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1.4:
The 1.3.x team is proud to announce the birth of the breeding farm.
The breeding farm is a place where you can place (lot of) MARC
records in 2 clicks. they stay in the breeding farm as long as you
have no items for this record.
When you want to add an item in koha, you enter ISBN/ISSN of the
book. If the book is in the breeding farm, it's immedialty called,
and entering a biblio is very quick (you just have to modify what you
want).
This functionnality is avaible only in CVS currently, but will be
ready for 1.3.2 in around 2 weeks.
Note: This functionnality is not intended for migrating a library to
Koha - to do this (migrating biblios AND items, you need to use
bulkmarcimport, avaible in 1.2 and that will be completed/rewritten
in 1.3)
Docs:
Thanks to some thoughts and work from Steve and Finlay, in short
order The SGML version(s) of the full manual will be uploaded via a
nifty form to Sourceforge, where the files will live in their own CVS
tree (to keep them a little away from the code). Steve has thrown
together something already:
http://www.haz.cmsd.bc.ca/cgi-bin/kohadoc/upload
This will let us run the SGML->HTML and HTMLtidy routine as part of
the buildrelease scipt, since the "most recent" manual will be in
CVS.
ThemeHowTo/ThemeNotes will be marked up into SGML format, and will
join the manual (developer section) soon. Ditto info on the POD
stuff (http://www.kohalabs.com/resources/pod/). Transitions will most
likely be getting a contribution re: how to move out of the
"Winnebago" package. How to do a language template is not as far
along, but as there is existing stuff from Katipo on how to use Kea,
I don't anticipate huge problems doing the same for that material.
I'm hoping to have the above done/proofed/final for the next stable
release (1.3.something I guess).
Developers: Especially NEW developers, please check the *current
"released" manual* if you haven't do so already. We *want* to credit
you, and spell your names correctly. Thanks. That goes especially
for our new language contributors.
Community:
There were three big items from the community this week.
One of the Win32 developers has not only gotten Koha running on
several versions of windows, but he has put together a Win32
installer. If you're interested in helping work on this, please join
the koha-win32 mailing list at:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/koha/
Please take some time and fill out the survey that was posted to the
mailing list recently. Getting the word out about Koha is one of the
most important steps in keeping the development and user community
flourishing. It's also a very easy way to contribute.
Marshall Breeding's request earlier this week was another, similar,
way to contribute to the long term success of Koha. In some ways it
might be more visible. Marshall's site gets a lot of eyes. If Koha
looks good there, it will be a big plus.
French Koha:
Thanks to several worthy librarians, we now have a CSV file of the
whole UNIMARC tables : UNIMARC compliance will really help to make
Koha a viable alternative to commercial ILS in France. UNIMARC is
the standard used in libraries, from the Fench National Library to
the smallest public libraries. This is a major step forward for the
project in France.
Another, smaller step forward that occured this week is the
translation of the koha web site in French : it will soon go live at
http://fr.koha.org. It will help us publicize all Koha related
business in France, and provide a resource center for French
libraries interested in Koha.
All in all, it's been another great week.
thanks,
the Koha team
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