Hello all,
So the 2018 hackfest in Marseille is now finished. It was a great
week, with a lot of work, a lot of discussion, a lot of fun. The
weather was with us, except on thursday, the evenings were full of
beer & happyness.
Let's summarize what we made...
Our hotest topic, for sure
10 patches written and/or signed off. A lot of work on Elastic
Search. BULAC want to go live with Koha+ES with 18.05 [Thank you
François and Severine, Bulac, Nick, Bywatersolutions, Alex,
BibLibre]
• default frameworks at install updated [thank you François,
Roubaix public library]
• script written to update all cataloguing frameworks with new
MARC records preparing FRBR (IFLA 2017 fields & subfields)
[thank you Julian, BibLibre]
• zebra indexes definition started, to be finished [thank you
François, Roubaix public library]
• XSLT to display those new fields still to do
3 developers from AltSol, a Greek company working on FRBR and a
software called ReasonableGraph (see
https://reasonablegraph.org/) showed what they made with Koha
& MARC data. They'll keep to work on it, the Koha community
may hear of them again in the future. Maybe starting with a plugin
that can be compared to the Ebsco EDS plugin: instead of searching
in Koha, search would be made on ReasonableGraph database, that is
fully FRBR compliant, and present results in a "FRBR way" [Thank
you Nikos, AltSol]
The french team worked and finished to translate 100% of 17.11,
the release notes, and most of the documentation. A big effort
[Thank you many french librarians !]
• presentation of Coral 3.0 new features (including the wonderful
interface Coral <> EDS)
• presentation of Coral setup at Lyon 3 [Thank you Sonia, Lyon 3]
• Koha <> Coral interface, what's done, what has to be done
[Thank you Matthias, BibLibre]
• Finished the transition to SCSS for the staff client (see
http://sass-lang.com/, and http://sebastianpontow.de/css2compass/
and
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19474),
patch passed QA now
• The transition from LESS to SCSS for the OPAC is done (see
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20427)
• Owen introduced us to SCSS.
rebase, fixes, tests. One problem detected, not easy to
reproduce, still working on it, still highly expected for 18.05
[Thank you Brendan, BywaterSolutions & Alex, BibLibre]
[Thank you ... too many people to name them !]
• 80+ patches tested (44 signed-off, 21 failed, 15 does not
apply)
• This week, 285 bugs had at least one change (any kind, change by
a "hackfester" or not)
• kohadevbox presentation & installation on some librarian
laptops. We now have some librarians able to sign-off patches
without using sandboxes ! [thank you Nick, ByWaterSolutions]
• Kohala (Koha french usergroup) has scheduled the Symposium
(Paris, in June)
• On Thursday, it was the "Bokeh hackfest/conference". Bokeh is a
library portal software that BibLibre is supporting. 10 new
librarians and 4 developers from AFI, BibLibre sister-company
joined us to discuss new features, and share their experience with
Bokeh, Bokeh+Koha, ... (http://bokeh-library-portal.org for more
info about Bokeh) [Thank you https://www.makeitmarseille.com/, our
neigbour for hosting this event]
• we discovered Emkipop (http://emkipop.fr/)
If I forgot something, remind me, please [ I'm an old man, you
know, my memory begins to abandon me ;) ]
-- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries