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Bugsquashing Session
by Joshua Ferraro 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hi everyone, Let's squash some bugs! Here's the list of outstanding bugs in 2.2 and HEAD: http://tinyurl.com/7wslw I count 159 total: that's a lot of bugs! Since this is our first bug squashing event in quite a while I need some help scheduling it -- and future events. So first off, who wants to join us in squashing bugs? And when would be the best times for you? I'd like to make this a weekly event so lets find a time (or rotate the time) so as many of us can participate as possible. In case you're new to the bug reporting system in Koha it's here: http://bugs.koha.org If you'd like to get involved but aren't sure how let me know and I'll answer any questions you might have. -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Koha ILS, Mambo Intranet, DiscrimiNet Filter jmf(a)liblime.com | Full Demos at http://liblime.com | 1(888)KohaILS

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Website/Interface Design Focus Group
by Joshua Ferraro 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hi everyone, OK ... Let's get this ball rolling. As I mentioned in my last e-mail, the website/interface design focus group will focus on the overall user experience of Koha on the website, documentation, and interfaces. So: colors, logos, layout, standards compliance, usability, beauty, accessability, etc. Let's plan a meeting on #koha to discuss all the issues involved and to map out a plan of attack. How is 7PM GTM Thursday 27th on IRC? Here's the time in your area: http://tinyurl.com/dk29s Let's try to get a clear picture of what we're going to dicuss before the meeting so we can keep it brief -- what should be on the agenda? Let me know if the time isn't good for you and what time would be better. -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Koha ILS, Mambo Intranet, DiscrimiNet Filter jmf(a)liblime.com | Full Demos at http://liblime.com | 1(888)KohaILS

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Re: [Koha-bugs] Z39-50 client
by Paul POULAIN 26 May '05

26 May '05

Twily a écrit : > Hello, > > Koha was installed in a research laboratory - the LabSAD - at the > University of Grenoble, in order to create its library catalog. > > At first, the Z39-50 client was not working at all (tests with > versions 2.0.2 & 2.2.2), although the installing process was followed > step by step - PERL5LIB export, etc... > > After a long digging, a problem was discovered in this file : > /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/z3950/search.pl > > Indeed, here is what is written line 60 : $random = rand(1000000000); > A float with 8 digits is included in the database, to identify the > Z39-50 request. > Later, only 4 digits remain. Since both numbers are not identical, the > request is stopped. > > After replacing all $random = rand(1000000000); > by $random = int(1000000000); , everything works perfectly. > > Thank you to change this in future versions of Koha, > > Caroline Naget and the LabSAD team Thanks for your report. I'll take care of it. What is your platform (Perl version & other important things). Because it works perfectly for me for all my customers, that are on various linux, aix or solaris systems. Note koha-bugs is usually only for automatic mailing from bugs.koha.org. So it would be better for another bugreport, either : * reporting it on bugs.koha.org * send a mail to koha-devel mailing list where developpers are speaking of dev problems. Last note : n'hésitez pas à vous déclarer sur www.koha.org/wiki, KohaUsers (login & mot de passe sont indiqués dans la fenêtre qui vous les demande. C'est une mesure anti pourissement). Et n'hésitez pas à vous abonner et vous présenter sur la liste infos (www.koha-fr.org >> Aller plus loin >> Support >> Support communautaire). Vous y trouverez d'autres grenoblois (Wesford) et d'autres labos du CNRS (math, histoire,...) utilisant Koha. A très bientôt dons ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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frenchies & irc [POLL]
by Paul POULAIN 25 May '05

25 May '05

At day time here in france, we often are some frenchies. and only frenchies, so we speak french. According to you : 1- please open a #koha-fr channel to speak french only here. 2- continue speaking on #koha, in french. It's logged & someone from France will translate important things, so i've no problems with french language. 3- pls, speak only english, even when you are only frenchies. (pls don't answer 3 ;-) ) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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problem with the migration into KOHA
by Hitorijime Aomori 25 May '05

25 May '05

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Is kohaweb broken?
by MJ Ray 25 May '05

25 May '05

Is there a reason why I can't submit web bug reports? Am I blacklisted? > From: rt(a)katipo.co.nz > To: mjr(a)phonecoop.coop > Subject: Could not load a valid user > Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:35:15 +1200 (NZST) > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > ------------=_1116876915-10747-1 > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > RT could not load a valid user, and RT's configuration does not allow > for the creation of a new user for your email. [...] -- MJ Ray (slef), K.Lynn, England, email via http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/

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koha 2.2.3 roadmap
by Paul POULAIN 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, There are some critical bugs fixed on Koha 2.2.2b (mainly in authority management) Plus some improvements. I plan to release a 2.2.3 version at the end of next week. Here is the 1st draft of release notes (everything is not done yet) : BUGFIXES ***** Critical & Minor mixed === ACQUISITION === * adding supplier info to basket.pl (for order printing) === OPAC === * minor fix in subject link (normal view) === CATALOGUE === * (critical) bugfix in authorities : in biblio repeated fields, when you choosed an authority entries, it was copied in all the fields, not only in one. * bugfix in subject link, in normal view === CIRCULATION === * bugfix : checking issuing rules under certain circumstances was buggy. === BORROWERS === * better management of joining & expiry dates : - dates can be manually typed when adding a borrower. - Empty fields are automatically calculated (joining = today & expiry date calculated from borrower category) - Expiry date can be modified * checking expiry date when trying to issue a book & forbidding issuing when expiry date reached. ** IMPORTANT ** This check was not done before. Thus, you may be unable to issue books where you could before. You can update your database borrower by borrower or with the following SQL command on the server : "update borrowers set expiry='2005-31-12'". You can limit the update to a borrower category with "update borrowers set expiry='2005-31-12' where categorycode='A'" (all SQL commands must be typed without any ") * template improvements & some bugfixes in fines management. === PARAMETERS === * in marctagstructure, next & previous button no more loose frameworkcode & link to default framework === REPORTS === * in "borrowers with no issues" wizard, adding "without issues since" (DOES NOT WORK yet) === ALL === IMPROVEMENTS ***** Major === ACQUISITION === * in history search, a filter has been added on order date. === CATALOGUE === * There is also a FindDuplicate feature for MARC Authorities * it's now possible to change the framework of a biblio * the overduenotice.pl script (that sends a mail to borrowers with late issues) contains the list of late items (title, author) === PARAMETERS === * a new nice button in marc_*_structure.pl has been added : if selected, only actived fields/subfields are shown. Strongly limits the number of lines shown, more user friendly. === OPAC === * basket / bookbag sending now has an iso2709 file attached -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Reserving a specific item
by Joshua Ferraro 25 May '05

25 May '05

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:33:48PM +1200, Chris Cormack wrote: > Im not sure about 2.2.2 but you certainly used to be able to as the > librarian rearrange the priority of reserves. Ill have to check it out. > Its a very useful feature and HLT use it quite often I think, if a book > is say damaged and they want to grab it, they can place a reserve and > rank it priority 1. This is something NPL would really like to have. I wasn't able to find such a function anywhere in 2.2. If it does exist, let me know. If not we should add it to our TODO list for 2.4. -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Koha ILS, Mambo Intranet, DiscrimiNet Filter jmf(a)liblime.com | Full Demos at http://liblime.com | 1(888)KohaILS

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Re: [Koha] on item requests
by Joshua Ferraro 25 May '05

25 May '05

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:00:08PM +1200, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote: > I don't know that the folks who speced/designed book bags would see that > as a bug - but I have thought it would be nice to be able to save your > book bag to your account though. Saving the list to your account (or moving it to a virtual shelf) would be nice. Also, as I've mentioned before, if the book bag is the 'library shopping cart', the equivilent of 'checking out' is reserves -- so the book bag should allow bulk reserves. Any developers want to take a stab at improving the book bag? -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Koha ILS, Mambo Intranet, DiscrimiNet Filter jmf(a)liblime.com | Full Demos at http://liblime.com | 1(888)KohaILS

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How to search for items on loan?
by Giuseppe.Angilella＠ct.infn.it 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, it would be helpful if kohaadmin could search for the items currently on loan. Not just their overall number (as is possible with Reports), and not just the overdue items, but the complete list of the items currently on loan, with the possibility to identify the borrower. I can't see an appropriate field in /cgi-bin/koha/search.marc/search.pl, so I tried to add a link in the Koha-MARC table of correspondences, namely 952z (not existing) to items.issues. Chris Cormack on the Koha users list (thanks Chris!) kindly noted that issues.returndate is perhaps the db field I need, but I could not place such a link in Koha-MARC. Is there any more straightforward way that I am not considering? (Do I need to hack search.pl and add my own query?) Thank you for your suggestions. Giuseppe.

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