Re: [Koha-devel] FW: Where is the BIG RED WARNING button?

2017-08-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> Of course I was not talking about new contributors. My main goal for this release is to help new people to come on-board. We refreshed the wiki, wrote a step-by-step how-to "signoff and write patches", etc. I give personal answers to new contributors, guide them, give them quick and

Re: [Koha-devel] FW: Where is the BIG RED WARNING button?

2017-08-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Crazy idea: Most of our developers have been at this a while. They've submitted a lot of patches. Is there anyone with a machine learning knack that could apply ML in such a way to suggest a next patch for developers based on their prior submissions? Cheers, Brooke _

Re: [Koha-devel] FW: Where is the BIG RED WARNING button?

2017-08-21 Thread BWS Johnson
+1 to all of this. Brooke From: Gaetan Boisson To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 5:59 AM Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] FW: Where is the BIG RED WARNING button? I really understand Jonathan's point here. He's probably become the one contributor wit

Re: [Koha-devel] Do you want to see a Koha 18.05 running Elastic Search in production ?

2018-06-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> just go there : https://koha.bulac.fr kudos to BULAC for this move ! And thanks to them for the developments they've sponsored (and are on bugzilla) PS: they made it by themselves, so no reason to congratulate BibLibre ;) >>    I saw the Korean in the upper left, and I just had t

Re: [Koha-devel] KohaCon18 social stuff

2018-08-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!   For folks passing through DCA, IAD, or BWI feel free to drop me a line. I'd love to meet up if you have a layover or show you around if you have a couple of days before Conference. Cheers,Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@l

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Some very sad news.

2022-11-18 Thread BWS Johnson
Dear Community, The gardener of godzone will be sorely missed. It was tough keeping up with her at any age. She was a national treasure, and richly deserved the international name she made for herself. Never would she have crowed about it on her own, of course. https://digitalnz.org/recor

Re: [Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-09-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >   (...or just delete the old doco)++     Don't pick this option. Warn instead. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_warning_templates)     As someone with deprecated documentation, on the few occasions when I return to clean things up, I count on my old doc being there as

Re: [Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC

2012-09-18 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I am not feeling comfortable with adding more search options to the masthead > search bar too. As you wrote it should be simple to use and we already offer > a > lot of options there. > > One of the bugs noted that the full functionality can not be achieved by > using > jQuery, s

Re: [Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC

2012-09-18 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> Would it be a helpful starting point if I screenshot what folks are talking > about >> and then rearrange it how it would look in my world? > > What do you mean by "how it would look in my world?" > I mean how I'd do it if I were empress of everything and could code. In reality,

Re: [Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC

2012-09-18 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     My inclination is that I'm answering this too soon and that I've not thought enough about your questions in particular, but I've thought over structure in general and I want to honour an expedient timeframe for your question in especial. > We could all chime in about which featur

[Koha-devel] Merci Frédéric! Re: It's string freeze time again

2012-10-15 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Frederic for all his hard > work as translation manager, he has done a fantastic job.     And I would add for a LONG time! Merci beaucoup! Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists

Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts from QA team

2012-10-24 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >I agree with Marc V. agreeing with Katrin. :)     Oh yeah, well I triple dog agree with you.     I think a separate list might slightly hinder a would be bug wrangler.     nofences++ Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@l

Re: [Koha-devel] Upgrading Koha's license?

2012-11-14 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > But what do we actually have to do to distribute as GPLv3? Do we just > have to vote at an IRC meeting, or would all ~200 developers with code > in Koha have to give their written consent or something? >     I'd say simple majority at an IRC meeting with this advertised on the agend

Re: [Koha-devel] kc.org support companies page broken...

2013-02-14 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/country/#ind >     Works for me using Firefox on my Mac both from the direct link Liz provided and from the navigation links on the site. Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-deve

Re: [Koha-devel] Authority Marc Structure Import/Export Function

2013-02-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >What do folks think about adding an import/export function for the authorities >marc structure frameworks?     I think if ye manage and nengard likes it, I'll buy ye a beeyah. Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.ko

Re: [Koha-devel] Opinions needed on bug 9322

2013-02-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     OhEmGee, Galen's ears must have been burning. >I could see wanting to have an item > auto-transfer to C after a period of time, a la rotating collections.         I agree and I'll think on the other one some more. I would say that rotating collections are common.     > Perhap

Re: [Koha-devel] Feedback from french translation team about transifex

2013-03-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Bearing in mind that I personally would like to see Pootle as implemented die a terrible, rotten, no good death, I think finding a replacement requires a lot of scrutiny. While it's promising that Transifex looks good so far, I'd love to know how the experience has played o

Re: [Koha-devel] Jesse Weaver (pianohacker) will be working with ByWater for the Summer. Special Request to join QAA team..

2013-04-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! That's great news if you ask this non dev. :) Cheers, Brooke___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : h

Re: [Koha-devel] Jesse Weaver will be working with ByWater for the Summer.

2013-04-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Won't matter. Everyone knows that Galen is a bot. *duck* Cheers, Brooke___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.o

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha numbering

2013-04-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! You silly, silly man. Everyone knows that anything past nine isn't real maths. ;) xkcd.com/899/ I still mostly don't care how things are numbered. I care far more that thongs operate how they ought to. Cheers, Brooke___ Koha-devel

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha numbering

2013-04-07 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Thank you for that, Jared. Hopefully my mail won't be ate. When the initial thread started, I didn't really care. At this point, I feel like the spirit of the discussion has shifted from pure numbering to the development release cycle. I also am a little torn on the large nu

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 3.12.0 is released

2013-05-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Wow what a very long list. :D Thanks to everyone for their hard work! Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.ko

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 3.12 Live DVD released

2013-05-24 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > You can download the Live DVD from here, > https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd/files >     Well that was quick! Thank you. :) Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-commun

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-06-01 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >Tarballs, packages, gits (including vendors), stables, latest, bugs and patches, wikis (various), tools, reports, live-DVDs, mailing lists, chat, maybe more, and now plug-ins?  Could we please look at what the "open source" world is doing? Apache, SendMail, Perl, PostFix, FireFox, Debia

Re: [Koha-devel] Kohacon13 hackfest: presenting deployement & project management

2013-09-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > Paul Poulain schrieb am 03.09.2013 >> Hi all, >> >> There's something I think should we worth sharing: how does support >> companies manage Koha project & Koha deployement (who do what, when, >> which usual timing, ...) > > I'd love to hear more about that topic. Unfortunately I

Re: [Koha-devel] Summary of Open session at KohaCon13 - with a focus on Funding the Future of Koha.

2013-11-06 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >I’d like to give a summary of a open discussion that occurred at KohaCon14 in Reno.  A spot opened up from a presenter not being able to attend - so I volunteered to lead a discussion on Funding the future of Koha.   First we invited all current and past RM’s of Koha up to the front o

Re: [Koha-devel] ping Koha (developers) community

2013-12-09 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > > As for the SO bottleneck, I see know answer except for more encouragement > for the end-users to test and sign-off, as well as absolutely clear, > step-by-step test plans. > Yep, that's all I can see too, maybe I could work on some openbadges stuff, you could win badges by

Re: [Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

2014-02-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     In general for your efforts: bravissimi! :D I feel that it's much needed. > We are very interested to hearing your first impressions, your suggestions > etc. > about this proposed project. Please respond to this e-mail if you have any > comments. Probably the best contributions d

Re: [Koha-devel] Wiki page update question

2014-02-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Did someone say wiki? :D     1) Yeah to what Mark said.     2) There's a sooper sekrit alternate path that wikinerds are familiar with for stuff you might wanna keep track of but not really properly change or make properly public. For instance, if I'm working on a wiki todo list, I

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal for a change in guidelines for the sign-off process in the Koha-community

2014-10-15 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! The volunteer model is a good part of what is stalling the process. I can't see that having a single company sign off on their own code will necessarily ameliorate the problem if the companies themselves do not place enough of a value on bug testing that they are willing to inclu

Re: [Koha-devel] PRESENTATION: New member

2015-06-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >>My name is Anders, working at Luleå Technical University. >>My background is old-school Oracle DBA Jwith Java/SED/AWK/Unix shell >>script/C++ and Fortran as programing languages. >>Unix/Linux experience. >> >>Have been walking a long way in the promiSED land, sometimes with awk as my

Re: [Koha-devel] Thoughts about timing and Koha schedules

2015-08-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >This sounds very reasonable. >But I just want to add that August is probably not that great for releasing a >new version. In July and August the community is not on its most active state >of the year :) > I realise that developers are behind the schedule. However, if we're tal

Re: [Koha-devel] Start of new release. Some updates.

2015-12-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! This is what you mean, right Paul? http://coral-erm.org/ As usual, I agree with Paul's line of thought. I have wondered an awful lot over the years what things would be like were Koha to be treated like a racecar with modules. If we strip things down to the chassis and allow Lib

Re: [Koha-devel] Need to improve anti-spam for opac-suggestions

2016-02-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Shouldn't that just draw on the list of registered borrowers? I'm trying to think of a situation where I'd take a suggestion from someone that's not a Patron, and in those cases they either ring the Library directly or email me. Cheers, Brooke __

Re: [Koha-devel] Need to improve anti-spam for opac-suggestions

2016-02-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > This issue first arose at a library whose collection is 100% digital. > Users are not even registered, so never log in. Any suggestions are > necessarily anonymous. Ah, how interesting. This additional information is very helpful. No wonder there is a much higher incidence of

Re: [Koha-devel] Country-specific forks?

2016-02-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > So do we want one Koha to rule them all, including country-specific > features, or do we want one fork per country? +1 to One Koha to Rule Them All, provided that Koha remain GPL as always and not under Sauron's control. ;) But seriously, a long time ago when animals could

Re: [Koha-devel] Wiki - Delete/disable user Xdbmsx

2016-03-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> I accidentally approved a new wiki user last night (I thought I had > rejected >> it, but must have approved it :-( ). >> >> Could someone who has permission disable/block the user Xdbmsx as I > don't have >> permissions to do this. >> >> The user has also created several page

Re: [Koha-devel] Kylie Brice Hall

2016-03-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I would like to announce that Kyle will no longer be supported as he's been deprecated by Hall 2.0. *duck* Seriously, congratulations! Cheers, Brooke > > From: Nick Clemens >To: Todd Goatley ; Kyle Hall > >Cc: Koha ; Koha Devel >; All Staff ;

Re: [Koha-devel] POC of a new plugin system

2016-05-26 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Thank you for all of your hardwork, Julian and Kyle. It's ever so nice to see the Koha Community move ever forward. Cheers, Brooke > I don't know exactly how yet, but yes the plan is to provide a > replacement for the current plugin system, while letting the possibility > for th

Re: [Koha-devel] How do we find consensus on interface changes?

2016-06-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > For my part, I'd love to see Owen as benevolent dictator of Koha's GUI. > I > think he has the most experience, interest, and skill out of all of us in > this area. This is +1 from me, but I should hope this discussion migrates over to the plain vanilla Koha list. It is where a

Re: [Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns

2017-04-19 Thread BWS Johnson
+1 :D From: Alex Sassmannshausen To: Eric Phetteplace Cc: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:23 AM Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns Hi Eric, Eric Phetteplace writes: > Hi list, > > I opened bug #18432 > https://bugs.koha-commu

Re: [Koha-devel] Suggestions requested for a feature / enhancement based around opac-retrieve-file.pl

2017-06-26 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I would be surprised if this is very different from some of the other authentication work that has already been done. ByWater did work with OverDrive that might be useful to think about. There are numerous ways to handle this. You could create a verified user category. They

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Summary of Global Signoff Day 2011-06-15 - more to come?

2011-06-17 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > -- Better/other lists and visualisations? A notch in the belt visualisation. You know you wanna. > -- Could we use some kind of VoIP/videoconferencing tools to make the > social interactions seem more um... "real"? > Mumble, it's like Ventrilo, but bettah. http://sourceforge.net/

Re: [Koha-devel] Global bug squashing day #2 - 1 short summary and 2 questions

2011-07-09 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > Now that actually looks less impressive than it is. A lot of bugs were I disagree! Those are great numbers :D Thanks for another job well done. > And as Paul has already said somewhere else, a lot of work was also > put into organizing RFCs on the wiki: > http://wiki.koha-community

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Kohacon11 : Last date of paper submission extended till August 30 2011

2011-08-17 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! >This means we have to drop the "Advertisements in the >conferenceproceedings publication" type of sponsorship. The largest >sponsor we have Bharat Grahak had opted for back page of the same and I would >hate to lose that sponsorship.  I hope the other sponsors who had opted for >

Re: [Koha-devel] Fwd: Interested to speak at KohaCon 2011

2011-10-14 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora!     That's great news! Thanks for this, Paul, I'm sure that everyone will be excited to hear what our friends at Open Library have to say. :D Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

2011-11-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >The situation we find ourselves in, is that after over a year of battling >against it, PTFS/Liblime have managed to have their application for a Trademark on Koha in New Zealand accepted. We now have 3 months to object, but to do so involves lawyers and money. We are a small semi rural

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

2011-11-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > 2011/11/22 Lori Bowen Ayre : >> The truth is that the law isn't really on the Koha community's side >> on this issue because of the sale of the domain to Liblime way back when.     I think it's premature to say that. To my knowledge, this hasn't actually been navigated in court yet

Re: [Koha-devel] Update database changes proposal [IMPORTANT]

2011-11-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > Maybe a middle solution would be to have do a check on the login page > only (or on mainpage.pl ?). As it's mandatory to log-in on the staff > interface, that seems fair.     Any reason not to do it at logoff in the background? Cheers, Brooke ___

Re: [Koha-devel] Version numbering, starting a discussion

2011-12-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> how about vegetables? (asparagus, broccoli, carrot, etc...) >     If we're going to be this silly, I'd go with Cait's sweets idea modified for the appropriate nationality of the KohaCon host for the year the release is out.  > > my favorite (other than any food category) is im

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha IRC Holiday Shindig

2011-12-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > 2011/12/8 Liz Rea : >> So. It's happy holiday time of year - I propose that we all get > together on 22/23 December in the Koha IRC channel, maybe setup some Hangouts > (or other video link) and have a jolly good time at this jolly good time of > year. >> >> What do you think?

Re: [Koha-devel] IRC meeting decision about "discussion"

2012-02-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > (Koha general mailing list reader: this mail is also for you, please > read it's an opportunity to participate to Koha, even if you don't have > technical skills !) >     +1 > * the delay for discussion is "until next IRC meeting, not less than 1 > week"     I think that should

Re: [Koha-devel] IRC meeting decision about "discussion"

2012-02-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> I think this is a valid point. The meeting agendas are posted well in >> advance, so it should be possible to arrange to be present for a vote. > Well, with time shifting, don't expect ppl from the "it's 2AM" > timezone > to be here, so I strongly think we should adress this issue.

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Call for Nominations: Roles for 3.10

2012-03-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Tena Koutou! > Just a bump... we still need a Translation Manager (someone with a > non-English first language preferred), and specific module maintainers. > More bug wranglers are always welcome, too! >     *cough* Marjiana or Dorbica *cough* > He aha te mea nui o te ao? > He tangata! > He t

[Koha-devel] To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow

2012-04-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     If you only make 2 IRC Meetings a year, tomorrow's is one to catch. 4 April at 10 UTC     we're voting on roles for 3.10. There's still time to visit the wiki, step up, and volunteer in advance of the meeting. So have your +1s at the ready! See you soon, Brooke ___

[Koha-devel] KohaCon 2013 Wiki Reminder

2012-05-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     A while back, a mess of folks expressed interest over the listserv in bidding for KohaCon 2013. This is great. :) What is not great is that the folks that proclaimed their love of hosting over the listserv do not match with this wiki page: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohac

Re: [Koha-devel] About IRC meeting & voting

2012-06-14 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!         I'm still mulling over the whole voting by proxy thing: I really don't like it, but I need to sort out and share precisely why. (Much of my reservations have to do with an erosion of Community and a ratcheting up of administrative duties.)     That said, having LimeSurvey up a

Re: [Koha-devel] Social library

2012-06-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Two things. The first is that Paul is not only French, but also quite modest. So, he will probably not tell you that he was working on making Koha and SOPAC work together (at least a few years back.) This *might* satisfy your needs (or you might think it's lipstick on the pig.) ht

Re: [Koha-devel] Social library

2012-06-23 Thread BWS Johnson
Salve! >        Fisrt, thanks for sharing this: http://thesocialopac.net/. It's really >nice way to find some help. I agree with you about the law's problem. We can >solve it with some option for user to choose like "sharing you action to your >friends, not sharing...". And if u ask, where we

Re: [Koha-devel] About IRC meeting & voting

2012-07-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >>     That said, having LimeSurvey up and available to the community at large > would just be so fantastic. > Nicole gave me a limeSurvey admin access. I'll use it when a discussion > arise, and we will see if it fit our needs. > If it does, we can open a survey.koha-community.org. Bu

Re: [Koha-devel] About Release process

2012-07-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Perhaps no one will notice that I'm commenting from the wrong side of the marae. >.> <.<     I know I tell this story all the bloody time, and I realise that this is the Developers' list so imagine me ducking rotten veg.     I agree with Ian's observations. Also, he spelt "favour

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha using Security gate for library!

2012-07-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I'm building a library with Koha. I had a barcode reader, 4 camera with a > computer. I going to buy a security gate for market. I don't know, does koha > work with this security gate or not? Does security work with barcode? Or > security gate works with its private system. >    

Re: [Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-08-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > the big problem is... > there are too many 'Koha installation guides' on the kc.org wiki that > have old ,incorrect, redundant or duplicated info >         Alternatively, we could mark those entries up with wiki tags to reflect that there is old, incorrect, or redundant redundant