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Koha Community Newsletter: May 2016
by kohanews 28 May '16

28 May '16

Fellow Koha users: The Koha Community Newsletter for May 2016 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-may-2016/ 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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POC of a new plugin system
by Julian Maurice 27 May '16

27 May '16

Hi all, A couple of months ago, we talked about how great it would be to have a more powerful plugin system (thread subject was "Country-specific forks" [1]). The current implementation have some problems. For instance, it's not possible to properly manage plugins with a VCS (bug 15879 [2] try to address this issue) Alex and I have started to write a new plugin system, as an attempt to fix the problems of the current implementation. It's still in a very "alpha" status, but we would like to hear what you think of it. Code is in BibLibre repository, branch koha-module-poc: http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/kohac.git Features: * VCS-compatible (every directory under the modules directory and containing a module.yaml file is a module) * Allow modules to define custom "URL routes" (see module/router.pl) * Allow modules to modify the intranet top menu (so they can add a link to their custom routes) * Allow modules to have their own TT include files and TT plugins A sample module was made to demonstrate these features: http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-module-LoremIpsum.git This module creates a new page which display some "lorem ipsum" text fetched from loripsum.net, and add a link to this page in the intranet top menu. Very basic but it shows how it works. Quick start: 1. git remote add biblibre http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/kohac.git 2. git checkout -b koha-module-poc biblibre/koha-module-poc 3. installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl 4. misc/devel/update_dbix_class_files.pl 5. mkdir /path/to/modules 6. Edit $KOHA_CONF and add a line <modules_dir>/path/to/modules</modules_dir> 7. cd /path/to/modules && git clone http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-module-LoremIpsum.git LoremIpsum (note: the directory's name is important) 8. Go to Administration > Modules 9. Enable the module LoremIpsum 10. You should now see a new link in the top menu Final note: we would like to work on it during the hackfest in Thessaloniki, so if you are interested, let us know! [1] http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-February/042382.h… [2] https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15879 -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice(a)biblibre.com> BibLibre

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16.05.00-beta tagged
by Brendan Gallagher 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hi All - I have tagged a beta release of 16.05. (I did not include the release notes yet - I have run them and they look pretty clean - so yay!). I have also generated a tarball but I need access to the downloads - I am in the process of getting that worked out). The plan is that on Friday - I'll roll a RC1. I will be releasing on May 26th. (If you see something that I have missed - please don't hesitate to talk to me) Thanks, Brendan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting and Complete Support Packages Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: Redding, CT Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com info(a)bywatersolutions.com

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Slow Searching
by Barry Cannon 23 May '16

23 May '16

Hi, I have noticed some slow opac/intranet searching on sites and I can't seem to pinpoint the problem. The "opac-search.pl", takes between 5500ms and 7500ms for any search term - the hit count can be 10 or 16000, the search time is comparable. Running the same search, directly via the yaz-client, returns the hit count (and record dump) almost instantly. The sites are plack enabled, running Koha 3.22.06 and memcache is also configured. The zebra-out.log shows lines similar to below (which appear to be innocuous): 15:38:02-16/05 zebrasrv(1) [warn] ir_session (exception) 15:47:14-16/05 zebrasrv(2) [warn] ir_session (exception) 15:57:15-16/05 zebrasrv(3) [warn] ir_session (exception) 16:03:22-16/05 zebrasrv(4) [warn] ir_session (exception) 16:04:15-16/05 zebrasrv(5) [warn] ir_session (exception) The only other log of interest is the opac-error.log but this just displays some equally innocuous errors. On one system there are just under 100k biblios. It is a relatively small system but just to be certain I spun up a test box and assigned it 16GB RAM and 8 CPUs, SSDs for storage. I left the sysprefs as vanilla. I noticed no difference in the response time(s). The majority of sites are running Jessie. I have netdata running on the boxes and there is never any load on any resource - no slow MySQL queries either. I also tested some of the demo Koha sites, from the community site, and while they're are not as slow, they certainly appear to be slow(ish). Would anyone have any ideas on what I might have overlooked? Could this just be a perception issue (although most of the clients have raised issues). Thanks Regards Barry Cannon Interleaf Technology http://www.interleaf.ie Tel: +35312865855 Email: bc(a)interleaf.ie Skype: bar.cannon

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Re: [Koha-devel] 16.05.00-beta tagged
by Paul A 20 May '16

20 May '16

At 10:04 AM 5/17/2016 -0700, Brendan Gallagher wrote: >Hi All - > >I have tagged a beta release of 16.05. I've been a bit busy lately (in part getting Koha transitioned to Ubuntu 16.04LTS), so apologize if this is a simple question : but what is version 16.05? Looked at the Wiki <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:Koha_Versions> which seems to stop at 3.16 -- which can't be right (or where do versions .18 - .24 fit in?) Then I found a reference to "Koha 16.05 (formerly 3.24)" -- and don't remember seeing anything about a new version numbering system. Is it written up anywhere, please? Best -- Paul >Â (I did not include the release notes yet - I have run them and they >look pretty clean - so yay!).Â I have also generated a tarball but I need >access to the downloads - I am in the process of getting that worked out). > >The plan is that on Friday - I'll roll a RC1. > >I will be releasing on May 26th. > >(If you see something that I have missed - please don't hesitate to talk >to me) > >Thanks, >Brendan > >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Brendan A. Gallagher >ByWater Solutions >CEO > >Support and Consulting for Open Source Software >Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting >and Complete Support Packages >Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: Redding, CT >Phone # (888) 900-8944 ><http://bywatersolutions.com>http://bywatersolutions.com ><mailto:info@bywatersolutions.com>info(a)bywatersolutions.com >_______________________________________________ >Koha-devel mailing list >Koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org >http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>

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Adding a dependency to Koha
by David Cook 20 May '16

20 May '16

Hi Galen (and everyone else), How does one go about adding a dependency to Koha? With https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10662, I'm re-introducing a dependency on POE. Does that mean we should revert "Bug 11756: remove dependency on POE" (b67dac81cceaab356486001292cff40977682fff)? Or just simply add the dependency back into C4/Installer/PerlDependencies.pm? In that previous commit, I notice that all the "INSTALL.*" files and "install_misc/*packages" files were updated, but how much of that is necessary? Should we even retain the "INSTALL.*" files anymore? David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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Bugzilla, and other sites
by Chris Cormack 20 May '16

20 May '16

Hi All Linode have discovered a hardware issue on the machine my linode is hosted on, they are working on a fix, but things will be up and down until then Chris

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Call for News: May 2016 Newsletter
by kohanews 14 May '16

14 May '16

Fellow Koha users ~ I'm collecting news for the May newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: * - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. * - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon * - For past events -- **** one month back is the cut-off ***. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Reminder: Developer IRC Meeting - 11 May, 21 UTC
by Katrin Fischer 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hi all, just the usual reminder about the next Developer IRC Meeting on 11 May 2016, 21 UTC: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_11_May_2016 Please add any topics you want to discuss to the agenda, especially if it is about the upcoming release of 16.05. Hope to see you there, Katrin

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kohadevbox: ansible => master move
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 09 May '16

09 May '16

Hi everyone, I filled an issue in the kohadevbox repo 12 days ago, requesting for feedback on merging the 'ansible' branch into 'master'. I got little feedback ,but we agreed (with Magnus) that in the scenario of no objections, we would merge it [1] It is now merged, and the original branch is kept in hte 'legacy' branch for those still using it. Sorry for any inconveniences this changes might cause. Remember kohadevbox accepts bug reports [2] and (of course!) pull requests or plain patches. I've been told there are issues running it in Jessie which I couldn't reproduce, please fill bugs if problems persist. [1] https://github.com/digibib/kohadevbox/issues/92 [2] https://github.com/digibib/kohadevbox/issues -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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