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08:57 StomproJosh JBoyer++ #Killing annoying log warnings
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11:21 * Dyrcona adds a --pipe option to pingest.pl to read record ids from standard input.
11:21 Dyrcona This is useful if you wan to pipe results from a query into the program.
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11:28 Bmagic good to know
11:28 berick Dyrcona: any interest in adding pingest.pl to EG support-scripts?
11:29 Dyrcona berick: Maybe. I am planning to move that repo to github in the future.
11:29 Dyrcona Might be some other scripts in there that people like.
11:29 * Dyrcona like the parameters to Excel script.
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11:48 Dyrcona And this is now a thing: psql -q -t -f reingest_bad_joiner.sql | pingest.pl --pipe --skip-facets --skip-browse --skip-attrs
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12:11 miker for those interested in the webstaff stuff, we now have a global "notify the staff user when something happens" mechanism based on http://tamerayd.in/ngToast/ ... of note, in order to get that working, we had to neuter the status bar's message stack because of a namespace conflict on its use of $rootScope events.  I don't currently count that as a loss, though, because the status bar is forcibly hidden since it breaks the UI...
12:13 miker the convention established so far is to put the toaster messages in the bottom-right corner, since the default of top-right hides important UI bits in many interfaces ... but, comments and bikeshedding on that are welcome
12:16 kmlussier miker++
12:16 kmlussier miker: I'm planning to look at that later today.
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12:22 gmcharlt wouldn't take much to make the status bar's message system fully functional... but also wouldn't take much to remove it entirely
12:23 gmcharlt the one thing it provides that's worth keeping is its icon indicating whether Hatch is connected, but that could just as easily live in the top navbar
12:23 miker gmcharlt: IMO, the hamburger menu would be a nice home for that
12:24 gmcharlt agreed
12:24 gmcharlt toss the hatch through the burger!
12:24 * gmcharlt may have gotten the order slightly wrong ;)
12:29 Dyrcona heh
12:33 berick miker: gmcharlt: +1 to Hatch-in-the-Hamburger and killing status bar.
12:33 * gmcharlt writes up an LP
12:33 berick i also like the websockets indicator
12:33 berick fwiw
12:36 gmcharlt bug 1564508
12:36 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1564508 in Evergreen "webstaff: remove statusbar, move Hatch connection indicator to hamburger menu" [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1564508
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12:41 miker berick: I wonder about the websockets indicator's usefulness in practice -- they disconnect after apache's timeout and reconnect when needed, right?
12:41 miker the console tells me they're dropped after 2mins, in any case
12:42 berick miker: yeah. true.  i think the only usefulness is if websockets is just down.
12:42 berick but maybe that's not enough reason to keep a dedicated icon
12:43 gmcharlt so far, at least, websockets being down typically means that the entire webserver is down
12:44 gmcharlt which, of course, is pretty obvious from the user's POV
12:44 jeff ngToast.create('Unable to establish WebSockets connection... :-(');
12:44 gmcharlt heh, indeed
12:44 berick jeff: fair point :)
12:44 berick we should bark loudly
12:45 Dyrcona ngToast.create('dark');
12:45 miker ngToast.error('Unable...');
12:45 Dyrcona ngToast.create('No darker.');
12:45 jeff miker: ah, right!
12:45 gmcharlt LP#666666666: remove those silly, annoying sounds of barking that a developer has inflicted on us!
12:46 miker or, rather ngToast.danger(...
12:46 Dyrcona hamburger and toast....Sounds like lunch.
12:46 Dyrcona ;)
12:46 jeff you joke, but we found a public catalog from one library that has a session timeout warning (for all sessions, including anonymous sessions) with loud audio.
12:47 Dyrcona Audio only works if they have speakers, plugged in, turned on, and they work. :)
12:47 Dyrcona Most staff rely on the barcode scanner.... ;)
12:47 * tsbere remembers the days where he would just have his programs make the PC Speaker beep
12:47 Dyrcona ngToast.error('Danger, Captain! Dork at the helm!');
12:50 * Dyrcona used an IRC client years ago that would present that message if you did something that didn't make sense given the context.
12:50 miker and, http://danielstern.github.io/ngAudio/
12:53 * berick bookmarks
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13:47 gmcharlt @quote random
13:47 pinesol_green gmcharlt: Quote #66: "<csharp> EVERYBODY KEEP SAYIN' FUNNY STUFF!" (added by gmcharlt at 02:29 PM, August 13, 2013)
13:48 Dyrcona Not bad: about 1 hour to reingest ~ 480,000 records.
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15:56 gmcharlt Dyrcona++ # Random gibberish is not an ISBN
15:57 Dyrcona Said random gibberish was generated by pwgen.
15:57 gmcharlt yeah, it had that smell to it
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16:51 Dyrcona Is 2.8 going to security-only or is it still open for regular bug fixes?
16:51 Dyrcona And, it's a bit late to be asking questions.
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16:55 Dyrcona I should find some more bug fixes to test, but two's enough for tomorrow.
16:56 gmcharlt Dyrcona: I believe security-only at this point (or well, perhaps after 2.8.8 is cut), following the pattern
16:57 Dyrcona OK. Sounds reasonable.
16:57 Dyrcona The next dot releases are scheduled for the same day as the hackfest at the conference, btw.
16:58 gmcharlt Dyrcona: berick: webstaff sprint2 is now at a state of doneness, so I'll be prepping a pullrequest for the current sprint2/sprint3 branch tomorrow
16:58 gmcharlt Dyrcona: "here's a session where everybody learns how to cut a release!"
16:58 gmcharlt at least, that's an option :)
16:58 Dyrcona Oh, and one of the things I'm loading tomorrow is berick's patron registration/edit fixes.
16:59 Dyrcona for the web staff client
16:59 Dyrcona gmcharlt: Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind.
16:59 Dyrcona Anyway, I'm signing off. I don't use a quassell server like the cool kids. :)
17:00 gmcharlt have a good even... # too slow!
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17:09 Bmagic Has anyone considered requests from libraries wanting Evergreen to accept and manage patron purchase requests? That move from stage to stage. Patron wants book A. Library buys it, patron gets it on hold....
17:12 berick Bmagic: we have acq.user_request and acq.user_request_type tables.  No UI do drive the, though, IIRC.
17:12 berick *them
17:12 Bmagic I just discovered Acquisitions -> Patron Requests - never noticed that before
17:12 miker Bmagic: there's a lot of that there already. the .... yeah, that :)
17:13 miker #slowtypingonphone
17:15 Bmagic so, the patron cannot create the request?
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17:18 Bmagic does the purchase need to take place through acq in order for those requests to be acted on?
17:19 jihpringle Bmagic: yes, staff have to place the requests
17:19 Bmagic ah, sorry, im not coming up with much for documentation on the subject
17:20 jihpringle we tested the functionality a while ago and decided that it wasn't ready for our libraries yet
17:20 jihpringle I don't think it's been documented yet
17:20 Bmagic right on - well, it looks promising. Perhaps a new tab in the patron OPAC interface?
17:22 jihpringle Bmagic: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1234247
17:22 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1234247 in Evergreen "Request for Improvements to the Patron Requests UI" [Wishlist,Triaged]
17:23 Bmagic I found that too!
17:24 jihpringle you'll also want to make sure you have this fix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1269865
17:24 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1269865 in Evergreen "ACQ user request can result in double (or quadruple) holds placement" [Medium,Confirmed]
17:24 Bmagic ooo, good info!
17:24 Bmagic jihpringle++
17:26 jihpringle I know I have some notes somewhere about other bugs/development needs for this from when we tested it that never made it to launchpad
17:26 jihpringle I'll see if I can find them and get them up
17:27 kmlussier Bmagic: I'm not sure about a new tab in the OPAC interface (I would have to give it some thought), but, if you could handle it elegantly without cluttering the interface, I think it would make sense to put something on a search results page.
17:27 kmlussier Since that's the place where the user is most likely to discover that the library doesn't own the item.
17:28 kmlussier Of course, I imagine it would also lead to many requests for things that just weren't found, even if the library owns it.
17:28 Bmagic if it comes up in the search results, then a library in the consortium somewhere does own a copy of it presumably?
17:30 kmlussier Bmagic: Well, I'm not saying it comes up in the search results page. I'm saying the patron will be on the search results page where there are results for other things when they realize they need to make a request.
17:30 kmlussier Because it didn't come up.
17:30 Bmagic I see what you are saying
17:32 Bmagic we have a library that wants to join and they specifically asked about this functionality
17:33 Bmagic At first, I was thinking that EG didn't have it at all, but some digging produced this. It's not totally there yet, but it looks promising. Thank you for helping me understand it!
17:36 jihpringle Bmagic: let me know if you a create bug for patrons making requests
17:37 Bmagic I suppose I need to. That exact functionality isn't really included in bug 1234247 ?
17:37 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1234247 in Evergreen "Request for Improvements to the Patron Requests UI" [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1234247
17:38 jihpringle I think it would make sense for it to be a separate bug as the rest of the needs are for stuff in the staff client
17:39 jwoodard Patron just brought me some pumpkin spice cake. Now for some tea...
17:41 Bmagic nice!
17:41 Bmagic jihpringle: bug 1564624
17:41 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 1564624 in Evergreen "Patrons should be able to request Acquisitions" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1564624
17:45 jihpringle Bmagic++
19:01 gmcharlt I will be doing some work with the IRC bots, so they will be dropping in and out of channel
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19:15 gmcharlt @quote random
19:15 pinesol_green gmcharlt: Quote #129: "< Dyrcona> Acquisitions: It's all EDI to me." (added by csharp at 04:08 PM, November 19, 2015)
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19:17 gmcharlt @quote random
19:17 pinesol_green gmcharlt: Quote #127: "<RoganH> it's an honorable tradition even if you fall off the edge of the world" (added by gmcharlt at 03:29 PM, November 04, 2015)
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20:14 gmcharlt @quote random
20:14 pinesol_green gmcharlt: Quote #25: "<Dyrcona> how about we rename it to DONT_README" (added by gmcharlt at 12:00 PM, May 15, 2012)
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