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Version numbering, starting a discussion
by Paul Poulain 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Hello, There are 2 questions in this mail: === DB update numbering === The bug 7167 will probably pushed in a few days, and it's a new way to handle updatedatabase. They will be non-linear, meaning update 1 can be applied after update 2, and before update 3. The previous numbering pattern, made from 4 parts (3.06.00.001 for example) was made to handle release version + DB version. The 1st update for version 3.8.3 would be called 3.08.03.001 for example. With the new scheme, there's no need to have a so complex numbering system. We could just number our databases update 1, 2, 3, ... What do you think of this idea ? Why should we keep the previous numbering scheme ? Any other suggestion ? === Koha version numbering === This second topic is a harder one. So please, don't jump on this and forget the 1st one. I was wondering why/if we should continue with our 3.6 / 3.8 / 4.0 / ... numbering. This question arise because some of our libraries have problem understanding what will be the next version number. It will be 3.8. And the next one ? 3.10 or 4.0, depending on Solr or any other major change being applied. And maybe, in april, Solr will be pushed, in this case it would be called 4.0 (I don't think it will, but it's just for the example) That's quite unclear for external people. That's why I was wondering : why not use another, totally new numbering schema. The "koha april 2012" could be called 2012.A, or 12.A, or 12.1. The "Koha October 2012" could be called 2012.B, or 12.B, or 12.2 (or any other scheme, I'm open to any proposal, including not changing, I just want to share the idea. - we should just avoid Ubuntu numbering patter: 12.4 / 12.10 would be a bad idea, as Ubuntu is released in april and october, like Koha. So it may be confusing -) What we need is a number for each monthly maintainance release. But for the rest, what about changing everything in our numbering method ? There's also another interest with this idea: if we change completly our numbering, we would not seem to be "late" against another software that is currently numbered 4.8 (i've been in Greece recently, for a talk in academic libraries. I saw that there is a big confusion here, and changing the numbering would also help I think). Let's start the discussion, but please, on both topics, that are related but different: we could change #1 and not #2 ! -- 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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Fresh install 3.6.1
by Paul 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Just built a new server (Ubuntu 11.10) and preparing it for a fresh install of Koha 3.6.1 -- we're trying to take all precautions ahead of time, so ran the Perl dependencies script: paul@nelson:~/koha/koha-3.06.01$ perl koha_perl_deps.pl -m -u [Wed Nov 30 09:07:17 2011] koha_perl_deps.pl: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/XML/SAX Installed Required Module is Module Name Version Version Required -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Business::ISBN 0 * 2.05 Yes CGI::Session::Driver::memcached 0 * 0.04 No Gravatar::URL 0 * 1.03 No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total modules reported: 3 * Module is missing or requires an upgrade. I would appreciate help on two points: 1) I don't know if that is the definitive list of "missing" dependencies, as koha_perl_deps.pl seems to be looking for ParserDetails.ini in a spot where it isn't: paul@nelson:~/koha/koha-3.06.01$ locate ParserDetails.ini /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini /usr/share/perl5/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini /var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:perl:XML:SAX:ParserDetails.ini 2) memcached 1.4.6 *is* installed (haven't yet looked into the other two) Thanks in advance - Paul Paul Tired old sys-admin

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Re: [Koha-devel] Bug 6328 (fine in days) and updatedatabase
by Paul Poulain 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi chris_n, The 6328 patch has been QAed by Ian, and can now be pushed. BUT there is a problem that i'll try to explain: * as i've announced in my Koha 3.8 release notes and we've worked during KohaCon11 Hackfest, we're working on a new method to update database on a non linear way. Jonathan has written code for that. It works pretty well, i'm testing and there is only (I think) a remaining problem for fresh installs I plan to work on today. Then i'll submit the patch (see bug 7167). * my plan, until this is ready, is to queue all patches that have a database update. Thus, 3.8 will only have the new method for update. * The problem is for bugfixes that have a DB update and must be in 3.6. There should be only a few of them, but here is the 1st, so, we must deal with it. My proposition: * you apply this patch on the 3.6.x * when the new method is ready, we rewritte the patch for 3.8 updatedb At the end: * fresh 3.8 will have directly the correct DB * 3.6.2+ will be updated to have the correct DB. When upgrading to 3.8, the new updater will have to check for this and not try to update the DB once again * 3.6.0 upgraded to 3.8 will be upgraded through the new DB update, that will handle this case. Is there something i'm missing ? Are you OK with this proposition ? -------- Message original -------- Sujet: Re: Bug 6328 (fine in days) and QA Date : Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:08:36 -0500 De : Ian Walls <ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com> Pour : Paul Poulain <paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com> Passed, with a note about a small template change still required on circ/circulation.tt <http://circulation.tt> around line 390. Not worth holding up QA for this, though, as a followup patch could be very easily generated. -- 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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New dates for GBSD: 2011-12-07 and 2012-01-06
by Magnus Enger 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Yes, that's right, after some consultation on IRC I'm proposing two dates, to avoid the short notices that have been creeping up on us lately: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-12-07_Global_bug_squashing_day http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2012-01-06_Global_bug_squashing_day And yes, 2011-12-07 is a Wednesday (some of us have been talking about trying another dey than Friday) and yes it does fall on the same date as the next general IRC meeting. The devious plan of the bug wranglers is to cajole people into squashing bugs after the meeting! ;-) See you there! Magnus

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Testing patches with a lot of comments
by Paul Poulain 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello koha-devel, I sometimes face patches that have a lot of comments, more than one patch, and it's not always easy to understand how to test the proposed patches. We need the following things to be very clearly explained: * test case / step to reproduce * which patch(es) to apply (* anything else ?) Does anyone see a way to have those points clearly displayed/described in the bug ? For example, look at bug http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5549, about hourly loans = 33 comments, it has only 2 small patches, it's clear more things are needed, maybe the git repo in comment 1. Or is it the one in comment 3? which repo does comment 6 use ? Maybe it's comment 25 in fact. Anyway, it's quite unclear, and, even with all my willingness, I don't know how/what to test. I took this example just because Eliott rises this bug a few hours ago on this ML. But it's not a single case. If anyone has a suggestion, it's welcomed !!! -- 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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Hourly Loans
by Elliott Davis 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi Koha Devels, I am running the hourly loans branch in my production system and am merging it daily with master. It seems like this gets harder with each merge because of increasing code conflicts. Recently I have set up a branch to keep hourly up to date with master that is on github<https://github.com/libsysguy/koha-hourly>. As I'm sure most of you know I have been actively pushing to get the hourly branch merged into master. I am sending this message to the devel list in an attempt to possibly expedite this process. The issue that I believe we have is this branch is fairly untested which we all know can cause issues when pushed into prod. I am running this branch with no issues in production but I would like to see some other libraries pick up this branch and test. As a side note I think to really generate serious academic library interest in Koha the hourly loans module is a must. I know it was for us when we implemented Koha and not having it in master is really hurting us in regards to time solving merge conflicts. Let me know if anyone is interested. Best, Elliott Davis Robert R. Muntz Library University of Texas at Tyler

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Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 11: November 2011
by Daniel Grobani 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

[Below is the text of the newsletter. For active links and a more readable format, please visit http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-2issue-11-november-2011] Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 2, Issue 11: November 2011 Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor. Please submit news items to danielg.koha(a)gmail.com. Table of Contents Koha Development Koha 3.4.6 Released Koha 3.4.x String Freeze Koha 3.6.1 Released Request for Koha Data for Development Koha Community New Koha Libraries Community Gossip PTFS/LibLime Granted Provisional NZ Koha Trademark Past Koha Events KohaCon11 Reports November General IRC Meeting Global Bug Squashing Day Upcoming Koha Events December General IRC Meeting KohaCon12 Koha Development Koha 3.4.6 Released by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.6. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.06.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.06.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.06.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.06.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.6 are at http://koha-community.org/koha-3-4-6. Koha 3.4.x String Freeze by Chris Nighswonger The 3.4.x branch will enter a string freeze on 30 November. Koha 3.4.7 will release on 7 December. Koha 3.6.1 Released by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.1. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.6.1 are at http://koha-community.org/koha-3-6-1. Request for Koha Data for Development by Chris Nighswonger A common problem among those of us who do development work on Koha is the lack of complete datasets for the development and testing of features. This is probably more of a problem for those of us who do not support a large variety of organizations running Koha. I would like to see some good, sanitized datasets available for development and testing. Several of us have pleaded for this for years. Just now, the lack of a good dataset including a sizable number of serials is preventing me from doing some testing and development on DataTables integration work, which has been started by Biblibre. So, this is a request to all of you libraries out there with small, medium, or large datasets who would be willing to contribute sanitized data for development purposes, to do so. It would be a great way to give back to the community that has provided such a wonderful product with all of its attendant benefits. Kind Regards, Chris Nighswonger Koha 3.4/3.6 Release Maintainer cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu Koha Community New Koha Libraries Hernando County Public Library (via ByWater Solutions) Reserve Bank of New Zealand (via Catalyst) Shasta Historical Society (via ByWater Solutions) Community Gossip Albert Oller has joined ByWater Solutions as Development Support Specialist. ByWater Solutions has posted a Koha Testing Plan at http://bywatersolutions.com/koha-testing-plan/. Chris Cormack has posted a visualisation of when work is done on Koha at http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2011/11/04/nice-visualisation-of-when-work-i…. Chris Hall is back working on Koha at Catalyst for the New Zealand summer. Ed Veal has joined ByWater Solutions as Development Support Specialist. Ian Walls writes about integrating Solr into Koha at http://bywatersolutions.com/2011/11/02/kohacon-11-solr-and-koha/. Laurence Lefaucheur is now posting a French translation of the Koha community newsletter at http://www.koha-fr.org/category/tags/newsletter. Paul Poulain, Koha 3.8 Release Manager, will be publishing a monthly newsletter summarizing 3.8 developments of the previous month. His first issue can be read at http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2011-November/036525.h…. Paul Poulain has also posted a first draft of a document outlining how the release manager pushes a patch at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/How_the_RM_push. PTFS/LibLime Granted Provisional NZ Koha Trademark PTFS/LibLime has been granted provisional use of a trademark for the use of the term Koha as it applies to Integrated Library Software (ILS) in New Zealand. PTFS’s press release is at http://www.liblime.com/ptfsliblime-granted-provisional-use-of-koha-trademar…. Joann Ransom’s plea to assist Horowhenua Library Trust in disputing the decision is at http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2011/11/plea-for-help-from-horowhenua-l…; her update is at http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2011/11/update-on-nz-koha-trademark.html. Nicole Engard is maintaining a bibliography of the dispute. Her initial post is at http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4910; updates are at http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4915 and http://www.web2learning.net/archives/4921. The entire bibliography can be viewed at https://www.zotero.org/groups/koha/items/collectionKey/RR77I3HT/order/dateM…. Past Koha Events KohaCon11 Reports KohaCon11 was held 31 October to 6 November 2011 in Thane, India. Bob Birchall reports: One of the exciting aspects of the Hackfest was that a Koha training course was conducted for about 36 local librarians and students. Run over two days, the course covered all major features of Koha. Trainers were Jo Ransom (New Zealand), Marijana Glavica (Croatia), Irma and Bob Birchall (Australia) and Savitra Sirohi (India); Brooke Johnson (US) helped out and ByWater Solutions provided the training Koha instance – a real international effort! It was a pleasure to teach these librarians who were so hungry for knowledge of Koha. Also during the Hackfest the translation of Koha into Hindi was progressed and translation into Marathi started. Congratulations to the staff and students of VPM Thane for this outstanding contribution to Koha. Robin Sheat reports: A few of us got together to work on improving Koha’s Open Library integration. On the OL side there was Noufal Ibrahim and Anand Chitipothu. From the Koha side, Dobrica Pavlinušić, Ian Walls, Savitra Sirohi, and I spent time discussing how to make things work. I then spent much of the hackfest adding features to Koha that would allow Open Library to become something of a central cover repository with streamlined uploading to it. At the same time, Anand was working on the APIs on the OL side that Koha would talk to to make this easy. This project is still a work in progress, but the current state can be seen at http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7152. For more stuff about the Open Library + Koha integration that went on, have a look at Noufal’s blog post at http://blog.openlibrary.org/?p=954. JoAnn Ransom blogged about some of her KohaCon11 experiences at http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2011/10/notes-from-day-1-of-kohacon11-i…. The slides from her keynote address are at http://www.slideshare.net/jransom/it-takes-a-village-9955138. Paul Poulain blogged about BibLibre’s presentations at http://drupal.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/kohacon11-our-presentations. Mumbai-based newspaper DNA reported on KohaCon11 at http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?edorsup=Sup&queryed=37&querypage…. November General IRC Meeting The November general IRC meeting was held on 16 November 2011. For more info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_16_November_2011. Global Bug Squashing Day by Magnus Enger A Global bug sqashing day was held on 4 November 2011, and there was much rejoicing. For the numbers, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-11-04_Global_bug_squashing_day. Upcoming Koha Events December General IRC Meeting The December general IRC meeting will be held on 7 December 2011. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_7_December_2011. KohaCon12 MJ Ray reports that KohaCon12 will probably be held 5-7 June 2012 for the conference and 9-11 June for the hackfest.

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Koha 3.6.1 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.1. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.6.1 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.6.1 29 Nov 2011 ======================================================================== 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 3.6.1 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.01.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 3.6.1 is a bugfix/maintenance release. Highlights of 3.6.1 ====================== 6628 critical [security] help system use insecure REFERRER for file inclusion 4211 major Acquisitions actions on suggestions don't generate email 6824 major Basket permissions not looked up correctly 6977 major Support for repeated subfields when importing an authority into a biblio record field. 7069 major Javascript errors in tags/review 7207 major Cannot export label batches Bugs fixed in 3.6.1 ====================== 2847 normal Use HTML escape in templates where appropriate 3958 normal Standardize vendor/supplier/bookseller terminology 5072 normal Filling an order page with no budget defined causes a 500 error 5885 normal UNIMARC XSLT changes 5974 normal Bogus auth check for "StaffMember" role 6253 normal Unified Patron Search subroutine 6280 normal Invalid SQL being passed in circulation checkout 6369 normal Formatting problems on some items when printing an order form (PDF). 6390 normal Basket only visible for librarian who created it 6676 normal Acquisition basket access control trivially by-passable 6963 normal When creating a new order, the item isn't added if its barcode already exists in the items table. 3184 enhancement Show creator and budget receiving a document 4161 enhancement When adding Vendor default to active currencies 5436 enhancement Extended patron attributes display improvements 6721 enhancement Add Basket number and Invoice number search 6875 enhancement de-nesting C4 packages 7173 enhancement Detect duplicates when creating items while receiving 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: FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians <frederic(a)tamil.fr> QA Manager: Ian Walls <ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com> Bug Wranglers: MJ Ray, Marcel Roy, 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 3.6.1. 1 Nahuel ANGELINETTI 5 FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla 12 Chris Cormack 2 FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians 4 Katrin Fischer 6 Owen Leonard 1 Julian Maurice 1 Joy Nelson 3 Chris Nighswonger 2 Maxime Pelletier 5 Paul Poulain 2 Liz Rea 1 Marcel de Rooy 1 Salvador Zaragoza Rubio 7 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 29 Nov 2011 at 01:20:19Z #####

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git revert
by SANDEEP BHAVSAR 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Respected All Just upgraded the Koha ver through git and facing the error Can't call method "cookie" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Templates.pm line 323. gone through the yesterday's solution of koha forum but not successful. Kindly guide me for git revert.(exact command) -- Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601 MUMBAI. INDIA @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 9029 345777 elibrary :http://www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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Master broken
by Jared Camins-Esakov 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Hello. Just a heads' up- the master branch on git.k-c.org is currently broken. I can't tell exactly when it broke, but it was sometime after the security patch that was pushed yesterday. The error message you get when you try to log in to the staff client is: Can't call method "cookie" on an undefined value at /home/jcamins/k ohaclone/C4/Templates.pm line 323 I don't have time to troubleshoot this, but I wanted to warn people of the problem before too many people updated their systems with catastrophic results (hopefully this will stave off a bit of the wailing and gnashing of teeth which would otherwise accompany the git pull at 9am Monday morning). Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- 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/

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