Time Nick Message 13:20 nengard owen did you make an major changes here: http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=commit;h=e7a22556758b5edf1a23174a0ef90142caca3afb - anything I need to re-document? 13:21 owen No changes in functionality, but the entry form is better-formatted. You'll probably need to update your screenshot 13:24 paul hi nengard&owen 13:24 nengard hiya paul 13:24 nengard owen when you say the 'entry form' do you mean every tab? or something else? 13:24 paul owen, a librarian asked me a good question: why isn't here a form on top of additem.pl as there is on top of other screens ? (the quick queries tab) 13:25 paul I had no good answer, and think it's just a lacking form 13:25 paul am I right ? 13:25 owen Our reasoning (kados and I) was that addbiblio and additem are very focused operations that are less likely to be interrupted with day-to-day operations like check-in and check-out 13:26 owen ...and that those screens needed the screen real estate more than others do 13:27 paul yes, but when you are doing bulkmodifs on items (like changing callnumber), it would be convenient to be able to search catalogue when on additem.pl (search cn1 => edit item => search cn2 => Edit item => search cn3 =>Edit item ...) 13:27 paul atm, you have 1 more click : 13:27 paul search cn => edit item => Search => search cn2 => ... 13:29 kados quick poll: would you rather I release Koha 3.0 with current 'blocker' serials bugs, and with no support for item-level holds, or wait two weeks until serials and holds are fixed? 13:29 kados (hi) 13:29 paul hi kados. 13:29 paul + with a major problem in CGI::Session cpan package 13:29 kados *nod* 13:30 owen Man, nothing's easy is it? 13:30 kados (thout that has been noted in installation and there is a workaround) 13:30 paul you'll be surprised : i would vote "No". We are in july, no french libraries pressure to have something released for 1 month ;-) 13:31 paul + that would let more time to translators to do their job 13:32 paul nicomo : kados is doing a quick poll : 13:32 paul [15:29] <kados> quick poll: would you rather I release Koha 3.0 with current 'blocker' serials bugs, and with no support for item-level holds, or wait two weeks until serials and holds are fixed? 13:32 paul I answer: 13:32 paul [15:30] <paul> you'll be surprised : i would vote "No". We are in july, no french libraries pressure to have something released for 1 month ;-) 13:32 paul [15:31] <paul> + that would let more time to translators to do their job 13:32 paul your opinion ? 13:32 nicomo I agree with paul 13:32 nicomo better have something "cleaner" even if it means waiting a bbit longer 13:33 paul kados : note I consider you'll be really strict & accept only patches that are true patches. 13:33 paul & we should create a new branch immediatly 13:34 kados OK, but Galen is out this week 13:34 kados so new branch shoudl wait until he gets back at least 13:34 paul no prob, just don't validate patches that are not bugfixes... 13:35 kados not have been ... good :-) 13:35 kados paul: glad to hear that 13:36 kados some patches have been submitted that I haven't accepted for instance, some from Michael, about adding support for multiple IP ranges for branch identification 13:36 kados which was neat, but not a 3.0 feature IMO 13:37 paul did you accept Barcodes - OO replacements, extensible modules, tests from joe ? 13:37 paul (jul 3rd) 13:38 kados hmmm 13:38 atz paul: that doesn't actually do anything yet 13:38 atz as in, none of the other koha code references it 13:38 kados paul: yes, i believe I did accept those patches, bt they don't have any functional purpose yet IIRC 13:38 kados atz: snap 13:39 paul ok, I see 13:39 kados paul: I've just pushed up a patch for 2184 ... can you confirm it works for French language too? 13:41 kados it should show: Native Description ( Current Language Description ) 13:41 kados advsearch -> More Options 13:41 kados (in staff interface) 13:42 paul hey, yes, it's OK 13:42 paul something that is not OK though : the language http_accept chooser 13:42 paul (tested on ff & opera) 13:42 paul it's still in english by default :( 13:43 kados paul: can you re-open the bug 13:44 paul can you remember which one is it ? 13:45 kados no :-) 13:45 paul ok, i'll dig 13:46 paul kados : if it's not too long for you, maybe releasing a 3.0RC2 with some notes about serials & item-level holds not working + installing CGI::Session would be the best 13:46 paul (as there are some improvements btw RC1 & now + lot of questions about instsalling CGI::Session) 13:52 kados paul: yep, I can do that for sure 13:52 paul so I don't vote yes or no, I vote RC2 ;-) 13:53 kados hehe 13:53 kados sounds good 13:53 kados OK, RC2 for today then 13:53 paul kados: +++ 13:57 paul kados : today is our national day. You can say something about that if you release today ;-) 13:58 mc something like ""biblibre also works during national day" ? ;-) 13:58 paul lol 13:58 kados hehe 13:58 mc good bye all: it's familly time 13:59 paul bye mc 13:59 kados cya mc 13:59 paul tomorrow, i'll be in Lyon 13:59 paul & wed = start of Aix-Marseille BU project (1st meeting) 13:59 atz paul: happy bastille day 14:00 mc ho ... will you be reachable ? by cellular ? 14:00 paul mc : yep 14:00 mc cool 14:20 acmoore there's a new "gitcast" on git diff that I found intersting and useful: http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/git-diff.html 16:24 tim I just pulled an upgrade from git and get an error on make test. 16:25 tim t/Barcodes....................1/126 No max barcode (C4::Barcodes::annual=HASH(0x87ee100)->autoBarcode format) found. Using initial value. at /home/tmcmahon/kohaclone/blib/PERL_MODULE_DIR/C4/Barcodes.pm line 126. 16:31 atz tim: do you have any data loaded? 16:31 atz it appears not 16:31 atz that's not an error though, just a warning 16:32 atz you don't have any barcodes loaded, so the test uses the "initial" value. 16:35 acmoore there are tons of errors during the test suite. I don't thknk we're considering them failures yet. 16:47 tim atz: I have over 18000 items in there 16:48 atz what barcode format are you using? 16:48 tim The current Koha version is 3.00.00.094 and it seems to be working fine. 16:52 tim Our barcode format is just eight digits and increments for each item. 16:53 tim If that's just a warning, I need to find out what's stopping the test. 16:55 tim How about just below that? 16:55 tim Failed test '(annual ) db_max() : Database Empty or No Matches' at t/Barcodes.t line 27. 16:56 atz that makes sense since none of your barcodes will match the "annual" format 16:57 acmoore atz, are these tests in t/Barcodoes.t that are actually dependent on data in the database? Should they be re-written to not depend on that, or moved to t/lib/KohaTest/... so that they can be sure to have a database under them? 16:59 atz acmoore: yes, the main point of db_max is to get the max barcode value from the database 17:05 atz the next test (max) encapsulates that one, and returns either db_max or initial 17:06 atz i can modify db_max line to be just a diag, but you need the feeback from that to know whether max is working correctly 17:08 Fallor so what's this serials-bug in rc1? 17:09 atz Fallor: i think there are a couple, one is with handling irregularities 17:10 Fallor such as? 17:11 atz That one is Bug 2114 17:11 atz the rest: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=Serials&version=HEAD&version=rel_3_0&version=rel_3_2&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=i 17:11 atz nclude&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= 17:11 atz http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=Serials&version=HEAD&version=rel_3_0&version=rel_3_2&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug 17:11 atz _id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= 17:11 atz damn... gets auto split 17:12 Fallor whoa 17:12 Fallor long url 17:12 atz yeah, bugzilla advanced search query 17:12 atz i think you can cut off all that crap at the end though 17:12 atz everything after REOPENED 17:13 Fallor i'll just fix them 17:13 Fallor (the url's, not the bugs unfortunately ;)) 17:20 Fallor lots of serials bugs... 17:20 Fallor so rc1 won't work for serials for now? 17:21 atz Fallor: yeah, too many blockers right now for my tastes 17:22 atz Fallor: another way to say it is "it *might* work, but it can't be considered stable" 17:27 Fallor yep 17:28 Fallor that's gonna be a change of plans for us then 17:28 Fallor we had been planning to start with serials management with Koha3 17:28 atz BibLibre has several ppl who are working on this (though perhaps not on Bastille Day) 17:29 atz it's rather important to some of our LL clients also. 17:31 Fallor when would you estimate that serials will be usable? 17:36 atz i'll defer to kados on that one (i haven't been following serials code that tightly) 17:37 kados Fallor: stay tuned to koha-devel for an email from me about that 17:38 Fallor ok :) 17:46 atz tim: just submitted a patch to improve the Barcodes.t test script 17:46 atz should avoid tripping up the harness after that 18:39 atz how is it we have a "category" EXPR sneaking back into the codebase? 18:39 atz i could've sworn we'd killed those off. 18:48 owen atz, they come back unless you sever their heads completely 19:05 tim Maybe I messed up with a setting, but I can't find anything about barcode formats except autoBarcode. 19:05 atz tim: yeah, that's pretty much it 19:06 atz the rest is just whatever data you put in 19:06 tim I still can't get the test to run. 19:07 atz i sent my patch, but it hasn't (afaik) been pushed up yet 19:07 kados tim: I'll ping you when it's pushed 19:08 tim Ah. I did another pull and there were some changes. I figured that was it.. 19:11 kados tim: OK, rebase now and let us know 19:13 pianohacker What is a "category" EXPR? I'd like to know so I can avoid them myself 19:13 owen <!-- TMPL_IF EXPR=" " --> 19:14 pianohacker Yeah, I'm familiar with EXPRs 19:14 owen I don't think atz was referring to one particular bad EXPR, but the use of them in general 19:14 pianohacker Ah, joy 19:14 tim It worked! Thanks kados and atz. 19:14 owen yeah :( 19:15 pianohacker So we'll have lots of template vars like variable_is_equal_to_other_variable 19:15 tim brb 19:15 pianohacker Instead of just using EXPR="variable eq other_variable" ? 19:15 atz pianohacker: almost never can you use EXPR for that 19:16 pianohacker Okay 19:16 pianohacker Are we trying to avoid EXPRs completely, or can we use them with discretion? 19:17 atz the part that messes it up is that it jumps out of execution flow 19:17 atz or rather, you'd think that it gets evaluated wherever it is (in a loop for example) 19:19 atz but it doesn't, it gets evaluated at the beginning, every time and gives errors if both vars aren't defined 19:19 pianohacker Wow 19:19 pianohacker That's... pathological 19:20 atz yeah, useless "feature" 19:21 owen atz, have you heard anything about that being considered a bug that might be fixed? 19:22 atz owen: no, i'm fairly sure it won't. the point of H:T:P is that it is single pass compile/execute. i.e., fast. 19:22 owen I see 19:22 atz it doesn't want to add an interpretation layer 19:24 pianohacker Is this when we start fervently wishing we could use something like Genshi that actually did this right? 19:30 owen I don't think anyone wishes they "could" re-write Koha from scratch :| 19:31 atz sure, this weekend i'm rewriting koha in PHP :) 19:32 pianohacker I did say could 19:59 eric Is translate.koha.org valid for koha 3? 20:00 paul eric : not for french 20:00 eric ok. tx paul 20:04 su-erin what linux distro seems to be the quickest to install koha on? 20:05 pianohacker Ubuntu and Fedora seem to be the list favorites 20:06 acmoore debian seems to be working pretty well for people, but opensuse seems to be popular too. I think they and fedora all have specific install instructions available for them. 20:07 su-erin thanks all 20:07 su-erin just wanted to quickly install koha for library staff members to start customizing 20:07 acmoore I think debian and ubuntu are considered the same in these instances. ;) 20:08 pianohacker Yeah 20:08 pianohacker I think ubuntu might be a tad easier to install, but for servers, it's not a huge difference 20:10 su-erin i have the ubuntu 8.04 installed already, so i might try it on there if not i'll just use 7.10 20:27 pianohacker su-erin: I have 2.2 and 3.0 with Zebra running nicely on Ubuntu, though I had to compile YAZ and Zebra myself 20:31 eric Anybody is aware of a Best Practices page on Koha.org? Exemple: best tools/utilities/setup for programmers, translators, etc? 20:31 pianohacker eric: There is a coding style guide at http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:codingguidelines 20:34 acmoore and there is now a perltidyrc file in the distribution 20:34 eric acmoore: perltidyrc? 20:35 acmoore there's a tool called "perltidy" that will take perl code and clean it up a bit to match things like indentation preferences. You configure it with a .perltidyrc file. there's one in the xt directory. 20:36 acmoore perltidy is at http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ 20:37 eric oh, I see. that's cool. So i guess that every files go through are perltidified before a release 20:38 kados eric: that's the goal, yes, I'm sure a few miss that step 20:39 su-erin pianohacker, what version of ubuntu? 20:39 pianohacker The latest 20:39 pianohacker 8.04 20:41 pianohacker kados: Patch prepared for bug 2282 20:47 kados pianohacker++ 20:48 pianohacker I have about 15 more minutes before I knock off for the day; anything I should start on? 20:48 kados pianohacker: i sent you and galen a list 20:48 kados pianohacker: maybe something from there if any of those are small enough 20:49 pianohacker 2348 looks nice and bite-sized 20:53 eric perltidy looks very powerfull. I used to place my braces on the line following (as example) my condition. Perltidy takes care of bringing the braces at the end of the line. 20:55 eric thanks acmoore! 20:55 acmoore yep. FYI, I don't think of our code passes it yet, but maybe we'll get there eventually. 20:56 pianohacker acmoore: On that subject, we use 4-wide spaces, not tabs, right? 20:56 eric i guess that something like perltidy -R koha once a while would do the job... 20:57 acmoore pianohacker, I think so, though I see a lot of tabs around. Most of it is 4 spaces, though. 20:57 pianohacker Should I correct those file-wide whenever I have a good chance during some other work? 20:57 acmoore eric, I just perltidy stuff around where I'm working for now. It's a little less intrusive and such. 20:58 acmoore pianohacker, I don't really know. I try to stick to just the area that I'm working on. Though I'm always tempted to untabify the whole file ;) 20:58 pianohacker Heh 20:59 acmoore I personally don't think it's worth monkeying with the code that I'm not trying to edit, and it's probably distracting to others to modify stuff unnecessarily 20:59 eric acmoore: I guess that everybody is working like this (about being tempted to untabify files) 21:00 chris yeah, its nicer if you just tidy the code you are editing, else looking back through diffs is hard 21:02 eric christ, IIRC, merging tools can do abstraction of whitespaces 21:03 chris yep, they can, human eyes cant that well 21:03 eric :) 21:03 chris if i want to look at what changed between this commit and 12 commits ago, its hard if one of those commits was a big perltidy on the whole file 21:04 pianohacker Next time LibLime gets a new dev, we can have them perltidy -R the whole tree, then whenever a weird problem pops up, we say, "Blame So-and-So!" ;) 21:04 chris heh 21:10 eric Can't git support pre-checkin scripts? We could add a perltidy there. That would ensure that every check-in respects the coding standards 21:11 kados eric: I think it can, so mostlikely we could enforce that as part of the QA process ... it'd be good for 3.2 and beyond 21:12 chris yep we just have to pick a point and do it, and the diffs from behind that would be annoying, so when we branch for 3.2 it could be enforced from then on 21:13 eric I second chris (i was typing it actually) :) 21:13 chris if we do it now, kados is gonna have a heck of a job reading patches 21:13 kados yea 23:51 atz cnighs: looks like reintroduced EXPR may come from your 6/20 patch 00:42 ricardo Hi all! 00:51 ricardo Is there a "git" expert here? 00:55 ricardo Never mind. I solved it! :) 00:56 ricardo kados: If you're reading this, I just updated the INSTALL.opensuse file to add a missing step (install yaz "itself" - instructions about installing "libyaz" and "libyaz-devel" were already there). 00:56 ricardo Patch submitted. 00:56 ricardo Take care everyone! 07:16 chris evening 07:32 slef hi all 07:35 mc hi slef 07:36 mc evening, chris 08:33 masonj evening gentlemen 08:34 js hello masonj, what you do for women ;) 08:34 masonj anything they want.... 08:35 js hé hé ;) 11:47 Fallor hi koha :) 11:47 Fallor +# 11:50 Fallor this is turning out to be a hellish project 11:51 Fallor first there was incompatibility with the router 11:51 Fallor it wanted netbios name for the computer or it wouldn't let it network 11:51 Fallor so put samba up 11:52 Fallor then we were able to connect to the network, but the router still kept dropping us 11:52 Fallor so we switched the router 11:52 Fallor then there was the problem with CGI::Session 11:53 Fallor and now we have a faulty disk in raid-array and it doesn't want to be mirrored 11:53 Fallor :P 11:53 Fallor not to mention the incredibly slow internet connection... 11:54 Fallor this is getting ridiculous