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Hi list, I opened bug #18432 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432 because I saw several places in the Koha codebase where the pronoun "he" was being used to refer to a generic third person who could be of any gender. Jonathan Druart noted that this should be a coding guideline, as otherwise new instances of gendered pronouns might continue to be added. Perhaps it belongs on the "Terminology" page of the wiki? So here's my proposal. I'm trying to be concise. ---- *Use gender neutral pronouns* When referring to a person who could be of any gender, you should use the words they/them/their. This goes for code comments, text in templates, and strings in tests. For example, here's a string from a patrons test updated to be gender neutral. Before*:* is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a juvenile, he should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) ); After: is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a juvenile, they should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) ); Gender neutral terms are preferable for a few reasons. They're more welcoming, showing that Koha expects users and contributors to be of any gender. They're also more accurate. Inappropriately using a particular gender can cause confusion, leading someone to believe that code operates differently based on the value of borrowers.sex, for instance. ---- I hope that's clear. I'm happy to reword it, and to attend the next Koha developers meeting to explain further if need be. Best, Eric Phetteplace Systems Librarian California College of the Arts libraries.cca.edu | vault.cca.edu 510.594.3660 2>/dev/null

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Global Bug Squashing Day (Bugs only edition) - GBSD, May 10th, 2017
by Nick Clemens 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi All, At the last Koha Developers Meeting it was proposed to hold a special 'Bugs Only' Squashing Day in order to clean up things before the 17.05 release. We are hoping to get some new sign-offers, librarians, and developers involved in the process and make 17.05 the new hotness. There is a developers meeting that day as well, so there should be plenty of us available to help. We want your questions, we want to help! 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 I will follow with more info next week but wanted to at least get the date out before the weekend. -Nick (kidclamp)

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Koha + Elasticsearch 5.x dependency packages
by Mirko Tietgen 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi, it looks like I am done submitting and backporting dependencies for Koha and Elasticsearch 5.x. I ran it in a test repo and it works as far as I can see. Adding them to the unstable repository may or may not break Kohadevbox and other setups, so I thought I'd give you a warning before I do that. I will add the following packages: libapp-cmd-perl_0.331-1~kohadev1 libbusiness-isbn-perl_3.003-1~kohadev1 libcatmandu-marc-perl_1.09-1~kohadev1 libcatmandu-perl_1.0304-2~kohadev1 libcatmandu-store-elasticsearch-perl_0.0507-1~kohadev1 libcpanel-json-xs-perl_3.0225-1~kohadev1 liblog-any-perl_1.045-1~kohadev1 libmarc-lint-perl_1.50-1~kohadev1 libmoox-aliases-perl_0.001006-1~kohadev1 libmoox-role-logger-perl_0.005-1~kohadev1 libnamespace-clean-perl_0.27-1~kohadev1 libsearch-elasticsearch-perl_5.01-1~kohadev1 libmarc-spec-perl_0.1.2-1~kohadev1 libparser-mgc-perl_0.15-1~kohadev1 libref-util-perl_0.113-1~kohadev1 libtext-hogan-perl_1.04-1~kohadev1 liburi-template-perl_0.22-0.1~kohadev1 Tomas (and other people with Kohadevbox knowledge), I suppose you need to make changes to not CPAN stuff anymore? To pull in the new packages, it should be enought to apt-get install libcatmandu-store-elasticsearch-perl libcatmandu-marc-perl once they are in the repository. I plan to have the packages in the unstable repository next monday. Cheers, Mirko -- Mirko Tietgen mirko(a)abunchofthings.net http://koha.abunchofthings.net http://meinkoha.de

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Koha 16.11.07 released
by Katrin 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 16.11.07. This is a maintenance release of 16.11 and includes 38 bugfixes. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-16-11-07-release/ Packages will be available soon.

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Elasticsearch < 2.x support
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Hi, I would like to ask what would the support status will be in 17.05 for Elasticsearch 1.x (and maybe 2.x). According to the official docs [1], 1.x is already deprecated, and 2.x will be supported until 2018-02-28. I propose deprecating ES 1.x support officially, and also remove it from kohadevbox. Maybe something to discuss next dev meeting, but I suppose there's no point supporting unsupported versions. Regards [1] https://www.elastic.co/support/eol -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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schema.koha-community.org not updated
by Paul Poulain 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Hi, We just discovered that schema.koha-community.org has not been updated since december. Can it be fixed ? (it's really annoying for master) -- 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 Developers IRC Meeting Tomorrow
by Nick Clemens 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Hello Koha community! In case any of you didn't read to the end of Jonathan's email (and if you didn't you really should) tomorrow is the next developers meeting: The next dev IRC meeting is tomorrow, April 26th at 13UTC https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_26_April_2017 Local time and date conversion here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+I… This will be the last meeting before feature slush so come one and come all, tell us what you need, tell us how you want to help, or just come and lurk and watch the sausage get made :-) -Nick

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What's on in koha-devel #12
by Jonathan Druart 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hello librarians and developers, My last email got a lot of interest and people do not stop contacting me to help us, it's fantastic! Heh, no, just kidding. But I am still willing to help you! Whenever you are ready, just let me/us know! The next release is on its way. We are in the final stretch, I will summarize in this email what needs to be done in the next month. = Release dates = Kyle published the different dates of the Koha 17.05 release: May 5 - Feature Slush May 12 - Feature Freeze, String Freeze, 1st Draft of Release Notes May 19 - Release Beta, 2nd Draft of Release Notes May 26 - Final Release May 27 - Champagne! What does it mean? * Feature slush - enhancements that have not been marked as Passed QA at this time will not be considered for the release * Feature freeze - no new enhancements will be pushed to master, only bug fixes! * String freeze - only bug fixes without string changes will be pushed to master If you want one of our awesome features waiting for testing to be present in this new release, you should warm the sandboxes up for the next 10 days! = New stuffs pushed (or almost) = == Hea v2 == The production server (https://hea.koha-community.org) has been updated last week. The Koha side code (bug 18066) has been pushed to master and should be backported into the next stable releases (16.11.07, 16.05.13 and 3.22.21). What's new? * Ability to share the information at library level instead of installation level. If you have more than one library defined in your Koha installation, you will be able to share the URL, country and geolocation of each library * Configuration page in the administration module to define what you want to share with the community (Home › Administration › Usage statistics - admin/usage_statistics.pl) * On the hea website your Koha installation will be linked to one public page where you will see all the public information we collect * The database of the website has been cleaned to remove the duplicate and test entries The screenshots I have done during the development: Koha side: New page to configure the info to share: https://pageshot.net/opGCLAZFt0s1HVzp/pro.kohadev.vm (with libraries info) https://pageshot.net/SKTFZgr40EKg6fge/pro.kohadev.vm (without libraries info) Hea side: New layout for the homepage: https://pageshot.net/GGKbBZlZwxpXuCoi/localhost View "see all libraries" (existing one): https://pageshot.net/2XplbZXFFr9rLNJS/localhost View "see libraries by country": https://pageshot.net/G5czRcqh47WFIfRD/localhost View "see libraries on a map": https://pageshot.net/Xa4qW3Vc4MclrEhO/localhost View "public view for a library" (to show libraries what is public): https://pageshot.net/7whCONhkPuJUUxDP/localhost I invite you all to take a look at the configuration page and share with us the information you want to be public. You can find the "Terms and Conditions" on github https://github.com/joubu/hea-app/blob/v2/Terms_and_Conditions.md (Todo: link it from the hea website and Koha!) == Onboarding tools == The onboarding tool (bug 17855) is not pushed yet to master but is Passed QA and should be part of the next release. It adds new steps at the end of the installation process, to create different kinds of data and ease the first contact. You will be able to create a first library, patron category, item type, circulation rule and a patron with superlibrarian permission. Note that another patch (bug 17942) will arrive soon to refresh the style of the web installer interface. = Patches waiting for love = == Automatically convert SQL reports (urgent) == Since we have bug 17196 (Move marcxml out of the biblioitems table) pushed into the next release, we absolutely need bug 17898 (Add a way to automatically convert SQL reports) too. It is waiting for testing and is really easy to test and QA. This patch will help librarians to update SQL reports after the move of the marcxml field out of the biblioitems table. == Permissions for lists (urgent) == The aim of bug 18228 is to make the permissions for list easier to use and understand. However as it will remove complexity, it may remove a feature you are using. If you are using complex permission system to manage the lists you should take a look at this bug from comment 19. As Marcel already asked on the mailing list twice, this is the LAST CALL. I am going to QA it before the feature slush if nobody disagrees. == Facet configurable for Elastic == If you want to get a new Elastic search enhancement in the next release, take a look at bug 18235. It adds a new configuration area to configure facets. = Technical discussions = I would like to rework our background jobs. They do not work under Plack and it is a pity (see bug 15032). If anybody already did that in the past or has a clear idea on how to implement a job queue using TheSchwartz, gearman or others, please let me know. Unfortunately I do not have much time at the moment to explore the different options and play with them. = Tools for devs = I have added a new commit to the apply_on_cascade branch of my git-bz github repo: https://github.com/joubu/git-bz/commit/7afcfdb8a55384e79405ae44a697c36fa5f5… It modifies the behaviour of `git bz attach -e` when there are several patches to attach. The edit will be effective on the first attachment only. Indeed most of the time I just want to change the status and obsolete the patches and not to edit the commit messages. Just revert it if you do not want this behaviour. If you want to help testing bugs before the release, take a look at this search: https://frama.link/Koha_Needs_Signoff_bugs It shows all the opened bugs with a patch attached. They are bugs and new enhancement, are sorted by severity. Pick them from the top :) The next general IRC meeting is on May 3rd, 20 UTC. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_03_May_2017 The next dev IRC meeting is tomorrow, April 26th at 13UTC https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_26_April_2017 Hope to see your there! Cheers, Jonathan

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[Koha] Koha 3.22.20 security release
by Julian Maurice 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.20. This is a security release and contains several bugfixes. If you are running 3.22.x it is strongly recommended to upgrade. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-3-22-20-security-release/

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Update of SQL files transaltion for 17.05 and bug 18039
by Tajoli Zeno 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi to all, Now 17.05 is near, we need to think how to transalte SQL files. In fact we have a huge change with bug 18039: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18039 So, what do we do ? Do you want 18039 inside 17.05 or not ? IMHO we don't have the resources to insert it into 17.05 Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli(a)cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)

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