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#evergreen Logs for Monday, February 15th, 2010

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#10:16:23StephenGWillsin a consortium made up of single branch systems, is there any reason to create a sys ou_type? any problem with the branch's parent being the consortium?
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#10:51:23miker_StephenGWills: none at all. just make sure you adjust the ou type depth
#10:52:36jeffHrm. Are there known issues with simple record extracts not being updated after record merge? Or, does anyone remember any from the past?
#10:53:52miker_jeff: record merges don't change the marc, so there's nothing to update ... if I understand what you mean
#11:05:14jeffmiker_: symptom is that i have a record id that shows one thing in the reporter's simple record extract for Title (Normalized), while viewing that same record ID in the staff client shows something else. It's likely that a merge happened at one point, or perhaps an overlay.
#11:05:35jeffJust trying to see if I should dig further, or if it's a symptom of an old bug long fixed.
#11:06:07jeff(i phrased my original inquiry poorly)
#11:13:34miker_the one think I can think of is that the summary-generating trigger was turned off (for an import, say) and then turned back on, but the summary table was not regenerated. there are stored procs to manage all that, but for manual imports they have to be called manually (or, not at all, in which case the import will be slower but the trigger will be there and do it's thing)
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#11:48:40jeffdbs++
#11:48:43jeffinstrumentation++
#11:49:44dbsjeff: Oh, I can talk. Do, that's another matter.
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#12:25:22dbsaugh, damnit
#12:26:06dbssomehow ENTITY staff.auth.about_btn.accesskey in lang.dtd got turned into the PO-file metadata in all of the translated lang.dtds ARGH
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#12:28:21dbsand that crashes the client in any language other than en-US immediately on startup
#12:28:53jeffwell, ouch.
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#12:31:32dbsmeh. it's in the PO as generated by launchpad, I think
#12:32:25dbssimple enough to fix, but it will require a repackaging of the 1.6.0.1 staff client
#12:32:30dbsphasefx?
#12:34:22phasefx is happy to package a new client as needed
#12:34:41phasefxjust hand me a build.tar
#12:34:46dbsphasefx: will do, sir
#12:35:07phasefxdbs++
#12:35:16dbsit's just one string that needs changing in all locales (for now, I'll have to figure out how to fix it for reals later)
#12:35:27dbsand... we should advertise for a translation manager :)
#12:38:44dbsamusingly, I think pt-BR would work (for all 10 of the strings they've translated)
#12:45:10dbsphasefx: http://open-ils.org/~denials/rel_1_6_0_1_locale.tar in about 1 minutes
#12:47:54dbsphasefx: okay, it's there
#12:48:40dbson top of a translation manager, QA would be nice. I'm obviously not an exemplar.
#12:51:00phasefxwant me to put some text change in the installer at least to let folks know this isn't the originally packaged 1.6.0.1?
#12:51:32dbsProbably a good idea
#12:51:54dbsat some point I'm sure people are going to want to select which locales they're installing, too. we can worry about that in FutureWorld though :)
#12:58:16phasefxdbs: should be up now. any virus checking appreciated :)
#12:59:42dbsphasefx__
#12:59:48dbsphasefx++ #rather
#13:04:29dbsyay, 2nd cut is working here
#13:36:46dbwellsIs anybody here using grace periods for overdue fine generation? They are not working for us, and I think I have spotted a fundamental bug, but would like to know if our setup is unique in this case.
#13:38:12miker_dbwells: most people are using grace periods, yes. may want to record your analysis on -dev
#13:42:38dbwellsmiker_: thanks. That is so peculiar, though, because from what I see this, bug should affect anyone using grace periods. In your experience, are grace periods usually short (like one day) or long (like one week)?
#13:50:24dbwellsI guess I should say 'like one fine interval' or 'like 7 fine intervals'. I'll send something to the list for others to check out. Thanks again.
#14:02:58dbwellsmiker_: nevermind, it looks like the bug got fixed here http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/15367/branches/rel_1_6/Open-ILS/src/perlmods/OpenILS/Application/Storage/Publisher/action.pm
#14:04:26dbwellsThe old line 737 effectively caused a new grace period after every fine, but the new code makes sure this is only for the first fine.
#14:06:35miker_dbwells: that's in 1.6.0.1
#14:07:05miker_well, that and some followup fixes
#14:07:55phasefx is going to alphabetize those entries in the admin menus.. been driving him nuts :)
#14:08:37phasefxassuming en-US ;)
#14:08:45dbwellsmiker_: Unfortunately I am very hesitant to upgrade being so new to the system :S This might push me over!
#14:09:07miker_dbwells: if you're on 1.6.0.0, please PLEASE upgrade to 1.6.0.1
#14:09:15miker_there are lots of bug fixes
#14:10:56dbwellsmiker_: even so, it still works great 99.9% of the time, and a buggy system sure beats a broken one. Then again, I guess that is what test machines are for.
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#14:15:39miker_dbwells: you can keep your old /openils around, and the db updates are immaterial to the code, so rolling back would be as simple as restoring the previous /openils
#14:16:56miker_and the changeset you referenced is not the only one you'll need (and the one from the 1.6 branch, as opposed to the 1.6.0 branch, won't even work in 1.6.0.x), so you may want to drop in action.pm from 1.6.0.1 if you don't upgrade completely
#14:19:21dbsheh, our 1.5.9 grace periods were making our circ staff very angry because they don't want to give a one-day grace period on multi-day loans - anyways, time to do some house work (insulation installation FTW!)
#14:36:37dbwellsmiker_: this is great info to know, thanks!
#14:40:46dbwellswhile I'm at it, for clarification on the way these branches are setup, 1.6.0 is the branch that all 1.6.0.x releases are derived from, while 1.6 will eventually be branched into 1.6.1.x, 1.6.2.x, etc?
#14:40:59dbwellsbasic question :)
#14:51:33miker_dbwells: exactly right
#14:52:46miker_and, more generally, it's {version}.{major-revision}.{minor-revision}.{bug-fix-patch-release} (more or less)
#14:54:49miker_complete rewrites allowed at the {version} level, major schema changes of existing db elements allowed at {major-revision}, minor db changes and most db additions allowed at {minor-revision} and bug-fix-only db changes allowed at {bug-fix-patch-release} ... again, more or less. and you can extrapolate user-level features from those db-level rules
#14:56:14miker_or, that's the idea ... there are those **cough**dbs**cough** who would like to move to a 3-level release numbering scheme ... there are plusses and minuses to each approach
#15:50:49jeffargh. 1.4 staff client on linux with xulrunner 1.9.0.17 seems to have some kind of focus bug. Don't know where to blame yet.
#15:51:22jefftriggering fancy_prompt.xul (say, scan an invalid barcode into item status) can't be dismissed. You just can't say OK via mouse or keyboard.
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