IRC log for #koha, 2013-09-29

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00:05 rambutan what sporting event is being discussed? 9-11 would seem to not be soccer, not basketball
00:07 tcohen a tennis tie-break
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04:05 bgkriegel bye
04:25 mtompset Have a great day, #koha.
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08:30 cait good morning #koha
08:56 cait bgkriegel++
09:01 cait signed off 46!
09:02 * cait feels a little like that guy with the hill and the stone at times
09:02 cait but i had asked for it...
10:40 cait native speaker around?
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13:32 rambutan It's morning.
13:33 cait goodmornign rambutan :)
13:35 cait jcamins helped me out already - jcamins++
13:56 rambutan I thhink you and jcamins must be on #koha 24/7
13:57 cait I am not going to comment on this :)
13:58 rambutan I should go check on my pancakes, brb
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14:29 rambutan jenkins?
14:29 wahanui somebody said jenkins was http://jenkins.koha-community.org/
14:32 rambutan image of jenkins reminds me of Jeeves (askjeeves)
14:38 rambutan How does the distributed build work in Jenkins?
14:39 cait rambutan: I think i am the wrong one to ask this :)
14:39 cait as far as i unddrstand it... there are different servers doing different builds and reporting back?
14:40 rambutan yea, but what in Jenkins actually sets this up? I'm reading the docs, but haven't found anything yet about
14:40 rambutan distribuiting the build over difference CPUs
14:41 cait i think one build is done by one server
14:41 cait another does the test suite iwth mariadb and so on
14:42 rambutan OK, so it's not really a distributed task manager then.
14:42 cait not sure
14:42 rambutan More like Boinc then
14:44 cait to me it looks like both are very different software
14:45 rambutan yea, but conceptually the functionality must be analogous
14:45 rambutan this is interesting - trigger builds by email
14:45 rambutan jenkins-foo: "|/bin/wget -o /dev/null http://YOURHOST/jenkins/job/PROJECTNAME/build"
14:48 rambutan wonder if we're using mavin
14:48 rambutan Maven
14:48 rambutan Ah Ha! Eureka! https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/di[…]istributed+builds
14:49 rambutan Wonder who hosts Jenkins Master?
14:49 cait rangi does
14:50 rambutan ah
14:50 rambutan appears quite simple to add/manage slaves
14:52 rambutan of course, jenkins is all java, there must be just a little twitch factor there :)
14:55 rambutan OK, so we're not compiling Perl, so what does a "build" actually do?
14:56 jcamins rambutan: it runs the complete installation process and all the unit tests.
14:56 rambutan ic ic
14:56 jcamins And a sub-task generates a package.
14:56 rambutan so that means it's running a shell script
14:57 jcamins continuous integration?
14:57 rambutan OK, this is easy as cake
14:57 jcamins continuous integration is http://wiki.koha-community.org[…]nuous_Integration
14:57 jcamins That has the build script.
14:59 rambutan Wish I could have attended that (Chris') presentation
15:40 rambutan @later tell rangi do VM's work OK as Jenkins slaves, or is bare metal preferred?
15:40 huginn rambutan: The operation succeeded.
15:55 rambutan @later tell rangi How many Jenkins slaves are we currently running?
15:55 huginn rambutan: The operation succeeded.
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17:21 cait bgkriegel++ :)
17:22 bgkriegel now for what? :)
17:23 bgkriegel thx :)
17:24 bgkriegel you have been very busy! cait++
17:24 cait not busy enough :)
17:24 cait still 13 enh/new features remaining
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18:26 cait1 t
18:26 bgkriegel :)
18:26 bgkriegel done 10854
18:28 cait bgkriegel++ :)
18:49 bgkriegel cait: 10969. Russian file has a TRUNCATE, but can't be truncated because foreign key constraint, so 1) remove truncate or 2) replace with delete 3) lift constraint for that sentence
18:56 cait bgkriegel: hm
18:56 cait you are right - i just kept it how it was
18:56 cait maybe comment it?
18:56 cait it seems quite dangerous
18:56 bgkriegel If they want truncate, then i go for 3)
18:56 cait ok
18:56 bgkriegel just disable, truncate and enable
18:57 cait ok
19:10 rangi morning
19:10 rangi 2 new devs in september
19:10 cait morning
19:11 rangi i should do a patch for that
19:12 rangi @later tell rambutan VM work fine, we have 2 already, i still need to configure bgkriegel's one to do a bit more, galens one is running master against mariadb, i can show you how at kohacon
19:12 huginn rangi: The operation succeeded.
20:09 mtj hey rangi, have you got round to looking at travis.cli.org ?
20:09 rangi yep, it's good as far as proprietary SaaS goes
20:10 mtj s/looking/look/
20:12 jcamins rangi: it looks like their code is on Github.
20:12 mtj hmm, i actually thought it travis was FOSS :/
20:12 rangi oh cool
20:12 jcamins MIT license.
20:12 wahanui well, mit license is compatible, but upgrading to GPLv3+ is a good idea anyway.
20:12 rangi i might be confusing with coveralls
20:13 jcamins rangi: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis
20:13 rangi mtj: it seems fine, doesnt do anything jenkins doesnt
20:13 rangi its integration with github is nice, if you like github
20:13 rangi but there is a plugin to do the same for jenkins
20:15 mtj i started experimenting with travis coz it was quick, free and i couldnt spare a jenkins box
20:17 mtj i think jenkins does a bunch more stuff than travis
20:18 mtj i liked getting a clean VM for every build in travis….  tho i'm sure jenkins could be set up to do the same thing
20:19 rangi yep
20:19 jcamins mtj: easy peasy. Worst case scenario, you use Vagrant.
20:19 jcamins jenkins can run a bash script that starts Vagrant.
20:19 rangi https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/di[…]NS/Vagrant+Plugin
20:20 rangi even easier
20:20 mtj touche
20:21 jcamins Cool.
20:22 mtj is it easy to get different OSs booting in vagrant?
20:22 rangi havent tried, but i cant imagine it is
20:22 mtj ie: as a vagrant 'box'
20:23 mtj looks like it might be easy peasy
20:24 jcamins mtj: I only use it with Ubuntu.
20:24 jcamins But it's dead simple with Ubuntu.
20:25 mtj woah! -> http://www.vagrantbox.es
20:25 jcamins mtj: https://github.com/biblionarra[…]aster/Vagrantfile and https://github.com/biblionarra[…]/bootstrap-deb.sh
20:26 mtj awesome, i've been looking for something like vagrant for a while…
20:26 jcamins That script doesn't actually work because Cassandra's packaging is broken.
20:27 rangi vagrant + chef = awesome
20:27 jcamins It did for a while, though.
20:27 rangi mtj: you should look at docker.io too its pretty neat
20:27 mtj i failed badly trying to get ubuntu VMs booting on a debian XEN system, a few weeks ago
20:27 rangi different use cases i think
20:27 rangi but still neat
20:28 jcamins Yeah, very different. But both very cool.
20:29 mtj rangi, yep thanks - docker.io was next on my TODO list
20:29 mtj ( i saw it mentioned on #koha recently - and re-remembered it )
20:30 rangi mtj: travis + coveralls = https://coveralls.io/r/ranginui/ncip-server-chris
20:30 rangi which is kinda fun
20:31 rangi Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls
20:31 rangi cover -test -report coveralls
20:34 mtj very cool :)
20:34 mtj i had some success recently, testing Koha install-docs on travis…   https://travis-ci.org/KohaAloha/koha-install-docs
20:35 rangi cool
20:35 mtj was nice to 'prove' that some instructions actually worked...
20:35 rangi i really need to get jenkins to mark a build failed
20:35 rangi if coverage drops
20:37 cait :)
20:37 cait +1
20:37 * rangi grabs coffee brb
20:37 mtj hmm, perhaps the 'cover' test could be added to the qa-tool.pl even...
20:38 mtj like the perl-critic test
20:38 mtj (might be a really slow test tho)
20:39 jcamins That would be an incredibly slow test.
20:39 mtj yeah - i thought it might :p
20:39 jcamins You'd have to run the entire test suite twice.
20:40 cait another slave?
20:40 cait i mean jenkins could do it
20:40 jcamins cait: no, I meant with koha-qa.
20:40 cait and you could test coverage only on the files changes
20:40 cait changed
20:40 cait not so slow then maybe
20:41 jcamins cait: the problem is you have to run every single test to find out which ones include coverage of the changed files.
20:45 cait hm yeah you are right
20:46 rangi it shouldnt fail qa
20:46 rangi nessecarily
20:46 mtj jcamins, thanks for the vagrant examples, they are just what i need :)
20:46 rangi but jenkins can make the build fail and highlight coverage dropped
20:48 * jcamins contemplates tracings.
20:48 * cait runs the qa script on random bugs because she is really too tired to continue testing
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21:26 eythian hi
21:26 cait hi eythian
21:26 cait how are you?
21:26 cait :)
21:27 eythian Daylight saving changed, so slightly jetlagged :)
21:27 cait oh did it?
21:27 cait what time is it for you now?
21:27 cait 11 hours now? that always confuses me
21:30 wizzyrea 10:30 here
21:30 eythian yeah, that
21:30 wahanui well, yeah, that is cool - a way to enhance the OPAC without bloating Koha...
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21:31 cait eythian: i was wondering if you could look at 2 bugs for me?
21:31 cait bug 10733 is all packages
21:31 huginn Bug http://bugs.koha-community.org[…]_bug.cgi?id=10733 enhancement, P5 - low, ---, tomascohen, Signed Off , Memcached on package installs
21:31 cait and i wonder if we need additional changes for bug 10729
21:31 huginn Bug http://bugs.koha-community.org[…]_bug.cgi?id=10729 enhancement, P5 - low, ---, colin.campbell, Signed Off , Support phrases-icu.xml in install and upgrade
21:37 cait eythian: are you hiding now? :)
21:37 eythian just distracted :)
21:37 eythian I'll try to have a look today.
21:37 cait that would be awesome, thx
21:44 jcamins So it turns out there are some disadvantages to a discovery layer like Biblionarrator.
21:44 cait oh?
21:44 jcamins When you do a search you get all the really relevant results that have been cataloged *horribly*.
21:44 jcamins And all you can say is "oh my god, I hope I didn't write that."
21:45 jcamins While trying to ignore the sneaking suspicion that it may have been one of your first records.
21:45 cait ah
21:45 cait that happens with people using koha too
21:45 cait when they first try the publication date search :)
21:45 cait and other searches
21:45 jcamins lol
21:46 cait 9190... that doesn't look quite right
21:46 jcamins True, but the really horribly cataloged records don't show up in searches, usually.
21:47 jcamins This record...
21:47 * jcamins sighs.
22:03 cait good night :)
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22:11 jcamins @marc 952
22:11 wahanui The 952 field is used by Koha to store item data in MARC21 and is described at http://wiki.koha-community.org[…]_fields_%289xx%29
22:11 huginn jcamins: unknown tag 952
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22:41 jcamins Good morning, cait.
22:41 cait *hides*
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23:41 jcamins rangi: hey, I don't suppose you know of anyone who has collected statistics on which indexes are actually used on the OPAC?
23:42 rangi not me
23:44 jcamins I computed it for one library, and it matched what I expected: 78.61% keyword, 10.09% author, 4.83% title, and 3.8% subject.
23:45 jcamins The other 9 indexes used on the OPAC make up the remaining 2.67% of searches.
23:47 rangi sounds what id expect
23:48 jcamins Yeah, but I'd be interested in sanity checking those results, to confirm that it is as consistent as I think.
23:49 wizzyrea i'd guess it has a lot to do with what kind of library, and what kind of search they set as default
23:49 jcamins Anti-confirmation bias, don't you know.
23:49 wizzyrea but yea, that seems like what I'd expect
23:49 rangi ill see if i can pull some stats
23:50 jcamins wizzyrea: this was a specialized research library.
23:50 wizzyrea default set to keyword?
23:50 rangi that makes me think
23:50 jcamins Yep.
23:56 jcamins A study at Nanyang Technical University has keyword 68.9%, title 16.5%, author 8.2%, and subject 6.4%.
23:57 rangi we should totally make a way to export those stats, anonymised
23:57 rangi so that libraries can click and export and then we can collect them
23:59 jcamins Yeah, that'd be useful.
23:59 jcamins Well, interesting.
23:59 wahanui interesting is sometimes good and sometimes bad

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