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patronimage.pl allows user image to be accessed without user session
by Indranil Das Gupta 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hi all, I ran across this and have filed http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14566 One question, is there any design decision I should be aware of before moving in on this? thanks -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org

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Integration testing (WebDriver), Permission system rewrite and getting to Koha REST API!
by Kivilahti Olli-Antti 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

(Zeno hinted that I should post this message to the koha-devel mailinglist instead of koha mailinglist) Hi there! I have been working to get the new REST API working with Koha. Big issues are authenticating the REST API and doing browser-based automated testing. However there are some pretty fundamental issues in Koha that make working with those topics very difficult. PERMISSIONS: First of all the permissions system is very hard to manipulate outside of the user space. There is no internal Koha API for granting/revoking specific permissions. This is a huge issue with integration testing where we need to easily set up test context with proper permissions. Also there is no way currently to conveniently operate permissions using a REST API. So we would need to rewrite the permission back-end anyway. Bug 14540<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14540> - Move member-flags.pl to PermissionsManager to better manage permissions for testing. deals with this issue and rewrites the internal permission mechanism, while preserving the end-user experience as it was. This enables us as testers to easily setUp and tearDown permissions for automated browser testing sessions. I recommend you take a look, as the rewrite is well tested and covered with WebDriver-tests. INTEGRATION TESTING: I have implemented a integration testing framework using the PageObject-pattern to create clear and robust browser tests. These browser tests don't need any additional servers to install, but rely on system packages (apt-get install phantomjs) to make the integration tests. These tests instantiate a real browser with javascript execution capability, and make real HTTP requests to the configured host and port, simulating real user interactions as accurately as possible. There are also two debugging interfaces for the automated test agent to make it more easy to script the user session. Take a look at: Bug 14495<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14495> - WebDriver/WebTester Factory for easy generation of Web testing UserAgents. Bug 14536<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14536> - PageObject-pattern base implementation DEALING WITH EXCEPTIONS: In Koha we currently don't have any established mechanism of propagating errors from business/database-layer to the end-user, and conveniently catching them and presenting them. Currently we return $error-variables from subroutines, which makes programming more challenging, and tedious, especially if we need to propagate the same errors through multipe subroutine calls to the end-user. I have implemented to Koha an Exception-system very similar from other programming languages. Quite frankly this is an industry standard nowadays and a best-practice for dealing with things-going-wrong. It helps a lot in programming defensively. Take a look at: Bug 13995<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13995> - Proper Exception handling I am 100% convinced that these improvements will push Koha testing and development to the next level. The best overview of the new features can be seen from the test scripts in Bug 14540<http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14540> Looking forward to your sign offs! -- Olli-Antti Kivilahti Järjestelmäkeittäjä vaarakirjastot.fi +358 50 449 7763 --Powered by Kubuntu Linux!

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It's that time again, string freeze for 3.20.2
by Chris Cormack 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi All Time to get those translating hats on Chris

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Call for development news: July Newsletter
by kohanews 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Let the community hear what cool things you're working on! Bugs that need testing, sign-offs and user feedback? ...I'll push them in the public's eye. Tips on how to help/contribute perhaps? k o h a news AT gmail dot com Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Newsletter

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Call for news: July Newsletter
by kohanews 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Fellow Koha users ~ I'm collecting news for the July 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 end 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 Newsletter

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Progress on Eclipse & Koha guide in the wiki
by Juhani Seppälä 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Greetings, The abandoned Eclipse guide page in the koha wiki has some content now: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Eclipse This version still probably has quite a few problems and mistakes. Big thanks to Fridolin@biblibre for the help on the config. -- Juhani Seppälä pgp: https://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCA8D39B0C36…

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Update bugzilla - Restore style on quotes
by Jonathan Druart 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hi devs, Our favorite bug tracker has been updated today/yesterday. There are plenty of useful stuffs everywhere, but one thing is quite irritating: the quotes are now displayed in block (i.e. with an horizontal scrollbar). Ok it was not really nice to see the text overflowed the comment block, but now you have to scroll to see the content (example: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10988#c31) You can restore the previous style on installing/using the stylish add-on [1] and add the following rule: @-moz-document domain("bugs.koha-community.org") { .bz_comment_text span.quote { display: inline; } } Note: It seems there is a bug on sending patch using git bz attach -e (works without -e), could someone confirm? Cheers, Jonathan [1] for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

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Bugzilla server (and others) down
by Chris Cormack 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hi All I will be taking the bugs.koha-community.org server down for some maintenance, it is behaving a bit oddly. I will let you know when things are back Chris

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[indradg@gmail.com: [Koha] Does it make sense to carry 'prog' as an option in OPACFallback anymore?]
by Chris Cormack 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

Forwarding this over to the devel list ----- Forwarded message from Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:29:43 +0530 From: Indranil Das Gupta <indradg(a)gmail.com> To: koha <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Does it make sense to carry 'prog' as an option in OPACFallback anymore? Hi all, As we move towards 3.22, does it really make sense to carry 'prog' as an option, and that too the default option in the OPACFallback syspref? What is everyone's opinion? http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13291 cheers -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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Re: [Koha-devel] Update bugzilla - Restore style on quotes
by Chris Cormack 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Looks like someone is going to need to patch git-bz. It has a habit of using bugs as features so when they are fixed in bugzilla it breaks Ill have a look on Monday. It probably should be rewritten to use the bugzilla rest api instead of the screenscraping way it works now. Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst 04 8032238 ----- Reply message ----- From: "Mirko Tietgen" <mirko(a)abunchofthings.net> To: <koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org> Subject: [Koha-devel] Update bugzilla - Restore style on quotes Date: Sat, Jul 11, 2015 3:04 AM Marcel De Rooy schrieb am 10.07.2015 >> Note: It seems there is a bug on sending patch using git bz attach -e >> (works without -e), could someone confirm? > > Yes, I had some trouble too with submitting patches. I can't send patches with or without -e, I get a socket error. Attach? [yn] y Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/git-bz", line 2633, in <module> do_attach(*args) File "/usr/local/bin/git-bz", line 1999, in do_attach attach_commits(bug, commits, edit_comments=global_options.edit) File "/usr/local/bin/git-bz", line 1947, in attach_commits bug.create_patch(description, body, filename, patch, obsoletes=obsoletes, status=status) File "/usr/local/bin/git-bz", line 1347, in create_patch response = self.server.send_post("/attachment.cgi", fields, files) File "/usr/local/bin/git-bz", line 1039, in send_post return self.send_request("POST", url, data=body, headers={ 'Content-Type': content_type }) File "/usr/local/bin/git-bz", line 974, in send_request connection.request(method, url, data, headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 962, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 996, in _send_request self.endheaders(body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 958, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 818, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 794, in send self.sock.sendall(data) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) socket.error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe -- Mirko -- Mirko Tietgen mirko(a)abunchofthings.net http://koha.abunchofthings.net http://meinkoha.de

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