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06:01 pinesol News from qatests: Testing Success <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live>
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08:01 rfrasur how is the importance of a bug in launchpad determined?
08:14 alynn26 rfrasur: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance
08:14 rfrasur But who decides it?
08:15 rhamby rfrasur: in practice whoever initially files the bug sets an importance but others can go behind and change it
08:15 rfrasur rhamby++ alynn26++
08:15 rfrasur thanks
08:17 rhamby rfrasur: I tend to file bugs at conservative/lower importance but trust that others will bump it up if it's used more widely than I know, I sometimes comment on the bug asking others to do so if I'm reporting one that I don't know the workflows on well, since it can be low importance to one library and high to another
08:18 rhamby the ymmv variable makes it a bit of negotiation at times but we seem to make it work
08:21 rfrasur I suspect I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't see anywhere to actually edit the importance.
08:21 rfrasur And I'm looking at a bug that I submitted.
08:21 rfrasur Oh, hold on.
08:22 rfrasur Yeah, it says it's only editable by a project maintainer or bug supervisor.
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09:14 abneiman rfrasur: anyone on bug wranglers - https://launchpad.net/~evergreen-bugs - can set importance. You can also request to join the bug wranglers team.
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09:34 Bmagic @later tell jihpringle Thanks! I might have found an item that wasn't assigned a branch. Looking at the code, it seems that could cause the issue
09:34 pinesol Bmagic: The operation succeeded.
09:37 Dyrcona jeffdavis: Dunno if you've encountered this before, but OverDrive APIs apparently don't like passwords with certain symbol characters in them. I even tried URI escaping my password in the api checker, but it still reported a 500 Intern Server Error: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (password=\\"REDACTED\\").
09:42 Dyrcona Naturally, I'm not clumsy enough to paste my actual password in a publicly logged channel, at least not today. :)
09:43 rfrasur Dyrcona++
09:44 * Dyrcona accidentally pasted his password for OFTC net in a channel over there once. Thought I was chatting with the NickServ bot. ... Talk about "Oops, wrong window." :)
09:44 rfrasur and then a flurry of password changing?
09:45 Dyrcona Well, not a flurry. I only used that password on OFTC net, but yea.
09:45 rfrasur a very, very brief and somewhat nonchalant flurry.
09:46 Dyrcona So, that stinks that OverDrive won't accept legitimate passwords. Someone needs to introduce their programmers to the functions for safely handling "odd" characters.
09:46 Dyrcona rfrasur++
09:46 * rfrasur probably shouldn't blanketly say "Overdrive stinks" considering she just downloaded another audiobook through them this morning.
09:47 Dyrcona The upshot from this is that even if we fix the bugs in Evergreen for using passwords with OverDrive, it still won't work for some patrons with decent passwords.
09:47 Dyrcona :)
09:48 * Dyrcona doesn't use OverDrive, personally...Not for any particular reason. Just haven't.
09:48 Dyrcona Guess I can't, now, that they need our passwords. :)
09:49 rfrasur Libby syncs nicely with my car which makes the hour long drive to work more palatable.  and makes me feel a little less lax in terms of my reading.  Nothing like a shot of righteousness in the morning.
09:49 Dyrcona Actually, I'd be all right with MVLC. My password there doesn't have any banned characters.
09:50 Dyrcona Yeah, I've considered listening to audiobooks on the way to work instead of music. I might "read" more books that way.
09:51 rfrasur I prefer listening to music, but the books make the drive seem faster.  I'm sure there's a psychological/neurological reason for that, but...I'm a librarian and neither a psychologist nor neurologist.  Just a plain ol' observer rather than understander/explainer.
09:51 Dyrcona Some vendors are still stuck in the '90s where PINs were used instead of passwords.
09:52 rfrasur lol, yes, some of them are.  Bless them.
09:52 Dyrcona I do the opposite of bless them. :)
09:53 Dyrcona But, anyway.... I guess it is still worth looking into the bugs with passwords, even if I can't use my account to test it.
09:55 Dyrcona Really, I think it would be better if we had an OAuth provider and vendors connected to that to authorize our patrons. Looks like OverDrive's authentication is a form of OAuth provider.
09:56 rfrasur (blessing and cursing can often bear striking similarities)
09:57 Dyrcona :)
09:57 alynn26 In the south, it can be the same thing.
09:58 Dyrcona I read it that way when rfrasur typed it.
09:58 rfrasur alynn26++ Dyrcona++ we are of one mind in some things.
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10:14 Dyrcona It works if I change my password to something acceptable in Evergreen.
10:14 Dyrcona Acceptable to OverDrive, that is.
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12:27 Dyrcona TODO comments never end up TODONE.
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12:33 mmorgan TODO: Do all the TODO's
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12:34 Dyrcona :)
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13:32 jeffdavis Dyrcona: there is a "granted auth" flow for Overdrive that would allow users to authenticate without providing a password, if I understand correctly. It didn't really fit with the development requirements I inherited but it would be a nice alternative for EG to support.
13:32 jeffdavis (without providing their password to Overdrive, that is)
13:34 Dyrcona Well, here's what we found: Everything was working without a password, until we switched regular OverDrive to require a password for authentication, then the API broke for us. Enabling password authentication for the API doesn't work because of bugs. I'm not worried about other flows at the moment.
13:34 Dyrcona Long term, granted auth is worth exploring.
13:35 Dyrcona Of course, somebody's working on something that may render this obsolete.
13:35 Dyrcona I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, now, but I attended a session on it at the last conference.--Too much has happened since for me to keep it all in my head.
13:36 jeff Dyrcona: who/what?
13:36 jeff ah.
13:36 jeff nevermind then. :-)
13:36 Dyrcona :)
14:33 * mmorgan would love to see bug 1781274 get committed, it would save a lot of headaches.
14:34 pinesol Launchpad bug 1781274 in Evergreen 3.4 "Web Client: Transactions Do Not Always Close When Bill Fully Paid" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1781274
14:49 * berick looks
14:49 * rfrasur watches berick look.
14:50 rfrasur mmorgan++
14:50 * mmorgan holds breath while berick looks.
14:51 * rfrasur holds an oxygen mask nearby just in case this goes long.
14:51 mmorgan :-D
14:52 * mmorgan breathes.
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17:00 mmorgan berick++
17:04 jeff sched--
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17:21 jeff is there anything attendees need to do to prevent our information from being shared with sched?
18:01 pinesol News from qatests: Testing Success <http://testing.evergreen-ils.org/~live>
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