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Seeking new community newsletter editor
by Daniel Grobani 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hi, A combination of changing work duties and our library preparing to migrate away from Koha has made it increasingly challenging for me to dedicate time to editing the newsletter. So, after tipping my hand in the July newsletter, I'm now formally and sadly announcing my resignation as community newsletter editor effective December 31, or sooner if a new editor steps forth and takes over before then. Preparing the newsletter requires about 4-8 hours a month. I've found it to be an excellent way to stay informed about the community and to make great connections with Koha folks. I'd be happy to share my list of RSS feeds and other news sources with the next editor, as well as to work with that person during a transition period. Please email me if you might be interested in taking on this role. Many thanks, Daniel Grobani

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August 2013 Koha Community Newsletter has been published
by Daniel Grobani 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hi, The August 2013 edition of the Koha Community Newsletter has been posted to http://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-august-2013/. Cheers, Daniel Grobani Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Test Coverage
by Chris Cormack 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi All Tomorrow is Kenza's last day at Biblibre, and I wanted to thank her for all the work she had done Below are the covergage statistics, the top numbers are from before her first commit, the bottom ones are from after. stmt bran cond sub total Total 43.1 17.3 14.3 68.7 37.6 Total 45.7 18.2 14.6 70.5 39.8 So you can see she has increased total test coverage by 2.2 % Now in a code base of hundreds of thousands of lines, that is a big big increase. Well done Kenza and the team at Biblibre and thank you Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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Database-dependent Tests
by David Cook 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi all: This might be obvious to many but I just noticed that MySQL's "Auto Increment" still increases when using the autocommit = 0 / rollback() transaction method of handling database dependent tests, at least with my set up. So if you wonder why your new ID numbers are significantly higher than it seems they should be, that would probably explain why. Galen's (very welcome) explanation of the DB transaction method of handling database-dependent tests: http://galencharlton.com/blog/2013/08/musings-on-kohas-database-dependent-te sts/ Description: logo David Cook Systems Librarian (BA,FRLS,MLIS) Prosentient Systems P/L ABN 31 078 409 168 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo NSW 2007 tel: 02 92120899 fax: 02 92120885 <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au> dcook(a)prosentient.com.au

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[QA] QA Team Meeting
by Katrin Fischer 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi all, time is flying by - we are already only a bit more than a month away from feature freeze and there is a lot of work to be done. I would like to call for a QA team IRC meeting to try and work out how we can coordinate and discuss general QA questions and topics. But with the QA team being in Europe, NZ and USA it's really hard to find a good or even bearable time for everyone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20130901&p1=814&… After some pondering I would suggest: - Thursday, 22th 19:00 UTC or - Wednesday, 28th 15:00 UTC Could we do a quick poll on who would be able to attend? Katrin

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Who is Live DVD manager of version 3.12.x?
by Mark Tompsett 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Greetings, Putting aside the arguments for a live DVD, a couple good points have been made or implied, and probably should be reiterated: 1) A 3.12.0 Live DVD doesn't constitute being part of the current team (3.12.3). 2) Cross posting to koha and koha-devel is typically a bad idea. 3) The effort to dump a single DVD every 6 or months does not compare to the effort put in by the release manager nor even the release maintainers. 4) You can't get the title once and expect it forever. You showed up on IRC once long ago, but don't visit. I have not seen you posting questions or answers in either the koha or koha-devel mailing lists. To be honest, VKV, how can you desire to be part of the community when the community doesn't see you as active? If the role of Live DVD Manager/Maintainer is to be kept, and there are hints at dumping it because the required effort is not being put forth, I would expect (at least): - Make a Live DVD iso no later than a week after every package release at latest. It is usually released within a week of the tarballs. - Be active on the IRC channel to stay aware of bugs and issues that are popping around. If you were on IRC, you could ask eythian yourself if the packages were ready. - Be active on the Koha mailing lists answering questions and even asking some occasionally. I'm sure others could chime in requirements. Given the general dislike of a Live DVD, because of the abuses that can (and most likely will) occur (running a Live DVD in a production system), you are going to have to work to earn the respect and title. You haven't been doing that, as far as I can tell. I would also like to point out that this title has been given to someone else for 3.14. http://wiki.koha-community.org/w/index.php?title=Roles_for_3.14 However, they too have been as poorly active as you. That is probably why they are in the release notes. Your term ended with the release of 3.12.0. The next koha meeting is September 11. http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting,_11_September_2013 Start attending the meetings regularly, even though the timezone shift gets inconvenient at times. GPML, Mark Tompsett

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Some patches which need signed off or QA
by Kenza Zaki 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Hi everyone, I am working for Koha for approximately 3 months as a trainee for Biblibre. Currently, I have submitted 24 patches which 7 of them have been pushed to master: Bug 10499 VirtualShelves.t needs a database transaction Bug 10575 GetOrdersbyBiblionumber.t needs a database transaction Bug 10642 Inappropriate uses of finish() in C4/RotatingCollections.pm Bug 10643 Inappropriate uses of finish() in C4/ClassSource.pm Bug 10644 UT : C4/ClassSource.pm needs unit tests Bug 10653 UT: RotatingCollections.pm needs unit tests Bug 10761 UT: saved_report and delete_report in C4::Reports::Report_Guided.pm need unit tests. My internship ends next week (august the 30th) and i would really appreciate if most of my patches could be pushed before i leave Biblibre. Patches which need QA : Bug 10508 UT:C4/Branch.pm needs unit tests Bug 10528 UT: C4/Booksellers.pm needs unit tests Bug 10630 DelBooksellers return values needs to be more explicit in C4/Bookseller.pm Bug 1064 0 ModBookseller needs more explicit return value in C4/Bookseller.pm Bug 10641 GetBooksellerLateOrder has some incoherences in C4/Bookseller.pm Bug 10681 Inappropriate uses of finish() in C4/Circulation.pm Bug 10692 UT: Routines about transfers in Circulation.pm need unit tests Bug 10693 CreateBranchTransferLimit in Circulation.pm need more explicit return values Bug 10699 DeleteBranchTransferLimits in C4/Circulation.pm needs return value Patches which need Signed off: Bug 10682 Inappropriate uses of finish() in C4/Reserves.pm Bug 10685 Inappropriate uses of finish() in C4/Account.pm Bug 10698 DeleteTransfer in C4::Circulation.pm needs return value Bug 10710 UT : OfflineOperation's routines in C4/Circulation.t need unit tests Bug 10711 GetOfflineOperation in C4/Circulation.pm should returns $sth->fetchrow_hashref instead of $result Bug 10767 UT: Routines which interact with the table issuingrules in C4/Circulation need unit test Patch which needs to be push to master: Bug 10629 Inappropriate uses of finish() in C4/Branch.pm Anyway , working for Koha was a great experience to me! Thanks Kenza

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Re: [Koha-devel] koha live dvd 3.14
by Quoc Uy 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

I will take that role at version 3.14 and I am trying keep updating lots of things for this. But I really don't care about name of koha released team. Just do what I think it would be good for community. I think one version should have only 3 live dvd max. For example 3.14.01, 06 and 10 maybe. 1 for testing, 2 for using and updating. See you all on 11 september. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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Who is Live DVD manager of version 3.12.x?
by Vimal Kumar V. 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Dear Friends, I don't know why Release Maintainer of Koha 3.12.x always forgot to give the exact name of Live DVD manager in release notes!!! http://koha-community.org/koha-3-12-4-released/ I once again request to Release Manager to read once more roles for 3.12 version. http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.12 I would like to get the reputation as Live DVD Manager. Like any other members in developers community, I had burned lot of my time to create Koha Live DVD for 3.12 version. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Who is Live DVD manager of version 3.12.x?
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Vimal, and list members As I said before, the release team members list is the one from http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.14. I adjust the Release Manager to acknowledge Jared as 3.12's RM. People on the release announcement is people with current roles, voted 3rd April on the IRC meeting. As of 31 July I have already pushed a patch that acknowledges Vimal as LiveDVD maintainer during the 3.10-3.12 period [1], it appears in the "About" section in Koha, and will continue during the whole 3.12 lifecycle (this should be the patch Jared suggests). On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Vimal Kumar V. <vimal0212(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Jared, > > Why Nguyen Quoc Uy name appeared in release notes of 3.12.3? > In my knowledge Live DVD of 3.12.3 or 3.12.4 have not released yet. > I think the lack of synergy with the dev community is the root for this problems. Maybe Nguyen and you could be on IRC or arrange an IRC meeting and we could sort this out easily. As of me, your work is acknowledged by my patch. And feel comfortable about that. Regards To+ [1] http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blobdiff;f=koha-tmpl/int… > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov < > jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com> wrote: > > > Vimal, et. al., > > > > As Tomas stated last time, the release notes list the current members of > > the release team. As your term as livedvd manager ended several months > ago, > > you are not a member of the current release team. You will notice that D. > > Ruth Bavousett and Elliott Davis are not currently listed either, despite > > having been members of the release team during the 3.12. > > > > I would also note that there was a security release on the Koha 3.12.x > > branch last month. If your argument is not just that you released the > > livedvd for Koha 3.12.0 (which no one -- other than, apparently, you -- > > questions) but rather that you are the current maintainer of the Koha > > 3.12.x livedvd, your argument would be much-strengthened by releasing an > > updated version of the livedvd without the serious security flaw which > was > > addressed in 3.12.3. > > > > That said, I take no particular stance on this question, but I will point > > out that Koha is an open source project, and patches are always accepted. > > If you feel that your name should be listed in the release notes, > > submitting a patch that adds your name (and provides an explanation in > the > > commit message about why this is necessary) would be a good idea. > > > > Regards, > > Jared > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Vimal Kumar V. <vimal0212(a)gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Dear Friends, > >> I don't know why Release Maintainer of Koha 3.12.x always forgot to give > >> the exact name of Live DVD manager in release notes!!! > >> http://koha-community.org/koha-3-12-4-released/ > >> > >> I once again request to Release Manager to read once more roles for 3.12 > >> version. > >> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.12 > >> > >> I would like to get the reputation as Live DVD Manager. > >> Like any other members in developers community, I had burned lot of my > >> time to create Koha Live DVD for 3.12 version. > >> > >> Regards, > >> -- > >> Vimal Kumar V. > >> Technical Assistant > >> Mahatma Gandhi University Library > >> Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 > >> Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info > >> Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" > >> -Patrick White > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Jared Camins-Esakov > > Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC > > (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 > > (e-mail) jcamins(a)cpbibliography.com > > (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/ > > > > > > -- > Vimal Kumar V. > Technical Assistant > Mahatma Gandhi University Library > Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 > Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info > Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" > -Patrick White > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >

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