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IRC log for #evergreen, 2015-06-05

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09:47 jeff @coffee [someone]
09:47 * pinesol_green brews and pours a cup of Panama Esmeralda Especial, and sends it sliding down the bar to dbwells
09:47 jeff @tea [someone]
09:47 * pinesol_green brews and pours a pot of Wild Snow Sprout Tea, and sends it sliding down the bar to rashma (http://ratetea.com/tea/wild-tea​-qi/wild-snow-sprout-tea/6447/)
09:47 jeff @bartender [someone]
09:47 * pinesol_green fills a pint glass with Live Oak Pale Ale, and sends it sliding down the bar to jcamins (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/383/1064/)
09:47 jeff morning, #evergreen!
09:48 kmlussier jeff: Good morning!
09:50 mmorgan Good morning!
09:53 mmorgan @weather 01923
09:53 pinesol_green mmorgan: The current temperature in Danvers, Danvers, Massachusetts is 62.6°F (9:52 AM EDT on June 05, 2015). Conditions: Mostly Cloudy. Humidity: 68%. Dew Point: 51.8°F. Pressure: 30.14 in 1020 hPa (Falling).
09:53 mmorgan Hmm. Looks way better than that out the window :)
09:54 kmlussier It looks beautiful out the window.
09:54 mmorgan Indeed!
09:54 * kmlussier hasn't actually ventured outside yet today.
09:55 jeff very foggy here today.
09:55 jeff @weather ktvc
09:55 pinesol_green jeff: The current temperature in Traverse City, Michigan is 53.6°F (9:37 AM EDT on June 05, 2015). Conditions: Fog. Humidity: 93%. Dew Point: 51.8°F. Pressure: 30.07 in 1018 hPa (Falling).
09:56 jeff identical dew points. interesting.
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10:24 Bmagic By default, Evergreen holds are filled at the location where the item is. After that, does the hold brain try to fill holds within the same system before sending it outside of the system?
10:25 jcamins Isn't it kind of early for alcohol?
10:26 jeff In my timezone, yes.
10:32 mmorgan Bmagic: My understanding is it uses the actor.org_unit_proximity table to fill holds with the lowest proximity to the checkin library. Of course there are a multitude of options that can affect that behavior.
10:32 Bmagic I was just coming to that table
10:33 Bmagic so, it uses that table to sort by lowest prox, which would fill the system branches first before it went out
10:33 mmorgan Yes, it should.
10:42 hopkinsju Wouldn't it be neat of we did a lookup for either strict distance or driving directions based on the addresses of the branches and accounted for *actual* proximity?
10:43 hopkinsju This looks like an interesting project: http://project-osrm.org/
10:44 hopkinsju We could run this software on a utility server against a local copy of the OpenStreetMap dataset.
10:45 mmorgan Bmagic: Just rethinking, when you said "fill", did you mean "target"? 'Cause that's really what applies.
10:55 kmlussier Hey, it's National Donut Day. Happy Donut Day everyone!
10:56 kmlussier Or is it Doughnut Day?
10:56 kmlussier @dessert 12 [someone]
10:56 * pinesol_green grabs some Vanilla Frosted Donuts with Sprinkles for ldw
10:58 mmorgan Either way, Happy Do(ugh)nut Day!
10:58 mmorgan That actually doesn't look too appetizing :-(
10:59 mmorgan Too bad Google didn't recognize the occasion. It could have been an excellent doodle.
11:13 Bmagic If a system wants all of the branches to have the same weight for holds and just fill holds in the order in which they were requested, do I need to use the proximity adjust?
11:33 kmlussier Bmagic: That sounds like FIFO (First in First Out).
11:34 Bmagic kmlussier: yeah but only for that system
11:34 Bmagic Anyone have expierence setting FIFO for a system with the consortium setting at "traditional"
11:34 kmlussier Bmagic: Ah, I see. I'm not sure how that would work then. I haven't looked at holds configuration in a while.
11:35 hopkinsju Bmagic: Haven't we talked about this in the past?
11:36 hopkinsju I seem to recall discussing it and concluding (based purely on intuition and a tenuous understanding of the system) that this wouldn't work - at least not all the time.
11:38 kmlussier What happens if you set the Best-hold selection sort order as traditional for the consortium and as FIFO for the system that wants FIFO?
11:38 hopkinsju Seems like that would create unfairness to me.
11:40 hopkinsju Would EG choose to do FIFO vs Trad based on the location of the copy that could potentially fill the hold?
11:40 Bmagic kmlussier: we did that exact thing and we ended up switching it back for a reason that I do not recall
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11:41 hopkinsju Meaning the system/branch where the copy currently resides, the owning libraries system/branch setting, or something else?
11:41 hopkinsju Tricky question to answer I think.
11:42 hopkinsju At any rate - I don't think this really addresses the libraries question. Essentially what they want is for us to *guarantee* that the order they see in the holds queue is the order in which the holds will be filled.
11:42 hopkinsju It's certainly true that unless the entire consortium agrees on FIFO this hold queue will never be accurate.
11:43 kmlussier hopkinsju / Bmagic: You might want to check with bshum on this one. Based on the email here http://markmail.org/message/zoxggnivmiszdxui , I think they might have a similar scenario.
11:45 hopkinsju Bmagic: I think that what you are proposing *would* improve the situation for the system who wants this, I'm just not sure how it will affect the rest of the consortium.
11:46 kmlussier My head hurts when I think of doing any kind of holds behavior that is not consortium-wide.
11:47 Bmagic If the proximity is even for all of the branches to eachother in that system, then it would need to fall back on request date. Once there were no more holds in the system, it would look outside of that system finally.
11:47 Bmagic berick: My added column is showing up with a blank name
11:48 Bmagic berick: http://bit.ly/1IhU1Mz and http://bit.ly/1FZQkds
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11:51 * mmorgan returns from impromptu meeting and reads up on holds discussion
11:51 bshum kmlussier: hopkinsju: Bmagic: Yeah, that email predates additional functionality ported from FulfILLment to Evergreen around 2.5 era.
11:52 bshum We did eventually configure one of our large libraries with multiple branch locations to utilize FIFO inside their system
11:52 Bmagic bshum: Come to think of it, we were using 2.4.1 when we were dealing with this before
11:52 bshum But then have the rest of the libraries in the consortium operate on traditional means
11:52 bshum I don't have good notes on how I did it, but it is "possible"
11:52 bshum I could probably put some knowledge together.
11:53 bshum When I'm not busy thinking about pizza.
11:53 Bmagic bshum: You mean it's not simply setting the setting for the system?
11:54 berick Bmagic: first thing that comes to mind is the field should not be set to oils_persist:virtual="true"
11:54 mmorgan "Best-Hold Selection Sort Order" offers lots of options for what the system should look at and in what order when holds are captured.
11:55 Bmagic berick: so just take that clause out of the field def for acp?
11:55 hopkinsju bshum: You have pizza or need pizza?
11:55 berick Bmagic: yes
11:55 hopkinsju Maybe we can help
11:55 bshum Bmagic: Yes, what mmorgan indicates is part of it too, we had to adjust the sort order for holds in addition to changing the org-unit setting to specify the type we wanted
11:56 bshum hopkinsju: I should get pizza, but instead I'll be having a salad.
11:56 berick Bmagic: also, on the <link> it should be reltype="has_a" not "might_have" -- even if the count is 0 there will be a value for every copy
11:56 bshum But it's my favorite chicken caesar salad in the world.
11:56 bshum So I can't complain too much.
11:57 Bmagic berick: if you run the query, it doesn't return 0 for copies that are not in the hold_copy_map
11:57 berick Bmagic: ah, i see
11:58 berick Bmagic: scratch that then
11:58 Bmagic berick: I thought of that, and I was trying to do some kind of CASE/IF but it didn't work really
11:58 bshum Bmagic: Okay, so looking at our system, I can see that we added a new "Best Hold selection sort order" for the library in question and then we made that the one used by the settings.
11:58 bshum Bmagic: For reference, ours was named "Bridgeport hold order" (named after the library that wanted it) and then it was aprox, priority, cut, rtime
11:58 Bmagic bshum: the library or the system?
11:59 bshum We set it at the system level
11:59 bshum While the rest of the consortium still uses "traditional with holds go home"
12:00 bshum Pretty much everything below rtime isn't important and lighter color, not emboldened
12:01 bshum We also added a proximity adjustment for the library system
12:02 bshum From "Org Unit Proximity Adjustments"
12:02 bshum We added an entry for it
12:02 bshum To say "Item circ lib" = system, "Hold pickup Lib" = system, position 0, absolute adjustment = true, proximity adjustment = 0
12:03 Bmagic berick: removing  oils_persist:virtual="true" from the IDL resulted in breaking the grid altogether. Item list turned into "nothing to see here" message
12:03 bshum I think that basically means if the item belongs to that system, and it's being picked up there, consider the branches all equal to each other in terms of proximity.
12:03 bshum Not 1 apart, but 0 apart
12:04 Bmagic bshum: there we go, that is what I was thinking
12:04 bshum That treats them truly equal to each other and enforces FIFO rules for the whole branch system equally.
12:04 bshum Rather than prioritizing the pickup branch to the item
12:04 bshum Hope that helps.  I'm going to go pick up my lunch now :)
12:05 Bmagic bshum++
12:05 Bmagic salad++
12:05 Bmagic That helps a lot!
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12:53 kmlussier Anyone want to update this page? http://evergreen-ils.org/governance/
12:53 bshum kmlussier: Yeah, I left a question for gmcharlt on that, I think he wanted to discuss something about the page with me.
12:53 bshum Or maybe it was about the git repo
12:54 gmcharlt was about the Git repo (and hold that thought, not urgent)
12:55 bshum kmlussier: I'll poke at the page momentarily.
13:05 bshum kmlussier: Okay page updated with the new EOB members and positions.  And thank you to you, RoganH and bbqben as I move you to the past board members list.
13:05 bshum I'll poke at the git page stuff in a few more once I get my VM back in order.
13:06 kmlussier bshum++
13:07 kmlussier Thanks for doing that! I've been occupied trying to find my way around the ALA exhibitors site.
13:17 bshum And git page updated too.
13:18 bshum No problem, kmlussier.
13:18 bshum Thanks for reminding us :)
13:19 bshum kmlussier++
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13:56 Stompro kmlussier, About the sanbox for bug 1312699, if you want to skip that one please do.  I thought the issue was that there were two branches, and one didn't include all the changes, just a small fix.  I can try it out locally sometime instead.
13:56 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1312699 in Evergreen "Editable Checkout History" (affected: 5, heat: 22) [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1312699 - Assigned to Josh Stompro (u-launchpad-stompro-org)
13:58 kmlussier OK, thanks Stompro. I'll also add a tag to it as a reminder to DPearl that it still needs work.
13:58 kmlussier Did we ever settle on what tag should be used for branches that need more work? I vaguely recall some poll on the question.
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14:26 * kmlussier goes with needsrepatch since it looks like bshum has already used it.
14:34 berick any objections to marking bug 1020665 WONTFIX ?
14:34 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1020665 in Evergreen "Dojo attributes should be updated" (affected: 1, heat: 6) [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020665
15:19 jeff +1 to WONTFIX. We're going to kill dojo before we fix something like that, yes?
15:22 kmlussier We will be killing dojo in the OPAC as well?
15:24 kmlussier @dessert bshum
15:24 * pinesol_green grabs some Cannoli for bshum
15:24 kmlussier Ooh, Cannoli! Yum!
15:25 jeff kmlussier: long term, I kinda' think so, but I'm not certain if we've committed one way or the other.
15:39 berick yeah, ideally, dojo would be completely removed as a dependency.
15:45 Dyrcona Alas, poor Dojo.... I used to know the vato well, Horatio.
16:02 mmorgan @dessert 12 [someone]
16:02 * pinesol_green grabs some Vanilla Frosted Donuts with Sprinkles for berick
16:04 berick don't mind if I do
16:17 kmlussier @dessert add Boston Cream doughnuts
16:17 pinesol_green kmlussier: The operation succeeded.  Dessert #36 added.
16:17 kmlussier @dessert 36 [someone]
16:17 * pinesol_green grabs some Boston Cream doughnuts for sarabee
16:29 * bshum is glad it's Friday.
16:30 bshum I can't remember if I've ever had a cannoli before.... I want to say, maybe.
16:40 kmlussier bshum: They are very tasty
16:41 bshum I'll add it to the list.
16:43 kmlussier bshum: You have a list of desserts you want to try?
16:44 bshum kmlussier: It's not an actual written list or anything.
16:44 bshum But yeah, kind of.
16:44 kmlussier I need a list like that. Sounds much more interesting than my usual to-do lists.
16:51 * bshum wanders away for the weekend
16:51 bshum Have a good one everyone!
16:53 Bmagic lata!
16:54 kmlussier bshum: Have a nice weekend!
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17:08 mmorgan Have a good weekend, all!
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17:17 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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