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Kohacon11 : Apologies for missing last few meetings
by Koustubha Kale 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi All, First of all please accept my apologies for missing last few meetings. I have multiple out of station projects on hand currently, most of them in remote areas with very very patchy mobile networks let alone good internet connectivity. Having said that please rest assured that preparations for Kohacon11 are well in hand. We need more presenters if anything. So if you are planning to attend, please consider sharing your Koha, Library or even FOSS experiences with us. Also as per IRC discussions yesterday, we are planning to have a couple of panel discussions in the three day schedule. If you would like to participate in this as a panelist or have an idea of a topic for discussion please do share with us. Chris is going to do a remote presentation on 2nd Nov 2011 9.30am IST :) Any of you, who can't make it to Kohacon11 for whatever reasons please consider presenting through a similar means. I will shape up the presentation proposals we have received so far into a rough schedule over next couple of days and circulate on the list for comments. We have received sponsorship from Calyx, BibLibre and KohaAloha in addition to Bharat Grahak. Thanks Bob & Irma, Paul and Mason. 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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Sending orders by email
by Edgar Fuß 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I've ported my order-by-email patch (first mentioned in Bug 5260) to 3.4.3. I attach two diffs, one for the CGI scripts and another for the templates, in a format hopefully acceptable to GIT people. Katrin Fischer suggested using the message queue for sending emails to booksellers, but, as I understand, C4::Letters::EnqueueLetter can send only to borrowers. I've changed the tab wording from ```Mail'' to ``Email'' as suggested by Katrin Fischer. Btw.: I'm also (with some help by Dan McMahill) importing Koha (currently 3.4.3) into the NetBSD Package Collection. Once this gets sorted out, you can just cd ${PKGSRCDIR}/databases/koha && make install (or pkg_add koha if someone has built the binaries for you) and you get Koha and all its dependencies installed on any system supported by pkgsrc (which is, in fact, nearly everything POSIX compatible, including most BSDs, SunOS, AIX, Darwin/OSX and even Linux).

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Re: [Koha-devel] 64-bit versions
by Paul 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

At 07:07 AM 8/2/2011 -0400, Ian Walls wrote: >ByWater Solutions also runs 64 bit Debian Squeeze, and we are quite >pleased with it. Tnx to all for your replies. A follow-up if I may? How much RAM are you using? My current "sand-box server" is very slow (4-7 seconds for searches, admin saves, etc) with only 2 gigs; we are refining our new specs and hesitating between 8 and 16 gigs for the new box. Our users and cataloguers are really looking for more or less instantaneous responses to OPAC searches and I'm looking for all the hardware design help I can get. Best regards - Paul >-Ian > >On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Paul Poulain ><<mailto:paul.poulain@biblibre.com>paul.poulain(a)biblibre.com> wrote: >Le 01/08/2011 23:07, Chris Cormack a Ã©crit : > >> I'll then migrate our current db from 3.2 (on a 32-bit machine) and again > >> would appreciate any words of wisdom from any of you as to best practices. > >> Â The new server will use Ubuntu 10.04LTS rather than 10.10 (current > server) > >> just for the long-term maintenance schedule in a production environment. > >> > > We run our production systems on 64bit debian squeeze, with no issues >Same thing for us: 64bits debian squeeze, with no issues Paul Tired old sys-admin

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Bugzilla & default assignee
by Paul Poulain 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi all, Looking at what is assigned to me, I see that there are things, old or very old, that I don't plan to deal with, even if, in some case, it's a valid entry. For example : http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=444 This is an enhancement. It's still a good idea, still not implemented afaik. OTOH : It is 7 years old, I discover it now, and don't plan to do anything about that. The reporter (Ingrid Lacis) has left the project so she won't do anything too. What I want is a clear view of what I have to do, and I have nothing to do with this entry. My question : what should I do to discard this entry from my list ? I tried to remove me as assignee, but bz don't want "no assignee". Should we have a virtual assignee for this kind of entry ? Should I close the bug entry as it's an enhancement, no-one plan to take care of it ? Other idea ? -- 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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Roles for 3.8
by Paul Poulain 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi everybody, Chris suggested in one of his recent blog post that we should start thinking about positions for next release (starting october) I've added the page on the wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.8 During the last IRC meeting, we decided : * Nomination sept, 22th * Vote at the next IRC general meeting (beginning of october) You'll also notice that I've thrown my hat for the Release Manager responsibility, and put my proposal accordingly. It's something I'm thinking for some weeks/months now. During last chat session, Chris said: " volunteer if you are crazy". I'm crazy, I'm still volunteer, and we're organizing BibLibre to let me having time dedicated to the RM task. If you have some questions when reading my application, feel free to ask me (on the mailing list / irc - paul_p - / pm). I will probably refine my application, and will let you know everytime I make a noticeable change. Have a good day (or night) -- 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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64-bit versions
by Paul 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Some time ago yaz -- and possibly other Koha components -- may have proven problematic in a 64-bit server environment. I'm getting ready to do a fresh install of Koha 3.4.3 on a new server using Intel Xeon 64-bit architecture, and am looking for reassurance that this will not be a hang-up. I'll then migrate our current db from 3.2 (on a 32-bit machine) and again would appreciate any words of wisdom from any of you as to best practices. The new server will use Ubuntu 10.04LTS rather than 10.10 (current server) just for the long-term maintenance schedule in a production environment. tnx and br Paul Tired old sys-admin

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Perl scripts not ending in .pl
by Edgar Fuß 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Some of Koha's Perl scripts have filenames not ending in .pl. This just hit me badly because those are not handled by fix-perl-path.PL. Personally, I could just get away with pkgsrc's REPLACE_PERL feature, but maybe other people would benefit from correct interpreter paths too. So, is there any reason why not to change the following file names (and all references to them, of course)? ./misc/admin/koha-preferences ./misc/maintenance/borrowers-force-messaging-defaults ./misc/translator/translate ./opac/unapi ./reports/issues_by_borrower_category.plugin ./reports/itemtypes.plugin ./svc/bib_profile ./svc/bib ./svc/authentication ./svc/config/systempreferences ./svc/new_bib (there are, of course, *.t Perl scripts not listed here) debian/list-deps ist probably irrelevant as long as Debian keeps perl in /usr/bin. fix-perl-path.PL is special. acqui/pdfformat/layout[23]pages.pm have superflous shebang lines.

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FW: Bug 6584
by Marcel de Rooy 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Oops, Discovered that Katrin already signed it off. But it still needs some time to mature on the Signed list ;) Marcel Van: koha-devel-bounces(a)lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] Namens Marcel de Rooy Verzonden: maandag 1 augustus 2011 09:18 Aan: koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org Onderwerp: [Koha-devel] Bug 6584 Hi Owen [and all], >From the IRC channel [July 13]: * oleonard doesn't understand what Bug 6584 is about Zebra already indexes MARC field 000/7 as Bib-level. But since it is not defined in ccl.properties and not listed in Search.pm, you cannot do anything with it in Koha. This patch resolves that situation. You will not search for Bib-level many times, but it already helped me in combination with another search term to find some errors in MARC records. Anyone willing to test and sign-off (easy patch!) ? Regards, Marcel

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Bug 6584
by Marcel de Rooy 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hi Owen [and all], >From the IRC channel [July 13]: * oleonard doesn't understand what Bug 6584 is about Zebra already indexes MARC field 000/7 as Bib-level. But since it is not defined in ccl.properties and not listed in Search.pm, you cannot do anything with it in Koha. This patch resolves that situation. You will not search for Bib-level many times, but it already helped me in combination with another search term to find some errors in MARC records. Anyone willing to test and sign-off (easy patch!) ? Regards, Marcel

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IRC meeting reminder (August 2 02:00 UTC)
by Chris Cormack 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi all It's nearly that time again, for our monthly IRC meeting. The agenda is here http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_2_August_2011 The meeting is open to all with an interest in Koha. http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/ Please come along, Koha is what we make it :) Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand

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