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Kohasplash
by Bryan Grega 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

Does anyone have the kohasplash.jpg file Thanks Bryan A. Grega Sr. Consultant, Systems Administrator RSIS, NASA, Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Road MailStop 142-4 Cleveland, OH 44135 Office: 216-433-2724 Pager: 216-549-9894 Pager EMail: 2165499894(a)airtouchpaging.com

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what is the most bug free version of koha ?
by Hor Hen Ley 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

hi all, can someone kindly let know me what is the current most bug free version of koha ? ( and where to download it :P ) i m using version 1.2.3. It doesnt seems to display the items borrowed correctly for members. thanks in advance -- Hor Hen Ley ( bii web team ) henley(a)bii.a-star.edu.sg my pgp publics are available at http://www.bii-sg.org/~henley/

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Re: QA testing Koha
by Pat Eyler 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, E. Naeher wrote: > In your most recent Koha newsletter you mentioned that you are looking for > Koha QA testers. What's involved with this? Would one have to run Koha in > a real operating library environment, or just play with it locally and try > to break it? Tell me more. Hi Eli, This is a great question, so I'd like to answer it to a wider audience. There are actually several levels of opportunity here. The simplest (and least organized) would be to just play with a local installation and try to break things then make bug reports at bugs.koha.org. The next step up would be to be an 'acceptance tester', basically this means that you'd be following (and helping to develop) a testing 'script' which you'd follow on each release candidate. This work would be coordinated by a single individual who would be responsible for letting us turn a release candidate into a 'real' release. 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. We also need to find a single person who's interested (and capable) of coordinating/managing all of these functions. He or she doesn't need to be a programmer, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. I've had a couple of people contact me about various parts of this. I'm currently treading water ... I don't want to move too agressively until we've got a QA manager in place. I hope this answers your questions. -pate > > Thanks, > > --Eli Naeher > Lower Cape Fear Historical Society >

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he panui Koha [20 Feb 2003]
by Pat Eyler 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

He Panui Koha 20 Feb 2003 Hello everyone, It's been quite a while since I've put one of these out, so I thought I'd better knuckle down and send something out this week. There's been a lot of activity since the New Year and not all of it has gotten the attention it deserves. In the world of Koha 1.2, Chris and Steve have put out a 1.2.3 release which is seeing a good deal of interest with over 1300 downloads from sourceforge! If you're using Koha and haven't upgraded yet, you might want to check out 1.2.3. Paul has been busy with Koha 2.0 as well. He released 1.9.0 at the beginning of February. This release hase been downloaded nearly 350 times already -- not bad for a beta release! It also looks like a 1.9.1 version is coming up quickly so if you've grabbed a copy of 1.9.0 and not let people know about problems, you should get right on it. Speaking of problems, I'm not sure how many of you know about the Koha bugzilla tool. You can see the tool by looking at http://bugs.koha.org -- you can submit bugs (or feature requests there too). There are currently 47 bugs/feature requests against the development (pre 2.0) version ... Should we have a bug stomping day to try and knock these down? Language support is continuing to move along. I had a request from some Koha users interested in organizing a translation into Breton. If anyone is interested in helping out, please contact me. We've also seen more work on French, Spanish, and Chinese. Koha is getting international notice as well. Nicolas Morin wrote to say: "Koha is getting good publicity in France. In it's Feb 2003 issue, the French monthly periodical ARCHIMAG [www.archimag.com] which is widely read among french librarians and also among "documentation centers" people in businesses, features a 3 pages article on Open Source solutions in this sector. Koha figures quite prominantly and positively in the article, alongside such general purpose softwares as Zope. The article goes into a bit of history, mentionning the beginning of the adventure with Horowhenua and Katipo, back in 2000, it then describes the current features and those that will be available in the upcoming 2.0 release (MARC support), and finally deals with the growing Koha community among french speaking librarians." Linux Journal published an article about Koha in their February issue too. A third article is available at: http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1466489879 (sorry for the long URL, but I thought is was better than making you search for it.) If you see interesting articles about Koha, or are interested in writing one, please let me know. One last project related note. We're trying to find some QA testers to join the development effort. If you're interested, please get in touch with me. thanks, Pat Eyler kaitiaki(a)koha.org

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This is driving me nuts...
by Croson, John 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

I have been having a hell of a time with the Auth.pm problem as described in this post, http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/001443.html and a possible solution, http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/001444.html . I have tried fixing the file with the following modifications with no results: Switched line 179 from this, $sessionID=int(rand()*100000).'-'.time(); to this: $sessionID or $sessionID=int(rand()*10000).'-'.time(); With no luck. Tried JUST $sessionID; ... nope. Anyone wanna enlighten me so I don't have another night of dreaming...user,pass,user,pass,user,pass,user,pass.......... John Croson Confused

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Digest option
by Ron Gillies 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

Hi With the increase in traffic on the list as more people become aware of and participate in Koha, I wonder if a digest option could be made available. Depending on the version of Mailman being run it is available as a configurable option. Just a thought from the middle of the frozen Canadian prairie *s* Ron -- Ron Gillies rgillies(a)lloydminster.lib.sk.ca Head Librarian voice: +1.780.875.0850 Lloydminster Public Library fax: +1.780.875.6523

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[Fwd: Sip2]
by cliver 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

I found this last night....for anyone's info......it's going to be at least 5-6 weeks before My son & I get into possib ly writing something....(we have to get passed his wedding & honeymoon)....but I've put this up incase anyone else 'wants' to get started Clive Robertson E.A.S. Services Melbourne, Ausrtalia (Alternate service for 3M Library Security Systems)

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Re: [Koha] koha 1.9.0 installation problem
by awie dicu 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

--- Micheas Herman <micheas(a)freep.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 20:30, awie dicu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed Koha 1.9.0 but few pages are not > > working (blank page). > > > > Which pages? > > blank pages: /cgi-bin/koha/admin/printers.pl /cgi-bin/koha/admin/categorie.pl /cgi-bin/koha/admin/currency.pl /cgi-bin/koha/admin/stopwords.pl /cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl - working, but in france when adding/registering new borrower (/cgi-bin/koha/newmember.pl), an error appears: The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. there are lots of errors in my koha-error-logs (mostly files missing). is it because of my perl 5.8? or the installation package was not complete? pls advice -nawawi- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com

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koha 1.9.0 installation problem
by awie dicu 17 Feb '03

17 Feb '03

Hi, I've installed Koha 1.9.0 but few pages are not working (blank page). My config; Apache 1.27 Mysql 3.23.53 perl 5.8 koha 1.9.0 Hope there's somebody who can guide me. -nawawi- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com

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Introductions and spin-offs
by Trevor Jenkins 17 Feb '03

17 Feb '03

Like many others recently I came across Koha as a result of the article in February 2003 Linux Journal. Whilst I have library catalogue issues with all the books, journals, papers, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, videos and such in my study (aka home) the article was more of a provocation to thinking about other applications. A similar market sector to library automation is museum inventory systems; they're not identical but enough synergy exists that many of the proprietary library systems have museum modules. Also there is additional stimulus as my wife works for one the national museums here in Great Britain. The stories she tells me of the inflexibilty of their in-house system would turn your stomach. So since the publication of the LJ paper I've been musing on how Koha might be used as a base for a museum system. For the last 30 years my role has been programmer/consultant of text retrieval systems. A cross industry product that I've deployed in research libraries and museums. Including a recent bid to a museum-come-library for cataloguing and loan management of a non-book collection. Wonder whether there is any interest from others in such a museums module? Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ -- <>< Re: deemed!

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