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05:03 pinesol_green Incoming from qatests: Test Success - http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live/test.html <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live/test.html>
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08:13 jboyer-isl dbs++ ; Vacuum Analyze took care of the search timeouts on our migration testing server. Apparently when testing it’s no longer optional for us. Thanks!
08:23 rjackson-isl dbs++ and jboyer-isl++ - now the next set of libraries migrating to EI can review initial data pull! :-)
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13:40 pinesol_green bshum: tails
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14:25 jeffdavis When searching the staff client, we find that bib records with no copies may show up before records that do have holdings. Is there a way to reduce the relevance ranking of records with no copies? Or is this something that should already be happening?
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14:28 pgardella Running into trouble creating new staff users and looking for some help.
14:29 pgardella Even though we set the STAFF_LOGIN permissions, it still shows Found event description Permission Denied in the logs
14:29 pgardella Any ideas?
14:30 tsbere pgardella: Add working location(s)?
14:30 pgardella Yep.  Set.  Tried just 1 and then tried setting them all
14:31 mmorgan pgardella: is your workstation registered?
14:31 pgardella tsbere: I set them in User Permission Editor. Anywhere else?
14:31 pgardella I’m logged in now as egadmin on it
14:32 tsbere pgardella: Er, are you adding STAFF_LOGIN manually? If so, stop doing that and try changing their profile group to a staff one.
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14:34 pgardella I had added it by setting the user to Global Admin.
14:34 pgardella But now that I set the user to “System Admin”, it lets me log in.
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14:37 pgardella Hum.  It seems like only “System Administrator” lets me log in.  All of the others I tried failed.
14:37 pgardella So it’s a group permission problem?
14:39 mmorgan jeffdavis: I don't know the answer to your question but am also interested ...
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14:42 bshum jeffdavis: I wouldn't have expected empty bibs to place any higher or lower on the relevance scale for search results
14:43 bshum jeffdavis: I would have expected relevance to be purely based on the criteria used
14:44 bshum People have asked me that before in the past, and so far I've managed to count off more instances of the search terms in the empty bibs vs. the regular bibs, hence more relevant in a keyword search or some other factor defining its relevance.
14:44 eeevil bshum: you expect correctly
14:44 bshum It's just coincidence
14:45 bshum Perhaps if kmlussier / MassLNC get funding for the activity metric, that'll change though.
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14:45 bshum http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2585
14:46 pgardella I tried changing the group permissions of “Catalogers” to allow for STAFF_LOGIN, but that fails as well. So as of this moment, only those with “System Administrator” logins (which has Everything permissions on the System level) can log in.  Bizarre.
14:47 eeevil bshum: indeed. that will be a really cool project. and will allow a tonne of cool stuff down the road (always wanted user ratings? boom! want to push some specific books? boom!  have an awesomebox? boom!)
14:48 bshum I just happened to be looking at it earlier today, so that's what got me thinking about it.
14:48 eeevil jeffdavis: a bit more detail: the default tie breaker in the face of equal rel ranking is pubdate descending, so new editions would come first, all else being equal
14:50 jeffdavis The specific case that was flagged for us was a library scrolling through 10 pages of "NO COPIES" records for National Geographic before finding the record that their holdings are attached to.
14:50 jeffdavis So cleaning up our records is also part of the solution for use. :)
14:50 jeffdavis *us
14:51 eeevil :)
14:53 jeffdavis There is something fitting about having to work your way past huge stacks of useless, unwanted National Geographics in search results...
14:56 eeevil ha!
14:56 eeevil jeffdavis: just like browsing the stacks :)
14:57 bshum jeff++ # website wrangling
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14:59 Dyrcona pgardella: If you change permissions you need to quit the client and restart it.
15:00 Dyrcona Also, you should give STAFF_LOGIN to the Staff group. The other staff groups inherit from it.
15:20 gmcharlt jeffdavis: I am convinced that the mass of piles of old National Geographic magazines must be taken into account by NASA when calculating orbital trajectories
15:21 * bshum is trying out the make_release dance for the first time
15:21 bshum Entertaining!
15:29 jeffdavis gmcharlt++
15:36 bshum Oh, yay, i18n dance at last
15:36 bshum Figuring out all the dependencies was "fun" :)
15:40 bshum So yeah, once the environment is setup right, this does seem easier than I recalled from our 2.0 days.
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15:56 bshum RoganH: Thanks for signing off on https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1198475 ; I'm planning to get a little more testing on that myself and then push it up to master next week
15:56 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1198475 in Evergreen "Support for Lost and Paid Status" (affected: 3, heat: 16) [Wishlist,Confirmed]
15:56 RoganH bshum: I've been a bad tester but at least I got one in.  I'm hoping to get another couple in tomorrow if it's quiet at work.
15:56 bshum Unless someone else gets there first.
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16:02 eeevil it's official: I hate all SIP2 client programs
16:02 eeevil EOT
16:08 tsbere eeevil: Really? Just the client programs?
16:08 tsbere I hate the entire protocol
16:08 eeevil tsbere: I will amend: I hate all SIP2 client programs most of all
16:08 jeff eeevil: i see you have reached the "acceptance" stage. congratulations!
16:08 eeevil in particular, ones that care about the order of variable fields
16:09 eeevil jeff: oh, no, far from it :)
16:10 jeff eeevil: ah, are you still at Anger, or should I stop trying to apply the Stages of Grief model to this conversation?
16:10 tsbere eeevil: I can't wait until two different vendors want to talk to the same system but require different ordering of fields and someone asks us to fix it on SIPServer's end.
16:13 jeff yup. i was thinking about that the other day. :-)
16:13 jeff (and heck, eeevil may have just found two that care, but in different ways)
16:14 eeevil yes, but it's not as bad as it could be, and there's a fix (thanks, koha-land!)
16:14 jeff i have just the tiniest bit of optimism that there isn't a client out there that requires some ordering other than "as listed in the spec, even though I'm not supposed to care"
16:15 jeff eeevil: not sure which statement you're responding to -- did you just shred my tiniest bit of optimism?
16:15 eeevil I need to remove one of my e's...
16:16 eeevil jeff: yes, 2 orderings, but different messages
16:16 tsbere jeff: I know of at least one SIP2 server app that prefers things in alphabetic order. <_<
16:16 eeevil tsbere: which, as I'm sure you know, is /not/ the same as spec order for some messages :)
16:16 jeff tsbere: which server?
16:17 tsbere eeevil: For added fun, it blows up on any field it doesn't understand.
16:17 tsbere jeff: Luckily it was just a test server for a PC reservation system, though the docs implied it was ripped out of an ILS and given a different database backend...
16:17 eeevil tsbere: you have a strange sense of "fun", sir... ;)
16:17 jeff @decide Standard Interchange Protocol or Binary Language of Moisture Vaporators
16:17 pinesol_green jeff: have you tried local mean solar time for the named city as the reference point?
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16:20 * tsbere accidentally got a client to send fields in length order once too
16:21 jboyer-isl Someone should start a kickstarter to replace any system that users are stuck with that have those broken restrictions. The video could just be 4-5 hours of programmers headdesk-ing.
16:22 jeff tsbere: amusing, but not non-spec. :-)
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16:24 jeff I think we need a new wire protocol for communication between library services. Current plan is to borrow bits from SIP2 and MARC.
16:24 jeff I think it's going to be great!
16:25 phasefx MARC8?
16:26 jboyer-isl I’m not interested unless it can be programmed with .5” tape. You have to plan for the future you know, this internet stuff might not be around forever.
16:27 jeff Also, we'll probably make heavy usage of JSONx (thanks, IBM!) and SOAP-over-XML-RPC or XML-RPC-over-SOAP (not sure which, yet!).
16:27 tsbere jeff: Why not both?
16:27 jeff Why not?!
16:30 gmcharlt jeff: you're missing something crucial!
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16:30 gmcharlt ASN.1/BER
16:30 jeff for any of you doing ssh tunnels from a windows client, do you have a preferred app other than https://code.google.com/p/putty-tunnel-manager/ or VanDyke Entunnel (which seems to be discontinued)?
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16:30 gmcharlt cygwin?
16:31 jeff gmcharlt: ah yes. with cygwin i could use autossh (which is what we prefer on linux)
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16:32 bshum Doh
16:32 bshum 879b94c4998ca41585fd7dd72eb6decc325d8526 apparently breaks make_release
16:32 pinesol_green [evergreen|Bill Erickson] LP#1334693 ./configure avoid osrf_config without core - <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=​Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=879b94c>
16:32 tsbere jeff: I use plink for MVLC libraries
16:32 bshum The BUILD_ID never gets set for the client building process and it breaks the make clients
16:32 bshum Reverting that, and I can build clients again.
16:33 bshum Building clients the normal way is unaffected by that changeset
16:33 jeff tsbere: does that take care of re-establishing a tunnel, or starting it automatically? The fact that putty-tunnel-manager claims to use plink makes me wonder if plink has those abilities on its own.
16:33 bshum That's why I didn't catch it till now
16:34 tsbere jeff: I wrapped it in a cmd file with a goto and helped libraries drop that into task scheduler.
16:35 bshum Reverting that commit on my test server allows me to complete the make_release dance and get clients built.
16:35 jeff tsbere: got it. thanks.
16:37 jeff ah, and there's also http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier
16:39 jeff as well as MyEnTunnel and some other options referenced here: http://superuser.com/q/235395/9465
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17:15 bshum For logs, it looks like make_release is dying out when it tries to look up javascript files during the staff client build process.
17:16 bshum First bad sign was "cp: cannot stat ‘/javascript/*.js’: No such file or directory"
17:17 bshum In Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/Makefile, it does some javascript stuff that corresponds to that event.
17:17 bshum "stuff" - it's Friday, whatever
17:17 bshum And I think because of how we shifted the contents of configure.ac, it moved OPENSRF_LIBS in a way that makes the paths break down
17:18 bshum Will poke more at this later on.
17:18 bshum I'll tinker more with the 2.7 alpha build after I get some space to review what I've learned so far today about make_release and trying it again for real.
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