Re: [Koha] Vote for Koha Con 2011
Dear Nicole Engard and All, Thanks for publication of official vote site for the location of Koha Con 2011 and announcing the ranking system. We would appreciate if you could develop a system by which country name should also be made mandatory along with the Name of Institution. The ranking system should also be made publicly open just like the present system i.e. whenever a vote is given. This will make the voting system more transparent. There should also be a system to give weightage system for counting vote. It should be country wise instead of Institution wise. Thanks, Mohan Raj Pradhan, M. Lib. Inf. Sc., MBA, Ph. D. General-Secretary Digital Library Network South Asia (DlnetSA) Associate Professor Central Dept. of Library and Information Science Tribhuvan University, Nepal Member-Secretary HealthNet Nepal On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:43 PM, <koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz> wrote:
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1. Re: Trouble getting zebra to work (Chris Nighswonger) 2. Re: [Koha-devel] Vote for KohaCon 2011 (Koustubha Kale) 3. Logging of fines (Olugbenga Adara) 4. Advice needed on fixing zebra issues resulting from upgrade (Olugbenga Adara) 5. Re: Koha Digest, Vol 64, Issue 8 (mohan pradhan)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:42:33 -0500 From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> Subject: Re: [Koha] Trouble getting zebra to work To: Doug Dearden <dearden@sarsf.org> Cc: Koha <Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Message-ID: <AANLkTi=4a8awhAUZwq8qM0GBm+yZmYoWzuP+JW=UpVCE@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi Doug,
2011/2/2 Doug Dearden <dearden@sarsf.org>
Hello all,
I am having some trouble getting searches to work using zebra, and am suspicious that I may have caused my problems as I was going through the setup. I have set up a test server on Debian Lenny, using git to download koha. I am planning on doing some work that I hope to contribute back so chose a dev install when I was setting up. The files are in /home/doug/kohaclone and /home/doug/koha-dev . I was logged in as root when I ran the install routine, then changed ownership on all the files to the koha user later. After that, I restored one of my databases from my production server, copied the default koha-conf.xml and edited it to point to the correct database (named ?image?). I did the same with the koha-httpd.conf file, copying it and editing it where needed. While logged in as ?koha?, I would get an error when I tried to run rebuild_zebra.pl. I logged in as root and ran it that way and it didn?t throw the error, but searches aren?t finding anything. I then figured out that the new config files I created had root as the owner. I changed those to have koha as the owner. The rebuild_zebra.pl script would then run without throwing the error. I then read a post that indicated being logged in as root when running rebuild_zebra.pl would mess things up, as certain log files and lock files would get created with root as the owner and koha would not be able to access them.
Any idea where I would find these files? I have several files in /home/doug/koha-dev/var/lock/zebradb/biblios but they are all owned by koha, not root. There is no koha directory in /var/log .
Check also files under /home/doug/koha-dev/etc/zebradb.
Koha logs are in /home/doug/koha-dev/var/log
I don?t know what to expect from rebuild_zebra.pl . I am setting the KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB variables. If I run ?rebuild_zebra.pl ?z ?a ?b?
/home/doug/zlog.txt the script appears to run (the cursor blinks for a bit, then the command prompt returns), and a 0 byte file named zlog.txt is created.
try './rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -r -v' for verbose output and to completely rebuild the indexes.
If I change the system preferences setting to use the no zebra option, then run rebuild_nozebra.pl the indexes are built and searches work. Returning the system preferences to use zebra breaks things again.
nozebra is basically deprecated and unsupported at this point in Koha history. Avoid it like the plague.
I have a feeling this is an ownership/permissions problem somewhere, either on some files or maybe relating to MySQL. I?m just not sure where to look or how to troubleshoot.
Probably permissions. Something here may be useful too: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/#18
Kind Regards, Chris
The first important thing to do for an international Koha conference is to choose a location and dates as far in advance as possible to allow people to have travel expenses approved as part of an annual budget process. Planning a year in advance is what I understand is most helpful to librarians. As we are behind the ideal advanced planning time, starting the voting immediately after the last #koha meeting took precedence over considering voting methods or ballot design carefully. However, the choice of venue and dates is a low value issue for the community as a whole. The high value issue for the community as a whole is helping to ensure good attendance by giving the maximum opportunity for advanced planning by librarians. Over future years, every place where there is a serious interest in Koha will have an opportunity to host an international KohaCon. I have continued to add information to each of the proposals on the wiki page at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011_Proposals to help inform voter choice. Remainder of reply inline: On Thu, February 3, 2011 16:40, mohan pradhan wrote:
Dear Nicole Engard and All,
Thanks for publication of official vote site for the location of Koha Con 2011 and announcing the ranking system. We would appreciate if you could develop a system by which country name should also be made mandatory along with the Name of Institution.
The next time we construct a ballot we could certainly add more fields for collecting information about who voted. In this ballot, people can certainly add a country name or anything else to the institution name field which may be helpful in identifying the institution.
.The ranking system should also be made publicly open just like the present system i.e. whenever a vote is given. This will make the voting system more transparent.
As long as we have no advanced voter registration process with a verification system, voting must be publicly transparent. Advanced registration is an obstacle to voting which we should avoid as long as a we can have completely open voting untainted. The Koha community has not yet attracted enough interest to have people playing games with votes.
There should also be a system to give weightage system for counting vote.
A particular method of counting the preference votes has not been established in advance but as I stated above the choice of venue and date is a low value issue for the community at large relative to choosing well in advance. We may have the same winner no matter what preference counting system we use. In the Koha foundation forming vote, M J Ray analysed the votes using all the reasonable preference voting methods. In future, we are liable to adopt a standard voting method for votes. We have been discussing score (range) voting in the context of a forthcoming vote for upgrading the Koha copyright license. Score voting has some difficulties over strategy which I raised, http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2011-February/027439.html . I am going to post a scheme to remedy to some difficulties of score voting but there had not been time to discuss a new voting scheme for the KohaCon 2011 vote.
It should be country wise instead of Institution wise.
Either preference voting with a ranked ballot or score voting with assigning scores would avoid problems where people prefer a particular country as a venue but divide their votes between multiple candidate venues from the same country. However, as you are from Nepal with only one candidate venue, I suspect that you mean something different. What do you mean by "country wise instead of institution wise"? [...] Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783
I have continued to add information to each of the proposals on the wiki page at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011_Proposals to help inform voter choice. I would appreciate knowing more about DLNet-SA perhaps to add to the wiki page. I created a column for local libraries and library science work. The distinctiveness of libraries and library science work being done locally irrespective of whether it is related to Koha or the precise venue location will be the most important factor in how I rank candidate venues on my ballot. I value any opportunity to learn about different subject thesauri and classification systems used in particular countries or institutions. I am also especially interested in large comprehensive library collections; such as copyright deposit libraries, whether they are national libraries or major university libraries as is the case in some countries. Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783
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