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A few questions for French Team
by Joshua M. Ferraro 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hey gang, Just a few questions about some of the additions to 3.0 that I haven't been keeping tabs on. Could someone clarify the following: 1. what is a 'professional' borrower? 2. what is a 'department' (in overdues)? Is it a hard-coded authorized value for item.location? Should it be defined in the framework? 3. what is the function of z3950AuthorAuthFields and z3950NormalizeAuthor system preferences? 4. what is the function of expandedSearchOption syspref? 5. what is the nature of AutomaticItemReturn syspref? 6. ReservesMaxPickUpDelay syspref ... what's it for, is it years, days, months? 7. maxoutstanding, maxreserves, noissuescharge, shouldn't these be in issuingrules? 8. useDaysMode - shouldn't this also be in issuingrules? 9. borrowerRelationship - shouldn't this be configurable in the borrower categories? maybe a new authorized value? 10. memberofinstitution syspref? - what is the effect of this syspref? 11. SubscriptionHistory syspref? what is the effect of this syspref? 12. Would anyone object to me declaring bankruptcy on our sysprefs, and re-naming all of them for 3.0? It might be a bit inconvenient for a few libraries currently running Koha that want to upgrade, but long term I think it would make things a lot simpler ... 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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Diff and patch
by MJ Ray 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

I can't find the guide that I mentioned on IRC, but those looking for tips on better use of diff and patch may find them in this book "Comparing and Merging Files with GNU diff and patch" by David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Richard Stallman http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/diff/Overview.html My most frequent commands are: 1. # generating a patch of changes to one file cp file file.orig edit file diff -u file.orig file | tee file.patch 2. # generating a patch of all changes in a directory diff -ruN dir.orig dir.mod > all-changes-in-dir.patch 3. # applying a patch to a file patch file < file.patch 4. # applying a patch to a directory cd dir patch -p1 < /tmp/all-changes-in-dir.patch 5. # reversing that patch out again when it doesn't work cd dir patch -Rp1 < /tmp/all-changes-in-dir.patch There are some handy cvs diff commands: 1. cvs diff -u file # changes since last commit 2. cvs diff -r1.1 -r1.2 -u file # changes between given revisions and with git: 1. git diff -u file # changes since last commit 2. git diff -u rel22 master file # changes between given branches This can also give a crude way to reverse a change: use diff to make a patch file and then feed it to patch -R... but there are usually better ways. cvs update's merge options and git revert. If you are using patch files without revision control much, you may find wiggle helpful: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Eneilb/source/wiggle/ Ask questions and I'll try to answer. Mangling files is one thing I have had far too much practice at! Hope that helps someone, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Re: [Koha] Google Summer of Koha - thought on 1 idea you posted
by Joshua M. Ferraro 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

----- "Steven F. Baljkas" <baljkas(a)mts.net> wrote: > Friday, March 16, 2007 16:03 CDT > > Hi, Josh, et al. at LibLime, > > Congratulations on your selection as mentor for the Google Summer of > Code program! It looks to be an amazing thing. Thanks, we're pretty excited, as it turns out, 2/3 of applications weren't accepted. > I don't know if this'll be useful for you folks or not, but here goes > anyway ... > > I noticed in your list of ideas the following -- > > Improve Koha Cataloging Interface > Have had some customer feedback that theyd like to see a > more "traditional" cataloging interface; best way I can > describe this is a line interface like you would expect in > a text editor vs the tabularized interface we currently have. > > Could it be just a big <textarea> ? > > -- and I have been wondering for a while if what Terry Reese had > accomplished with MARCEdit's text-based editor might somehow be > "incorporated"/"integrated" into Koha. Definitely something we've thought of, and in fact, I've spoken to Terry about this. We're in the middle of defining what would be involved in making MARCEdit capable of 'pushing' updates to Koha. I think it's a fantastic idea to add this to the list of Google Ideas. I'll write an email to Terry and add it to our list, thanks again for the idea! 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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Google Summer of Koha
by Joshua M. Ferraro 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi all, Just a heads up to the Koha community that LibLime was selected as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program. We've got a few ideas defined already, but are certainly open to additional suggestions: http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=googlesummerofcodeideas So if you've got a neat koha-related project that's doable in a three month period by a student or group of students, let us know. And of course, if you happen to be a student, we'd love to have you involved. You can select from one of the ideas above, or come up with something completely new ... More info about the program and the application process is available at the Google Summer of Code site: http://code.google.com/soc The deadline is fast approaching so get those applications in. 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 Savannah
by Joshua M. Ferraro 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi gang, I'll get back into the version control discussion shortly, just wanted to post a note saying where we're at with the recovery of Savannah. I was able to re-commit everything to the HEAD branch. However, if you have a working copy newer than Sunday March 10th, you may want to check out a fresh copy and diff your changes into the fresh copy to avoid conflicts. If you have any questions about this, let me know. 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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Version Control
by Kyle Hall 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello All, On the topic of version control. I think everybody is in agreement that we need a backup system, no matter if koha stays at savannah, moves to google, or goes somewhere else. We at the CCFLS are offering to put up a VCS mirror. I assume that it is possible to do a nightly sync of the main vcs to our backup vcs, please correct me if I'm wrong. Thoughts? Opinions? Kyle -- IT Tech Crawford County Federated Library System

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Re: [Koha-devel] [URGENT] Move away from Savannah/CVS
by Simon Mitchell 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Ruby has moved to SVN http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ I sure that koha will move to ruby one day, so why not move to SVN as a first step. ;-)

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Savannah back up
by Joshua M. Ferraro 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi gang, Just a quick note to say that savannah is back up. The first thing Chris and I did was to nab the whole repository, history, etc. and I've set up a cron job to do a nightly rsync. In case you want to do one too, here's how to go about it: $ rsync -avzru cvs.savannah.nongnu.org::sources/koha/ ./ -a = archive (ie copu) -z = compress for transmission -r= recursive -u=update If you put that in your crontab it'll just grab diffs rather that download the whole thing every time. Next task is to merge in the change history, I'll report back when that's done. 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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GNA vs GNU
by Joshua M. Ferraro 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

For what it's worth, those interested might be interested in this brief history of Savannah and Gna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gna.org 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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3.0 Code Audit: Web Installer
by Joshua M. Ferraro 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi folks, Ryan and I have started a code audit of Koha 3.0 and we have the results of the first module in that audit, the new Web Installer. A few months back we decided to split installation into two types: system-level, and librarian-level. The web installer is the first example of a librarian interface to installation. It was written by Henri-Damien, so first off, I'd like to thank Henri-Damien and the French team for devoting resources to this very important component of Koha. The new Web Installer allows a systems person to download Koha, install dependencies, set up Apache, create the MySQL database, add a user with permissions, and then hand the rest of the install process over to a librarian to be completed via a web interface. This web-based installer will check the dependencies, create the table definitions and constraints, allow the user to pick frameworks and other default settings to import, upgrade the db definition using updatedatabse, etc. We have a list of items that need to be improved before we sign off on the Web Installer as ready for 3.0. These items have all been entered into bugzilla as 'blocker' bugs. There are some additional items we'd like to improve that aren't bockers but that would be nice. These are also listed in bugzilla. Here are the blocker bugs: 1298: Web installer uses platform-specific elements 1302: Web Installer should check a conf variable to determine if Koha's already been installed 1303: Before web installer is run, opac and intranet interfaces should redirect to the installer Henri-Damien has agreed to do 1302 and 1303 this week. We could use some help on 1298, any volunteers? There are also a couple of 'wish list' items: 1304: Remove system call to mysql from Web Installer. 1305: Add error checking to web installer Any takers? OK, gonna get back to the audit, let me know if you have questions or ideas. 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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