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First patch story

Friday, 11/17/2023

It's been a couple months since the Koha-US conference in Portsmouth. I've signed off on a few patches and through repetition am starting to get the process.

I'm testing this bug by running the page's html though the W3C Markup Validation Service.

🐛 35157: The searchfieldstype select element produces invalid HTML
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RESOLVED

Running through the test plan leads me to finding a another stray html tag and writing my first patch. Even though this patch only changes a single character to fix a single html tag and its effect is invisible to users, it changes my whole perception of my relationship with Koha.

🐛 35365: Incorrectly closed <th> tag on patron search page
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CLOSED

I learn that running koha-testing-docker frequently and testing patches not only teaches you about how Koha works, but it can help you finds bugs too.

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