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#10:46:55moodaepodbs phasefx: dokuwiki for the whole site would be fine with me. The only issue might be controlling who has access to updating the more main pages. I did notice zotero uses wordpress for the blog side of things.
#10:48:18dbsmoodaepo: the issue with control of main pages is more about deciding "who has control?" given that dokuwiki has nice access permissions built in. yeah, makes sense to use blog software for a blog :)
#10:48:31moodaepoThe idea with the rss/atom pull was to make the main page more active, reword the paragraph and drop this below
#10:49:44dbsmoodaepo: yeah, that's what I was thinking too when I proposed that :) the issue there is more about design, it's easy to create widgets but figuring out how to fit them in cleanly is hard
#10:50:22phasefxif anyone is interested in dokuwiki as a replacement, they could create the pages now, show them off, and see if folks like it
#10:50:44eeevilcould we get dokuwiki upgraded first? ;)
#10:50:48phasefxno
#10:50:57phasefx:-)
#10:51:01eeevilnot that the 10 line yellow banner at the top isn't purty ;)
#10:51:02dbss/dokuwiki/server/
#10:51:21dbswe need a web team!
#10:51:21moodaepodbs: Makes sense to me too (blog software) as for design/rewording I am going to give it a shot.Damn time is the problem : )
#10:51:33phasefx has to do that in spare time, if it's going to be him. spare time in IRC notwithstanding :)
#10:51:42dbsmoodaepo; zactly, speaking of which... I gots to focus
#10:52:34moodaepophasefx: What version of dokuwiki are we running and any reason not to upgrade?
#10:53:38moodaepoAlso did we move to the new PINES servers yet which I'd also offered to help with in cleanup (yea right like I did anything...in the last 3 months)
#10:53:55phasefxmoodaepo: that server was running debian testing for a long time, and there was a struggle to get it onto something more stable. I think you could very well try an apt-get upgrade now and end up breaking something. So TLC is needed. My notion was just to transfer data to another stable system (we need to do that anyway, to get off the current hardware, which is old)
#10:54:43phasefx moved some data to the new server as an experiment/proof-of-concept, but didn't document the process
#10:54:59phasefxsome stuff from the blog didn't transfer, IIRC. The wiki worked
#10:57:40phasefxdebian hasn't been very good with packages like dokuwiki, historically. The version tends to lag behind, and sometimes it's packaged weird, requiring some server admin juggling
#10:58:48dbs prefers dokuwiki from source
#10:58:56dbsdbs: focus!
#10:59:25gmcharlt also prefers dokuwiki from source
#11:02:05dbsgmcharlt: hadn't heard of the pgsql 9.0 performance book before - nice
#11:02:53tsberephasefx: Don't think you ever grabbed the "no license page by default" commit on my installer branch, and I just pushed a fix there too. Care to take a look?
#11:03:08phasefxtsbere: can do, gracias
#11:04:05moodaepophasefx: So the PINES server needs to be re-installed with stable? And 'if' I finally decide to spend time on that server it will be ok/useful?
#11:04:26dbsalso - I guess for EG 2.0.next we should include an FTS SQL file for pgsql 9.0 if we want to support 9.0 on EG 2.0
#11:07:09phasefxmoodaepo: it'd be ok/useful with me if evergreen-ils.org is upgraded/maintained, but it needs to be deprecated at some point, with us switching over to GPLS' lupin server
#11:07:59dbsCould move the planet over too, to get more of our eggs in one basket
#11:08:01phasefxmoodaepo: also, leed has volunteered to backup data from evergreen-ils.org to lupin
#11:08:23moodaepoWill do!
#11:08:27moodaepoleed++
#11:08:44dbsWe need an infrastructure team that's separate from a web team, probably. content / design != low-level server administration
#11:09:42jeffright.
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#11:10:16moodaepoI agree, this is turning out to be a major discussion now not the minor one I started with : )
#11:10:21jeffhas GPLS gotten their IP addressing all straightened out yet?
#11:11:11moodaepocsharp would know.
#11:17:09moodaepoJust saw this on #koha do we want to apply also? > http://season.openusability.org/index.php/sou | http://openusability.org/UCCASS/survey.php?sid=56
#11:22:21dbsDo we have usability mentors?
#11:22:47moodaepoI think they provide the mentors and look for students, they just need projects to work on.
#11:28:31moodaepoYea looks like it's not a very active effort, maybe we can add a usability item to the GSoC page and see if any UI students might want to apply?
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#11:51:50csharpjeff: not yet :( - our IT department got backlogged with requests and the IP block change will hopefully happen early next month. I'm SO sorry for the delays! This was a truly unforeseen circumstance. Once the issue is resolved, we'll be full steam ahead for email lists, XMPP, and even hosting a new SVN/Git/whatever if desired
#11:53:10csharplupin is a VM on the server that needs to be moved, FYI
#11:53:41csharpso there would be a brief interruption of service (probably an evening's worth) when the move finally happens
#11:54:20moodaepocsharp: Does the OS need to re-installed for lupin?
#11:55:51csharpmoodaepo: not that I'm aware of. It's running lenny, though so we might consider an OS upgrade before (re)installing anything major
#11:56:17moodaepoJust checking
#11:56:20csharp can do whatever
#11:56:39moodaepocsharp++
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#14:52:35dbscsharp: does PINES block patrons from placing a hold on a title if they currently have checked out a copy that would fulfill that hold?
#14:53:18tsberethat....is an interesting "special case" situation.
#14:53:38dbstsbere: it's probably magnified in academic libraries where items are on reserve for 2 hour loans
#14:54:26tsbereWould be an interesting way to get around not being allowed to renew. Place a new hold on it and hope you are the next in line when you return it.
#14:54:28dbsjust working through Holds.pm and have an idea of how to prevent the hold from succeeding, but wondered if anybody had alternative methods to do so
#14:54:36dbsyeah, precisely
#14:54:42phasefxanother academic special case is not permitting holds if copies are available on shelf; I thought that interesting
#14:55:11dbsheh, that's a normal case for us academics :)
#14:55:43phasefxyou know you're special :D
#14:55:59tsbereOn the other hand, I have placed a hold on an item I was holding because the item I was holding had issues. Two such cases involved a book missing 9 pages (that I discovered when I reached them) and a DVD that wouldn't play at all.
#14:59:08dbsYeah. Or multi-volume sets. In our case, we think that's a lower frequency than the reserve norms violators
#14:59:09eeevildbs: in 2.0?
#14:59:25dbseeevil: 1.6 for now, which is why I was bugging csharp first :)
#14:59:37eeevilahh... well, csharp is on 1.4 ;)
#14:59:41dbsand script-based, of course
#15:00:10eeevil1.6 can do that ... there's a helper to get the available copy count for the record
#15:00:45eeevilIIRC, parsr does that ... maybe UPEI?
#15:02:09tsbereInterestingly, I think indb can do that kind of check for circ only, not holds.
#15:03:56dbseeevil: I've seen the available copy count helper, but it doesn't really interest me
#15:04:41dbsI'm planning on grabbing a list of all targetable copies for a given hold, and checking to see if any of those copies are in the patron's current circ list
#15:05:18dbsunless you're talking about the holds for on-shelf items, which is a different matter :)
#15:06:14StephenGWillshow do I get a sitemap of the EG.org's dokuwiki?
#15:06:25eeevildbs: that's what I was thinking of, yes
#15:06:25dbsStephenGWills: click "Index" at the bottom
#15:06:29eeevilso, nm
#15:06:31StephenGWillsI promised the comm comm a list of pages with "fix-me" tags
#15:06:35StephenGWillsok
#15:06:38StephenGWillstx
#15:15:09dbseeevil: no, that's helpful for catching people who slip through the skin-level work we did to hide the "Place Hold" link for available items
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#15:18:27AaronZ-PLSGood Morning all, what is the difference between biblio.record_entry.active and biblio.record_entry.deleted? We have some bib records which are both active and deleted. They have items attatched and do NOT have the red "THIS ITEM IS DELETED" when you look them up by bib id??
#15:18:43LBAHi All, just popping in to see if anyone wants to put in a vote for an Evergreen hashtag. Two top contenders are #evgils and #egils.
#15:19:07AaronZ-PLS votes for #egils
#15:21:58dbsThe Google has only 1340 results for #evgils, vs. > 1 million for #egils. I therefore prefer #evgils
#15:22:41phasefx has been swayed, another vote for #egvils
#15:22:52dbsegvils! a new one!
#15:23:15phasefxa first vote, then
#15:23:17rangithat's a fairly compelling argument dbs
#15:23:35dbsIt also has established usage by csharp and the like, which weighs in its favour IMO
#15:23:45LBAegv?
#15:23:50rangi#evgils +1
#15:23:51phasefxLBA: ignore egv
#15:23:56eeevilboooo on the v
#15:24:18dbs13 results for evgils on Bing, vs. 98,000 for egils
#15:24:36dbsboooo eeeeil
#15:24:45moodaepo agrees with eeevil that the v are pretty horrid
#15:25:24LBAdbs are you an evgils vote?
#15:25:27rangiill take utility of aesthetics :)
#15:25:40rangis/of/over/
#15:25:49LBAmoodaepo are you an egils vote?
#15:26:44dbsvegils
#15:27:02StephenGWillsLOL!
#15:27:50LBAthere is a Twitter user named evgils....
#15:28:25LBAwell, an extremely inactive twitterer
#15:28:44phasefx@evgils can ignore #evgils :)
#15:28:44pinesol`phasefx: Error: "evgils" is not a valid command.
#15:28:51StephenGWillshe probably wants to restart apache?
#15:30:31dbsLBA: fwiw, which is not much for a person with no Facebook account and a mostly write-only Twitter account, I vote for #evgils
#15:32:06phasefxtsbere: I had built a client from trunk, stamped 1_trunk100, and doing the updates dance with no previous history. switched to your installer branch, and built one for 1_trunk101, also doing the updates dance. Trying to do an incremental upgrade from 100 to 101 gave an error, Update XML file malformed (200)
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#15:33:59phasefxtsbere: hrmm, but I may know a cause for that.. the trees were built with different updateshost ip's
#15:34:30AaronZ-PLSBump: Anyone know what biblio.record_entry.active does. Why would it be set as "true" on deleted records with no copies or vols?
#15:35:51moodaepoLBA: I am abstaining since I don't use twitter
#15:37:04LBAhashtags are increasingly useful beyond twitter. take away the # and it is simply a tag for blog posts, facebook, and GKWE.
#15:37:49moodaepoAaronZ-PLS: One sec let me check something
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#15:43:58dbs is with moodaepo, as identi.ca uses !evergreen for the Evergreen group I'm never going to use either #evgils or #egils anyway
#15:44:31LBAdbs shall I retract your vote and make it an abstain?
#15:44:52eeevilis evergreen really too long? it's only 4 (or 3, with the dreaded v) chars longer
#15:45:20LBAtoo many other evergreens on twitter - like a college for instance. its a big pain
#15:45:41moodaepoLBA: Actually I like what kmlussier did and since you can use multiple tags we have 3 approved > http://hashtags.org/EvgILS
#15:45:43dbsIf only we had a project name like open-ils...
#15:45:57eeevildbs: don't get me started ... :)
#15:46:14LBAMiker says "I have almost always seen others shorten Evergreen to EG, with very few exceptions (only one I can think of before this thread started)."
#15:46:44dbswho is this miker person, and why is his email getting quoted in IRC?
#15:46:47LBAMiker also says "'eg' has 6 years of history and precedent, so I'm strongly in favor of that."
#15:46:50kmlussierI used to use #evergreenils, but bshum convinced me it was too long.
#15:46:51LBAmiker++
#15:46:51moodaepo#EgILS #EvgILS and #Evergreen since http://twitter.pbworks.com/w/page/1779812/Hashtags suggests CamelCaseing to maintain legibility
#15:47:26bshumkmlussier: I think I used to prefer egils but then I got warped by Kate to read that with the e-gills :)
#15:47:39dbsEvErGrEeN for the ultimate camelCase
#15:47:42kmlussieregils makes me think of eagles.
#15:47:44moodaepodbs++
#15:48:16StephenGWillsbshum: as in "fly with the e-gills"?
#15:48:17LBAegils makes me think of egalite
#15:48:41LBAStephenGWills - another good reason not to vote for that! Horrible song.
#15:48:42eeevildbs: always start smallcase! eVeRgReEn 4eva!
#15:48:54phasefx worries about those poor phone twitterers :)
#15:49:16LBAI don't think you guys are taking this issue seriously...
#15:49:37moodaepoBut if I had to choose with a gun to my head let's go with #evgils
#15:49:48dbsWe could use random accents to make it unique: #Évérgrëèn
#15:49:50moodaepoI do like 3 approved tags
#15:50:27LBAno guns to heads
#15:50:40phasefxlet's use the double-dagger. catalogers would get a kick out of it
#15:50:49dbsphasefx++
#15:50:51moodaepoHah only a Canadian would get into umlauting camelcased hastags and probably gmcharlt : )
#15:51:16eeevilphasefx: you, sir, are the winner
#15:51:22eeevilof what I don't know yet
#15:51:27rangimoodaepo: macrons ftw
#15:51:41phasefx#.
#15:52:09phasefxif that pasted correctly I'll be shocked
#15:52:47moodaepo is hoping #evgils makes the cut!
#15:52:49eeevil wonders why nobody has created a site that pulls slashdot stories, twitter-izes the summaries, and calls it hashdot
#15:53:10eeevilphasefx: it didn't for me
#15:53:14StephenGWillsthey did but all they saw was a whale
#15:54:17phasefx wouldn't want to get hashdotted
#15:54:45eeevil#\u2021
#15:54:45rangimmm hash
#15:55:01dbs#‡
#15:55:01bshumI'm poking at the archives to find the original discussion some of us had about evgils vs. egils
#15:55:05bshumBut it was a long time ago
#15:55:17moodaepoand the winner of the double sword is....dbs
#15:55:48dbsCTRL-Shift-u 2021 (thanks for the code, eeevil)
#15:56:01dbsokay, really have to get out of here
#15:56:03eeevil#&#x2021; (double hashes, too)
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#15:56:36rangididnt biblios already take the doubledagger
#15:56:54rangiid look, but oh liblime screwed that up too
#15:57:11moodaeporangi: Yes they did...also I had to look up macron (being newish to libraries : )
#15:57:14eeevilrangi: hopefully not for it's full name ... but, yeah, in marketing junk
#15:57:18moodaeporangi++
#15:57:57rangimoodaepo: we make use of macrons a lot down here being Māori :)
#15:58:00moodaepoSo I'm wondering if this photo made it to the blog > http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124401501@N01/4974238891
#15:58:29bshummoodaepo: I definitely remember seeing that on Facebook. But now that you mention it... hmm, blog...
#15:58:52moodaeporangi: I guessed that, since I am a fan of NZ films
#15:59:05rangioh you are? cool
#15:59:42rangihttp://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/NZ_Pop_Culture#Movies
#16:00:25rangi(some of the kohacon10 attendees wanted to watch some nz pop culture stuff before the conference)
#16:00:28wjr__missing a lot of music
#16:00:36rangiyes, yes it is
#16:00:49wjr__<-- huge tall dwarfs fan :)
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#16:00:52rangii just put the ones i had in my playlist that day :)
#16:01:00rangichris knox ftw
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#16:07:42phasefx@later tell tsbere not sure what it is, but trunk seems broken for me now with regards to the client upgrade feature. malformed XML
#16:07:42pinesol`phasefx: The operation succeeded.
#16:14:53tsberephasefx: malformed xml? Is xulrunner telling you this when checking for upgrades?
#16:15:08phasefxtsbere: right
#16:15:20tsbereHmmm
#16:15:38phasefxtsbere: I've switched dev environments though, so will try it on the old one
#16:15:59phasefxinstalling pushed to trunk
#16:17:14phasefxand stubs. hitting rel_2_1 now
#16:21:49tsberephasefx: If you visit updates/check/<some ver string>/update.xml or updates/check/win/<some ver string>/update.xml you should get some indication of the problem.
#16:24:33phasefxnothing obvious
#16:24:37phasefxwill paste
#16:25:27lisppastephasefx pasted "update.xml" at http://paste.lisp.org/display/120605
#16:26:02tsbereIt doesn't look invalid
#16:27:02tsberePasses w3c's validator, even.
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#16:28:04tsberephasefx: You sure the update host is set correctly in the client?
#16:28:56phasefxI checked what was showing up in config.status
#16:29:31phasefxokay, it's working fine in my old environment
#16:29:56phasefx tries again, "I'll feel bad but relieved if it goes away
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#16:37:06phasefxstill happening in the other environment. hrmm. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/AUS%20Update%20XML%20File%20Malformed%20200
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#16:38:04tsbereWhat is the autoupdate.js file setting the url to?
#16:38:44phasefxhttps://192.168.1.105/updates/check/%CHANNEL%/%VERSION%/update.xml
#16:38:58tsbereTry changing to just http instead of https
#16:41:05phasefxno error
#16:41:11phasefxprobably my cert?
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#16:42:02tsbereThe updater doesn't allow certs from manual install/override
#16:42:04phasefx // NOTE: Certs that default to invalid, even those overridden with cert_override.txt, won't work with this
#16:42:11tsbereYea
#16:42:12phasefxpooh :) sorry man
#16:42:12tsbereThat
#16:42:36phasefxso my other environment must have it nice
#16:44:09tsbereEveryone makes mistakes. And that is an easy one to forget about.
#16:44:59phasefxcould use a friendlier error, I suppose
#16:45:11tsbereTrue. But I don't know how to get a better one in there.
#16:46:01phasefxme neither, I like my veils of abstraction when I can keep them :)
#16:48:18tsbereI did put a big warning block in the dokuwiki page describing the automatic update stuff about that issue, though
#16:49:29tsbereExtensions are a bigger PITA, they require SSL on the update link or signing with a tool that, last I checked, actually requires a graphical environment
#16:50:37phasefxhrmm, I someone here made an extension for the client, but I don't know what they had to go through
#16:50:52tsbere?
#16:51:02phasefxthey changed how the login window looks
#16:51:15tsbereOk.
#16:51:16phasefxcrunchy cone, or pine cone, or some such
#16:51:40phasefxhttp://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2010-April/002703.html
#16:51:41tsbereMaking extensions is actually fairly easy.
#16:52:36phasefxah, he had an SSL server from google
#16:53:23tsbereyep.
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#17:13:42moodaeporangi: Was in a meeting and yea I did check out your list last year and watched Boy had seen Whalerider and Once we were warriors a while back.
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#17:14:36rangimoodaepo: siones wedding is very good (i think they titled it a samoan wedding for the us market))
#17:15:43moodaepoYea that looked interesting, I should make a list ok kiwi films I've watched someday I'm pretty sure it will be over 10 hah
#17:23:39rangihmm lemme find you something
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#17:26:09rangihttp://www.nzonscreen.com/watch/film
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#22:45:31gmcharlteeevil: about?
#22:47:03gmcharlteeevil: I think the opensrf commit I just made warrants cutting a 1.6.3 (and I'm willing to go through that exercise)
#22:49:11gmcharlt@later tell dbs wasn't freezethaw per se after all; see the commit to opensrf I just made
#22:49:11pinesol`gmcharlt: The operation succeeded.
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