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Looking for KOHA Solution provider
by Noppadol Weerakitti 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi, We have a KOHA project in Thailand and looking for an experienced KOHA solution provider who can spend time and resource here assisting us from planing, design, implement and train KOHA ILS. For more detail please contact directly to noppadol(a)tcdc.or.th Regards, Noppadol W. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for-KOHA-Solution-provider-tp19027040p1902704… Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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RFC: setting up a test server
by Andrew Moore 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hi Koha Developers - I'm interested in setting up a system to run our test suite regularly and alert us of the results. You may know this as a smoke tester or a continuous integration server, but essentially, it's a thing that runs the test suite regularly and lets us know when things pass and fail. Here's how I picture it working, and please let me know if you have any suggestions or questions about it. I have set up a smolder server at <http://arwen.metavore.com:8000/app/public_projects/smoke_reports/1> that will accept test reports and display them with pretty red, yellow, and green boxes and other information. I expect my nightly test results to go in there, and if you or others would like to send test results there, that would be great. That's where we can look to make sure that stuff we added yesterday didn't break other features in other places in the code. To get the reports there, I just submitted a patch <http://markmail.org/message/upa6j34f6rwegsgr> for review that adds a few targets to the t/Makefile and a perl program to the t/ directory. These are so that you can run "make submit" from the t/ directory in the distribution to send your test results to the smolder server. I'll set up a cronjob to run the test suite on the latest git repository each night and submit the results to the smolder server. Based on any discussion that this email opens up, I may modify that patch and submit it intending for it to get applied. I've opened up bug 2498 <http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2498> to discuss this. There's also a page on the wiki that I started to describe these tools and how they can be used. <http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:smoke_reports> You'll notice that none of this actually requires you or any other developers to change their behavior in any way. If you don't like this or have some kind of moral or religious objection to it, you can just ignore all of this smolder and smoke stuff and do just fine. So, let me know what you think, and expect the smoke test results to start showing up in smolder soon. Thanks, -Andy

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RFC 3.2 - hold request targeting
by Galen Charlton 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hi, For 3.2, LibLime proposes to add a feature to target specific items to fill hold requests. This targeting, which would be done in conjunction with use of the holds queue batch job (build_holds_queue.pl) and its report, would allocate items that are sitting on the shelf to fill specific hold requests. The idea is that the library would run the holds queue report periodically, then use the report to pull items off the shelf in order to fill hold requests. When the report is generated, the batch job would also populate a new table (to be called hold_fill_targets) that recommends that specific items be used to fill specific hold requests. As items from the picklist are checked in, if the item is targeted to a specific hold, it would be used to fill that hold first instead of filling the request that happens to be at the top of the priority queue. Why do that? Suppose that a bib has two items, itemA and itemB, and suppose patron1 has a title-level request on the bib, and patron2 has an item-level request on itemB. Further, suppose that both items are available, meaning that both requests could be filled. At present, whether both requests are actually filled depends on the order in which the items are checked in. If itemA is checked in first, then patron1 gets it, and when itemB is checked in, patron2 gets it. Everybody is happy. However, if itemB is checked in first, patron1's request is filled, but patron2 is left waiting for the item. With the new targeting feature, the batch job will allocate items to fill particular requests, thus allowing all of the available items to be used to fill as many holds as possible, in priority order. The mechanism does assume that the library's workflow is to run the batch job, then *quickly* pull the items to put on the hold shelf or transfer to other branches. This mechanism will also be used to minimize the number of transfers by allocating items located at a branch to fill requests for that same branch. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Email::Date module
by Clay Fouts 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hello, all. Can anyone tell me what sort of terrible events will transpire if I install libemail-date-perl version 1.101-1 Etch package instead of the 1.103 version recently specified as a Koha dependency? I like to avoid installing modules directly from CPAN, but of course avoiding breakage is a higher priority. Thanks, Clay

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Missing results when searching OPAC
by Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Dear members: We have installed here Koha 3.0 RC1 and after succesful using we have encountered that when searching through OPAC or Intranet interface, we don't get any results that we have seen before. We have made some imports of MARC records but then we can search either those imported too. Looking at mysql server, database koha, table biblio, we have the saved records. The url of the OPCA interface is at: http://168.176.86.15 and the given url when searching for "pascal" the browser url is: http://168.176.86.15/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=pascal Is there any way of altering the database or the system to have direct access to the Database, or better, what could be wrong? Thanks in advance ______________________________________________ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente.

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Koha 3 en español por favoe
by Christian Calle Jahuira 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Estimados Amigos Agradesco muchisimo la cooperacion y la respuesta a este mensaje, no comprendo muy bien, solicite la version Koha-3.0.0 estable en Español, la traduccion completa al español. Si es este por favor necesito comprender y confirmar. Si alguien me comprende por favor estare muy agradecido Un abrazo Coordialmente ChristianJCJ 2008/8/13 Homero Almeida <homero1958(a)yahoo.com> Estimado Christian > Esta es la dirección entregada por el duro de Liblime sobre donde puedes > encontrar la version estable y ultima de KOHA > espero que te ayude > hasta pronto > homero > > --- El *dom 10-ago-08, Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com>* escribió: > > De: Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com> > Asunto: [Koha] Announcing Koha 3.00.00 > A: "koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org>, > koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz, koha-translate(a)nongnu.org > Fecha: domingo, 10 agosto, 2008, 5:15 pm > > Hi folks, > > I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 > is now available. You can download from the usual > location: > > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig > > You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying > the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 > checksum: > > 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > > I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00 > > The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree > is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a > statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the > packaged release. > > This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent > releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include > any new features. > > New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond. > > A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla: > > http://bugs.koha.org > > The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are > pasted in > below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime > soon. > > Cheers, > > Joshua Ferraro > Koha 3.0 Release Manager > > ============================================================================== > > RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0 > ============================================================================== > Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source > integrated library system. > > You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL: > > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > > These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new > > Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to > Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the > new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally, > > Known Issues with this > version. > > ============================================================================== > WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3? > ============================================================================== > > 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured > > text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of > millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query > languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see: > > http://indexdata.dk/zebra > > Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as > relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy > > operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc. > > Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling > limits by availability and statuses. > > Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac > interfaces. > > For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships > with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed > in the RDBMS. > > 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the > > new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform. > > The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target > ('dev') that > can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision > > control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process. > > 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and > retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50 > > (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and > COinS/OpenURL > (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html) > > Also supported is the popular Internet standard: > OpenSearch > (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9. > > Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in > MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote; > > and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new > export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed > through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a > > separate parsing function. > > To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes > support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP > libraries (http://openncip.org) > > There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle > interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients. > These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over > > bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more > information, see: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services > > Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and > > Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module. > > Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and > Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich > bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and > > comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the > catalog. > OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to > provide > an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and > > editions > of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling > for these services, to keep within subscription limits. > > 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform > > of your choice: Linux, > Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also > includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs > under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing. > > 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for > > multilingual > libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left > languages > such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi). > > Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any > > UNICODE > compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra > has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM. > > You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools, > > or by visiting http://translate.koha.org. > > 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a > template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of > > 100% > valid > XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 > and > W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All > Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser. > > 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing > modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC > staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data > > dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more! > > ============================================================================== > REVISION CONTROL > ============================================================================== > > With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system > called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including > the > Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using > Git, please see > the Wiki page: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage > > ============================================================================== > > VERSION NUMBERING > ============================================================================== > > With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to > Perl's: > > major.minor[.revision[.build]] > > * major: one digit > * minor: two-digit > * revision: two-digit > * build: three-digit > > This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change > > or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' > number, > and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in > updater. > > Koha 3.0 Release Schedule: > > > This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over > the beta release: > > * General Bugfixing (over 150 > bugs fixed since RC1!) > * Nomenclature cleanup > * Additional translations > * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog > > Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any > > new > features. > > New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. > > ============================================================================== > UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA > > ============================================================================== > > The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki > at the following page: > > Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30 > > Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0: > > Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to > upgrade > > ============================================================================== > TEMPLATES > ============================================================================== > > You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there > > is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide > > Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their > contributions! > > ============================================================================== > TRANSLATIONS > ============================================================================== > > Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following > languages: > > OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), > fr-FR (French) > hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish), > > > ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) > zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified > Chinese in Taiwan) > > Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian), > ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) > > zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified > Chinese in Taiwan) > > Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following > languages: > > OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI > > (Finnish) > gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese), > kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), > tet (Tetum) > > Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU > > (Hungarian), > ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish), > > The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see > http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information > about > translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate > > ============================================================================== > DOCUMENTATION > ============================================================================== > > User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki > > (http://wiki.koha.org) The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions; > please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > ============================================================================== > KNOWN ISSUES > ============================================================================== > > Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the > > 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki > page: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > ------------------------------ > > Yahoo! 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Re: [Koha-devel] Rv: [Koha] Announcing Koha 3.00.00
by Christian Calle Jahuira 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Estimados Amigos Agradesco muchisimo la cooperacion y la respuesta a este mensaje, no comprendo muy bien, solicite la version Koha-3.0.0 estable en Español, la traduccion completa al español. Si es este por favor necesito comprender y confirmar. Si alguien me comprende por favor estare muy agradecido Un abrazo Coordialmente ChristianJCJ 2008/8/13 Homero Almeida <homero1958(a)yahoo.com> > Estimado Christian > Esta es la dirección entregada por el duro de Liblime sobre donde puedes > encontrar la version estable y ultima de KOHA > espero que te ayude > hasta pronto > homero > > --- El *dom 10-ago-08, Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com>* escribió: > > De: Joshua Ferraro <jmf(a)liblime.com> > Asunto: [Koha] Announcing Koha 3.00.00 > A: "koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org>, > koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz, koha-translate(a)nongnu.org > Fecha: domingo, 10 agosto, 2008, 5:15 pm > > Hi folks, > > I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 > is now available. You can download from the usual > location: > > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig > > You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying > the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 > checksum: > > 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > > I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00 > > The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree > is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a > statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the > packaged release. > > This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent > releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include > any new features. > > New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond. > > A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla: > > http://bugs.koha.org > > The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are > pasted in > below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime > soon. > > Cheers, > > Joshua Ferraro > Koha 3.0 Release Manager > > ============================================================================== > RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0 > ============================================================================== > Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source > integrated library system. > > You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL: > > http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz > > These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new > Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to > Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the > new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally, > Known Issues with this > version. > > ============================================================================== > WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3? > ============================================================================== > > 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured > text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of > millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query > languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see: > > http://indexdata.dk/zebra > > Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as > relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy > operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc. > > Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling > limits by availability and statuses. > > Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac > interfaces. > > For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships > with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed > in the RDBMS. > > 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the > new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform. > > The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target > ('dev') that > can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision > control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process. > > 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and > retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50 > (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and > COinS/OpenURL > (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html) > > Also supported is the popular Internet standard: > OpenSearch > (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9. > > Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in > MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote; > and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new > export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed > through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a > separate parsing function. > > To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes > support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP > libraries (http://openncip.org) > > There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle > interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients. > These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over > bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more > information, see: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services > > Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and > Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module. > > Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and > Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich > bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and > comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the > catalog. > OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to > provide > an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and > editions > of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling > for these services, to keep within subscription limits. > > 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform > of your choice: Linux, > Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also > includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs > under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing. > > 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for > multilingual > libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left > languages > such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi). > > Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any > UNICODE > compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra > has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM. > > You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools, > or by visiting http://translate.koha.org. > > 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a > template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of > 100% > valid > XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 > and > W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All > Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser. > > 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing > modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC > staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data > dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more! > > ============================================================================== > REVISION CONTROL > ============================================================================== > > With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system > called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including > the > Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using > Git, please see > the Wiki page: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage > > ============================================================================== > VERSION NUMBERING > ============================================================================== > > With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to > Perl's: > > major.minor[.revision[.build]] > > * major: one digit > * minor: two-digit > * revision: two-digit > * build: three-digit > > This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change > or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' > number, > and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in > updater. > > Koha 3.0 Release Schedule: > > This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over > the beta release: > > * General Bugfixing (over 150 > bugs fixed since RC1!) > * Nomenclature cleanup > * Additional translations > * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog > > Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any > new > features. > > New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. > > ============================================================================== > UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA > ============================================================================== > > The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki > at the following page: > > Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30 > > Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0: > > Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to > upgrade > > ============================================================================== > TEMPLATES > ============================================================================== > > You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there > is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide > > Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their > contributions! > > ============================================================================== > TRANSLATIONS > ============================================================================== > > Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following > languages: > > OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), > fr-FR (French) > hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish), > > ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) > zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified > Chinese in Taiwan) > > Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian), > ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) > zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified > Chinese in Taiwan) > > Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following > languages: > > OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI > (Finnish) > gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese), > kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), > tet (Tetum) > > Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU > (Hungarian), > ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish), > > The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see > http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information > about > translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate > > ============================================================================== > DOCUMENTATION > ============================================================================== > > User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki > (http://wiki.koha.org) The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions; > please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > ============================================================================== > KNOWN ISSUES > ============================================================================== > > Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the > 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki > page: > > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > ------------------------------ > > Yahoo! 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Call for volunteers - Koha Documentation Manager
by Galen Charlton 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, While we're discussing project roles, I would like to suggest reviving the position of Documentation Manager, a position which appears to be unfilled at the moment. If I am mistaken and somebody is currently active as DM, I apologize. The documentation manager would be responsible for: * Working with the Koha user community to identify documentation needs. * Organizing the creation and updates of user documentation for Koha 3.x, including manuals, user help embedded in Koha, wikis, etc. * In conjunction with the 3.2 RM and the 3.0 RMaint, updating user documentation that resides in the Koha source tree. * Encouraging the user and developer communities to improve documentation practices. * Discovering and linking to public Koha documentation written outside the aegis of the Koha project. * Encouraging (with the help of the translation manager) the development of user documentation in as many languages as possible. * Maintaining user documentation on the various project websites, including wiki.koha.org, kohadocs.org, and the forthcoming Plone version of www.koha.org. Any volunteers? Comments on the list of responsibilities? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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Where is the information about what username created/modified a "biblio" record saved?
by Ricardo Dias Marques 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi list, I'm using the last "snapshot" development version of Koha 3 from git, but I think my question is also applicable to older Koha 3 "versions" (and probably also to Koha 2.X versions). I'm using UNIMARC (but NOT using Zebra) in my Linux installation (running openSUSE 11.0). Basically, the question is the one that I put in the subject of this message, that is: "Where is the information about what username created/modified a biblio record saved?" When I say this, I'm thinking of a Library that uses Koha, and where several Librarians have a Koha username and password for logging in the "Intranet" area for adding / modifying bibliographic records in the Library's Catalog. So, what I'm asking is this: 1 - Does the Koha (MySQL) database include any table(s)/field(s) for the username that created/modified a bibliographic record? I couldn't find it in the most "obvious suspect", the "biblio" table. I *did* find a "datecreated" and a "timestamp" fields in this "biblio" table, though. 2 - Do the UNIMARC / MARC 21 standards include any tag / subfield where this information should / may be saved in a bibliographic record? I have consulted the "Log Viewer" that is available in the "Tools" page of the "Intranet" area of Koha, but could NOT find any entry for creation / modification of bibliographic records: http://192.168.0.2:8080/cgi-bin/koha/tools/viewlog.pl Am I looking for this in the wrong places? If this functionality has NOT been implemented yet, are there any reasons for NOT doing it (e.g: any legal restrictions related to privacy concerns)? Thanks in advance! Best wishes, Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net

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Announcing Koha 3.00.00
by Joshua Ferraro 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 is now available. You can download from the usual location: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 checksum: 0008f53d22333f7f2beb55d9a23b792a koha-3.00.00.tar.gz I've also tagged this in Git as "version 3.00.00" v3.00.00 The main difference between the packaged release and the Git tree is the existence of fully-built translations (over 31) and a statically defined VERSION string in the Makefile.PL of the packaged release. This is the fifth packaged release of Koha 3. Subsequent releases of 3.00 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any new features. New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and beyond. A list of current bugs are documented on Koha's Bugzilla: http://bugs.koha.org The release notes for this 3.00.00 version are pasted in below, and will also appear on the koha.org website sometime soon. Cheers, Joshua Ferraro Koha 3.0 Release Manager ============================================================================== RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0 ============================================================================== Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source integrated library system. You can obtain Koha 3.0 from the following URL: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally, Known Issues with this version. ============================================================================== WHAT'S NEW IN KOHA 3? ============================================================================== 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see: http://indexdata.dk/zebra Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc. Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling limits by availability and statuses. Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces. For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed in the RDBMS. 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform. The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process. 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50 (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and COinS/OpenURL (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html) Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9. Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote; and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a separate parsing function. To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP libraries (http://openncip.org) There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients. These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module. Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the catalog. OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to provide an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and editions of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling for these services, to keep within subscription limits. 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing. 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for multilingual libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi). Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM. You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools, or by visiting http://translate.koha.org. 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of 100% valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 and W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser. 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more! ============================================================================== REVISION CONTROL ============================================================================== With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including the Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see the Wiki page: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage ============================================================================== VERSION NUMBERING ============================================================================== With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to Perl's: major.minor[.revision[.build]] * major: one digit * minor: two-digit * revision: two-digit * build: three-digit This release of Koha 3.0 is versioned 3.00.00.107. Every database change or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number, and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in updater. Koha 3.0 Release Schedule: This release of Koha 3.0 includes the following general improvements over the beta release: * General Bugfixing (over 150 bugs fixed since RC1!) * Nomenclature cleanup * Additional translations * Lots more, consult git.koha.org for the complete changelog Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any new features. New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. ============================================================================== UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA ============================================================================== The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki at the following page: Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30 Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0: Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade ============================================================================== TEMPLATES ============================================================================== You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their contributions! ============================================================================== TRANSLATIONS ============================================================================== Koha 3.0 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following languages: OPAC: de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English), fr-FR (French) hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish), ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan) Staff Client fr-FR (French), en (English), hy-Armn (Armenian), ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian) zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan) Additionally, Koha 3 (this release) has partial translations for the following languages: OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish) gl (Galego), he-Hebr (Hebrew), id-ID (Indonesian), ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), tet (Tetum) Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian), ja-Japn (Japanese), tr-TR (Turkish), The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate ============================================================================== DOCUMENTATION ============================================================================== User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki (http://wiki.koha.org) The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions; please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel ============================================================================== KNOWN ISSUES ============================================================================== Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0

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