Here there will be text for a useful and comprehensive welcome message for the Koha mailing list. I'm just starting the ball rolling, I'm hoping people will edit it and fix it. Nau Mai, Haere Mai ki te whanau Koha. Hello and Welcome to the Koha Community.

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-02T04:09:30-07:00

This page aims to precise/improve/replace current Coding guidelines from Kohadocs. Licence Each file (scripts & modules) must include the GPL licence statement, typically at the top. # This file is part of Koha. # # Koha is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the # terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software # Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later # version. # # Koha is distributed in the hope that …

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T14:26:12-07:00

Please sign yourselves up. If it looks like a geographic area needs to be sub-divided, please do. You're welcome to either include your library name, Koha version, and contact name or to create a wiki page to describe yourself. North America CountryLocationLibrary TypeLibrary NameContact NameNotesUnited StatesNew YorkAcademicDavis College LibraryJeremy McGinniss (jmcginniss@davisny.edu) Currently running 2.2.5 on Linux. In process of updating to 3.0 as of May 2009CanadaDawson Creek, BCElement…

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T14:12:38-07:00

Agenda The next general IRC meeting will be held on #koha on 1 July 2009 at 19:00 UTC+0 web time converter) Expected to attend: gmcharlt |Lupin| slef Apologies from: chris The agenda will include the following: * Update on Roadmap to 3.2 * Update on Koha 3.0 Roadmap * Follow-up on actions from General Meeting on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 * Addition of “Skip to content” links in the staff client, as discussed on Koha-devel * Modification of bulkmarcimport so that it reminds the user…

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T14:09:49-07:00

Agenda The next general IRC meeting will be held on #koha on 5 August 2009 at 10:00 UTC+0 web time converter) Expected to attend: gmcharlt Apologies from: The agenda will include the following: * Update on Roadmap to 3.2 * Update on Koha 3.0 Roadmap * Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting 1 July 2009

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T13:52:55-07:00

* General Meeting 5 August 2009: Agenda and notes for General Meeting, 5 August 2009 * General Meeting 1 July 2009: Agenda and notes for General Meeting, 1 July 2009 * General Meeting 3 June 2009: Agenda for General Meeting, 3 June 2009 * General Meeting 6 May 2009: Agenda for General Meeting, 2009 May 06 (general)

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T13:51:50-07:00

DB schema Logical schema diagrams are (or were) written for the following versions: * 3.0 by Paul. It's a 2 page document. Available in some forms :openoffice.org [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD_version3.odg> 15KB], PDF [<http://www.koha-fr.org/presentation/MCD_version3.pdf> 230KB]

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T12:46:10-07:00

Biblibre has announced a demo of their SOPAC/Koha installation on their blog. The post was in French, so I&#8217;ll summarize for you. You can access their very awesome demo online at: http://demo.sopac.biblibre.com/. It is important to remember this is just a test install for us to test and for them to play [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:25:12 +0000

What&#8217;s your full name (middle name too)? Michele Marie Maenpaa What is your official Job Title? Data Migration Specialist Did you (or do you) have a nickname? Not really. What&#8217;s your favorite color? Red What&#8217;s your favorite food or meal? I don&#8217;t really have one. I like all food that is fresh, properly prepared and locally grown or raised. What&#8217;s your favorite word (keep [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:48:15 +0000

If you hang out in #koha on irc.katipo.co.nz, please feel free to add your name and a short description here (alphabetically by nick). This will help new folks to #koha know who you are. * acmoore - Andrew Moore, an engineer with LibLime * Amit - Amit Gupta, from India, an engineer with Nucsoft Osslabs * brendan - Brendan A Gallagher, owner and director of ByWater Solutions * chris - Chris Cormack, Senior developer with Catalyst, (previously Liblime, and Katipo Com…

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2009-07-01T03:21:05-07:00

I have been doing a lot of piecing out commits to break them into related feature-coherent sets lately, so I thought I&#8217;d share the webpage I used as a reference. Basically the mechanism uses the same git rebase &#8211;interactive that you can use to squash commits, but instead opens one for editing mid-rebase.  Then you can [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:08:09 +0000

This is a bit technical and arcane, but I want to mention it because I&#8217;ve seen a lot of recent patches still using the old style of code calling $sth-&#62;finish() explicitly.  I know a lot of the codebase still does this internally, but for Koha such usage is almost always wrong. If this were just my [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:34:06 +0000

Henri-Damien Laurent, Release Maintainer for Koha 3.0, has announced the release of Koha 3.0.2, the second maintenance release of Koha in the 3.0.x series. The release tar file can be downloaded from http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.02.tar.gz. From Henri&#8217;s announcement: We are very happy to announce Koha 3.0.2 Stable has been released on http://download.koha.org/ Its name is koha-3.00.02.tar.gz You can download file [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:12:52 +0000

There&#8217;s a good article at Ars Technica talking about even more ways to trick out your Vim text editor. It includes links to: platform-specific desktop GUI versions (win32/linux: GVim; Mac OS: MacVim) MiniBufExplorer add-on Automatic text completion via Omnicompletion Vim wiki script repository other add-ons for IDE-like behavior or a more simple text-editor behavior for new users Worth checking out if [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Mon, 18 May 2009 18:55:38 +0000

Recently, I&#8217;ve been asked to add tagging to the guided reports section. I used this as an opportunity to implement a mixin that&#8217;s similar in spirit to acts_as_taggable for Ruby&#8217;s ActiveRecord ORM. I called this class, &#8220;C4::Taggable&#8221;, and it will inject tagging-related methods to any class that uses it. Normally, [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Mon, 18 May 2009 16:39:52 +0000

David Schuster has announced a meeting of KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago. Date: Sunday, 7/12/2009 Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm> Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago (not the Hyatt that’s close to the convention center) Room: Grand Suite 3

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Tue, 12 May 2009 13:24:30 +0000

I thought I'd write up a quick post about how the analysis process works at LibLime. As a business analyst, I'm responsible for writing up specifications for new functionality in Koha that libraries are interested in sponsoring. The general idea is that the specification should be something that both the staff at the library and the programmers at LibLime can understand and agree on. That way LibLime knows that what we're building matches what the library wants, and the library knows what's going to arrive when LibLime delivers.

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Fri, 08 May 2009 22:37:14 +0000

Henri-Damien Laurent, Release Maintainer for Koha 3.0.x, has published a new Git tree with a candidate for Koha 3.0.2. From his original announcement: I am glad to announce that work for stable version 3.0.2 is well advanced. You can test it on koha-maintenance project see http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha-maintenance.git;a=summary for the code. How can I test it ? if you have a dev [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Thu, 07 May 2009 15:07:14 +0000

I just sent a call for the next general IRC meeting of the Koha project, which will take place on 3 June 2009 at 10:00 UTC+0. Here&#8217;s a link to one time zone converter. We&#8217;re currently seeking a major coffee company to sponsor caffeine for North America and New Zealand. The initial [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Thu, 07 May 2009 12:14:07 +0000

The first general IRC meeting of the Koha project in a long time took place today. For those who couldn&#8217;t make it, a log of the discussion is available. The agenda for the meeting is on the wiki. Some highlights from the meeting: Koha 3.2 will be frozen for new features at the end of [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Wed, 06 May 2009 22:28:59 +0000

Hey All, I've decided to avoid the messy business of setting up my own Koha git repository ( at least for now ). Instead, I've set up a Github account here.  I've configured github to update my twitter account ( kylemhall ) each time I make a push, so if you ...

Posted in To Geek Or !Not To Geek Koha, 2009-01-31T21:21:25Z

Here's a interesting article comparing and contasting the Koha, Evergree and Rome ILS systems. I stumbled upon it because it happens to link to my Koha VMWare Appliance page. Linky.

Posted in To Geek Or !Not To Geek Koha, 2009-01-30T14:21:43Z

NExpress is apparently a consortium of libraries in New England and New York the Northeast Kansas Library System's shared catalog project. I found a page linking to the Offline Circ download. Linky.

Posted in To Geek Or !Not To Geek Koha, 2009-01-30T14:15:55Z

It's been awhile since I posted last so I thought I'd let everyone know what I'm doing development-wise involving Koha 3 We are about 5 weeks out from the point where we have to be ready to switch over from using the dev_week development version of Koha to 3 which is ...

Posted in To Geek Or !Not To Geek Koha, 2009-01-30T12:45:15Z