Hah - looks like RNZ NineToNoon this morning (at 9:35), will be interviewing my former colleague Chris Cormack about #Koha (https://koha-community.org/) - the NZ-founded, world-leading #libre / #FOSS library management software. Cool!
Time for a new ByWater Solutions' Question of the Week!
This week's question is: "What happens to claim return history on deleted items?"
The answer: https://zurl.co/CFjh6
Today, as an evening amusement, I fixed a very nast Bug in the #Koha test suite, that did not occure when running only the affected test file, but only when also running some other tests: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39700
The root cause was a function returning a list, but the test calling the function in scalar context. Unfortunately a classic #Perl footgun :-(
Today I fought against AI bots that where scraping / DDoSing one of our customers library OPAC. The quick fix was to block all non-EU IP address. We don't have a good fix yet, but can draw on a lot of ideas that where discussed at #Koha Hackfest. #JohnConner
Time for a new Monday Minutes from the Team at ByWater Solutions.
This week, Nick and Jessie talk about holds on the staff side!
The video: https://zurl.co/goIk4
The blog: https://zurl.co/akenq
BibLibre était présent au symposium Koha 2025 à Nice 
Notre retour sur l'événement est disponible dans le billet ci-dessous 
https://www.biblibre.com/fr/blog/retour-sur-le-symposium-koha-2025/
Time for another ByWater Solutions Question of the Week!
This week's question is: "How come I see different numbers between total checkouts and item's checkout history?"
Read the answer at https://zurl.co/tfaMM
Today I opened 5 "bugs" (in fact feature requests) regarding #Koha Elasticsearch, QA'ed a rather complex one and did a code review on #37020 (bulkmarcimport dieing on large files). And had a very nice last day at the Koha Hackfest!
Today I moderated a discussion about #Koha ElasticSearch bugs and improvement ideas. It was very helpful for me to get feedback from experienced Koha devs. I still need to set up bugs in Bugzilla, though.
#potd How many Koha devs does it take to block AI bots? Meeting at #Koha Hackfest about ways to prevent AI bots from killing our library services. (And you don't even see the remote attendees on the picture) http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-04-02.html
Today I failed quite a few of joubus Perl Quiz questions at #Koha hackfest. I blame my brain for being mostly trained on sane Perl code to fail to recognize all the horrible corner cases he presented.
#Bibliomeme / #Memebibliotecario dedicado a tod@s l@s compas #bibliotecarias y #bibliotecarios que están sufriendo y padeciendo enfurecidamente la migración a #Koha en sus #bibliotecas 
Today at the first day of the #Koha Hackfest in Marseille I QA'ed a bunch of bugs. It took me a while to remember all the workflows...
Der Katalog des VDMT Archivs basiert auf #koha @KohaILS, es werden derzeit noch die Daten aufgebaut, UnterstützerInnen bei den Vereinen gesucht! Ziel ist es, hier einen Katalog für verschiedene Archive zu erstellen, auch die Daten in lokalen Museumsbahnarchiven sollen eingepflegt werden. #hilfegesucht #bibliothek #archiv
Today I fought a bit to get koha-testing-docker up and running (after not starting it for a few weeks). But I got help on the chat, worked it out (pulling containers was the issue) and submitted a merge request: https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker/-/merge_requests/536. Which was promptly merged :-) #Koha
So we had a question on our online chat room thing. A person is trans wanted to change the name on their card and asked how to do so. This isn't an option on our OPAC/discover layer, but it is on the back end. I wasn't sure of the answer, so I waited to see what someone else says.
A neat new thing in #Koha is "preferred name." It comes up in parentheses in Koha. Not sure what it does in #Aspen . Might need to test that...
Anyway, it seems our rules to change that are you can do it over chat, just prove who you are with your library card number and a couple other bits of info, (I call this "20 questions",) and that will be amended.
To change the actual name however, you have to come in. I don't think it has to be changed on a legal ID, but you have to prove more acutely who you are.
I suspect we keep a note on legal name on file, but I don't know.
Still, it's nice that you don't have to be deadnamed at checkout.
Today I tried to extract a list of IDs stored in a JSON struct stored in a XML column stored in a MySQL table into virtual rows (one id per row), so I could do a select on them. Didn't manage it, but in the end it was fast enough to work with the IDs stored in a string and some regex. #Koha
This week's ByWater Question of the Week: "Why isn't this item or record showing in my public catalog?"
The answer: https://zurl.co/iCnPm
Mitarbeiter*in Bibliothek (m/w/d), Teilzeit, befristet | https://www.oefse.at/fileadmin/content/Downloads/Ueber/Ausschreibung_Mitarbeiter_in_Bibliothek.pdf | https://bibliojobs.eu/stellenangebote/109044/
#bibliojobs
#Katalogisierung #Koha #MARC21 #Österreich #RDA #Schalterdienst #Wien
