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07:32 csharp @quote random
07:32 pinesol_green csharp: Quote #24: "<denials> when git doesn't kill you, it makes you smarter" (added by gmcharlt at 03:58 PM, May 03, 2012)
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08:51 _bott_ Why had I never clicked on the "3D View" in Firefox's Web Developer tools?  Wasting too much time this morning looking at the layers of my TPAC at funny angles.
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09:03 jeff morning!
09:04 jeff tsbere: glad to see you get bug 1296937 out there. thanks!
09:04 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1296937 in SIPServer "SIP2 Patron Information times out on too many checkouts/holds" (affected: 1, heat: 6) [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1296937
09:05 tsbere jeff: I wrote the code a while back, and then apparently forgot to open the bug. <_<
09:08 jeff tsbere: i could probably comment in-bug, but it looks like were it not for the ordering of the arguments to OpenILS::SIP::Items::charged_items, the Evergreen and SIPServer changes could be put in place independent of each other.
09:09 jeff Do you have an objection to ordering the charged_items arguments in a slightly more backward-compatible but slightly annoyingly inconsistent ($start, $end, $force_bc, $ids_only) order?
09:10 jeff oh, wait.
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09:11 jeff nope, nevermind. question remains. :-)
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09:13 jeff though in this specific case the add_count call would be the only thing affected, and there I don't think it matters if the items have barcode or not, since it's just counting.
09:14 jeff I don't think that there is any current practical implication, now it's just a matter of "do we want to get out of the habit of changing positional arguments to functions".
09:15 jeff Because next time, there may be more practical implications. :-)
09:15 jeff How's that for a boring Tuesday morning topic of discussion?
09:15 jeff @monologue
09:15 pinesol_green jeff: Your current monologue is at least 9 lines long.
09:18 Dyrcona jeff: We could pass all arguments as hashes or hashrefs, at least in Perl.
09:19 Dyrcona Or, were you talking about database functions?
09:19 jeff in this case, I'm talking perl.
09:19 jeff and I almost inserted a little "now if only we were using named arguments" :-)
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09:20 Dyrcona DB functions can have named arguments.
09:20 Dyrcona We use that combined with defaults for a lot of our helper functions at MVLC.
09:22 tsbere jeff: I figure that this isn't a big deal on changing order of arguments as I suspect the only use of the argument being moved was internal anyway. <_<
09:22 tsbere jeff: And I would rather be consistent with the argument positioning across the functions
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09:24 jeff tsbere: once i realized that the changed call to charged_items in SIPServer didn't care if it was getting barcodes or not, I reached that same conclusion. :-)
09:24 jeff tsbere++
09:24 jeff (for the code and bug, not for having the same opinion as i) :-)
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09:36 tsbere jeff: As an FYI, in testing I saw *massive* improvements in response time, though I also did things like "put a hold on every bib in the concerto database" as part of testing. Not 100% realistic, IMO, but meh. ;)
09:38 tsbere (fun doing things like "insert into action.hold_request(blah blah) select blah blah, id, blah blah from biblio.record_entry where not deleted" during testing, I think I did the same with asset.copy at one point too....
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09:48 jeff tsbere: You and I have talked before, but I have ~40 holds on my account on a normal day due to my use of suspended holds, and I expect I would see several seconds shaved off of my account retrieval at a SIP client
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10:04 eeevil hrm... I have an objection to changing the param order, though I'll b happy to be talked out of it: koha using sipserver
10:04 * eeevil runs away for a meeting
10:07 pinesol_green [evergreen|Remington Steed] Change xref syntax to avoid docs processing bug - <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=​Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=5c36436>
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10:11 csharp unforking_sip_server++
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10:15 egbuilder build #539 of evergreen-master-fedora-18 is complete: Success [build successful]  Build details are at http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/buildbot/bu​ilders/evergreen-master-fedora-18/builds/539
10:16 phasefx huzzah
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10:35 tsbere eeevil: The parameter in question was, in fact, an internal evergreen parameter, not one that SIPServer used directly. <_<
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10:38 eeevil tsbere: internal to the driver? i thought the call was being made from the core. or do you mean the param was a phantom... either way, if thats right, sounds low risk
10:41 tsbere eeevil: the EG SIP2 code had a "barcodes, not titles" parameter it used. I bumped it out one to keep the rest of the similar calls using my new parameter in that slot. SIPServer did not make the call directly, EG passed that in for an internal "Renew All" lookup
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11:18 jeff hah! I was JUST talking here about unforking sipserver. :-)
11:19 csharp jeff++ # you mentioned it to me re: Koha/EG cross polination ;-)
11:22 jeff yeah.
11:22 jeff at this point i don't know how much effort it would take, how much value the koha community would see in it, or if rolling it into CPAN would make it easier on all, etc.
11:22 jeff but I think about it from time to time. :-)
11:23 eeevil b_bonner: just a head's up, here's a bug for the feature we talked about in the hall at the conf: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1296926
11:23 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1296926 in Evergreen "Item Status Alternate View Screen Needs Call Number Prefix and Call Number Suffix Fields" (affected: 1, heat: 8) [Undecided,New]
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11:30 jeff curse you syndetics for your poor formatting
11:30 jeff and for fixing it in only one of your products.
11:30 jeff which almost makes it worse. :P
11:32 jeff @who knows the true identity of hwwesterkid?
11:32 pinesol_green yboston knows the true identity of hwwesterkid.
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12:32 dreuther eeevil: If you get some time could you give me some guidance on https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1152863
12:32 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1152863 in Evergreen "Support for traditional Boolean operators" (affected: 3, heat: 20) [Wishlist,Triaged]
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12:47 jeff dreuther: offering the following as someone who probably isn't currently in a position to assist, I would strongly recommend that you not direct your inquiries to any single individual, and to send queries on the open-ils-dev list, where:
12:47 jeff 1) the pool of potential responders is higher
12:47 jeff 2) the list is more suitable for asynchronous communication
12:49 jeff long form questions also seem to work better on the list, and the pool of individuals potentially benefitting from seeing your question and any answers/conversation is higher.
12:49 dreuther jeff:  Ok I will try that out.  Thanks for the help
12:49 jeff dreuther: you're welcome!
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13:14 kmlussier dbs: I'm hearing that there are errors in the source file for the Book of Evergreen that prevent it from being printed. Do you know if that is something rsoulliere could take care of?
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13:16 kmlussier Bleh, not Book of Evergreen. Evergreen in Action.
13:16 jeff kmlussier: ah, i was about to ask for clarification. :-)
13:16 krvmga Is that like the Book of Eli? Do I need a machete?
13:19 jeff kmlussier: dbs is at code4lib with poor wifi, so might be a while in responding. do you have any detail on the error?
13:19 bshum He's actually speaking right now
13:19 jeff kmlussier: as for fixing it, in theory that can be done by anyone at the FLOSS Manuals site, linked from http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku​.php?id=books:evergreen_in_action:help
13:19 kmlussier I didn't expect an immediate answer. :)
13:19 kmlussier krvmga: might have more information.
13:19 krvmga i'm not sure what got passed to lulu.com for printing.
13:20 krvmga i know that the lulu book looks and is sized differently from the galleys that we got.
13:21 kmlussier krvmga: I think that's because we made a lot of adjustments in the first week or two after the sprint.
13:23 kmlussier krvmga: To be honest, that book should be updated anyway. I know some of those areas have changed since 2.3.
13:23 jeff weird. there's a pdf claiming a 2013-01-09 date and "License: None" being served up by flossmanuals.
13:24 krvmga kmlussier: we need a new, updated edition
13:24 kmlussier It looks like the PDF and epub available on FLOSS Manuals is fine - it's just the lulu site that has the problem?
13:25 krvmga yes, lulu told me they couldn't print the book because of problems with the source file.
13:25 kmlussier krvmga: My recollection is that rsoulliere set up the book in Lulu, but my memory is hazy.
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14:07 bshum Dyrcona++ # working branch for 0872 fixing
14:08 Dyrcona Pfft. That's nothing.
14:09 rfrasur Hah...first landscaping appt of the year and it's snowing.  Not the best day to be a landscaper.
14:21 Dyrcona bshum: dbwells branch on lp 1290496 fixes the local Z search for me.
14:21 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1290496 in Evergreen "Import z3950 - using local catalog search option results in network error" (affected: 2, heat: 10) [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1290496
14:21 bshum Dyrcona: Cool, if you feel like pushing it, go ahead.
14:21 bshum It worked fine for me too when we were hammering at it
14:22 Dyrcona bshum: Well, I wonder if it needs more testing, and is it really related to Sitka's issue with acquisitions?
14:24 Dyrcona heh.. Syndetics....
14:24 Dyrcona My first test search was Aleph by Paulo Coelho, and the first copy gets a cover of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
14:37 Dyrcona After some more looking, I guess we should push the branch. I don't think either of the more permanent fixes are going to happen before release.
14:41 jl- do people still use these tools: http://coffeecode.net/egdocs/1.6/draft/html/​migrating_records_using_migration_tools.html I recall someone saying that the pg_loader is slow and not recommended
14:42 Dyrcona jl-: I certainly hope no one still uses those tools.
14:42 Dyrcona jl-: Equinox has a public git repo with some of the tools that they use.
14:43 jl- thx, I thought so
14:44 Dyrcona jl-: http://git.esilibrary.com/?p=​migration-tools.git;a=summary
14:47 jl- Dyrcona: thx
15:14 bshum Dyrcona: I'm not so sure about the acq issues.  We weren't able to replicate the errors consistently.
15:14 bshum Dyrcona: I got it at least once, but it didn't break the next time I tried.
15:14 bshum dbwells seemed to think that the code may be related, but berick did not
15:14 Dyrcona bshum: You can see my concerns in the latest comment on the bug.
15:15 bshum Either way though, I think I agree with your assessment that the questions posed by dbwells on the bug may not be solvable before 2.6.0 needs to be out.
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15:30 dbwells I am not even sure what the acq issue actually is (is there a bug for it?), so I have no idea if it's related.  I merely noticed when grepping that there is a z3950 search option in the code for creating picklists.
15:31 Dyrcona dbwells: The question is, do we push your fix into master or wait for something better to materialize?
15:32 dbwells bshum Dyrcona: If either of you could push that fix, I'd appreciate it.  Discussion and a more permanent fix can come later.  I commented on the but to that effect and added the missing pullrequest.
15:32 dbwells s/the but/the bug/
15:32 Dyrcona dbwells: Will do!
15:33 dbwells Dyrcona++ # thanks!
15:35 pinesol_green [evergreen|Dan Wells] LP#1290496: The quest for knowledge is over - <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=​Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=988605e>
15:37 eeevil bwahaha... well, my comment was a bit late. tl;dr: push it. push it REAL good.
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15:39 eeevil related, for later, we need to gut 80%+ of Publisher/metabib.pm, methinks
15:41 bshum Dyrcona++ # thanks, I was distracted talking to Bmagic about git usage.
15:41 jihpringle bshum: I've done some more acq testing and I think what we were seeing was related to Vandelay and queues rather than Z39.50
15:42 jihpringle and can be avoided by chosing the right options in vandelay
15:42 bshum jihpringle: That's what we were suspecting based on what berick was trying to tell me I think.
15:42 bshum jihpringle: Glad to hear you're looking into it though.
15:44 jihpringle I can confirm that the MARC Federated Search is broken for the local catalogue by the z39.50 issue which will be what dbwells saw for creating picklists
15:45 jihpringle I'm hoping to get the fix applied to our test server later today to confirm that the MARC Federated Search gets fixed by it, unless someone else has already tested that piece
15:45 eeevil bshum: on https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1249480 did you push that to 2.5 also, or were there merge problems there?
15:45 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1249480 in Evergreen 2.5 "staff client localstore.rdf can grow too large" (affected: 2, heat: 10) [Undecided,New]
15:46 bshum eeevil: I believe I only pushed it to master because I got distracted
15:46 bshum Let me check though
15:46 bshum Oh, I see, rel_2_4 had conflicts
15:46 eeevil bug suggests so, but wasn't sure
15:46 bshum (have to re-read my own comments)
15:47 eeevil I'll address 2.4 if it's straight-forward
15:47 bshum Just a cursory glance at rel_2_5 seems to me that I didn't push it there
15:47 Dyrcona It picks clean into 2.5 for me.
15:48 bshum Agreed, it would for rel_2_5
15:48 bshum I probably just got distracted when I was working on it and stopped :\
15:49 Dyrcona I can push it unless someone else wants to.
15:49 bshum jihpringle: That'd be great to test if you can apply the patch for the z3950 one to see if it's similarly affected.
15:49 bshum I'll try to carve some time to look at the MARC federated search in acq later on our end too.  Maybe.  If I ever go home from conferences :)
15:56 berick for ref, the acq/vandelay issue (one of them) was about not picking a queue during import, which is required.
15:59 eeevil bshum: arg ... so, there's enough drift that it's far from clear that I won't break things with a simple pick-and-fix
16:00 bshum eeevil: Yeah I think that's why I skipped it.  Sorry.  (tell people to upgrade!)
16:00 * Dyrcona pushed it to 2.5, btw.
16:00 rangi does someone from equinox have time for an utterly random non evergreen question?
16:00 eeevil bshum: np, and indeed ;)
16:00 Dyrcona :)
16:01 eeevil rangi: sure
16:02 bradl rangi: if it deals with the speed of unladen swallow, I'm out
16:02 rangi eeevil: so, im gonna be in atlanta from the 22nd to the 26th of april
16:02 rangi and my zareason laptop is dead, so i was wondering if i got a laptop from system76
16:02 eeevil go on.... ;)
16:02 rangi would i be able to get it shipped to your office, and I pick it up from there?
16:03 eeevil bradl: any objections? none from me ...
16:03 eeevil rangi: that's very trusting of you ;)
16:03 * eeevil looks forward to his shiny new laptop
16:03 rangi heh
16:03 rangi if you cant trust fellow FOSS devs who can you trust? :)
16:04 bradl I don't see any problems with that.
16:04 rangi awesome, it will force me to have to come say hi too
16:04 eeevil rangi: the physical address on our site iw where you'll want to send it
16:04 eeevil indeed!
16:05 rangi perfect thank you
16:05 rangi ill bring you some nz beer, since you have saved me about 200$ in shipping and customs
16:06 eeevil nice! do the bubbles go down?
16:06 bradl rangi: someone from our office may be attending that same meeting... so we could maybe deliver that laptop to you...
16:06 rangi oh even easier!
16:06 RoganH rangi: bradl: did someone say beer?
16:06 eeevil RoganH: c'mon down, friend!
16:06 rangi id probably get lost, i do that in small nz cities, im pretty sure atlanta has more people than the whole of nz :)
16:07 eeevil RoganH: I hear there's a great pizza place that delivers near us ... ;)
16:07 csharp impromptu_software_meetings_near_me++
16:07 RoganH eeevil: I could make arrangements.
16:07 rangi :)
16:07 RoganH eeevil: I'll arrange for the pizza.
16:07 rangi i'd totally be up for hanging out with pizza and beer one of the evenings
16:07 * bshum has been looking for ways to burn off vacation days..
16:08 eeevil ( but don't anyone tell csharp abou.... ah! too late!)
16:08 eeevil man, this is starting to sound like a party!
16:08 csharp muhahaha
16:08 rangi :)
16:10 RoganH rangi: let me know when you're going to drop by and if the ESI offices don't mind a bit of interruption I'll pop down and arrange for pizza
16:10 rangi on my list of must sees i have the aquarium, the fox theatre (convientyly across the road from my hotel) and mary macs tea room
16:10 csharp mary_macss++
16:10 rangi which i plan to squeeze in on the 23rd
16:10 RoganH rangi: the aquarium and tea room are both great
16:10 * jeff reads scroll
16:10 csharp crappy_conference_wifi--
16:11 csharp Mary Macs is right around the corner if you're by the Fox
16:11 rangi yeah im at indigo midtown something something
16:12 csharp cool
16:12 eeevil jeff: feeling like a trip south?
16:12 rangi apparently there is a nice gastro pub
16:12 rangi publik i think
16:13 rangi not too far either
16:13 jeff heh. sounds like a party, but not likely one i'll be able to make it to. :-)
16:15 rangi Dyrcona: is this the one you have https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1 ?
16:15 Dyrcona rangi: Yes, it is.
16:16 rangi sweet
16:17 Dyrcona rangi: sweet as. :)
16:17 Dyrcona My daughter has the Darter.
16:20 rangi well that just made my day, thanks people
16:24 rfrasur csharp: did you go straight from Boston to C4L?
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16:34 krvmga (eg 2.4) normally, if you move your cursor over "Add to my list" in catalog results, a popdown menu appears. has anyone noticed this doesn't seem to happen sometimes in browsers on linux?
16:35 krvmga i just tried in chrome and seamonkey and the popdown didn't appear
16:36 bshum So.... you're logged in right?
16:36 bshum And also, remind me what version you think you're on?
16:36 bshum Which one of 2.4.x
16:37 bshum I'm thinking there was a bug once with the contentcafe conflicting with the CSS generated by the add to my list
16:37 bshum I remember it being fixed, but don't know enough about your system otherwise to comment.
16:38 krvmga bshum: prbbbhhhh...ben, you're brkh..king up...krrrgjjkl;
16:38 krvmga i thought you could add things to a temporary list even if you weren't logged in.
16:38 krvmga i guess i was not right.
16:38 krvmga they show up fine if i'm logged in.
16:38 bshum Well you can add stuff to a temporary list when not logged in
16:39 bshum But the CSS popup doesn't appear because you're not logged in to see your other lists.
16:39 bshum There's only the one list, which is the temp one.
16:40 krvmga well, that explains some questions i've gotten from patrons.
16:40 krvmga i don't think they know they're adding to a temp list and they don't get any warning that they're losing the temp list.
16:41 krvmga i'm still on 2.4
16:44 mmorgan Can somebody explain how lp 1249480 might present itself to users of the staff client?
16:44 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1249480 in Evergreen "staff client localstore.rdf can grow too large" (affected: 2, heat: 10) [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1249480
16:48 jeff mmorgan: it may cause a large file to be uploaded and downloaded as part of your Windows roaming profile, if you are in an environment using roaming profiles and if your Evergreen client hasn't been configured to store the file elsewhere. It may also slow down certain operations in the staff client, as the contents of the large file are parsed and/or manipulated.
16:48 jeff mmorgan: there may be other impacts, or certain interfaces which are impacted more than others.
16:50 mmorgan So, could it cause frequent client crashes and errors? We have one library in particular experiencing these symptoms.
16:57 bshum Possible. Might not hurt to rule it out, but there are alot of potential reasons for things to go off the rails.
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17:02 mmorgan Thanks jeff:, bshum: will keep that in mind.
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17:05 jeff mmorgan: There are a small number of preferences that are stored in that file that would be lost by deleting it. You could move it out of place as an experiment.
17:06 mmorgan ok, will give that a try. Thanks.
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17:15 kmlussier yboston++ #IRC practice wrangling
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17:24 * kmlussier hopes to be in Atlanta and would love to meet up for pizza with RoganH and rangi too. :)
17:24 rangi excellent
17:26 rangi someone suggested i should go be an extra on the walking dead set
17:26 rangi which would work, as after 32 hours of flights and airports when i arrive on the 22nd i will be a zombie
17:27 kmlussier ha! I didn't know that was a possibility, but it could be fun.
17:28 jcamins rangi: my wife enjoyed extraing, but I can't say I see the appeal.
17:28 rangi my brother in law was in all 3 lotr
17:28 rangi he was an uruk hai
17:28 rangi died in all 3 too
17:29 rangi i auditioned but flubbed the riding horse bareback bit
17:29 jcamins That was nothing like Shari's extraing experience.
17:30 jcamins Mostly she was just sitting at tables.
17:31 rangi no being crushed by a piece of the wall from the hornburg then?
17:31 jcamins Nope.
17:32 rangi shot by an arrow, and trampled by a horse were the other 2 ways he was killed
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23:36 * jeff writes up a Syndetics bug or three

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