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RM monthly newsletter #2 (2012 january)
by Paul Poulain 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Welcome to my 3rd RM monthly newsletter. There has been a *LOT* of *important* things pushed this month. Everybody should read this newsletter in detail. If you're planning to submit patches, you *must*. If you're just a user of Koha, there are some interesting announcements too, you can read it as well ! ==== Bugzilla news ==== There are 87 bugs waiting to be signed-off. That's too much ! and a problem is that is seems that hard-to-test patches can be lost in the wilderness for a long time. Small/easy patches are usually quickly signed-off. The patches to QA pile show a correct 30 patches. Unfortunatly, that's the hardest ones too, as I QAed a lot of 'trivial' patches this month... ==== Bugzilla ==== Earlier this month Ian, our QA manager made important changes to our bugzilla setup. The "patch status" field has been removed in favor of the "status" field. The previous "patch status" have all be moved to "status". 2 new status have been added: - in discussion = will be used when a patch need a deeper discussion to see if it can/should be added into Koha. The discussion can be functional (is the feature desirable in Koha ?) or technical (is the way it's made OK ?) The "in discussion" bugs will be discussed on the monthly meeting. - 'pushed to stable': pushed has been splitted in "pushed to master" and "pushed to stable". The RMaint (Chris N. for now) will use "Pushed to stable" when he pushed a patch to stable (3.6). The "pushed to master" is used by me when pushing to master (for the future 3.8) The only side effect of this bulkchange is that date of last change of each bug has been reseted to the date of the bulkchange. That's annoying if you want to see which patch to signoff is the oldest. ==== Coding guidelines ==== I've updated the code guideline page on the wiki (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines) I've removed all deprecated guidelines, and added some that we already use, and that were not written. I've added a general rule for QA: General rule: if you submit code that fixes an existing code that violates those guidelines, the QA can still be passed. You don't have to fix everything. If you want to fix more than just your fix, to respect current guidelines, you're welcomed of course. But in this case, please to it in a 2nd patch, to have reviewers being able to distinguish easily what's related to your bugfix and what is related to your guidelines-violation fixing. ==== Important technical patches pushed ==== Some important internal changes have been pushed. Those change won't be visible for users, but are important for developers === Date formatting & displaying === Chris has written a nice Template::Toolkit plugin that will take care of date formatting for you. Before the patch, you had to format dates before sending them to the template, something like: my $entrydate = C4::Dates->new( $data->{'entrydate'}, 'iso' ); $data->{'entrydate'} = $entrydate->output("syspref"); # entrydate is now available Now, you still can do it that way, but that would be a really bad idea: just send the date as it's provided by mySQL (iso format), and, in the template, write [% MyDate | $KohaDates %] don't forget to put [% USE KohaDates %] at the beginning of your page to tell Template::Toolkit you'll use this plugin. What must/can be done now is ... update all code & templates displaying dates to use this plugin ! Bug 7444 has been created to reflect all the patches that will be made to switch to KohaDates template. *Coding Guideline rule* * all new code displaying date *MUST* use this plugin * existing code can still use previous option, but cleaning is highly welcomed === Datatable jquery plugin === We've decided some months ago to get rid of the various jquery plugins we use to display large tables, in favor of Datatable. Datatable has been pushed into master, with a first page using it (patron reading record), and some documentation on the wiki (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/DataTables_HowTo) *Coding guideline rule* * all new code displaying potentially large tables *MUST* use this plugin (preferably the "server side processing" option) * existing code can still use old plugins, but cleaning is highly welcomed ! ==== Important functionnal patches pushed ==== Some patches that contains important new features have been pushed. Don't hesitate to test them again and again if you've a sandbox. They'll be available in Koha 3.8 === UnwantedFields in member entry (bug 6190) === A new syspref now let you choose fields that you don't want to have in patron forms. A very interesting feature as there are *many* fields available. Note that this is a syspref, so you can't remove some fields for a given category and keep it for another. But that's a nice first step anyway ! === Acquisition changes === Some changes, coming from the stuff made by BibLibre for StEtienne university have been pushed: * show cancelled order in basket page (bug 5358): after the list of orders, you now also have the list of cancelled lines, on every basket * late order management (bug 5347): Koha now keep track of how many claims you've made on a given order line, and the date of the last claim. The default claim notification has been updated and your claim will have to be updated when upgrading to 3.8 The breakdown of budget spending has also been reintroduced (Bug 929) : on acqui-home.pl page, on each budget you can now see how the budget has been spent. === Local cover images (bug 1633) === You can now upload images to your biblios, that will be displayed as cover image. You can also zoom on the image, and, if you've uploaded more than just one, see all of them. This feature can be activated on staff and OPAC independantly. === j2a.pl script === The j2a.pl script, that is in misc/cronjobs was previously very basic, upgrading Childs to Adult (hardcoded category) when they reached 18. The script now has many new option to make it much more usefull ==== Hackfest in Europe ==== Again, in case you missed the news BibLibre (my company, in case you don't know) organize a hackfest in Marseille in March. More information at http://drupal.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/2012-hackfest-in-europe, feel free to join, all attendees will get a special thanks on this newsletter after the hackfest. We already have Owen coming from USA, Marc, coming from Switzerland, Katrin coming from Germany, Dobrika and Marijana coming from Croatia, and -probably- Zeno coming from Italy. It's still time to join, don't hesitate anymore !!! See you next month for the #4 and in the meantime, happy hacking !!! -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

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Koha 3.4.8 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.8. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.08.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.08.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.08.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.08.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.8 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.4.8 27 Jan 2012 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.4.8 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.08.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.4.8 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.4.8 ====================== 6627 blocker [security] insecure file creation 2830 critical Hold not removed when "trapped" item on hold shelf is checked out to a different patron in the holds queue 3651 critical Require patron login to send shelves and baskets 5533 critical marking item lost diff in two places 6292 critical Overdue notices have a bug when multiple overdues exist 7093 critical Placeholders for suggestion table in suggestion related mails broken 7160 critical paying fines throws error 7193 critical can't remove end date from subscriptions 7316 critical Missing escaping in search results 7360 critical Importing a SQL file for frameworks based on Default Framework deletes the default framework 7370 critical Longoverdue cronjob claims Undefined subroutine &main::LostItem 7407 critical HidePatronName not working anymore 2012 major Add bilio crashes under no zebra 6302 major Failing to send email notices - to_address not set 6923 major can't load help files 7202 major z39.50 search on bib edit not working 7226 major Can't add tags on list 7275 major Pagination lost when click in the option "Show more" of facets column Bugs fixed in 3.4.8 ====================== 2307 normal Calendar widget cannot be translated 2534 normal Viewing items table on item edit screen requires horizontal scrolling 3431 normal Catalog by itemtype report pulling from holdingbranch 5226 normal MARC21 field 545 missing 5369 normal se queries with paranthesis fail 6098 normal zebra conf NSB NSE indexed as space 6142 normal CanBookBeReserved function is redefined in C4/ILSDI/Utility.pm 6374 normal Use "size" as names/hash keys leads to an unexpected results when using Template::Toolkit (name of a virtual method there) 6466 normal hung socket read causes SIP tests to fail 6700 normal Better handling of version numbers in updatedatabase 6717 normal Sub total doubled up on borrower pay fines page 6885 normal Superlibrarian users can't delete items from another library when IndependantBranches 6917 normal Acquisitions reports: Dates filters doesn't work when they are not selected on row or column 7097 normal HidePatronName not hiding in all places 7198 normal overdue report does not display patron name if firstname and/or surname are null 7215 normal callnumber versus itemcallnumber 7245 normal Errors in MySQL tables population with mandatory data for italian installation 7262 normal No calendar present in holidays module when there are quotes in title or description 7276 normal member entry Performance improvement 7277 normal keyword mapping needs spaces in the OPAC 7287 normal overdue notification is processed several times if some sites do not have rules 7313 normal Untranslatable strings in 'search to hold' feature 7332 normal Translated title (MARC21 field 242) doesn't display 7338 normal link to serial detail wrong 7349 normal Sorting patron search result by cardnumber doesn't work 7361 normal 'Default' encoding in staged marc import breaks diacritics 7363 normal Downloading a list in CSV format doesn't work 7381 normal wrong isbn showing on the staff search results 1623 enhancement Retain history of approved comments 2011 enhancement Link patron extra sort fields to authorized values 3184 enhancement Show creator and budget receiving a document 5327 enhancement Unit tests required for all C4 modules 5565 enhancement Default OAI UNIMARC to Dublin Core XSL adds superfluous blanks 5607 enhancement Make fields from issues table available in overdues 6193 enhancement Use memcached cache koha-conf.xml configuration variables 6663 enhancement would be nice to put ranges of dates in the calendar 6716 enhancement Database Documentation 6787 enhancement NORMARC needs a Fast Add framework 6865 enhancement Replace image-based gradient backgrounds with CSS3 gradients 6975 enhancement OPACBaseURL called as OPACBaseurl in many templates 7135 enhancement in addbiblio, make save button floating to have it on always on screen 7139 enhancement Log circulation messags 7143 enhancement Bug for tracking changes to the about page 7159 enhancement Add branchcode to circulation.pl search 7164 enhancement add Koha history timeline tab to 'About' page 7197 enhancement ES translation of the Debian readme 7220 enhancement Add IDs to check-in message dialogs to facilitate CSS customization 7240 enhancement Cleaning up import tables and action_logs 7247 enhancement rebuild_zebra.pl -v should show all Zebra log output 7309 enhancement Add NORMARCslim2intranetDetail.xsl for detail view in intranet 7324 enhancement Show alternate email as mailto link on patron summary 7326 enhancement longoverdue.pl was hardcoded to 1 year, is now a parameter 7373 enhancement new bridge icons 7439 enhancement Mailmap for git shortlog System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.2: * Template::Toolkit Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the english version of the Koha manual is available: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-4-manual/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese * Danish * English (New Zealand) * English (USA) * French (France) * French (Canada) * German * Greek * Hindi * Italian * Norwegian * Portuguese * Spanish * Turkish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.4 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> Release Maintainer (3.2.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> QA Manager: Colin Campbell Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.4.8 (The numeral in the first column represents the number of patches included in this release): 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi 2 Alex Arnaud 1 Marc Balmer 3 Brendan 5 Jared Camins-Esakov 1 Frédérick Capovilla 1 Galen Charlton 1 Garry Collum 17 Chris Cormack 2 Christophe Croullebois 7 Frédéric Demians 3 Connor Dewar 8 Nicole Engard 3 Magnus Enger 12 Katrin Fischer 5 Chris Hall 1 Mason James 1 Srdjan Jankovic 1 Admin User Koha 1 Henri-Damien Laurent 20 Owen Leonard 1 Frère Sébastien Marie 1 Jesse Maseto 1 James Mason 2 Julian Maurice 4 Sophie Meynieux 3 Chris Nighswonger 1 Albert Oller 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic 9 Paul Poulain 3 Liz Rea 8 Marcel de Rooy 1 Fridolyn SOMERS 4 Adrien Saurat 1 Robin Sheat 2 Juan Sieira 11 Duncan Tyler 8 Ian Walls We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.4.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.4.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.6.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 27 Jan 2012 14:02:53 Z #####

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Koha 3.6.3 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.3. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.03.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.03.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.03.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.03.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.6.3 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.3 26 Jan 2012 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.6.3 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.03.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Koha 3.6.3 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.6.3 ====================== 6627 blocker [security] insecure file creation 2830 critical Hold not removed when "trapped" item on hold shelf is checked out to a different patron in the holds queue 3651 critical Require patron login to send shelves and baskets 5533 critical marking item lost diff in two places 6292 critical Overdue notices have a bug when multiple overdues exist 7193 critical can't remove end date from subscriptions 7360 critical Importing a SQL file for frameworks based on Default Framework deletes the default framework 7370 critical Longoverdue cronjob claims Undefined subroutine &main::LostItem 7394 critical Broken detail page for last link from result page 7407 critical HidePatronName not working anymore 2012 major Add bilio crashes under no zebra 6302 major Failing to send email notices - to_address not set 7226 major Can't add tags on list 7282 major invalid language selection Bugs fixed in 3.6.3 ====================== 2307 normal Calendar widget cannot be translated 3431 normal Catalog by itemtype report pulling from holdingbranch 4300 normal Display 866z summary holdings public note in OPAC 5226 normal MARC21 field 545 missing 5369 normal se queries with paranthesis fail 6098 normal zebra conf NSB NSE indexed as space 6142 normal CanBookBeReserved function is redefined in C4/ILSDI/Utility.pm 6374 normal Use "size" as names/hash keys leads to an unexpected results when using Template::Toolkit (name of a virtual method there) 6466 normal hung socket read causes SIP tests to fail 6700 normal Better handling of version numbers in updatedatabase 6717 normal Sub total doubled up on borrower pay fines page 6885 normal Superlibrarian users can't delete items from another library when IndependantBranches 7097 normal HidePatronName not hiding in all places 7266 normal overdue.pl : filter on flags "debarred" "suspended" and "gonenoaddress" not working 7276 normal member entry Performance improvement 7277 normal keyword mapping needs spaces in the OPAC 7311 normal Error when records have UNIMARC 461$0 or 773$0 for something other than bibnumber 7313 normal Untranslatable strings in 'search to hold' feature 7328 normal Expanded options in advanced search 7332 normal Translated title (MARC21 field 242) doesn't display 7338 normal link to serial detail wrong 7349 normal Sorting patron search result by cardnumber doesn't work 7356 normal Fix various typos and mis-spellings 7361 normal 'Default' encoding in staged marc import breaks diacritics 7363 normal Downloading a list in CSV format doesn't work 7381 normal wrong isbn showing on the staff search results 1623 enhancement Retain history of approved comments 3184 enhancement Show creator and budget receiving a document 5327 enhancement Unit tests required for all C4 modules 5565 enhancement Default OAI UNIMARC to Dublin Core XSL adds superfluous blanks 5607 enhancement Make fields from issues table available in overdues 5729 enhancement Add coins information to the intranet 6015 enhancement Enhancing the performance test suite 6193 enhancement Use memcached cache koha-conf.xml configuration variables 6787 enhancement NORMARC needs a Fast Add framework 6990 enhancement TransformKohaToMarc enhancement 7079 enhancement Default values for German system preferences (web installer) 7143 enhancement Bug for tracking changes to the about page 7220 enhancement Add IDs to check-in message dialogs to facilitate CSS customization 7240 enhancement Cleaning up import tables and action_logs 7247 enhancement rebuild_zebra.pl -v should show all Zebra log output 7278 enhancement In the items table, make items.materials of type text, and show its contents at circulation 7324 enhancement Show alternate email as mailto link on patron summary 7326 enhancement longoverdue.pl was hardcoded to 1 year, is now a parameter 7364 enhancement Fast-Add framework doesn't always get the branch for item creation 7373 enhancement new bridge icons 7439 enhancement Mailmap for git shortlog System requirements ====================== Changes since 3.4: * Perl 5.10 is required Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, only the English version of the Koha manual is available: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese (Taiwan) * Danish * English (USA) * English (UK) * French (France) * German * Italian * Portuguese (Brazil) * Spanish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Translating_Koha for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.6 is Release Manager: Chris Cormack <chrisc(a)catalyst.net.nz> Documentation Manager: Nicole C Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com> Bug Wranglers: MJ Ray, Marcel de Rooy, Paul Poulain, Mason James Release Maintainer (3.4.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Release Maintainer (3.6.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Credits ====================== We thank the following libraries who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 3.6: * Los Gatos Public Library * NEKLS * East Brunswick Public Library * Athens County Public Libraries * Horowhenua Library Trust * Halton Borough Council * South Taranaki District Council We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.6.3. 1 Tomas Cohen Arazi 1 Alex Arnaud 2 Marc Balmer 2 D Ruth Bavousett 6 Jared Camins-Esakov 1 Frédérick Capovilla 1 Garry Collum 15 Chris Cormack 1 Christophe Croullebois 8 Frédéric Demians 3 Connor Dewar 2 Nicole Engard 2 Magnus Enger 14 Katrin Fischer 4 Chris Hall 1 Srdjan Jankovic 1 Admin User Koha 2 Henri-Damien Laurent 12 Owen Leonard 1 Frère Sébastien Marie 1 Jesse Maseto 1 James Mason 2 Julian Maurice 3 Sophie Meynieux 5 Chris Nighswonger 1 Albert Oller 1 Dobrica Pavlinusic 10 Paul Poulain 2 Liz Rea 7 Marcel de Rooy 1 Fridolyn SOMERS 1 Sam Sanders 5 Adrien Saurat 11 Duncan Tyler 5 Ian Walls We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.6.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.6.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.8.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini ##### Autogenerated release notes updated last on 26 Jan 2012 15:06:56 Z #####

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Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 3, Issue 1: January 2012
by Daniel Grobani 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

[Below is the text of the newsletter. For active links and a more readable format, please visit http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-3-issue-1-january-2012] Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 3, Issue 1: January 2012 Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor. Please submit news items to danielg.koha(a)gmail.com. Table of Contents Koha Development Koha 3.6.3 Status Koha 3.4.8 Status Database Schema Bugs PostgreSQL Support Koha Community New Koha Libraries Community Gossip Donum: a Norwegian Koha Co-op Catalyst Open Source Academy 2012 Past Koha Events January General IRC Meeting Global Bug Squashing Day 2012-01-06 Upcoming Koha Events February General IRC Meeting Global Bug Squashing Day 2012-02-08 Marseille Hackfest KohaCon12 Koha Development Koha 3.6.3 Status by Chris Nighswonger The 3.6.x branch is in a string freeze. Koha 3.6.3 is scheduled for release on 25 January 2012. Koha 3.4.8 Status by Chris Nighswonger Koha 3.4.8 is scheduled for release on 28 January 2012. Database Schema Bugs Paul Poulain and Jonathan Druart have created a new wiki page, http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/DB_schema_bugs, documenting problems they’ve identified with Koha’s database design. They invite the community to read, add to, or discuss this page. PostgreSQL Support Marc Balmer plans to begin work on PostgreSQL support during the March hackfest in Marseille in order to pave the way for future PostgreSQL support in Koha. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/PostgreSQL. Koha Community New Koha Libraries Bethel University (via ByWater Solutions) Mental Health and Education Resource Centre, Christchurch (via Catalyst) New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (via Catalyst) 246 libraries in the Philippines went live with Koha in the last year. For more info, see http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/?q=node/2300. Community Gossip ByWater Solutions has an opening for a Development Specialist. Chris Cormack has posted a summary of Koha accomplishments in the year 2011 at http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2012/01/01/2011-and-koha-by-the-numbers/. Chris has also posted sign-off statistics for December at http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2012/01/23/sign-off-statistics-for-december/. Nicole Engard has been promoted to Vice President of Education at ByWater Solutions. Melia Meggs has been promoted to Chief Operations Officer at ByWater Solutions. Equinox Software has formed a Canadian subsidiary. Ian Walls, Koha 3.8 QA manager, has left ByWater Solutions for a position at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Bob and Irma Birchall from Calyx and Chris Cormack and Kathryn Tyree from Catalyst will be holding a combined Koha stand at Vala2012 in Melbourne from 6-9 February. For more info, see http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012/conf2012. Donum: a Norwegian Koha Co-op by Magnus Enger Donum — Frie biblioteksystemer SA is a co-op that aims to further its members’ economic interests by cooperating in building, developing, and managing software, translations, knowledge, and networks. The co-op will also mediate relevant contracts and generate spin-offs and user utility by helping to promote and increase knowledge about free library systems and the values they build upon, both in the private and public sector. It also aims to assist with the development and delivery of services related to such systems. The main activities will be to carry out, organize, maintain, and quality check translations, as well as marketing, training and development of Koha and other free software for the library sector in Norway. The co-op will function as a network and maintainer of fora and meeting places through activities such as organizing user meetings, seminars, and conferences. The co-op will benefit its members through prioritized and possibly discounted access to training, conferences etc. It will also aid in organizing cost-sharing for new developments related to relevant software. For more info, see http://donum.no/. Catalyst Open Source Academy 2012 by Chris Hall, Chris Cormack, Grant Patterson, Javier Romero Twenty-three high school students from around New Zealand took the opportunity to learn more about open source software development during their summer holidays by participating in the Catalyst Open Source Academy 2012. In the first week, the students learned to install Ubuntu Linux on their training laptops, familiarised themselves with what the terms Freedom and Community mean for open source projects, and learned basic programming principles and how the web works. During the second week students worked on an open source project of their choosing. Amongst others there was a Koha group and a group who worked on kiritakikoha, an Android app for Koha (system and end) users. Four students from the Koha project group used jQuery to create graphs for many of the popular SQL reports at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library. A sample of the graphs made by one student can be viewed at http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org/. These can be adapted to graph almost any SQL report and display it on the OPAC and/or the intranet. The other two students working on the Koha project went through the HTML test report page to improve unit testing coverage. The goal for the week was to increase the percentage of unit testing coverage of Koha by at least 2%, which they did! By the end of the week the Koha project group had: Committed 16 unit tests Changed 300 lines of Koha code Tested 598 lines of Koha code not previously tested (+2.1%) Tested 85 subroutines not previously tested (+2.6%) The group working on kiritakikoha made suggestions for future improvements in the client and in its appearance, e.g. customised icons for small devices. They worked collaboratively to implement the following features: Splitting up the existing search interface into simple and advanced search Highlighting search terms in the search results Displaying book covers from OpenLibrary and Google in the search results Providing a date picker for the place hold dates Displaying currently checked out/overdue Improved support for low-resolution devices Importing library settings via a Quick Response code (2D barcodes which upon scanning with a phone camera can configure kiritakikoha with that library’s settings) The Academy was an opportunity for these students to experience the software development cycle within the open source community and to make valuable contributions to open source projects. Past Koha Events January General IRC Meeting The January general IRC meeting was held on 4 January 2012. For more info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_4_January_2012. Global Bug Squashing Day 2012-01-06 by Magnus Enger Global Bug Squashing Day 2012-01-06 by Magnus Enger A Global bug squashing day was held on Friday, 6 January 2012, and there was much rejoicing. For the numbers, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2012-01-06_Global_bug_squashing_day. Upcoming Koha Events February General IRC Meeting The February general IRC meeting will be held on 8 February 2012. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_8_February_2012. Global Bug Squashing Day 2012-02-08 by Magnus Enger Global Bug Squashing Days are days designated to a concerted effort to get bugs and patches moving along in the right direction. The next GBSD will be 8 February 2012. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2012-02-08_Global_bug_squashing_day. Marseille Hackfest by Paul Poulain A reminder about the hackfest BibLibre is organizing in Marseille in March! It’s time to book your flights/trains/car/horse/boat, and tell us if you’re coming. We already have 6 people coming (plus all BibLibre staff, of course) from 4 different countries (France, Germany, Croatia, and USA). We have a lot of chairs and desktops still available! If you hope to come but still are not sure, don’t hesitate to email kim.nguyen -at- biblibre.com. Full details are at http://drupal.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/2012-hackfest-in-europe. KohaCon12 KohaCon12 will take place this June in central Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The main conference will be held Tuesday, 5 June to Thursday, 7 June. A hackfest will be held Saturday, 9 June to Monday, 11 June. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:KohaCon12 and http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Wishlist_for_KohaCon12.

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add the Smart::Comments perl module to Koha, a good idea?
by Mason James 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

hiya Devs i've secretly wanted Smart::Comments to replace Data::Dumper as the preferred debug tool of Koha (why you ask?, because its heaps more useful than Data::Dumper!!! ) what do other people think? i think i'm gonna send a patch to add the S::C module as a Koha dependency, a good idea? Mason

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha-bugs] [Bug 7098] powered by koha not styled on sco
by Mason James 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

On 2012-01-24, at 6:12 AM, bugzilla-daemon(a)bugs.koha-community.org wrote: > http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7098 > > Paul Poulain <paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|Passed QA |Pushed to Master > CC| |paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com > Version|master |rel_3_6 i just noticed Paul change the status here to 'Pushed to Master' - should this really not be a 'Pushed to Stable' change? the 3.6 branch of Koha is currently the 'stable' branch? - with 3.8 (currently 'Master') being the 'Unstable' branch? is that right?? so a status change to 'rel_3_6' is really a 'push-to-stable' change... ...not 'push-to-master' change? no...? :)

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3.4.x Branch and 3.4.8 Release Update
by Chris Nighswonger 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Hi All, I've just had time to bring the 3.4.x branch current with master. We will be releasing 3.4.8 next Saturday. There are a huge number of commits made in the last 8 hours, so I'd like to call for some testing on 3.4.x before the release next Saturday just to avoid any obvious bugs. So if you have a chance to, please test and let me know if you discover anything. Kind Regards, Chris

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To check the quality of bib records during cataloguing
by Zeno Tajoli 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi to all, my cataloguers are new to MARC21 and they find difficult remenber to insert punctation at the end of subfield (in 245 for example). Do anyone develop a checker about puntaction ? Something like MARC::Lint but integrated in Koha. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Dott. Zeno Tajoli tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it fax +39 02 2135520 CILEA - Consorzio Interuniversitario http://www.cilea.it/disclaimer

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Bugzilla: My Bugs
by Marcel de Rooy 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi, Jared already asked this question earlier on, but could My Bugs be adjusted (after the change of status) ? By someone having the necessary permissions .. Now, it is something like: * Status: UNCONFIRMED, NEW, ASSIGNED, REOPENED * Assignee: m.de.rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl * Reporter: m.de.rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl * Status: (is not equal to) UNCONFIRMED * Reporter: m.de.rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl And it should become something like: * Assignee: m.de.rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl * Reporter: m.de.rooy(a)rijksmuseum.nl * Status: (is not equal to) RESOLVED * Status: (is not equal to) CLOSED Of course, replacing my email with that of the active user ;) Thanks, Marcel

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Re: [Koha-devel] Problem when removing subfield in biblio editor
by Marcel de Rooy 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Found it. Problem is in TransformHtmlToMarc (Biblio.pm). Submitted a patch under report 3264. Now looking for someone to sign off ... Van: koha-bounces(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] Namens Marcel de Rooy Verzonden: woensdag 18 januari 2012 15:41 Aan: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Onderwerp: [Koha] Problem when removing subfield in biblio editor Hi, Does anyone of you recognize this (rather serious) problem. If I have a field say 710 with $4 relator code followed by $9 authid and $a name, and I clear the $4 with Delete this subfield and save the record, I also loose the other subfields!! This does not happen when the subfield order is different like $9 $a $4 and clearing $4. Came across old Bugzilla reports 3264 and 5707 but they seem to focus on authorities editor. This problem above is in the biblio editor. Any comments welcome, Marcel

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