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Testers Needed
by Ingrid Lacis 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Testers are needed for Koha. Your server or mine. No technical experience is necessary. We are looking for both Acceptance Testers - using the software in the role of librarians and patrons and quoting from Pat Eyler "On the development side, we also need experienced testers to help write code level functional and unit tests for a 'regression test suite'. The plan is that this suite is run at least daily against the Koha code base to ensure that we're not introducing new bugs, or re-opening old ones while we make changes and additions to Koha." Thank you Ingrid Ingrid Lacis The Cherry Hill Company ilacis(a)chillco.com

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How to set up a new staff member - including how to access the intranet
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hi - this is obviously causing a few headaches for people - so I thought I'd send this to the whole list :-) BACKGROUND To access the Intranet (librarian view) you need a username and password. The first person needs the MYSQL username and password, and then they can make new users (staff). Unfortunatly, the staff authentication module basically came in on the back of the general members (OPAC) authentication module, so to be blunt, it's a bit confusing, definitly not intuative, and hopefully might be improved for the next release. OK HERE WE GO To make another "Librarian". You will need to be logged in with your superuser password - not just the first time, but every time. You add new librarians through the "add member" process. From Koha's point of View, a librarian is just a member with some different privliges, but we don't make it clear enough that you add a staff person the same way. Start from the member search page that looks like http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/members/ Type the name of your staff member in the search box (even though they may not be there yet). You should get a page like http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/member.pl You should see the option to add a new member. Add a new adult member. You should be able to change them to being a "worker" And I think (although am not sure) that you can add their username and password there. Submit that form Apparently on your "add a new member" screen, you won't get the option to give them access to the intranet. To do that, you submit that form. Then go back to the member page, search for them (YES AGAIN) When they come up in the list, click on their name to modify their record and then all the options you need should show up Good Luck Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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News and Release Notes has been updated
by kea-notify＠katipo.co.nz 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

News and Release Notes has been updated. The revised page is available at: http://www.koha.org/news/index.html

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Re: [oss4lib-discuss] Koha IRC meeting
by Pat Eyler 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Why not look like an idiot twice in one morning (though with my luck, I'll have several more opportunities). idiot point #1 we'll be ircing at irc.katipo.co.nz #koha idiot point #2 PST is GMT -8 not -7 sigh, -pate On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Raymond Wood wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:43:06AM -0500, Pat Eyler remarked: > > Since it's been almost a year since our last series of IRC > > meetings about Koha, it's about time to kick off the stretch > > into a 2.0.0 release with a couple of meetings to let everyone > > know how things stand. > > > > We'd like to break things into two meetings just to keep them > > managable. Here's the plan: > > > > 8 April 2003 1200 PST (GMT-7) > > Paul state of 2.0 > > Nick state of Docs > > Pat state of project > > meet and greet Ingrid > > Q & A for management team > > > > 9 April 2003 1200 PST (GMT-7) > > A town hall meeting (time to toss out ideas, > > get to know people better, introduce Koha > > sub-projects, etc.) > > > > -pate > > > > Pat Eyler > > IRC coordinates? > > Cheers, > Raymond > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! > NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en > _______________________________________________ > > > oss4lib-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oss4lib-discuss > see also http://oss4lib.org/ >

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special QA IRC meeting
by Pat Eyler 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Ingrid Lacis, the new QA/Testing manager, and I would like to invite everyone with an interest in the QA and testing process to attend a special QA/Testing IRC meeting. We would like to discuss the current user-interface usability of Koha, and work with the 2.0 team to create bug reports/enahancement requests in bugzilla for the issues that we agree need to be addressed. The meeting will be held 1 Apr 2003 at 1200 PST (GMT-7), and should run for an hour or two. We'll talk on #koha at irc.katipo.co. thanks, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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general IRC meetings
by Pat Eyler 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Since it's been almost a year since our last series of IRC meetings about Koha, it's about time to kick off the stretch into a 2.0.0 release with a couple of meetings to let everyone know how things stand. We'd like to break things into two meetings just to keep them managable. Here's the plan: 8 April 2003 1200 PST (GMT-7) Paul state of 2.0 Nick state of Docs Pat state of project meet and greet Ingrid Q & A for management team 9 April 2003 1200 PST (GMT-7) A town hall meeting (time to toss out ideas, get to know people better, introduce Koha sub-projects, etc.) -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Very naive question from a non-librarian
by Nigel Titley 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Folks, This is probably going to sound like a very simple question to the real librarians amongst you, but I'd like a little guidance if anyone can spare the time. I'm using Koha to catalogue our family book collection (I hesitate to call it a library). Its about 3000 or so volumes and scattered through various book cases throughout the house. It is vaguely organised by various criteria, like size, suitability for children (low shelves), fiction (by author), non-fiction (roughly by subject) etc. What I would like Koha to tell me is where (bookcase) each volume is located. Which would be the appropriate field in the biblioitem to store this information? If this is a stupid question, then tell me, I'm not a librarian but a computer scientist with an interest in books. Many thanks Nigel

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Running Installer.pl
by Vydunas Gimnazija 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hi, I managed to get all my perl modules installed [hint: install package perl-libnet first], and then ran perl installer.pl When the installer gets to the part about "Enter root password for MySQL server", it never accepts any answer. I can go ahead to /usr/local/mysql, change to super user, and run (for example) ./bin/mysqladmin -u root -h Wilhelm --password=oldpass password 'new password' and modify the password, but apparently when installer.pl tries it, it messes up. Does anyone know why this would happen? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Very naive question from a non-librarian (resent from the right email address)
by Nigel Titley 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Folks, This is probably going to sound like a very simple question to the real librarians amongst you, but I'd like a little guidance if anyone can spare the time. I'm using Koha to catalogue our family book collection (I hesitate to call it a library). Its about 3000 or so volumes and scattered through various book cases throughout the house. It is vaguely organised by various criteria, like size, suitability for children (low shelves), fiction (by author), non-fiction (roughly by subject) etc. What I would like Koha to tell me is where (bookcase) each volume is located. Which would be the appropriate field in the biblioitem to store this information? If this is a stupid question, then tell me, I'm not a librarian but a computer scientist with an interest in books. Many thanks Nigel

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Koha Bug Report
by Pat Eyler 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Bug Report for -All- Tue Mar 25 06:46:23 2003 Summary New Bugs This Week 9 Bugs Marked New 47 Bugs Marked Assigned 5 Bugs Marked Reopened 0 Total Bugs 52 Bug Count by Engineer Owner New Assigned Reopened Total a.c.li(a)ieee.org 1 0 0 1 chris(a)katipo.co.nz 24 2 0 26 paul.poulain(a)free.fr 1 0 0 1 tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca 21 3 0 24 I'll probably continue to send these out periodically (especially as I see good news). The neet bit about today is that the bug count is creeping up. I know that sound bad, but let me explain. Ingrid has been hard at work on the QA side of the house and has begun translating that effort into verified bugs against the current CVS tree. Having these bugs in the bug database at bugs.koha.org will help us work toward a cleaner, better 2.0.0 release. Thanks Ingrid! I'd like to encourage everyone to take a look at bugs.koha.org ... If you're a developer you might pick a bug to squash, if you're a koha user, maybe you know of a problem that doesn't have a bug report yet. The more we use this tool, the better Koha will be for all of us. -pate

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