he panui Koha 6 Dec 2002 Hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the news about Koha. I don't have much to say myself this week, but I think the information below will do a good job of keeping you up to date. Development: I'd like to introduce what I hope will become a monthly feature in this newsletter, a monthly development summary. Here are the stats for November. (Note: these statistics represent the 1.2 and 1.3 series together.) committers (People making changes to the software): # commits committer 1 rangi Chris Cormack 6 hdl Henri-Damien LAURENT 10 lavide David Strainchamps 12 dragon28 Mike Mylonas 24 fmmarzoa Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso 28 tonnesen Steve Tonnesen 241 finlayt Finlay Thompson 291 tipaul Paul Poulain hot files (the ten files updated most often): # commits file 4 koha/misc/buildrelease (this is the script we use to create a release package) 4 koha/misc/installer.pl (this is the script used to install a koha system) 5 koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/hlt/en/loggedin.tmpl 5 koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/hlt/en/opac-userdetails.tmpl 5 koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/hlt/en/includes/main.css (these three files are part of the templates used to create the shiny new OPAC interface at HLT) 5 koha/opac/opac-user.pl (the script that drives the user info screen in the OPAC) 6 koha/C4/Search.pm (this file contains all the search routines used by Koha) 7 koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/hlt/en/opac-auth.tmpl (another bit of the HLT templates) 8 koha/updater/updatedatabase (the script used to update the database from a previous version of Koha) 9 koha/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/hlt/en/opac-user.tmpl (one more bit of the HLT templates) As another development note, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso has started researching using RFID with Koha. So far, he hasn't written any code, but says that things are looking promising. France: The first installation in france occurs this week : koha 1.3.2 will be installed in ND-Dombes Abbey, in France. Corinne PESQUET, the librarian, will help debugging the unstable tree and reach a mature product quality. Outside Koha: kbarcode - Paul discovered this kde tool and uses it to create barcodes for the Dombes Abbey. This tool is: * free software (GPL licenced) * graphic (under kde) * stable (despite a little lack of documentation, like most of free softwares projects) * full featured (you can print many barcodes types, and define your own labels, your own calatog...) * developed by 2 germans. Its main faults is the same as any other proprietary barcode editor: it's slow, as barcode generating is a complex task. So, don't hesitate to go to http://kbarcode.sourceforge.net I wonder if every week will be as interesting? happy hacking, -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