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10:09 Stompro @marc 586
10:09 pinesol_green Stompro: Information on awards associated with the described item. (Repeatable) [a,3,6,8]
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11:24 * kmlussier wonders if she set a deadline for filling out the Bug Squashing Day Doodle poll.
11:26 kmlussier Oh, I did! And it was yesterday. If anyone wants to add their availability before I close the poll, now is the time to do it. http://doodle.com/37t68334m82qb5it
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12:23 * berick idly muses droping libdbi and using libpq directly
12:24 Marble01 Hello everyone. Does anyone know what may cause intermittent network failure message, from the staff client, when performing a Z39.50 lookup?
12:32 csharp Marble01: are you on Ubuntu 12.04?
12:32 Marble01 Yes
12:33 csharp bug 1172332 may be related
12:33 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1172332 in Evergreen "simple2zoom has segmentation faults" (affected: 1, heat: 8) [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1172332
12:33 dbs berick++
12:37 dbs surely we can drop the fiction that we're actually going to port to Oracle or DB2 or MariaDB by now
12:38 csharp +1
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12:38 berick dbs: indeed...  and if someone were to try such a test, recoving libdbi would the easiest part of that project.
12:38 berick s/test/task/
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12:52 gmcharlt berick: just a bit easier than implementing plpgsql for mariadb ;)
12:53 Marble01 Is there a recommend method for rotating Evergreen logs? There appears to be a section about in the Evergreen 2.1 docs but not beyond that version.
12:54 Dyrcona Marble01: You could look try logrotate.
12:55 Dyrcona Me spill chucker woks grate. I needle gamma chicken.
12:56 gmcharlt Dyrcona: gamma chicken? may a suggest a plain old microwave? ;)
12:56 gmcharlt *may I
13:01 Dyrcona :)
13:01 * Dyrcona prefers bar-b-q.
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13:23 berick gmcharlt: hah, but that sounds like tons of fun
13:23 gmcharlt berick: well, I'd actually be thrilled with better procedural language support in mysql/mariadb
13:24 gmcharlt not planning on implementing that, mind you :)
13:24 berick ;)
13:27 Marble01 Thanks for the assistance everyone. Have a good day!
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14:13 Dyrcona gmcharlt: Implementing extensions in C is not good enough for you? ;)
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14:16 Dyrcona Hm... Wonder what happens to a serial with circ as type 'a'? I imagine it still circs as a serial and not just the line for marc type a.
14:16 Dyrcona I may try it just to confirm.
14:16 Dyrcona In fact, I will try it.
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14:24 Dyrcona Yep. That's what I thought: still circulates as a serial for 7 days.
14:51 kmlussier @dessert [someone]
14:51 * pinesol_green grabs some Sweet Potato Pie for egbuilder
14:51 gmcharlt bots feeding bots?
14:51 kmlussier That's a waste. egbuilder can't appreciate a good Sweet Potato Pie.
14:53 kmlussier @dessert [somebody]
14:53 * pinesol_green grabs some Banana Puddin' for http://images.cryhavok.org/​d/1291-1/Computer+Rage.gif
14:53 kmlussier Bah!
14:53 kmlussier @dessert [someone]
14:53 * pinesol_green grabs some Tiramisu for bshum
14:54 mmorgan oh, that somebody is quite undeserving of Banana Puddin'
14:58 kmlussier mmorgan: I disagree. I think if that somebody really needs a Banana Puddin' more than anyone else here. :)
14:59 mmorgan ok, you're right, I guess. I just find it kinda disturbing ...
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15:06 mmorgan jeff: NOBLE is very interested in your stats dashboard and your work with jasper reports. Do you have getting started resources you can share? Has anyone else set up something similar?
15:09 jeff mmorgan: at present I'm only aware of TADL and TADL partners doing much with Jasper and/or that specific dashboard. On the dashboard itself, we're hoping to revisit and package up some code (there wasn't even a LOCAL git repo until last week sometime) before the end of the year.
15:09 jeff mmorgan: I'll message you email addresses for wjr and I -- feel free to pass them on to interested parties in the meantime.
15:10 mmorgan jeff: OK, Thanks!
15:10 jeff mmorgan: and thanks for asking -- because that kind of thing gives me hope that others are interested. :-)
15:10 * dbs begins pondering varying hold slips based on patron stat cats
15:11 jeff there's also http://www.tadl.org/about/stats if you didn't see it already
15:11 * wjr looks around
15:11 * jeff waves to wjr
15:11 wjr saw my name :)
15:12 dbs wjr. as i live and breathe.
15:14 wjr greetings!
15:14 mmorgan jeff: it's very slick and is the type of thing we've been wanting to do for a long time.
15:16 * Dyrcona wonders how the reports development that PINES has contracted is going.
15:16 wjr I'm starting to roll up my sleeves in preparation for rewriting the whole thing from scratch again :)
15:16 wjr I want to use angular and have at least some of the numbers update in realtime.
15:18 dbs nice
15:18 jeff and I've been looking at some of the backend queries and thinking "wow, what were we thinking?" ;-)
15:18 wjr top10 lists? :P
15:19 wjr jeff: with at least some of those queries I was thinking "excellent. that works. next!"
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15:19 wjr and ignoring the whole "this query takes more than 30 seconds to run" issue ;)
15:20 jeff we've also brought on an additional client/partner library into our shared system which is not part of our library district, which has given us the opportunity to segment both the stats dashboard and Jasper Reports in ways that force us to avoid things like "hardcoded to TADL org units"
15:20 dbs hmm. no info in the docs on how to customize hold slips? Seems like that would be a reasonably common activity
15:22 jeff dbs: pretty sure that's still a weak part of docs. if you haven't found it yet, http://masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2528 may be helpful.
15:23 dbs Ah, I think http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.​7/_receipt_template_editor.html has the core information
15:26 jeff dbs: oh excellent. i think that even incorporates things that were only in phasefx's EG2014 talk until recently.
15:44 kmlussier Stompro++ #First commit to the working repository.
15:45 Stompro Thanks Kathy
15:59 Stompro jeff: I also like the tadl stats page, nice.
15:59 kmlussier Stompro: Thanks for doc bug wrangling too! For doc fixes, you can skip the Fix Committed step and go right to Fix Released just to cut back on some of the churn.
16:00 jeff Stompro: thanks! wjr should get most of the credit for that. :-)
16:00 jeff wjr++
16:01 Stompro wjr++ I'll be sending the stats page out to co-workers to take a look at right now.
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16:12 jeff so, serious question... if we put more effort into making that a customizable thing, do people here think that their library would make use of it?
16:12 jeff or are there hangups (technical or political) that you think would need to be overcome first?
16:13 jeff where "making that a customizable thing" is more along the lines of "making our stats dashboard more friendly for people to set up for their own libraries", perhaps.
16:16 jeff the basic workings of it at present are: cron job runs that outputs various SQL queries to CSV and copies CSV to web server. PHP on web server reads CSV data and outputs web page.
16:16 jeff that last part was mostly because the "read it from a CSV file" bits of highcharts were not suitable at the time.
16:20 kmlussier jeff: What level of technical skill would be require if you made it more customizable?
16:20 kmlussier It seems to me that it would be a clear win to make it more customizable, unless it was something that were really hard to implement.
16:20 dbs One could potentially take PHP out of the mix and just feed the CSV to a JS library?
16:21 Stompro jeff: I think we would consider using it, it looks like a great marketing tool.  Are the EG stats gathered nightly right now?
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16:29 jeff Stompro: yes. there is presently some manual confirmation of successful database rotation when it comes to things like the public computing usage stats, so those weekly graphs don't update automatically. the rest is just a scheduled cron job.
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16:30 jeff dbs: yes, or have the backend scripts generate json files instead of CSV -- both should be able to remove the PHP requirement from the front end.
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16:33 * dbs likes it
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17:02 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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