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koha-translate is down...
by Paul Poulain 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hello, When I reach translate.koha-community.org, I get a nasty: Server Error An error has occurred. Thank you for your patience. (1, "Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_38a_0.MYI' (Errcode: 30)") seems a disk is full or something like that :\ -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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Summary of Open session at KohaCon13 - with a focus on Funding the Future of Koha.
by Brendan Gallagher 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hello All - I’d like to give a summary of a open discussion that occurred at KohaCon14 in Reno. A spot opened up from a presenter not being able to attend - so I volunteered to lead a discussion on Funding the future of Koha. First we invited all current and past RM’s of Koha up to the front of the room, to educate the audience on some of the “plumbing” needs in the code. When I use the term “plumbing” - I really mean portions of the code that need to be “rewritten”, “updated for current coding practices”, and a “plan for placing newer technologies and practices into the code”. Mainly plumbing = what do we need to get completed in the near future and how are we going to get that done. Many of these “needs” are larger projects that not a single organization or library can fund, as we would really need to dedicate an expert programmer some uninterrupted time to accomplish these goals. Not one support vendor can brunt the front of the plumbing needs that need to happen. We need to work together to fund this and we need to have a place and plan going forward "now". Let's do this for Koha! Points that were raised. Many attendees felt that a clear plan on what path Koha should be developing towards would be a useful project. Although setting a ridged path is a difficult thing with a community like ours, maybe a place for everyone to get or stash ideas for future paths would be a good thing to organize. An important comment here from the attendees was that when someone is funding a development - they should not just fund the code, but also plan for time and funding for the Sign-Off process and the QA process. Funding and how would we organize this? Since many in the audience were from the USA - there was discussion of getting a users group going again OR creating some sort of “non-profit like org” where libraries could pool funding towards projects. An organization like this would be able to apply for grants etc. Something where we could crowd-source funding and then fund a developer for a number of hours towards a project. My thoughts on some things that we can do in the USA. Have a hackfest in Athen’s Ohio next summer. Next year will be 10 years since Koha migrated to the US and I think it’s about time we have a hackfest here. I have briefly talked with Owen Leonard about putting this together for next summer and would love for help and encourage those from overseas to join us. (Also a commitment here that we will be sending a few employees to the France Hackfest in March and will continue to do this every year that we can - that also being right around a feature freeze for releases it's important to have a solid week dedicated to hacking koha only) Gauge the interest of a North American Koha users group so at least we are having more of the community meeting together and sharing practices and ideas. Comments from Galen "As far as a US or North American user group goes: I think a relaunch should start off with just the goal of hosting a US/NA conference, as it would /not/ be necessary to set up a nonprofit first to run conferences. We'd just need willing hosts and, if necessary, a firm willing and able to act as a fiscal agent. That's not to say that such a group couldn't pursue nonprofit status later, but we can get a lot of education and user-connecting done without ever having to have a formal organization." Thanks all - this is to promote discussion and hopefully we can all do this together! 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 brendan(a)bywatersolutions.com <info(a)bywatersolutions.com>

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Customize Z39.50 results
by andrea.furin＠slacky.it 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hi to all, i'm a new entry here, ;-). Mu first question: in z39.50 my search results the field "Date" is always empty and I need to quickly view Date and Publisher in the results: I need the Unimarc 210_d be linked with "Date" in Z39.50 results mask and Unimarc 210_c "Publisher" with a new field "Publisher": is it possible to custome in this way? TIA a.f.

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3.14.x branched
by Galen Charlton 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hi, I have branched 3.14.x. Until 3.14.0 is released, I will push bugfixes, particularly release blockers, to both master and 3.14.x. New feature and enhancement patches will be pushed only to master, although I will hold off applying any that require a database update until after 3.14.0 is cut. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc(a)esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org

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Roundtable on SAX Parser settings.
by Mark Tompsett 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Greetings, In various discussions on IRC, and in installation instructions, it seems apparent there is a lack of consistency and continuity in how SAX Parser settings should or should not be set or if another solutions, like requiring the latest MARC::File::XML, are the way to go and how should they be implemented. In the beginning, I read something like: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_tarball#Test_to_make_s… It was less clear and flushed out, but that was it. While tinkering around, I discovered something more like: sudo update-perl-sax-parsers --remove XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser sudo update-perl-sax-parsers --priority 100 --add XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser sudo update-perl-sax-parsers --update But didn't write it down, until tcohen did recently. :) Meanwhile, I noticed that all mention of it disappeared from documentation, though admittedly, I had started looking at Debian pages on the wiki and comparing them to the Ubuntu ones and cross-referencing to the INSTALL.ubuntu and INSTALL.debian files. INSTALL.debian still has references to SAX. INSTALL.ubuntu does not. Various conversations were held on IRC (MARC::File::XML, SAX Parser, libmarc-xml-perl): http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2013-08-27#i_1372615 http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2013-10-09#i_1400791 http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2013-10-21#i_1407388 http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2013-11-05#i_1416936 Ancient, but perhaps interesting reference material: http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2010-03-31#i_417908 In these conversations, some have suggested CPAN'ing the MARC::File::XML. Though, the ancient link does suggest a useful apt-get way to grab from a different distribution (which is better than the wget, dpkg -I methodology I have used). So, there are few questions: 1) Is this still an issue? 2) If so, how do we solve it best? 3) If not, why is it no longer an issue? Hopefully, I am not discussing a dead horse, and have just not gotten the full update. GPML, Mark Tompsett

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Jenkins status [was Jenkins build is back to stable : Koha_master #1475]
by Jonathan Druart 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi all! I often receive emails from Jenkins: "master is unstable", "master is back to stable". Last unstable status was caused by a fail in t/db_dependent/Acquisition/Invoices.t (I think). Here Jenkins says : "it is stable, see changes". But changes are about a tt change. I don't know who fixed the failure and how it was fixed. It is frustrating not to know :) Especially because the tests pass on master with my data! Do you think it would be possible to put something in place in order to follow Jenkins ' moods? For discussion. Regards, Jonathan 2013/10/23 <chris(a)bigballofwax.co.nz>: > See <http://jenkins.koha-community.org/job/Koha_master/1475/changes> >

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New newsletter editor volunteer
by Daniel Grobani 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi, Chad Roseburg of North Central Regional Library has volunteered to assume the role of community newsletter editor starting with the December issue. Thanks, Chad! As I recall, when I took over from Nicole the only requirement was the willingness to do it. What's the current process for Chad to get approved by the community? Thanks, Daniel Grobani

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Koha instances for different domains
by Quoc Uy 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

I'm using Koha packages install on Ubuntu. Currently i have 2 instances libraries: http://library1.mydomain.com and http://library2.mydomain.com on only 1 Koha install. My question is, how can i make 2 instances with totally different domain, for example http://library1.domain1.com and http://library2.domain2.org, on 1 Koha install? Thanks! Best regards! Nguyen Quoc Uy Admin http://dreamlib.vn & http://vietnamlib.net Phone: +79525768182

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Re: [Koha-devel] Continue maintenance of 3.8?
by Paul A 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

At 07:38 AM 11/4/2013 +1300, Chris Cormack wrote: >On 2 November 2013 09:07, Paul A <paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com> wrote: > > At 02:31 PM 11/1/2013 -0400, Owen Leonard wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Paul A <paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Yes - Paul > >> Does this mean you're volunteering to be release maintainer for 3.8.x? > > If you'll accept a geriatric with a Ph.D. in Pure Maths (the term "computer > > sciences" hadn't been invented in 1964), with no experience of a "lending" > > library (14 years running a reference library) and who is always > > opinionated, occasionally not very diplomatic (so I'm told) - yes. > > >If you can find your way around git, and can test patches, then all >good. Put your name on the wiki Can test patches -- now have a dedicated 64 bit sandbox for Koha running Ubuntu LTS (quad core, 8 gigs RAM, bags of disk space.) The only caveat (as above) is that testing anything concerning specifically *lending* libraries might pose problems. Never used git; I have googled, and found the official [?] manual at <http://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html>, but you may have other suggestions. I'll try and clone the Koha git repository (if that's the correct expression) over the next little while and let you know how I get on. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong: when 3.14 comes out 3.8 will be "old" and perhaps more or less fall off the edge of the world (like 3.6 at <http://download.koha-community.org/>?) so are we talking about product enhancements/new features? all bugs? or security patches (critical bugs) only? Best - Paul

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Re: [Koha-devel] Continue maintenance of 3.8?
by Paul A 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

At 02:31 PM 11/1/2013 -0400, Owen Leonard wrote: >On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Paul A <paul.a(a)navalmarinearchive.com> wrote: > > > > Yes - Paul > >Does this mean you're volunteering to be release maintainer for 3.8.x? If you'll accept a geriatric with a Ph.D. in Pure Maths (the term "computer sciences" hadn't been invented in 1964), with no experience of a "lending" library (14 years running a reference library) and who is always opinionated, occasionally not very diplomatic (so I'm told) - yes. Best regards, Paul

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