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Koha 2.2.0 (officially stable) is for tomorrow morning...
by Paul POULAIN 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Unless otherwise stated, Koha 2.2.0 will be release tomorrow morning. I've tested installer, upgrade from Koha 2.0.2, both works fine. I've no news from es_AR and zh_TW translations, so the 2.2.0 will be released with french and english only. The 2.2.1 will be released when more translations will be OK. Nelsonville : is the NPL template fully functionnal in CVS ? Can I mention it in the release notes ? It's dinner time for me. No champagne, but a virtual bottle for tomorow morning (Maybe we could organize a virtual drink at, say, 2000GMT) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Translating to Turkish and porting to Windows
by Tumer Garip 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Hi there, I have recently come across with Koha and believe me its catching! At the moment we have started tackling with two issues, first being more time consuming then the latter; 1- Getting it to work (properly) under Windows (we are talking about version 2.2.0) 2- Translating it to Turkish Translation is going ahead of installation and running issues. But I am sure we will get there. Koha looks like a perfect product and me and my team will be supporting it all the way. I remember somebody posting about Turkish translations. Please contact us if you need support as the team here is all Turkish Cypriots. As far as the Windows installation goes with 2.2.0 we have done a manual installation but as of today (21.01.05) I cannot say that it works perfectly. However I am sure we will get there and I will post a step by step guide for manual novice installation. Good work for all the Koha Team Tumer Garip Near East University Grand Library Director Cyprus

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Italian translation?
by Giuseppe.Angilella＠ct.infn.it 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi everybody, I have been practicing with test installations of Koha over the past few months, and I am now about to start using it for a real-life library for an educational institution. I am fascinated by the project, and in the spirit of its name (Koha=Gift), I already feel obliged to contribute - if possible. The easiest way I might do that, is perhaps by providing an Italian translation. I searched for "italian" over this mailing list's archive, and could not find any result: is it safe to conclude that there is no Italian translation currently available? [Koha-2.2.0 doesn't seem to include any either; same for the CVS] Before committing myself, could I ask some useful pointers to primers in (a) CVS; and (b) PO files and kbabel? Best regards and many thanks, Giuseppe. http://www.ct.infn.it/~angilell

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Translating....
by Klaus Weidenbach 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Heihei, I have started today to look around on how to translate koha. I have some comments and questions about some things. Is there no singular and plural forms like "day -- days", etc? In the String: "- <a1>%s</a>" what does this <a1> stand for? Is it some kind of html tag, but why is it not closed by </a1>? In the translation there are also these two String: "<b>Biblionumber:</b> %s" "<b>Biblio number:</b> %s" Should they be the same or is there something more with them? Btw, does anyone know something about this (koha-subscribe(a)de.koha.org) german ML, that is linked on the koha homepage? It seems not to exist, or I get error message at least ;(( Thanks!!! Regards, Klaus -- take care! xo,klaus

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Koha 2.2.0 is born !
by Paul POULAIN 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hello all, Today it's an important day for 2 reasons : our preferred ILS has 5 years (project registered on sourceforge on 2000-12-12 22:46, but the 1st working version was in 2000-01-03) Today the version 2.2.0 of Koha is released. Here is the new features list. You can find the complete release notes on sourceforge, and, of course, download the software. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466&package_id=1361… RELEASE NOTES ============= Koha is the 1st Open-Source Integrated Library System. Released at first in New zealand, in 2000 januaray, it is maintained by a team of volunteers from around the globe, the Koha system is a full catalogue, opac, circulation and acquisitions system. Koha 2.2 is more than 247 000 lines of code, developped by more than 30 differents developpers (excluding translators). With the 2.2 version, Koha is now a mature product, with a lot of nice features. It's used in more than 50 libraries, from all kinds (public, schools, search, religious...), of all size (from 1 to 8 branches, from 1000 to 300 000 items). ======== WARNINGS ======== * the librarian interface is tested only with mozilla/firefox. Should work (partially) with IE. OPAC should work fine with any navigator. * Any 2.1.x install must be uninstalled before installing 2.2.0 No update is provided for 2.1.0. ============= NEW FEATURES ============= Koha 2.2 has, of course, all the previous features from Koha (acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, members modules, OPAC, complete MARC support...) plus the following new ones : General : ********* * (almost) complete rewrite of librarian GUI : now Koha uses CSS, and is easier to use. However, users of Koha 2.0.0 won't be lost, as the general organisation of the product has not changed. * Online Help : an online help is available everywhere in the librarian interface. It's complete in the parameters section of Koha and for new features. It will be completed for the rest of the product. * Better LDAP suport : Koha 2.2 can be "connected" to a LDAP server and get all borrower informations from there (including borrower category where applicable). However, to avoid problems for libraries without LDAP server, the LDAP features have been stored in modules/C4/Auth_with_ldap.pm file. The standard Auth.pm don't use it. If you want LDAP, just perldoc Auth_with_ldap.pm and manually tune your Auth package ! * Auto installer : if you install koha with ./install -i /path/to/auto_install_file, then Koha will be installed almost without question. A very usefull feature for developpers that want to install/uninstall Koha quite often. A sample of auto_install_file is provided in misc/auto_install_file. * Uninstaller : run misc/uninstall.pl, provide the mysql root password. that's all. Koha is completely deleted and can be reinstalled. With the previous feature, it's a very nice solution for test platform. * mod_perl : Koha should now work under mod_perl, that gives a big performance boost (Release Manager don't use mod_perl. fixes comes from A. Tarallo, Argentina, that ensure Koha works fine with mod_perl with the patches applied) * Nelsonville have shared their templates. They are available as NPL theme. * Language : in this version, only english and french versions are fully functionnal. Spanish and chinese are provided, but not fully functionnal. Polish, German, Arabic, Hebrew, and many other languages have volunteers and should be here in a future 2.2.x BE CAREFUL with uninstaller : 1- This script does not ask for confirmation after mysql root password. 2- This script uses /etc/koha.conf. If you have more than 1 koha on your server, use /etc/koha.conf for a "deletable-test" one. Acquisition : ************* * suggestion : borrowers can suggest items to buy in OPAC. Then, the librarian can manage (accept or refuse) and order them. * possibility to close a basket, he can't be modified then * order a basket by publisher or by bookfund/publisher * search order history Cataloguing : ************* * Cataloguing frameworks : you can define as many frameworks as you want. A framework describes how a material is catalogued (which fields, subfields, which constraints on them...) * MARC authorities : Koha now supports authorities in MARC. You can define the MARC structure for authorities like for biblios. * New contraints can be set for subfields : - subfield is hidden : appears in MARC editor, but not in OPAC. - subfield is an URL : the field can be cliqued - related fields : a search made on a subfield also uses other subfields automatically. Using this feature, a search on "title" can search title, but also subtitle, uniform title,... * Item location can now be done on 3 levels : the branch, the location (room), the callnumber. * The callnumber can now be calculated from the LC, the dewey, or be freely (and manually) entered. * Duplicate finder : this powerful feature help your cataloguers avoiding duplicate biblios. * ISBD view : in librarian interface as well as in OPAC biblios can be shown in standard (default) presentation, in MARC (human readable) or ISBD. The ISBD view can be tuned by the librarian team. There is also a systempref to define default view in OPAC (either normal, MARC or ISBD). Created automatically during install or update. Check that you have a Koha >> parameters >> systempreferences >> BiblioDefaultView, Variable type : Choice, Variable options : normal|marc|isbd * UNIMARC plugin for every 1xx fields : ESNMP have developped all the plugins for UNIMARC fields 1xx. Those fields are coded fields. Serial cataloguing : ******************** Koha 2.2 manage serial subscriptions and issuing of those subscriptions. (Only a few words to describe a very important & complete module !) Catalogue search : ****************** * Search in OPAC and librarian interface has been improved. They now are exactly the same. * Spelling suggestion : before sending a request, the user can ask for spelling suggestion. This shows other forms of words entered that would give results. Give poor results for instance, the Koha team is thinking to a true spellchecking. * The user can select the order of the results and the number of results shown. Members : ********* * The borrowernote field is shown on issue and transfer. * The textmessaging field appears in OPAC when the user logs in. Circulation : ************* * New issuing rules : Issuing can be set for branch / borrower type / item category, by number of days and number of items available. * "joker" issuing rules : the library can set issuing rules for "any branch" or "any borrower type", or "any item category". Both issuing rules are cumulative : a library can set issuing rules to 10 books, 5 CD, but 12 total (books or CD). OPAC : ****** In Koha 2.2, koha has : * baskets. A basket can be printed or sent by mail to the borrower * virtual shelves : a virtual shelf can be created and filled by any logged borrower. A given virtual shelf can be private or public. Or even free-for-all. * language chooser : the borrower can change the language on the fly. The default language being still choosen by the library * complete CSS definition. With a new systempref parameter : opacstylesheet. If this parameter is set to a stylesheet URL, this stylesheet will be used instead of the opactheme one. With this parameter, you can have your own stylesheet for OPAC, that will be used and kept when you update your version of Koha. The systempref must be a complete URL (http://www.koha.org/stylesheet/somestylesheet.css for example) Barcode printing : ****************** A new module has been added to the parameters section : barcode printing. It requires the PDF::Api2 Perl package. ============ Koha Future ============ The future of Koha is being discussed on mailing lists and on koha wiki : http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaRoadmap2.2.x -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Re: Koha translations for 2.2.0 official
by Paul POULAIN 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

FYI : meid(a)backstage.org a écrit : > hello paul, > i'm on vacation at this time, but i plan to do an update of the german translation for 2.2 > I hope to get it done in the next month, so it will also be availible for 2.2.1 > the current german translation is not up to date. > I would have written this also to the list, but I have only a webmail-interface and am not subscribed with this e-mail. Good news, many thanks Dorian -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Koha translations for 2.2.0 official
by Paul POULAIN 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hi all, I'll release Koha 2.2.0 soon & i just wanted to know the status of 2 translations : * spanish/argentina (es_AR) : i don't see opac_css for es translation. does it exist on someone computer ? * i'm really happy to see zh_TW back. Ambrose, is it ready ? I plan to release official 2.2.0 on wednesday, after a last day of testing. If es & zh are not ready, they won't be included, but delayed to 2.2.1 that could arrive in a month or less if needed. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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