Last April, 24th I tried to join to this list and I posted a message. However, somehow, I got added to the sourceforge devel-list (apparently no longer in use) and probably my message was never read. I reproduce my message below. On the other hand, I'm not subscribed to the right mailing list, so I will not receive any reply... does anybody know how can I subscribe to the right mailing list? Dear all, I recently downloaded koha-2.2.5 from your website and started to play around with it. I'm not a librarian, I'm just a computer science guy who was looking a program to keep track of his personal library, photography and music CD collection. All in a single program. MARC format seems to be suitable. Since I'm spanish, I took the MARC21 structure as a basis and changed it to the IBERMARC format, the one in use by the Biblioteca Nacional de España (Spanish National Library). Furthermore, I also took the IBERMARC format for authority records and I feed it into the proper MySQL koha tables (auth*). Finally I made an spanish stopwords list. So, I've changed the koha-2.2.5.tar.gz file in my computer in the following way: added: koha-2.2.5/scripts/misc/marc_datas/ibermarc_es/structure_def.sql added: koha-2.2.5/scripts/misc/sql-datas/spanish/authorities_normal_ibermarc.sql added: koha-2.2.5/scripts/misc/sql-datas/spanish/authorities_normal_ibermarc.txt added: koha-2.2.5/scripts/misc/sql-datas/spanish/stopwords.sql added: koha-2.2.5/scripts/misc/sql-datas/spanish/stopwords.txt changed: koha-2.2.5/Install.pm The changes made to Install.pm allow the user to select option 3. IBERMARC so that the default framework is IBERMARC. All new files have been encoded as ISO-8859-1 in order for the spanish character set to be fully recognized (in particular Unicode UTF-8 was not working correctly in my system). Install.pm has been left Unicode UTF-8 All of this is working in my system, so I wonder if you could be interested in have a look to my changes. Maybe you could consider the posibility to add them to the official distribution after testing them. With kind regards, Damián
On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:52:33 +0200 Damián Marqués Lluch <damian.marques@hispalinux.es> wrote:
All of this is working in my system, so I wonder if you could be interested in have a look to my changes. Maybe you could consider the posibility to add them to the official distribution after testing them.
This kind of addition is typically what I would see in the online extension manager unless you join the team and maintain your biblio/authorities framework with new versions. The extension manager is not online yet, I hope I can give something to Joshua by the end of the week. In this extension manager, you can add your extension "spanish IBERMARC", saying it's compatible with Koha 2.2.5. When Koha 3.0.0 will be out, if it's required and you have time you'll add a new revision of your extension and tell it's compatible with Koha 3.0.0. Bye -- Pierrick LE GALL INEO media system
Hello Pierrick, it's your choice. I mean, I'll be using IBERMARC with koha anyway. I'm not a perl programmer so if the maintenance tasks involves only working with MySQL (and a few small changes in perl scripts like the ones I made) I can do it. If real perl programming is needed I will be not qualified (my skills are C, java, JSP). On the other hand, I can only invest time during weekends. I'll be pleased to collaborate in either way you prefer. Regards, Damián Pierrick LE GALL wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:52:33 +0200 Damián Marqués Lluch <damian.marques@hispalinux.es> wrote:
All of this is working in my system, so I wonder if you could be interested in have a look to my changes. Maybe you could consider the posibility to add them to the official distribution after testing them.
This kind of addition is typically what I would see in the online extension manager unless you join the team and maintain your biblio/authorities framework with new versions.
The extension manager is not online yet, I hope I can give something to Joshua by the end of the week. In this extension manager, you can add your extension "spanish IBERMARC", saying it's compatible with Koha 2.2.5. When Koha 3.0.0 will be out, if it's required and you have time you'll add a new revision of your extension and tell it's compatible with Koha 3.0.0.
Bye
On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:52:54 +0200 Damián Marqués Lluch <damian.marques@hispalinux.es> wrote:
it's your choice.
No, for now, it's only my proposition ;-) I'm in favor of a small Koha core and a convenient way to contribute on extensions. Let's wait for some other team members to give their opinion before taking a decision. As you want to add this to branch 2.2, the final decision will be taken by Paul as he's the release maintainer of this branch.
I'll be pleased to collaborate in either way you prefer.
On behalf of all the team, we are glad to see anyone who wants to collaborate :-) -- Pierrick LE GALL INEO media system
Pierrick LE GALL wrote:
On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:52:54 +0200 Damián Marqués Lluch <damian.marques@hispalinux.es> wrote:
it's your choice.
No, for now, it's only my proposition ;-) I'm in favor of a small Koha core and a convenient way to contribute on extensions. Let's wait for some other team members to give their opinion before taking a decision. As you want to add this to branch 2.2, the final decision will be taken by Paul as he's the release maintainer of this branch.
Great!
I'll be pleased to collaborate in either way you prefer.
On behalf of all the team, we are glad to see anyone who wants to collaborate :-)
Pierrick LE GALL a écrit :
As you want to add this to branch 2.2, the final decision will be taken by Paul as he's the release maintainer of this branch.
I'll be pleased to collaborate in either way you prefer.
Could you dump marc_*_structure tables and send them to me by private mail ? I could give them a small look & include them in koha 2.4.0 that should arrive this month.
On behalf of all the team, we are glad to see anyone who wants to collaborate :-)
yep ! -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)
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