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A True Story; AKA: Check out our IRC Channel!
by Joshua M. Ferraro 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Hey folks, I just thought I'd share a moment (actually, 15 minutes) from today's Koha IRC log (chat for Koha users and developers) ... it's a great example of how rapid development works in the Open Source world. Owen, one of our community's template designers,(from the Nelsonville Public Library), had an 'itch to scratch' ... 05:46 < owen> Patrons should be able to cancel a reserve online! 05:47 < kados> owen: they can't? 05:47 < owen> Not unless this is a secret which has been kept from me :) 05:48 * owen doesn't know if this has been added in 3.0 05:48 < kados> probably not added, but it would be a trivial feature to add 05:49 < kados> there's already a separate column for reserves in the account page, right? 05:49 < owen> A separate tab 05:49 < kados> that's what I meant 05:50 < kados> ahh, I see now: 05:50 < kados> If you no longer want a reserve, please send us an e-mail, or go to the circulation desk at your library to get it removed. 05:50 < kados> hmmm 05:54 < kados> owen: 05:54 < kados> add the following somewhere in the template: 05:54 < kados> <form action="/cgi-bin/koha/opac-modrequest.pl" method="post"> 05:54 < kados> <input type="hidden" name="from" value="borrower" /> 05:54 < kados> <input name="rank-request" value="del"> 05:54 < kados> <input type="hidden" name="biblio" value="16595" /> 05:54 < kados> <input type="hidden" name="borrowernumber" value="22994" /> 05:54 < kados> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Remove" /></p> 05:54 < kados> </form> 05:55 < kados> owen: the biblio and borrowernumber numbers will need to be TMPL_VARs 05:55 < owen> Will that redirect back to the reserves list? 05:55 < kados> remove that stray </p> too 05:59 < owen> Hey, works like a charm 05:59 < kados> :-) 05:59 < kados> ok, I'll commit my script, you can commit the template :-) 06:00 < owen> Sure. I'm going to take a moment to add a javascript confirm 06:00 < kados> *nod* So you never know what could happen if you log on to chat and complain about something ;-) Join us sometime: http://koha.org/community/irc.html Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Status of head (some infos)
by Paul POULAIN 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hello all, I've installed, as previously said, what will be Koha 3.0 in 2 libraries. Here is a summary of some missing things that have to be done : Installer ========== i've installed from CVS. the 2.2 installer has to be rewritten almost completly, as : 1- the librarian part of the install is now done through the webinstaller 2- the config file has heavily changed (.conf => .xml) Does anyone plan to work on that in the next 2 months ? MARC editor ============ The actual MARC editor has some limits : - the code is ugly (i've written most of it, I assume the ugliness ;-) ) - the templates are heavy & hard to maintain - the indicators are poorly written - duplicating a field requires a form submission, thus it's slow So, i've asket toins to rewrite the editor. There won't be new major features, it's just a "code cleaning" and "very complex bug fixing". Fines and Overdues =================== SAN-OP has commited some interesting features about fines and overdues. Except they work only if you have fines on overdues. Which is not the cas of every libraries. we will fix this problem asap (1 of our 2 koha 3.0 libraries don't have fines, but they want to be able to know which borrowers have overdues) I'll also have to describe a little bit what SAN-OP features does... Letters ======== The new letters system is not yet used everywhere : suggestion accept or reject for example, still have to be completed Database commit ================ A fresh install from the CVS won't work at all, i'm almost sure. I'll commit a uptodate koha.sql and updated UNIMARC frameworks asap. I'll let libLime or anyone else work on MARC21. waiting for your feedback. Don't hesitate to add entries if i've forgotten something... -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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RE: [Koha-devel] Transaltion of Unimarc in italian (ver 3.0)
by robi sturman 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hello everybody, last year I submitted to Paul Poulain (personally, not through this list) an English version of the UNIMARC labels for Koha (in SQL format). As I started the English version from the French one, I discovered some errors in the French version, which I corrected in the English version; moreover I updated the English version to a more recent update of the UNIMARC standard. Roberto Sturman --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

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copyright holder
by Paul POULAIN 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi (again...) I realise that, for instance, the Koha copyright is given to katipo (and it's written in almost every script). Knowing that katipo has resigned from it's Koha engagment by selling it to libLime, I think we can put that point on an agenda to decide what to do with the copyright. Assign it to libLime ? to the french NPO that should rise (very) soon ? to someone/something else ? we don't care, stay with katipo ? -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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Transaltion of Unimarc in italian (ver 3.0)
by Zeno Tajoli 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi to all, my structure wants to use Koha from version 3.0 As italian we need to set-up a complete italian version with Unimarc. I see the web CVS and I think that is a must to have a Unimarc structure in italian. So we need to transalte the file structure_def.sql. I think to start from french version. The web dir of this file is : http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/koha/misc/marc_datas/unimarc_fr/?root… I need also to write cataloguing templates in italian. I can start from the french dir (../misc/sql-datas/fr/mandatory) The web dir is : http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/koha/misc/sql-datas/fr/mandatory/?roo… Do you think is useful to do those transaltions ? Do you suggest to start with cataloguing templates or with structure_def.sql ? Those files are stables and will be used in version 3.x as they are now ? Thank for all Zeno Tajoli Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)

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web installer (fix & new feature)
by Paul POULAIN 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi folks, I've updated/fixed the installer : Now the database Version (defined in version systempreference) is compared to the Koha version (defined by <kohaversion>XXX</kohaversion> in koha.xml file). If the Version systempref does not exist or is lower than kohaversion, you're redirected to installer. If there is no Version, you're redirected to the 1st step of the installer (full install). If Version < kohaversion, you're redirected to step 3 (updatedatabase). With this new feature, when installing a new version [1], you'll automatically be redirected to the step 3 of the installer to run updatedatabase. WARNING : check that you have <kohaversion> in you koha.xml, otherwise, you'l loop forever to the installer... HTH [1] once the tech installer/updater will be written and if it updates correctly the kohaversion, which is, now something that it will have to do ! -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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Summary of Koha Project Day
by Joshua M. Ferraro 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi all, Yesterday we had another Koha Project Day. Below is a summary of the goings on. We're thinking of moving the day of the week we do this on to give more folks the opportunity to get involved ... is there a day of the week that would work best for you and your koha project team? Let us know. Summary follows: We met some new folks, so extending a welcome to martinmorris, who's working on configuring Koha; and thanks to jaron for some support help on that front. Dewey was up to his usual tricks, and we fed him multitudinous botsnacks :-) Slef worked on improvements to the installation process, thanks for the commits! Tina and I picked up some books on interface design and started learning about typical processes for designing application interfaces (not just websites), with the intent to improve the 3.0 interfaces before the release. I also installed plone and played around with some workflows for managing users, groups, and roles. We discovered that, like Koha, plone is quite powerful, but requires plenty of customization :-) Chris spent most of the day fixing bugs in HEAD and commiting fixes to the CSS for Russ. Chris and I also spent some time refining our plan for moving to Git. Russ played around with plone, learned up on the plone help center product, moving some content into a plone install to see how it might work (see http://new.koha.org:8080/koha/author/rwgarlick for some of he content created. The Plone Help Center product looks like the goods for Koha documentation, but there are still some kinks to iron out before we have it going properly. Russ also did some testing of HEAD (version 3), in particular fixed a bug with the san-op.css which was obscuring the secondary navigation. Reported a few other bugs that Chris is working on. Ryan and Mason were super busy getting ready for a golive that happened this morning, so they opted out this time. I'm sure they'd rather be working on project stuff, just don't tell the clients :-). Sara spent some time updating lists of koha users found in the wild (they're everywhere! :-)). The best lists now are libwebcats and the Koha wiki, but we're working on a new worldmap that we hope will launch within the next coupla months. Feel free to join us next week, the festivities will start at 12:00pm EST and continue for about 12 hours. To join us, you'll need to download an IRC client (for Windows, mIRC is pretty good: www.mirc.com/) and point it at irc.katipo.co.nz and the channel #koha. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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IRC Meeting Logs
by Bradley Peters 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Greetings, Are logs of the IRC developer meetings available somewhere on the web? On koha.org [1] it just says the channel is logged, but I don't know anything about the logbot that is mentioned. [1] http://www.koha.org/community/irc.html Thanks, Bradley Peters.

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Koha Developers' Meeting Summary
by Joshua M. Ferraro 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Koha Developers' Meeting Summary Hi gang, we had another well-attended (and exciting!) developers' meeting today. Here's a very brief summary of what went on. Feel free to expand on stuff I missed, etc. Agenda: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=meetingnotes07july02 Time: 19:00 GMT: http://tinyurl.com/3ajpxh Place: irc.katipo.co.nz #koha Moderated by: Joshua Ferraro Roll Call: paul, chris, russ, ryan, owen, WPL, kolibrie, Irma, thd, tumer, sanspach, pecisk Brief intros, welcome to newbies, Bart library IT guyfrom Westerville Ohio, USA and kolibrie, a programmer from Fairfax, VA USA Open Positions in the Community We need role descriptions, and we can ask for volunteers and people can nominate their favorite volunteer Translations Manager - kados can continue to do this, he enjoys it, but doesn't have quite enough time to do a great job, but will happily hand it over if someone with a vested interest wants to take over Documentation Manager - Russ volunteered, no-one objected :-) Quality Assurance Manager - Chris volunteered, no-one objected :-) FAQ Manager - jaron expressed interest, he'll let us know if he is willing to commit to it next week we'd like to get more users involved in the process, aren't sure how to attract them it'd be useful to send a mail to koha and koha-devel list explaining what a Kaitaiki is, why we need one, and finding out if anyone would be interested in filling that role. Git - Distributed Version Control -- we're still hashing out the details, nothing solid to show yet, check back at the next meeting. Release of 3.beta goal is to release it in July a new installer is top priority second might be a new set of templates if we have time bug fixing continues Koha and Copyright thd sent through some clarification on copyright to help us understand the issues http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/koha-devel/2007-07/msg00001.html (section 5) there's some good data there, check it out -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Koha Developers' Meeting
by Joshua M. Ferraro 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

At the last meeting, we tentatively picked Monday, July 2nd at 19:00 GMT for the next meeting. Here's the time in your area: http://tinyurl.com/3ajpxh I'd like to give the folks who weren't able to attend last time a chance to suggest alternate times, so please let us know if that date/time wont work for you and we'll try to find another. Also, I've put an agenda up. It includes some of the items we didn't have time for at the last meeting as well as some new ones. Feel free to add stuff you'd like to discuss: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=meetingnotes07july02 Cheers, Joshua -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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