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June 2013 Koha Community Newsletter has been published
by Daniel Grobani 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

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

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RFC: Convergence
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

I've been thinking and sharing with some an idea I want to share with all of you. Since I stepped into Koha's world I've been focused (sometimes obsessively, I should admit) on the user POV. Specifically on the ways to deploy, maintain and finally use koha. We are now encouraging people to use the packages, and the way of using/deploying Koha has been slowly diverging from the tarball/git and packages setup. Also, the QA process itself takes both approaches appart. Think of the tarball installing DOM as default and packages not even supporting it as an example of what I mean. Think of memcached support, and so on. Once something is pushed, there has to be a 'packages version' for that: twice the work for everyone! We have reached a point at which we have a really nice set of daily maintainance tools: the koha-* scripts, and a sound install schema that supports multiple instances. Or a single default one if we built a 'koha' package that automates its creation, which I think is WIP right now. My proposal is that koha-* commands shouldn't be Debian (.deb) specific. And make the install schema used for packages the default/standard on git/tarball install. The same should happen to multiple instances setups. Both the users and devs should benefit from such a move. Thanks for your constructive comments on the subject! Regards To+ P.S. I belive this is a mid/long term discussion, I'm no way trying to make any sudden move. I just belive this is the way to have the time for a needed planification.

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zebra / adding a search
by Samuel Desseaux 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hi, My colleagues would like to make some searchs based on the following field (940$a). How can i add it in Zebra and can i add this search in the search options (with a jquery for example)? Many thanks Samuel

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QA: Language material in install/mysql/data
by Marcel de Rooy 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hi QA team, TM and RM, and other devs: A question on patches dealing with language dependent files in subdirs of installer/data/mysql, including sample notices, frameworks and lots of smaller stuff. With 9 language folders here, it seems to me that we should not demand developers to edit files in all these subdirectories too. Note also that lots of things there need to be translated too. Currently, there are already lots of differences between those language folders; in some language folders system prefs e.g. get specific values. And I suspect that some are being maintained more actively than others. A good improvement recently was the approach for systempreferences. They are inserted with the general sysprefs.sql in the root folder, and optionally updated by a translation in the language folder. So the pref comes always in, translation depending on others. (I think we should extend that approach to the other files now: insert in English, only update translatable things in the other languages. Example: only update name, title and content for a notice, only liblibrarian and libopac for frameworks, etc. ) For some folders there are already 'informal' maintainers. Couldn't we just formalize that someone can step forward to maintain such a folder and let devs just propose changes to the general files and/or the en-folder ? In QA we would no longer allow a patch to make changes in the other languages. Thanks for considering this. Marcel PS I wrote a patch myself recently with a sample notice (only for English). I do not like to add this English in all the language files. I was looking now at bug 9921 too; I think it should not touch all these frameworks. Lots of other examples can easily be found on BZ.

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git-bz update required
by Galen Charlton 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi, Just a heads-up for users of git-bz: as a consequence of a recent Bugzilla upgrade, in order to use git-bz to attach patches, it's necessary to use the "fishsoup" branch. Details can be found here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_bz_configuration#As_of_June_2013.E2… 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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Re: [Koha-devel] Koha + Blacklight
by Fitzpatrick, Christopher 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi, Thanks for the kind words and interest. For transferring records, at the moment I'm simply taking a dump of all the MARC records and indexing them using SolrMarc. It's a script I have running on a nightly cron. We don't accession new items very frequently, so once a day for bibliographic data updates is ok. Yes, the koha-restful is the BibLibre code. I have a fork ( https://github.com/cfitz/koha-restful ) where I added a couple of methods I needed. As soon I get back to work, I'm planning on redoing most of the Koha-related code in the app. I want to have closer to real time index updates, with the plans on actually indexing item availability (a big feature request for us is students want to be able to search on items that are available now or are currently shelved in certain areas). So, I think the restful api code will be used just for renewals, holds, and other user account stuff. b,chris.

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Koha + Blacklight
by Fitzpatrick, Christopher 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi everyone, We recently launched a beta version of a Blacklight ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight) instance that is backed by our Koha ILS. You can see it here => http://beacon.wmu.se/ . Currently, it takes indexes nightly MARC dumps from Koha into Solr, with live availability and location lookups performed asynchronously through the koha-restful api. I am wanting to replace some of this, as it would be really nice for us to have the ability to facet on availabilty and location in Solr (i.e. "Show me only items that are not checked out" or "Show me only items shelved in Course Reserves"). There is also functionality for users to log-in and place holds and check their account, but I have not enabled it yet since the person who issues our SSL certs is away on midsummer holiday (we use Google Apps for Email, which requires SSL for OAuth access). There's still quite a bit of work that needs to be done, especially fixing a lot of our catalog records. But in all it works pretty well. Feel free to ask any questions you might have either on list or directly (although I might not respond immediately as I'll be on the Cycle4Lib ride this next week, so my internet connectivity might be spotty ). Thanks again for all the help. best regards, chris.

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Old bugs to check
by MJ Ray 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Would you check some of these rather old bugs to suggest what to do, please? Maybe some can be RESOLVED FIXED by now or need a question. Please leave your reply on the bug web page - I might not see replies to this mail. Ideally, tell irc.oftc.net #koha know that you're looking at a bug. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4533 Add "duplicate item" link when editing items http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5721 marc import summary should be filtered or customizable http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5592 circ rule cloning can be dangerous http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5428 Back to results after deleting a record http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6424 would be nice if there were a way to have searches for diff materials do diff things http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6532 way to move items in batches http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4488 OPAC reports incorrect hold limit in warning. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5553 can click buttons when error appears on circ http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3530 Auto label batch generation feature of the bulk import tool fails http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5535 users tags not appearing until approved http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2927 Saving on enter http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2705 Patron import should warn about invalid characters http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3765 Road Types and Street Numbers on Patron Rec Inconsistent http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5784 link to acq from budgets & funds http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4269 Module DBD::SQLite2 requirement will cause problems http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3578 different_IP auth is too strict for many services http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3451 No facets for tags search http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5566 Misleading grouping of lost items in staff client search results http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5613 search by 'on order' -- Email robot driven by MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/

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Interesting discussion about DBIx::Class on bug 8798
by Paul Poulain 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

Hi folks, Just to avoid having someone missing the thread: there is a very interesting & long-term discussion on bug 8798. This bug is a 1st attempt to introduce DBIx::Class into Koha. We have been lucky to see DBIC maintainer jumping onto IRC & discussing with us. If you want to add your word to what's discussed here, do it now ! (last note: and if you have a lot of money to give to any support company, let us know, it's a huge task, will be much better if funded by someone...) -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper

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about the research in koha
by Samuel Desseaux 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hi, Some questions about the research *date of publishing is linked to field 210$d and 305 (we use Unimarc): how can we delete the field 305? I suppose it's in zebra *we would like to make research on the date of record creation: is it possible (and how?) Thank you for your help Samuel

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