On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Collins, Jeremy wrote: Hi Jeremy, welcome to the project! I think this is a great contribution, and I'll look forward to seeing more as you start doing things with Koha. I've got a couple of quick questions for you though: Are you looking at migrating to version 2.0.0 when it comes out? Are you interested in working with the 2.0.0preX releases? Would you mind registering your library at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaUsers -- it'd be good to show other libraries that people are using Koha. Are you subscribed to the koha mailing list? It's a great place to communicate with other folks using Koha, comparing notes, and what-not.
I've never contributed code to an Open Source project before so if I'm doing it all wrong I'm sorry. I work for an adult learning center (state funded basic education for adults) with a small library. We just downloaded and installed Koha and it looks great. The z3950 search tool didn't function quite as we expected. We were hoping to be able to use a barcode scanner to read the barcode and start the search, but the form only takes ISBN and the barcode is EAN (which has 8 of the ISBN digits encoded in it). We modified '/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/acqui.simple/marcimport.pl ' so that if the ISBN query was 13 digits instead of 9, then convert the 13 digit EAN to a 9 digit ISBN before its submitted to the queue. It seems to be working, but we aren't using any other part of the search so I'm not sure how well the patch works. I'm attaching a diff of the changes in case those in charge decide they would like them or if anyone else on the list can use them. Again if this isn't the right place, or more information is needed please let me know. Thanks for such a great, open source software package.
Thank you for getting involved. If you think you'll continue to contribute code to Koha, I'd recommend that you subscribe to the koha-devel mailing list, and that you get a sourceforge account and let me know what it is so that I can get you set up as a developer on the project. -pate
Jeremy Collins collins_jeremy@rsccd.org Continuing Education Orange Center Santiago Canyon College Rancho Santiago Community College District
Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org
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