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Sign off request
by Marcel de Rooy 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Hi all, Need some help: Anyone willing to sign off on report 10480: Improvements for framework plugins in cataloguing/item editor ? Patches submitted on Dec 11, once rebased, still apply. Thx, Marcel

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Sample database for sandboxes
by Fridolin SOMERS 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hie all, FYI I have updated sample database (only the UNIMARC one) existing in : http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=contrib/global.git;a=summary sandbox/sql/sandbox2.sql.gz I have removed authorities not linked to a biblio and also truncated all tables starting with old or deleted. I shrinks the size of the database file from 60Mo to 34 Mo. This will speed up imports and indexing. This sample is also very useful for local installs. Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS Biblibre - Pôles support et système fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com

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Call for development news: February 2015
by kohanews 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Koha Development community ~ If you have any bugs or projects you'd like to highlight or promote in the February newsletter, please let me know. Maybe it'll attract some additional eyes, testers and sign-offs. k o h a news AT gmail dot com Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Newsletter

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Meeting pre-hackfest Marseille 2015
by Jonathan Druart 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hello, I would like to organise a quick IRC meeting on #koha to launch discussions and to know what attendees want to do at the hackfest in Marseille. The "workshops" tab of the "HackFest Europe march 2015" doc is still almost empty, it will be a good way to fill it. I propose next Wednesday at 15 UTC [1] if it fits everybody. It would be good to see all hackfest attendees present :) Regards, Jonathan [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+IR…

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Massime import slow (around 800 record in 1 minute).
by Tajoli Zeno 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Hi to all, I'm finding a quite slow import into a Koha DB with bulkmarcimport.pl. It imports only 800 record in 1 minute. With top: 90-95 % bulkmarcimport.pl 5 % mysql apache, zebra, indexing are down. I have 2 CPU so total CPU load is around 50% Full of RAM, 8 Gb, used 4 Gb. Option used: -b -commit 1000 -file /patth of file Do you have suggestions on how to speed the import ? Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Dr. Zeno Tajoli Servizi Innovativi -- Automazione Biblioteche z.tajoli(a)cineca.it fax +39 02 2135520 CINECA - Sede operativa di Segrate

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Koha development
by Marshall Breeding 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

To the Koha development community, I am in the process of writing a news story about the recent grant from EBSCO Information Services to support some major development initiatives for Koha. This seems to be an important opportunity for the Koha community to accelerate development that might have otherwise taken longer to accomplish. As part of the context for this article, and for other reports and presentations that I make that include Koha, I would like to be able to provide a quantitative measure of the total amount of personnel resources contributed globally towards the development of Koha. I understand that several firms dedicate specific amounts of personnel to Koha development and that there are dozens of individuals that make commits to the code, write documentation, or perform quality assurance. I would appreciate it members of this list would help me compile a current figure on the number of FTE involved in Koha development. To end up with a consistent quantifiable measure, the following definitions would apply: 1 FTE (full time equivalent) = 1 person working full time for 1 year. Full time = 40 hours per week 50 weeks/year. An individual that contributes 20 hours per week on Koha for the whole year= (20 hours per week * 50 weeks per year) / 2000 hours per year = .5 FTE An individual that contributes 20 hours total for the year: (20 / 2000) * 100 = 0.01 FTE Could each of the support firms or individuals involved in Koha development please either post to this list or send to me individually the FTE that you or your organization contributes for each of the major categories of activity? For example: Company XYZ: 5 FTE development, 1 FTE Documentation, 1.5 FTE Quality Assurance. Alternatively, the number of hours per year contributed could be given instead of FTE and I'll perform the calculations. If there is a better way to quantify the resources devoted to Koha, I would be interested in your suggestions. I believe that documenting the development resources involved in Koha will help those outside the community have a better understanding of Koha's potential to continue to be enhanced to meet the needs of libraries. I need to get this article to the publisher (ALA TechSource) in the next day or two, it would be great to hear from you soon. Thanks very much for your help with this request. -marshall Marshall Breeding marshall.breeding(a)librarytechnology.org<mailto:marshall.breeding@librarytechnology.org> www.librarytechnology.org/<http://www.librarytechnology.org/> twitter.com/mbreeding http://www.linkedin.com/in/breeding http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NnvfJ5cAAAAJ

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Fix on DOM inedxing. We still work on biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml or directly on biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl
by Tajoli Zeno 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hi to all, I find a bug on MARC21/Normarc DOM indexing. Bug 12948: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12948 Now that grs1 is deprecated, do we still use biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml and generate biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl ? Or now do we prefer edit biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl directly Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Dr. Zeno Tajoli Servizi Innovativi -- Automazione Biblioteche z.tajoli(a)cineca.it fax +39 02 2135520 CINECA - Sede operativa di Segrate

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha development
by Paul A 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Marshall, Another "numbers source" that might be helpful to you is <http://git.koha-community.org/stats/koha-master/index.html> Best regards -- Paul At 11:48 AM 2/12/2015 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: >Marshall, I don't think we can provide you with that information in that >time frame. We could try, but not sure. > >On the other hand, have you seen the project's profile on OpenHub? [1]. It >provides lots of metrics about the projects activity, even developer-wise. >You could take a look and see if it helps. One thing that might be missing >is the mapping <individual> -> <company/institution>. We could help with >that. > >[1] https://www.openhub.net/p/koha > >On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Marshall Breeding < >marshall.breeding(a)librarytechnology.org> wrote: > > > To the Koha development community, > > > > > > > > I am in the process of writing a news story about the recent grant from > > EBSCO Information Services to support some major development initiatives > > for Koha. This seems to be an important opportunity for the Koha community > > to accelerate development that might have otherwise taken longer to > > accomplish. > > > > > > > > As part of the context for this article, and for other reports and > > presentations that I make that include Koha, I would like to be able to > > provide a quantitative measure of the total amount of personnel resources > > contributed globally towards the development of Koha. I understand that > > several firms dedicate specific amounts of personnel to Koha development > > and that there are dozens of individuals that make commits to the code, > > write documentation, or perform quality assurance. > > > > > > > > I would appreciate it members of this list would help me compile a current > > figure on the number of FTE involved in Koha development. > > > > To end up with a consistent quantifiable measure, the following > > definitions would apply: > > > > 1 FTE (full time equivalent) = 1 person working full time for 1 year. > > > > Full time = 40 hours per week 50 weeks/year. > > > > > > > > An individual that contributes 20 hours per week on Koha for the whole > > year= > > > > (20 hours per week * 50 weeks per year) / 2000 hours per year = .5 FTE > > > > > > > > An individual that contributes 20 hours total for the year: > > > > (20 / 2000) * 100 = 0.01 FTE > > > > > > > > Could each of the support firms or individuals involved in Koha > > development please either post to this list or send to me individually the > > FTE that you or your organization contributes for each of the major > > categories of activity? > > > > > > > > For example: > > > > Company XYZ: 5 FTE development, 1 FTE Documentation, 1.5 FTE Quality > > Assurance. > > > > > > > > Alternatively, the number of hours per year contributed could be given > > instead of FTE and Iâll perform the calculations. > > > > > > > > If there is a better way to quantify the resources devoted to Koha, I > > would be interested in your suggestions. > > > > > > > > I believe that documenting the development resources involved in Koha will > > help those outside the community have a better understanding of Kohaâs > > potential to continue to be enhanced to meet the needs of libraries. > > > > > > > > I need to get this article to the publisher (ALA TechSource) in the next > > day or two, it would be great to hear from you soon. > > > > > > > > Thanks very much for your help with this request. > > > > > > > > -marshall > > > > > > > > > > > > Marshall Breeding > > > > marshall.breeding(a)librarytechnology.org > > > > www.librarytechnology.org/ > > > > twitter.com/mbreeding > > > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/breeding > > > > http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NnvfJ5cAAAAJ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > >-- >TomÃ¡s Cohen Arazi >ProsecretarÃa de InformÃ¡tica >Universidad Nacional de CÃ³rdoba >â +54 351 5353750 ext 13168 >GPG: B76C 6E7C 2D80 551A C765 E225 0A27 2EA1 B2F3 C15F >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha --- 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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repeated entries in biblioimages (record covers)
by Giuseppe Angilella 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, as far as I understand, the image files of additional record covers are saved in binary format under the mysql fields biblioimages.imagefile and biblioimages.thumbnail, which are of type mediumblob. I would now like to associate several (hundreds) records to the same cover image. (These are books belonging to an old collection, for which no ISBN exists and therefore no image is available on amazon, all sharing the same sort of cover jacket.) Should I enter the same cover image for each record separately, this would result in an unnecessary increase in the size of the biblioimages table, and therefore of the whole database. I wonder whether some sort of "aliasing" would be possible, in this case. A related question is also whether adding a cover image to a record could be performed routinely through an external script, rather than through the Koha staff browser, to expedite the procedure in the case of several records. Many thanks in advance and best regards. Giuseppe.

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3.18 performance issues - benchmarks
by Jonathan Druart 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi devs, I have opened a bug report (bug 13690) to show you the results of benchmarks I did between 3.16 and 3.18. I also submitted 3 patches to try to fix the performance problem in 3.18. Hope to get some feedbacks and see you involved in this real issue. Cheers, Jonathan http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13690

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