Release Date for Koha 3 Alpha
Hi folks, Happy new year everyone! As you may be aware from the huge volume of commits[1], several of the Koha development team members have been grinding away at getting 3.0 ready for general release, and the good news is that we're getting there; Major Kudos to the whole team! So with that in mind, I'd like to schedule an Alpha release of Koha 3 this Friday, January 4th. There are a few remaining acquisition, circulation and serials issues I'd like to get wrapped up before that happens; I'd also like to give the French team enough time to get the fr-FR translation polished up. For now, here's a teaser from the "Release Notes": ----------- This alpha release of Koha 3.0 will be followed by a beta release on Feb 1, 2008, including fixes to the following components: * General Bugfixing (everyone) * New API for item management (gmcharlt) * MARC21 Authorities (gmcharlt) * I18N/L10N, BiDi, lang detection (kados) * OPAC Templates re-design (oleonard) * Documentation and Translations (everyone) The final stable release of Koha 3.0 is slated for March 1 2008 and will include bugfixes to 3.0 beta. Subsequent releases of 3.0 will be bugfix releases, and won't include any new features. New features will be available in Koha 3.2 and subsequent releases. ----------- As always, any questions, comments, feel free to let us know. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro Koha 3.0 Release Manager -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS [1] http://git.koha.org
Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
This alpha release of Koha 3.0 will be followed by a beta release on Feb 1, 2008, including fixes to the following components:
could you give is some details on what the following topic means exactly (what you have in mind) :
* New API for item management (gmcharlt) * I18N/L10N, BiDi, lang detection (kados) * OPAC Templates re-design (oleonard)
-- Paul POULAIN BibLibre SARL Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : 04 91 31 45 19
On 1/2/08, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
This alpha release of Koha 3.0 will be followed by a beta release on Feb 1, 2008, including fixes to the following components:
could you give is some details on what the following topic means exactly (what you have in mind) : Certainly ...
* New API for item management (gmcharlt) I'll let Galen expand on this API change (which may actually make it into the Alpha in fact). The core issue is that with the current design, there is no assurance that the items table is held as authoritative for all database changes. This minor re-design will resolve that issue completely.
* I18N/L10N, BiDi, lang detection (kados) The main component here is a regex that does language string detection of RFC4646, which allows us to determine, from the language string, certain characteristics of the language that's loaded (such as BiDi, BiDirectionality in Arabic, Hebrew, and other scripts, etc.). There is a brief overview of this functionality here:
* OPAC Templates re-design (oleonard) The OPAC templates, and the OPAC in general will be be brought up to the same level of conformance to our coding and style guidelines. The goal is
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:kohai18n that the OPAC will be fully functional, and fully XHTML compliant, etc., without any need to do local customization. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
Hi Paul, On 1/2/08, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
could you give is some details on what the following topic means exactly (what you have in mind) :
* New API for item management (gmcharlt)
The main issue I'm addressing is that the current item functions, particularly ModItem, do not guarantee that changes to the items item are reflected in biblioitems.marcxml and biblioitems.marc for indexing purposes. In addition, there are currently several (mostly circulation) scripts where an SQL update to the items table is done without subsequently update the MARC XML. I intend to replace all remaining direct SQL inserts and updates to the items with calls to revised AddItem and ModItem routines. I will also make sure that SQL selects from the items table will always have the most current data by removing any places in the code that modify embedded item information in the biblio MARC without updating the items table. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709
"Joshua Ferraro" <joshua.ferraro@liblime.com> wrote:
As always, any questions, comments, feel free to let us know.
Comments: Can you involve the mailing list more please? We're not all awake/available at the same time and it seems like the few jabber-using developers I tried aren't answering much lately. An IRC town-hall meeting (devs, users, anyone) to review the alpha might be useful. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
On 1/2/08, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
"Joshua Ferraro" <joshua.ferraro@liblime.com> wrote:
As always, any questions, comments, feel free to let us know.
Comments: Can you involve the mailing list more please? We're not all awake/available at the same time and it seems like the few jabber-using developers I tried aren't answering much lately. Yes, and I am the first to admit I'm guilty of this ...
An IRC town-hall meeting (devs, users, anyone) to review the alpha might be useful. Agreed. I'll post a separate email asking folks about dates/times.
Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
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Paul POULAIN