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bugfix suggestion for 2.0 branch
by Paul POULAIN 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Modified Files: Biblio.pm Log Message: bugfix => drop empty fields, NOT fields containing 0 *************** *** 1059,1064 **** $prevvalue=@$rvalues[$i]; } else { ! if (@$rvalues[$i]) { $field->add_subfields(@$rsubfields[$i] => @$rvalues[$i]); } } --- 1061,1067 ---- $prevvalue=@$rvalues[$i]; } else { ! if (length(@$rvalues[$i])>0) { $field->add_subfields(@$rsubfields[$i] => @$rvalues[$i]); } } (line numbers are for HEAD, probably not the same in 2.0 branch). It's located in MARChtml2marc sub -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Translating KOHA to Spanish with tmpl_process3.pl
by Martín Longo 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

<English_text> Hi there every one... There's a new document available on http://koha.siu.edu.ar/ (in the 'descargas->tutoriales' section) regarding the use of the script tmpl_process3.pl (included in Koha 2.1.1) and the KBabel application to translate Koha's templates to spanish. This document ts available to all interested... and, of course, open to any opinion that leads to enhace it! Regards </English_text> // <Spanish_text> Hola a todos... Hay un nuevo documento disponible en http://koha.siu.edu.ar/ (en la sección 'descargas->tutoriales') relacionado con el uso del script tmpl_process3.pl (incluido en Koha 2.1.1) y la aplicación KBabel, para la traducción de los templates de Koha al español. Este documento está disponible para todos los interesados... y, por supuesto, abierto a cualquier opinion que ayude a mejorarlo. Saludos </Spanish_text>

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Multilingual Support in The User interfase
by Andres Tarallo 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

I'm currently working on a project to migrate our Isis Library System to Koha. As part of our migration tasks we have to translate to Spanish the USER interfase, the People working in Argentina (at SIU) in this area pointed me to their work. I've noticed that in the config file I can't specify a "Default Language" for the User Interfase, but I've noticed that there are Language especific directories (ie koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/default/en). Koha will take into account the preferred language for the browser and act acordingly? Even tough there are translations to vasrious languajes it seems to me that they aren't integrated to the main tree. I want to contribute my work to the main tree, are ther any plans to integrate to the tree the trasnlations? Thanks, forgive my poor written english. Andres

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RE: [Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - project organisation
by Eyler, Patrick 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

Thanks for passing this along Paul, it's great news. I'll reply to individual points below, but have some thoughts from OSCon that I wanted to pass along to the devel list. Tim O'Reilly talked a lot about web services, platforms, and social software in his keynote, and there were some ideas that seemed to make sense for the Koha world (especially in light of discussions on oss4lib about modularizing the ILS). Web Services for users/clients: reviews/ranking (this is a nice bit of participatory social software too) search patron info reserves reading club (or similar) tools Web Services to make use of (from other sources): amazon reviews/ranking amazon buying circle info ibiblio cddb imdb Social/Participatory Software: how can we give patrons more control over their own data? (make it relocatable when/if they move to a new library, make it optionally sharable in the form of reading/favorites lists, make it collaborative in the form of reading clubs and the like.) sharing data among libraries (can we move past ILL to share anonymized circulation data a'la amazon buying circles? how about sharing ranking/review data?) what value/information can be distributed beyond libraries? > -----Original Message----- > From: koha-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:koha-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Paul POULAIN > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:53 AM > To: Emiliano Marmonti; Koha-devel > Subject: [Koha-devel] Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - > project organisation > > > Hi Emiliano & al, > > For al : this mail was sent in my mailbox, but it seems we have a new > future major contributor in Koha, so I answer on koha-devel. > > Emiliano Marmonti wrote: > > > Hi Paul [elided] > > Koha 2.4 ROADMAP > ============ > The 2.2 is too close from official release to have such features > correctly tested & integrated. Because they interact with the > actual DB > (I don't speak of barcodes printing here, of course). > So, we should begin 2.4 roadmap (feel free to create a page > on the wiki, > it will be completed) > What is your own roadmap for those features, in term of date I mean ? I agree completely. It would be good to start assembling our 2.4 roadmap. Would it be possible to look at the 2.2 roadmap in terms of where we are today? I think both of these have some value. > > KOHA PROJECT ORGANISATION > ================== > The management team should be reorganise, because we lack > some/lot of roles. If your involvement in Koha is expected to > last, maybe your arrival is > an occasion to reorganize. > > The first position that you could take, because it's free, is > "test/quality manager". Are you interested ? > Instead of signing up for a position now, it's probably better to meet as a group and decide which roles we need and who wants to step up to them. I agree that a test/qa manager is a very important role to fill. Paul and MJR have the development/stable release management roles pretty well in hand at the moment as well. I think we might want to look at documentation and the overall project management position as well. [elided] > > PD3: I could not talk with you very often in irc-koha by timezone > > problems (I really start working when you leave...) > > Last year, we used to have chat sessions planned. We had the problem > with timezone, so I often went to bed very late... But with > kiwis (new > zealand), australia, W-europe and America (south & north), we > can't have > everybody waked up at the same time... > If we reorganize the Koha team, we should probably plan an > IRC meeting > for all volunteers at beginning of september. > Any opinion on this everybody ? > I think this would be a great idea. How does Tuesday, Sep 7th (Wednesday the 8th for the NZers) sound? -pate > -- > Paul POULAIN > Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres > responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on > Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic > DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free > Shipping and Free Gift. > http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9> _108_r285 > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/k> oha-devel >

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Koha 2.1.1 has been released
by Paul POULAIN 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

RELEASE NOTES ============= (HELP NEEDED chapter at the end of document) ROADMAP : A roadmap for Koha 2.2 is available here : http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaRoadmap This is the 2nd UNSTABLE VERSION of the future Koha 2.2. Please install this version only if you want to test and give some help to the team that develops this software. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use it on a production machine. WARNING : * This version is ONLY available in ENGLISH. biblio frameworks are only available in UNIMARC - french. * This version is tested only with mozilla. Should work (partially) with IE. * Any 2.1.0 install must be uninstalled before installing 2.1.1 No update is provided for 2.1.0. INSTALLATION * Download the package * tar xvfz koha-version.tar.gz * cd koha-version * ./installer.pl * Follow the instructions UPGRADE from previous 2.0.0preX or RCx version * Download the package * tar xvfz koha-version.tar.gz * cd koha-version * ./koha.upgrade * Follow the instructions UPGRADE from previous 1.2.x version : UPGRADE TO A 2.0.0 version before upgrading to 2.1.1 This will be mandatory for the 2.2 official release. ============ WHAT'S NEW ============ 1- serials ********** The serial module is here. Online help is documented, and work fine. The serial module contains : * create a subscription. * automatically calculate issue. An issue can be delayed or marked "missing". * remind the librarian when the subscription expires. * deals with complex formulas to calculate issue number. * show subscriptions summaries in librarian interface and OPAC, with differents informations. 2- bugfixes *********** A lot in all modules. It seems everything works fine in new modules (Authorities, frameworks...) ========== FUTURE ========== The next release will probably be 2.2RC1. It should contains : * bugfixes. * some new code for a better LDAP handling (automatic creation of the borrower if it does not exist, getting informations from LDAP directory) * a barcode generator ! it's a new feature that should be commited by a new developper coming from south america (argentina). I've seen the code, it's clean & nice. Just a new dependencay, for PDF generating. Should be non mandatory for ppl that don't want to print barcodes. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Ideas for next releases (2.4 ?) - project organisation
by Paul POULAIN 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi Emiliano & al, For al : this mail was sent in my mailbox, but it seems we have a new future major contributor in Koha, so I answer on koha-devel. Emiliano Marmonti wrote: > Hi Paul > > How're you? Hope fine. Thanks a lot for your adjectives to Matias's > barcodes code. To be more precisely I will adore that the next time > you say that we're located in Argentina...Working for Physics Library > at UNLP and actively contributing with SIU Program > (http://koha.siu.edu.ar) ok. > Really we didn't commit to cvs...because we're studying > how-to...Tomorrow our webmaster come from a little trip and will test > to commit the code to cvs...And also to put 2.1.1 at work. Any help is > very wellcome (we don't have much expertise in cvs managing :(( ) do you have an expertise in another tool ? We are not very happy with CVS, MJR jumped to ARCH for 2.0 maintainance, but we are still on CVS for HEAD (2.2) Otherwise, i'm (we are) waiting impatiently for your barcode-printing code. (for all : I saw the code, it's clean & works well) A hint could be to use cervesia, a very nice tool on linux-kde. I alway use this. > I wish to know your oppinion about commiting also member cards, that > is almost ready. This functionallity serves to print the card > identification, we also added some configuration parameters as > defining images at the top of the card, member barcode, and borrower > data in three configurable data lines. Trying to follow your > recomendations we didn't add SysParameters nor another table and put > all configurable data in a separate file. > Matias and Sebastian are also working in two things: One is referred > to add a branch-configurable calendar, using that you could define > non-working days for the branch and the hole idea is to use it from > every module (circulation for example to automatically add a day when > the calculated is no-working, card expiration, and so on...). Using > that calendar you could configure repeteable non working days (as > weekends), and exceptions to the calendar (for example if a weekend > the library must open its doors). It's almost ready to test it. REALLY GREAT. Here in France, a lot of people are waiting for such a feature too. And i'm sure it's the case for a lot of other libraries. > The other thing is related to latinoamerican behaviour of libraries. > As I mentioned, in SouthAmerica we do not work with fees when the user > doesn't return at time a book. The user will be suspended for a number > of days. We joint the requirements from four libraries here in > Argentina and started the work. In that case we'll need to add a table > and perhaps a SysPref or an attribute to the member indicating if will > receive a suspension or must pay a fee (traditional Koha behaviour). REALLY GREAT too. In france, some libraries uses fees, some suspends the failing borrower. So, it would be really welcomed in France, I think. > As my double rol in this project (SIU Program & UNLP Physics Library) > I wish to agree with you, or with anybody that you could tell me, > this roadmap. The next week my Director has a meeting with UNESCO OSS > people and is asking me "how integrated" are we to the International > Development. The entire idea is to NOT make a branch, to no affect > your roadmap, and to accomplish our local requirements. Sounds > difficult, but I think we could... > > Two important things are: > > * At this time we did NOT affect original Koha code (only for adding > links). But the next step will. > * When we finished to add this "new features" we'll be in condition > to put Koha for a test-environment (this features are acceptance > conditions). In this stage we could contribute in a more traditional > fashion, I mean correcting bugs and so on... Koha 2.4 ROADMAP ============ The 2.2 is too close from official release to have such features correctly tested & integrated. Because they interact with the actual DB (I don't speak of barcodes printing here, of course). So, we should begin 2.4 roadmap (feel free to create a page on the wiki, it will be completed) What is your own roadmap for those features, in term of date I mean ? KOHA PROJECT ORGANISATION ================== The management team should be reorganise, because we lack some/lot of roles. If your involvement in Koha is expected to last, maybe your arrival is an occasion to reorganize. The first position that you could take, because it's free, is "test/quality manager". Are you interested ? > If you don't understand me in english I could request for a french > translation of this message. Your english is perfect (like mine I mean. May sound poor for an english native language, that i'm not ;-) ) > PD: We're already late with testing your new translate method. I think > Argentina's UNCuyo will test it tomorrow. We will commit it (withou > asking you, I suppose?) when will ready. OK > PD3: I could not talk with you very often in irc-koha by timezone > problems (I really start working when you leave...) Last year, we used to have chat sessions planned. We had the problem with timezone, so I often went to bed very late... But with kiwis (new zealand), australia, W-europe and America (south & north), we can't have everybody waked up at the same time... If we reorganize the Koha team, we should probably plan an IRC meeting for all volunteers at beginning of september. Any opinion on this everybody ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Koha 2.2 and MARC21 and documenting
by Paul POULAIN 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi, I'm installing the "Ecole des Mines de Nantes" with a future 2.2 in "real life". It's the occasion to fix many bugs, but it works quite well for instance. So, I think the 2.2 will be released officially in october, as planned (just without the stat module, that can wait for last quarter, as there are no specific DB modifs for stats) BUT, there are a lot of things to do for MARC21 & documenting MARC21 : ====== In Koha 2.2, the authorities are managed like biblios in Koha 2.0 : through MARC parameters tables. I've defined (or am defining) those tables for UNIMARC, and for various authority types (author, subject...) THE SAME JOB MUST BE DONE FOR MARC21. And I don't plan to do it myself, unless I get a customer that uses MARC21 (in english). Be sure that this would be really a big surprise. So, you need a candidate. The parameters tables have almost exactly the same structure as for MARC biblios, except that in authorities, there is no tab, a field is just used or not used. DOCUMENTING ========= The online help is slowly, but continuously, completed by Stephen Hedges (www.koha.org/wiki) Thanks to him. I think (am sure !) he would be happy to have some help. Anyone with a working 2.0 can write online help. I take care of the differences between 2.0 and 2.2. And i'll document every new feature through this online help (altough i don't write them on the wiki, but directly in Koha) Thanks a lot for your attention, and don't hesitate to get involved. If many people are actively working on Koha, the next version will arrive soon. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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OPAC default template
by Paul POULAIN 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Just to remind everybody (smekota, it's specially for you ;-) ), that in the 2.2 version the default template is CSS. default is deprecated (in fact, I should move css template to default directory...) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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for Nelsonville
by Paul POULAIN 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

Hi Nelsonville, A few weeks ago, on IRC, you said that you have found a nice my.cnf to configure mySQL. You also said that you will publish it. What about this ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Import to KOHA [35,000 records] successful!
by Bruffey, Mark 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

FYI: My attempt to import the 35k records into KOHA was a great success! Now, it was a quick-and-dirty transfer, to be sure; in fact, I did no pre-mapping MARC to KOHA. Nevertheless, the ease of the transfer and the usability of the database, even in this crude form gives me confidence that KOHA may turn out to be the means we us for circulation, as it continues to mature. I look forward to offering our collection publicly within a few weeks, though browse-only. We're not ready for circ just yet, I think. Thanks to Stephen Hedges for critically important assistance via email. Best, Mark L. Mark Bruffey Director Library Services Central Baptist Theological Seminary 900 Forestview Lane N Plymouth MN 55441 763 417 8264 mbruffey(a)centralseminary.edu Central Seminary <http://www.centralseminary.edu/> www.centralseminary.edu Fourth Baptist Church <http://www.fourthbaptist.org/> www.fourthbaptist.org WCTS Radio AM 1030 Online <http://www.centralseminary.edu/wcts> www.centralseminary.edu/wcts *************************************** Have you experienced the good news? "Every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved!" [Romans 10:13] ***************************************

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