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QA Contact field in Bugzilla
by Ian Walls 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Friends, I've gone ahead and moved the "koha-bugs(a)lists.koha-community.org" account from the default QA contact for each component in bugs.koha-community.org, to a Global Watcher. This gives us a simpler configuration, fewer risks of breakage (since someone could change the QA contact on a bug report), and the use of QA Contact for actual QA. I've set myself as the new default contact for all components; I'll work out with Jonathan and Marcel a good system for assigning them incoming tickets to QA. We may need to update this next release cycle, but it only takes a few minutes to do. I have *not* changed all the existing bugs to use this new system; that would spam the heck out of everyone. I'll just start making use of this feature as I test things, and eventually, all the unresolved bugs should get updated. Cheers, -Ian -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls(a)bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal

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Release Manager stuff
by Paul Poulain 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hello Koha, I've just pushed my first patches, thanks to chris & brendan for their help. The first three ones were not pushed in a specific branch, I made a mistake, that is now fixed, so it should be OK. I've started a wiki page to explain how the RM pushes patches. That will be usefull for anyone interested, and usefull for the next RM (i'm not thinking of resigning, don't worry ;-) ) Here is the page: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/How_the_RM_push -- 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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sending patches to koha-patches mailing list ?
by Paul Poulain 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hello everybody, The workflow we have atm is to send all patches to the koha-patches mailing-list. New ones, as well as signed-off. I think it's a good idea for new patches, that's a good source to see what has been submitted, even if we also have other sources. But for signed-off patches, I think it's useless time-consuming: - the signoff is also in the bug itself, having it in the mailing list add nothing. (we also have KohaGBSD that automatically tweets all status changes, plus "signed-off" query on bugzilla) - with git bz, we have a very fast and handy way to retrieve & send patches to the bug, so who still uses patches from the mailing list ? (note: if you don't use git bz, you should ! see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_bz_configuration) So I suggest to update our rule to request sending only new patches to the mailing list. Your opinion ? -- 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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Release Manager stuff
by Paul Poulain 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hello Koha, I've just pushed my first patches, thanks to chris & brendan for their help. The first three ones were not pushed in a specific branch, I made a mistake, that is now fixed, so it should be OK. I've started a wiki page to explain how the RM pushes patches. That will be usefull for anyone interested, and usefull for the next RM (i'm not thinking of resigning, don't worry ;-) ) -- 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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Pushed for QA saved search on bugzilla
by Paul Poulain 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hello, I just added a "pushed for QA" saved search on bugzilla. If you want to add it to your footer, just go to preferences > saved searches and click "show in footer" There are only 2 entries here, but they must not be forgotten ! HTH -- 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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Official Koha Newsletter : Volume 2, Issue 10: October 2011
by Daniel Grobani 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '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-10-october-2011] Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 2, Issue 10: October 2011 Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor. Please submit news items to danielg.koha(a)gmail.com. Table of Contents Koha Developments Koha 3.4.5 Released Koha 3.6.0 Released Enhanced Koha 3.6.x Release Notes Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, Which Witch? Koha 3.8.0 Release Team Elected A Message from the Koha 3.8.0 Release Manager Koha Community New Koha Libraries Community Gossip Koha in a Norwegian Library School Koha OPAC Web App Past Koha Events Koha 3.6.0 Released During Access2011 Conference October General IRC Meeting Upcoming Koha Events KohaCon11 Global Bug Squashing Day Proposed November General IRC Meeting KohaCon12: Welcome to Edinburgh! Koha Developments Koha 3.4.5 Released by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.5. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.5 are below the fold. Come and get it! Continue reading “Koha 3.4.5 Available” » Koha 3.6.0 Released by Chris Cormack It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.0. This is major feature release, containing 85 enhancements and 356 bugfixes. A total of 728 patches have been included from 60 developers in this release. A big thanks goes out to all of them, plus all the other people involved in this release. You can download this release at http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.00.000.tar.gz or you can wait a couple of days for the packages to appear at http://debian.koha-community.org. Release notes are available below the fold. Continue reading “Koha 3.6.0 Released” » Enhanced Koha 3.6.x Release Notes by Nicole Engard Just like with the release of 3.4, I have edited the release notes for Koha 3.6 to include links to related manual pages and tutorial videos. I hope this helps you find the new features in your Koha installation. For more info, see http://bywatersolutions.com/2011/10/28/koha-3-6-x-release-notes Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, Which Witch? by Chris Cormack This guy! With the release of Koha 3.6.0 my tenure as Release Manager is over. I’d like to thank everyone who has helped my the last 2 releases happen. I am of course not leaving the community, but I am now freed up to do more coding again. Also, as I am no longer RM I can speak a little more freely about things which is nice also. I am sure Koha 3.8.0 will be a great release, and I hope to get a bunch of my code into it also. The RM is dead! Long live the RM! Koha 3.8.0 Release Team Elected by Chris Cormack During the October General IRC meeting, amongst a lot of other discussion and agenda items, the positions for the 3.8 release of Koha were filled. Congratulations to all those appointed: Release Manager: Paul Poulain, BibLibre, France Release Maintainer: Chris Nighswonger, FBC, USA (Unless someone volunteers before the 3.6.0 release) QA Manager: Ian Walls, ByWater Solutions, USA Assistant QA Managers: Marcel de Rooy, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands; Jonathan Druart, BibLibre, France Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians, Tamil, France Assistant Translation Manager: Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions, USA Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany; Magnus Enger, Libriotech, Norway; Owen Leonard, ACPL, USA Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, Catalyst IT, New Zealand Assistant Packaging Manager: Mason James, KohaAloha, New Zealand Bus Driver (AKA meeting chair): Brooke Johnson, USA We are still looking for people to be Module Champions, what this role entails is advocating for a module of Koha. Do you think circulation is important? You could be the Circulation Champion, how about serials? You know you have secretly always wanted to take ownership of a section of Koha you care about, now is your chance! A Message from the Koha 3.8.0 Release Manager by Paul Poulain Koha 3.6.0 has been released, so it’s time to start working on Koha 3.8.0. I’ve been chosen as Release Manager, which is a big responsibility. I’ll continue the good work Chris has done and promote some new ideas or ways of doing things. In the next weeks, I plan to submit a global roadmap that will include short-term as well as long-term goals for Koha, on both functional and technical areas. Stay tuned on the koha-devel mailing list if you’re interested. And don’t hesitate to join us and participate! Koha Community New Koha Libraries Cornish College of the Arts (via ByWater Solutions) Corpus Christi Public Libraries (via ByWater Solutions) Fox Chase Cancer Centers’s Talbot Research Library (via ByWater Solutions) Green Mountain College’s Griswold Library (via ByWater Solutions) Kenya Human Rights Commission Resource Center (via Busara Core Solutions) Service Commun de la Documentation de l’Université de Limoges (via BibLibre) Community Gossip Chris Nighswonger has been working on getting the master branch of Koha running on Windows XP. He’s posted his progress to the wiki at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.4. Adrien Saurat has joined BibLibre as Support/Maintenance Manager. Gaetan Boisson has joined BibLibre as Project Lead. Nicole Engard has made her fast add framework even faster. Details are at http://bywatersolutions.com/2011/10/17/faster-fast-add-framework-redux. Kathryn Tyree has joined Catalyst as Koha project manager. Robin Sheat of Catalyst will be giving a talk titled “Koha: Bringing libraries into the present day” at the OSDC conference in Canberra, Australia, on 16 November. For more info, see http://osdc.com.au/schedule/#kohabringinglibra. And lots of people are doing lots of fun things at KohaCon11! Koha in a Norwegian Library School by Magnus Enger The library program at the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (http://www.hioa.no/eng/) is now offering personal Koha installations to all first and second year students – a total of about 225 students. Installations will be used during the whole of the education, including for mandatory assignments in cataloging. The installations utilize the Debian packages, and the university college is handling all hosting and installation in-house. Koha OPAC Web App by Stefano Bargioni I’ve created a Koha OPAC for smartphones and tablets. It is located at http://catalogo.pusc.it/mobile/ and can be accessed not only from smartphones but also from desktop PCs using any modern browser. It is a very simple OPAC interface, up to now. Based on jQuery Mobile, it accesses Koha using its SRU server. So it is not an app, nor a set of CSS that adapt Koha web pages to little screens. It is a web app, if I may say so. For more info, contact bargioni(a)pusc.it. Past Koha Events Koha 3.6.0 Released During Access2011 Conference by Chris Cormack Last Thursday 20th October I gave a talk at Access2011: The Library is Open in Vancouver titled Tātou tātou: Caring and sharing in a Free and Open source Project. The talk focused on lessons learned by the Koha community that would be of interest to other emerging open source software communities. It was particularly appropriate to the international nature of the Koha community that a kiwi guy could write the release notes, push patches and release Koha 3.6.0 while away in Vancouver. As many of you know Koha 3.6.0 was a major and very satisfying release to be part of. With 85 enhancements and 356 bugfixes Koha 3.6.0 included 728 patches from 60 developers. You can find out who those developers were and what they contributed here. The release notes are published here. One last huge thanks to everyone that contributed to to 3.6.0 and all the best to the release team for 3.8.0! October General IRC Meeting The October general IRC meeting was held on 5 October 2011. For more info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_5_October_2011. Upcoming Koha Events KohaCon11 KohaCon11 is being held 31 October 2011 to 6 November 2011 in Thane, India. The program for KohaCon11 is at http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11/schedConf/program. For more info, see http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11. Global Bug Squashing Day Proposed by Magnus Enger Dear Community! After colluding with my fellow bug wrangler Katrin I’d like to propose 04 November as the date of the next GBSD: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-11-04_Global_bug_squashing_day. This coincides with the first day of the hackfest at KohaCon11. Maybe we could get a bit of a Google Hangout going, or something? We’ll see… Anyway: Be there or be [_]! November General IRC Meeting The November general IRC meeting will be held on 16 November 2011. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_16_November_2011. KohaCon12: Welcome to Edinburgh! by MJ Ray I’d like to send thanks from software.coop to everyone who voted for Edinburgh in the recent vote. I look forward to welcoming you next summer and we’ll release more details as soon as they are confirmed, as well as asking for feedback on a couple of social event ideas. 2012 is software.coop’s tenth anniversary and also the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, so it’s a great time for a celebration and collaboration. On that note, I’d also like to thank the people who have sent expressions of interest in helping out with running the event. We’ll ask other co-ops to assist too, but we may well take up some of these offers. Finally, all the best to the KohaCon11 team for the conference that’s about to start. I’m sorry I’m not there, but we’ve already started work on KohaCon12. Have a great time for us and I look forward to hearing much news from India!

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Kohacon11 : Getting there
by Koustubha Kale 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi All, Kohacon11 is here. The venue is at : Vidya Prasarak Mandal's Thane College Campus, Thorle Bajirao Peshwe Sabhagriha, Near CIDCO Bus Stop, Chendani, Thane (west ) Maharashtra, India. Google Maps link : < http://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x3be7b927cd6912b9:0xcd4b44329d5ed6b… > The college campus is 5 minutes walking distance from Thane railway station. Once you are in Thane, you can take an auto-rikshaw to the campus. Just tell the driver you want to go to Thane College near CIDCO. The program start at 9.00am on 31st October 2011. Please find the program and a formal invitation attached. I have included my mobile number in the contact details below. Do not hesitate to call me if you need any assistance. Looking forward to meeting you all there :) Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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October newsletter publication delayed
by Daniel Grobani 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi, I missed the customary newsletter publication date of the 25th this month due to a bad cold. Although I haven't been able to marshal the energy and attention needed to publish it, I hope to be able to do so before October becomes November. Cheers, Daniel P.S. Happy conferring, you lucky KohaConners!

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Kohacon11 Mumbai day trip on 3rd November details
by Koustubha Kale 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hi All, Here is tentative itinerary and cost of the planned Mumbai day trip on 3rd November. Itinerary : 1. 8am : Leave from Thane by bus 2. 9.30am : arrive at Gateway of India and leave by ferry for Elephanta caves <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephanta_Caves> ( designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site) 3. 10.30am to 12.30 : arrive at Elephanta Caves, site seeing with a guide, lunch either at the MTDC hotel on the island or back on mainland near Gateway of India. 4. 12.30pm to 1.30pm : ferry back to Gateway of India. ( if lunch on mainland , then lunch 1.30pm to 2.30pm near Gateway of India ) Else 1.30pm to 2.30 pm lunch in MTDC hotel on Elephanta caves and 1.30pm to 2.30 pm ferry back to Gateway of India 5. 2.30pm onwards local shopping, drive back while seeing local sites such as Mumbai University building, Marine Drive, Girgaon Chaupaty ( beach ) etc. 6. Around 6 to 7pm arrive back in Thane Approximate cost per person : INR 2000 Includes all costs such as travel, entry tickets, guide fees, lunch and afternoon tea/coffee. Please let me know urgently if you would llike to join the trip so that we can do the bookings.. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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tt style point
by Colin Campbell 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hi I noticed that in QA someone is changing tt constructs from [% IF variable %] to [% IF (variable) %] as style issues I think this is very bad style for the following reasons: You'll not see it in any of the documentation for tt either the perldoc, on the tt site or in the badger book. (and I've never seen it on any tt using project). It adds nothing (we hope) syntactically. My initial response is that as we are not using normal tt syntax, something "clever" or magic is going on here rather than a usual [% IF %] It detracts from readability. (ok slightly subjective but the environment already makes full use of the top row of the keyboard.) Whats its relation with the legitimate use of brackets e.g. to call vmethods in regexps [% IF variable1( variable2 ) %] The authors didn't require brackets around more complex boolean expressions [% IF variable == 0 %] why bring em back in for simple variables. Could it have unforeseen side effects (don't know but I don't want to spend time researching it) It confuses the reader of the code and the writer of subsequent code - 'should I use () no? when? why? It strikes me as weird (!!) In short I'm arguing for clarity... I realise that Chris bracketed things in the great template conversion but I think that was defensive programming when he couldn't rely on variable always being one. And we shouldn't be encouraging or enforcing others to use a peculiar idiolect rather than standard practice. Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 845 557 5634 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell(a)ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com

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