Hello all,
So the 2018 hackfest in Marseille is now finished. It was a great week,
with a lot of work, a lot of discussion, a lot of fun. The weather was
with us, except on thursday, the evenings were full of beer & happyness.
Let's summarize what we made...
Koha Elastic Search
Our hotest topic, for sure
10 patches written and/or signed off. A lot of work on Elastic Search.
BULAC want to go live with Koha+ES with 18.05 [Thank you François and
Severine, Bulac, Nick, Bywatersolutions, Alex, BibLibre]
UNIMARC & bibliographic transition (FRBR):
• default frameworks at install updated [thank you François, Roubaix
public library]
• script written to update all cataloguing frameworks with new MARC
records preparing FRBR (IFLA 2017 fields & subfields) [thank you Julian,
BibLibre]
• zebra indexes definition started, to be finished [thank you François,
Roubaix public library]
• XSLT to display those new fields still to do
FRBR & ReasonableGraph
3 developers from AltSol, a Greek company working on FRBR and a software
called ReasonableGraph (see https://reasonablegraph.org/) showed what
they made with Koha & MARC data. They'll keep to work on it, the Koha
community may hear of them again in the future. Maybe starting with a
plugin that can be compared to the Ebsco EDS plugin: instead of
searching in Koha, search would be made on ReasonableGraph database,
that is fully FRBR compliant, and present results in a "FRBR way" [Thank
you Nikos, AltSol]
Translation
The french team worked and finished to translate 100% of 17.11, the
release notes, and most of the documentation. A big effort [Thank you
many french librarians !]
Coral & Koha<>Coral interface
• presentation of Coral 3.0 new features (including the wonderful
interface Coral <> EDS)
• presentation of Coral setup at Lyon 3 [Thank you Sonia, Lyon 3]
• Koha <> Coral interface, what's done, what has to be done [Thank you
Matthias, BibLibre]
Koha & SCSS
[Thank you Owen, ACPL]
• Finished the transition to SCSS for the staff client (see
http://sass-lang.com/, and http://sebastianpontow.de/css2compass/ and
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19474), patch
passed QA now
• The transition from LESS to SCSS for the OPAC is done (see
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20427)
• Owen introduced us to SCSS.
Mana-kb
rebase, fixes, tests. One problem detected, not easy to reproduce, still
working on it, still highly expected for 18.05 [Thank you Brendan,
BywaterSolutions & Alex, BibLibre]
Bugzill
[Thank you ... too many people to name them !]
• 80+ patches tested (44 signed-off, 21 failed, 15 does not apply)
• This week, 285 bugs had at least one change (any kind, change by a
"hackfester" or not)
Various
• kohadevbox presentation & installation on some librarian laptops. We
now have some librarians able to sign-off patches without using
sandboxes ! [thank you Nick, ByWaterSolutions]
• Kohala (Koha french usergroup) has scheduled the Symposium (Paris, in
June)
• On Thursday, it was the "Bokeh hackfest/conference". Bokeh is a
library portal software that BibLibre is supporting. 10 new librarians
and 4 developers from AFI, BibLibre sister-company joined us to discuss
new features, and share their experience with Bokeh, Bokeh+Koha, ...
(http://bokeh-library-portal.org for more info about Bokeh) [Thank you
https://www.makeitmarseille.com/, our neigbour for hosting this event]
• we discovered Emkipop (http://emkipop.fr/)
If I forgot something, remind me, please [ I'm an old man, you know, my
memory begins to abandon me ;) ]
--
Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
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