Time  Nick       Message
12:33 tim        We ran into a problem with one of our records.  Here's the error.
12:33 tim        Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm line 184., referer: http://koha.wlpl.org/cgi-bin/koha/MARCdetail.pl?bib=18839
12:35 tim        This is followed by the usual premature end of scritp headers (this one in addbiblio.pl) and the intranet page give a 500 error.
12:47 tim        Oh yeah.  We're trying to edit the MARC record.
12:48 hdl        what was the record source ?
12:48 hdl        Is this a record you created ?
12:48 tim        It was from OCLC
12:49 hdl        would you give me ISBN ?
12:51 tim        0439783690
12:53 tim        The book is in Spanish and English.  I'm tninking it has something to do with Spanish characters.
12:53 hdl        But it seems that they used utf-8 for their character encoding.
12:53 tim        But don't have a clue what to do about it.
12:54 hdl        wait for 3.0 :)))
12:56 tim        I'm guessing there are othere records with the same problem since we have a small Spanish collection.
12:57 hdl        More seriously, you could try and recompile MARC::Record and MARC::File::XML or MARC::Charset.
12:57 kados      tim: I know what the error is, I've got a solution for it
12:57 kados      tim: give me a sec and I'll fix it
12:57 tim        Cool!
12:57 tim        Thanks!
13:03 kados      tim: where are you pulling the record out of, the reservoir?
13:08 kados      tim: give it a shot now
13:10 kados      tim: wait ... it's still not encoding correctly
13:10 kados      tim: lemme check your version of MARC::Record, MARC::File::XML
13:12 kados      tim: got it, your version of MARC::Record is way out of date, updating it now
13:18 kados      tim: compiling now
13:23 kados      tim: ok ... MARC::Record, MARC::File::XML updated, but that record is still not being encoded correctly
13:24 kados      tim: give me a minute to figure out what's going on
13:26 kados      so the leader is claiming it's MARC-8:
13:26 kados      01166cam  2200301Ka 4500
13:26 kados      but I suspect it's actually UTF-8
13:31 tim        Have any ideas what we can do about that?
13:34 kados      yep, trying one right now
13:34 kados      give me a sec
13:38 kados      tim: ok ... here's the deal
13:38 kados      http://koha.wlpl.org/cgi-bin/koha/detail.pl?bib=19549
13:39 kados      I created a duplicate of the problematic record
13:39 kados      and it saved properly
13:39 kados      as utf-8
13:39 kados      (though the leader didn't update for some reason)
13:39 kados      (so I need to check on that)
13:40 kados      in order to do that I had to change the default encoding of the intranet to utf-8
13:40 kados      but that means that ascii characters outside the normal range don't display properly
13:40 kados      (like in the original record)
13:41 kados      probably the best solution would be to convert all your records to utf-8
13:41 kados      (once we figure out why the leader
13:41 kados      isn't getting changed as it should)
13:42 kados      but I'm guessing that's going to be a lot of records since you have quite a few spanish materials
13:42 kados      I need to think a bit more to figure out if there's a way we can fix this without so much work
13:46 kados      btw: side note, is that how you're supposed to represent multi-language materials in MARC? 245$a with the spanish and $b with the english?
14:05 slef       !help DateTime
14:06 kados      umm ... well we have a meeting in a couple hours
14:06 slef       how does logbot work?
14:06 kados      just logs stuff
14:07 kados      no fancyness :-)
14:07 slef       can you put meeting details into /topic please?
14:07 slef       "You can view the logs of #koha using logbot. "
14:07 slef       How?
14:08 kados      I can't edit topic
14:08 tim        kados: I don't do the cataloging.  I don't know if that's the correct way of entering it.  I'm guessing it's not.
14:08 kados      agenda's on the wiki
14:09 kados      tim: I'm still working on a solution here
14:09 kados      tim: give me a few more minutes
14:09 slef       kados: URL?
14:09 slef       kados: who can edit topic?
14:09 kados      slef: for the koha wiki?
14:09 slef       kados: for the agenda
14:10 kados      slef: noone
14:10 kados      http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=AgendAndNotes06mar27
14:10 kados      tim: this is especially tricky because your data has both marc-8 and utf-8 characters
14:11 kados      tim: and it seems we can't always trust the leader to tell us which they are
14:12 kados      tim: it's also hard because there's no sane way to tell the difference between utf-8 and marc-8 by just the characters themselves
14:13 slef       was kohaCon discussed on koha-devel?
14:18 slef       What time is the meeting?
14:18 kados      GMT 20:00
14:19 slef       Now the clocks have changed, I can probably make that.
14:19 kados      sweet
15:00 kados      hi paul_away
15:01 paul       hi kados.
15:01 paul       meeting in 1 hour isn't it ?
15:01 kados      yes
15:01 kados      I know it's late for you
15:01 paul       (et are now in summer time, so we are GMT+2)
15:01 kados      and still early for NZ :(
15:02 kados      right, so 9:00pm for you eh?
15:02 paul       yep
15:02 kados      here's the meeting agenda:
15:02 kados      http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=AgendAndNotes06mar27
15:02 paul       in fact, my main concern is to have a meeting every week. It would be easier for me to have one once every 2 weeks.
15:02 kados      if you have anything to add, feel free
15:03 kados      well, you can attend every two weeks :-)
15:04 paul       wiki updated
15:05 paul       (3 questions)
15:05 slef       erm, when is meeting?
15:06 slef       20:00 GMT or 21:00 CET?
15:06 paul       hi slef. In 1 hour
15:06 slef       so 20:00 +0000
15:06 paul       20:00 GMT
15:06 slef       22:00 CET 8-/
15:50 russ       morning all
15:51 kados      morning russ
15:51 russ       hi kados
15:55 kados      bout 5 minutes eh?
15:55 russ       i reckon
15:56 chris      morning
15:56 hdl        hi
15:56 russ       hiya chris
15:59 kados      T-MINUS TWO MINUTES TO KOHA MEETING
15:59 kados      http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=AgendAndNotes06mar27
16:00 kados      ok ... it's 20:00
16:00 kados      time for a roll call, eh?
16:00 kados      so who's about?
16:00 chris      here
16:01 paul       who knows http://sourceforge.net/projects/jkoha ?
16:01 kados      not me
16:01 chris      ive seen it
16:01 kados      great, nice crowd
16:02 kados      so, the agenda is at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=AgendAndNotes06mar27
16:03 kados      first up is News and Questions
16:03 kados      paul, some of this you added, eh?
16:03 paul       yep
16:03 kados      take us away :-)
16:03 paul       1 st question : UNICODE status
16:04 paul       seems the solution we have found still hides a big problem.
16:05 kados      paul: what's that?
16:05 paul       (mail on koha-zebra from pierrick, 21th, march)
16:05 pierrick   not so big
16:05 paul       we are back to what I thought 2 months ago :
16:05 paul       * either we succeed to get an improved DBD::mysql
16:06 pierrick   do we need to process strings in Perl ?
16:06 paul       * we rewrite all subs to decode everything from mysql
16:08 pierrick   (decode every string is not a satisfaying solution)
16:08 paul       right
16:08 thd        paul: Is that the full list of options? Those 2?
16:08 paul       the last one being to switch from mysql to something else I think we only have 2, you're right
16:10 thd        paul: how painful would switching to Postgres be actually?
16:10 kados      thd: quite painful :-)
16:10 paul       somthing like a cancer ?
16:10 thd        :)
16:10 kados      hehe
16:11 pierrick   do we need to process strings coming from Mysql in Perl ?
16:11 thd        I did not mean permanently but temporarily, relative to hacking the DBD module
16:11 pierrick   if not, the problem is not that big
16:12 paul       but we have :
16:12 paul       * marc_*_structure
16:12 paul       * borrowers
16:12 paul       * many many other parameters tables (itemtype description, ...)
16:14 kados      chris: any input on this?
16:14 chris      im wondering what the answer to pierricks question is too
16:15 paul       I wanted to say that we have to retrieve many strings from mySQL as well as from zebra.
16:16 pierrick   retrieving many strings is absolutely not a problem, processing strings can be
16:16 paul       is "show the string in the template" not something "processed" ?
16:16 pierrick   I mean things like inline replacement on non-ASCII characters, string length calculation
16:17 pierrick   paul, no, in my mind "select" and "print" does not process the string, sorry for my vocabulary, I was not clear enough
16:17 hdl        But if you have a select with some accentuated characters, Don't we need "processing" ?
16:18 pierrick   as long as we only do "insert", "select", "print", no problem I think, I see even
16:18 paul       but why do I have a problem ?
16:18 hdl        But we shall have to insert. Or to take into account that users may have different locales.
16:19 pierrick   IMO, Koha works with UTF-8, 99,99%
16:19 pierrick   hdl, no problem to insert utf-8
16:19 pierrick   hdl, what do you mean "different locales" ?
16:19 thd        hdl: exactly which is why every string should be converted in any case
16:20 paul       but on MARCdetail.pl I have wrong results :
16:20 pierrick   we force browser side to be utf-8, not matter the client locale
16:20 thd        pierrick: only if the client supports UTF-8
16:20 paul       * without binmode, zebra datas are wrong, but mysql datas are OK (marc description)
16:21 paul       * with binmode, zebra datas are OK, but mysql datas are no more !
16:21 kados      paul: are you sure you changed all of zebra's config files to utf-8?
16:21 pierrick   thd, supporting utf-8 is a prerequisite, obviously... and which recent browser does not support utf-8 ???
16:21 paul       repeat all what I have to do to be sure I haven't missed something
16:22 thd        pierrick: well I identify legacy systems for the user at home.
16:22 kados      thd: we can bring up supporting older browsers when we resolve the utf-8 problems' we're having
16:22 kados      thd: right now the priority is getting utf-8 to work!
16:23 thd        however, most users not on the special systems at the library itself will not have a UTF-8 locale
16:23 paul       but that's not a problem thd : the browser take care of everything
16:23 paul       (unless i'm still missing something !)
16:23 pierrick   paul, you don't miss anything
16:24 thd        paul: It does not on my system
16:24 paul       which browser do you use ?
16:24 kados      if your locale does not support utf-8 it won't work
16:24 kados      I've seen it before on my gentoo workstation
16:24 kados      regardless of browser
16:24 kados      so thd has a point
16:25 kados      but i suggest we ignore that for now
16:25 pierrick   thd, locale is not about encoding (utf-8 is an encoding) but about a character set you can type with your keyboard and display on your screen
16:25 paul       right
16:25 paul       (+ it's already 10:30 pm in europe ;-) )
16:25 kados      and concentrate on getting utf-8 to actually work for those of us with the utf-8 locale
16:26 kados      paul: I can't find the message that Tumer sent regarding utf-8 and zebra
16:26 kados      paul: but it was in there (sent to koha-zebra I believe)
16:26 kados      I'm really getting sick of encoding issues :-)
16:26 thd        paul: if I query for C?zanne when my system which is not set to UTF-8 the query will fail unless it is normalised for UTF-8 at the server side which seems simple enough to me
16:26 paul       pierrick & kados, you have something working correctly, while I don't.
16:26 paul       (too : getting sick)
16:27 kados      paul: I discovered a new bug with the new cvs MARC editor for existing records in a Koha database with incorrect leader
16:27 kados      paul: just today ... I've been trying to fix it ... driving me nuts!
16:27 thd        kados: why is the leader incorrect?
16:27 kados      paul: also, I have not attempted to change default char encoding in mysql yet
16:27 kados      thd: no idea
16:28 kados      so it seems like our UNICODE status is that we're still unresolved
16:28 paul       right.
16:29 pierrick   :-/ I thought it was OK
16:29 thd        kados: Is the encodingcharacter encoding set in 0000/09 wrong?
16:29 kados      pierrick: can you confirm whether you have a working Koha with mysql tables specifying utf-8?
16:29 kados      thd: now's not the time
16:29 pierrick   kados, I confirm
16:29 paul       pierrick : do you still think you're OK
16:29 kados      pierrick: can we view this?
16:29 paul       OK, so you just have to explain what you did !
16:29 kados      right
16:29 pierrick   kados, no you can't I just made screenshots
16:30 kados      (I _thought_ pierrick had done so via an email)
16:30 pierrick   (no access to my working station)
16:30 kados      (but assumed that something else was discovered)
16:30 paul       we end this topic and reach the next one ?
16:30 kados      sure
16:30 kados      I will get a utf-8 mysql Koha running this week
16:30 kados      to confirm that pierrick 's solution works
16:30 kados      Zebra integration (CQL in Koha) ... also paul>?
16:31 kados      chris: want to give us an update on that?
16:31 paul       yes, I just wanted to read chris on this
16:31 chris      last week we got sorting working
16:31 paul       do you have builded an API for queries ?
16:31 chris      so that the results are returned in relevance rank from zebra, but we can then resort them by title, or author etc
16:31 kados      paul: http://kohatest.liblime.com/
16:32 chris      paul: I have been working in C4::SearchMarc.pm
16:32 kados      paul: it's where we are at currently with searching
16:33 chris      i have to tidy it up, and put it in C4::Search
16:33 paul       there is no possibility for the user to enter a CQL query directly ?
16:33 chris      there is on head
16:33 kados      chris: will that code eventually support the full CQL hierarchy?
16:33 chris      i have been working on the 2.2 plugin recently paul
16:33 chris      maybe kados
16:34 chris      it all depends on how we build the pqf.properties fiel
16:34 chris      file even
16:35 kados      we're still missing some things
16:35 kados      I detailed them in my search report sent to koha-zebra
16:35 chris      the way SearchMarc.pm does the search
16:35 chris      is not going to be how 3.0 does it
16:35 kados      ahh
16:35 chris      SearchMarc.pm is a drop in replacement for the SearchMarc.pm in 2.2.x
16:36 chris      so that without needing to change much, you can get zebra going
16:36 thd        chris: how will it be different for 3.0?
16:36 paul       so where is the best code ? in head or in 2.2-zebra plugin ?
16:36 chris      for 3.0 we have a chance to tidy up the .pl files as well
16:37 chris      SearchMarc.pm in head will work with the existing search files
16:37 chris      Search.pm in head will be the new API
16:37 chris      SearchMarc.pm does the most things at the moment (sorting, etc)
16:37 chris      as I have been concentrating on it lately
16:39 chris      thd: currently we get things from the form like biblio.title="some book" .. which we then convert to title all "some book" in CQL and pass to zebra
16:40 paul       ok, i'll try to investigate your code. when do you think it will be stabilised enough ?
16:40 chris      the plugin part (ie SearchMarc.pm and Biblio.pm) is pretty stable now
16:40 thd        chris: so do you mean that obviously the conversion step between SQL and CQL will be eliminated?
16:40 chris      Search.pm is going to need quite a bit more work
16:41 chris      thd: something like that
16:42 chris      the search forms can be simplified
16:42 chris      paul, ill try to do an updated mail when theres something good to look at
16:43 chris      (for head)
16:43 kados      I fear we're going to run out of time fast
16:43 kados      PROG template status?
16:43 kados      also added by paul?
16:43 paul       yep.
16:43 thd        kados: which time do you mean?
16:44 kados      thd: it's 10:45pm in France :-)
16:44 kados      I mean for the meeting
16:44 paul       * are PROG complete ? i've seen owen has added some prog for OPC
16:44 chris      ohh cool
16:45 paul       thus I think they are complete. But can't be sure
16:45 thd        kados: as long as is still a constant for those of us still spinning at the same rate :(
16:45 paul       could anyone confirm my feeling ?
16:45 kados      owen: any thoughts?
16:45 owen       paul: they should be 'first draft' complete, but without the enhancements you and I discussed (more navigation menus, ID'd blocks, etc)
16:46 paul       ok, who plan to improve them ?
16:46 paul       who candidate ?
16:46 russ       to make them look good?
16:47 russ       is that what you mean?
16:47 kados      paul: do you mean who will build the '3.0 fancy tempaltes'?
16:47 paul       no, to complete them 1st
16:47 russ       ah
16:47 chris      i dont think the prog ones have to look good
16:47 owen       they're not supposed to look good :)
16:47 paul       then I think katipo already candidate to make something nice.
16:47 chris      but without navigation, they are sometimes hard to use
16:49 paul       ok, great
16:49 russ       cool owen
16:49 kados      ok ... so ... paul, last question: RoadMap
16:49 kados      (I assume that was also you)
16:50 paul       it's a question for the release manager : where should we do for KohaCon ?
16:50 thd        what does that question mean?
16:50 paul       we will have to show something to librarians on day 2
16:50 slef       paul: do or be?
16:50 paul       s/do/be/ you're right
16:50 paul       (quite late, my english becomes poor...)
16:51 paul       and also have to plan what we will do on devWeek
16:51 kados      paul: are you asking whether we'll have a fancy looking koha roadmap for the KohaCon?
16:52 paul       I hope we won't have only a roadmap, but a product to show ;-)
16:52 thd        kados: i think he is asking what in the roadmap will be ready for demonstration on day 2
16:52 paul       even if uncomplete, of course.
16:52 chris      the searching
16:53 chris      we can certainly show off searching using zebra, and ill have the freetext cql interface going too
16:53 paul       pierrick ++
16:53 paul       the look will probably be the most important part of the demo ;-)
16:53 russ       that doesnt leave much time to do a fancy template
16:54 thd        chris: what aspect of that is a feature to make an audience happy rather than merely showing the internal workings?
16:54 pierrick   russ, that's why not every page must be fancy for KohaCon
16:54 paul       russ : what about just having a nice css on prog ?
16:54 paul       + few pages improved
16:54 chris      thd: i want to have 2 koha's running, one using zebra, one not
16:54 chris      on the same machine
16:54 chris      same records
16:55 russ       still need a little bit of design time
16:55 chris      show the diffreence
16:55 pierrick   chris++
16:55 chris      russ: we could for the demo's sake, steal the plain templates we did for opus
16:55 chris      and use those?
16:56 russ       possibly
16:57 paul       ok, next topic then ?
16:57 kados      sounds good
16:57 kados      russ, this is your baby I believe
16:57 russ       cheers
16:58 russ       i am very keen to publish a programme for the koha con on the website
16:58 russ       but i am not sure if one exsists yet
16:58 russ       paul - have you and ineo set a programme yet?
16:59 russ       or do you need some help organising this?
16:59 paul       isn't http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaCon enough for instance ?
16:59 paul       the only missing guy is the 1st one.
16:59 russ       how long will each talk be
16:59 russ       what time will be starting
16:59 russ       will there be breaks
16:59 paul       around 1 hour
17:00 russ       all that stuff needs to be sorted
17:00 kados      yep
17:00 paul       right. we still have to detail this.
17:00 russ       yep it is the detail i am after
17:01 russ       we are flying half way round the world to attend, it is important to us :-)
17:01 paul       i'll update the wiki this week. is it OK ?
17:01 paul       (wednesday hopefully)
17:01 kados      sounds good
17:01 paul       it will begin at 9:30, not before.
17:01 russ       paul did you get my email with all theq's?
17:01 paul       yep russ
17:01 slef       can I ask some kohacon questions when you're done?
17:02 kados      I think we're done eh?
17:02 kados      go ahead slef
17:02 slef       Why those dates?
17:02 thd        paul: was your question about the  roadmap in relation to DevWeek answered?
17:02 kados      ha
17:02 kados      slef: those are the dates we picked :-)
17:02 paul       thd : yes
17:03 slef       kados: how/why?
17:03 paul       * choosen because joshua will be in Geneva just before this KohaCon
17:03 paul       * in France there are many many many closed days in April/May, so it was really hard to find a correct date !
17:04 slef       ah, that's more understandable
17:04 chris      basically kohacon sprang out of the fact kados was going to be in europe
17:04 slef       Yes, that's the problem. May 1 is mayday here IIRC, so travel is going to be hell
17:04 thd        paul: I did not see the answer for DevWeek and the roadmap only chris demonstrates differences in searching for the convention
17:04 slef       if it is possible at all
17:04 chris      and we thought, how about a developer get together
17:04 paul       when I suggested this meeting I didn't imagine, even a second, kiwis would come !
17:04 paul       but i'm very happy with this !
17:05 kados      :-)
17:05 chris      and then, we thought, we may as well have a bit for librarians too
17:05 slef       When will this be announced to mailing lists?
17:05 chris      i think its been on koha-devel ?
17:05 russ       rach is proofing my annoucnement at the moment
17:05 thd        kados: what was bringing you to Europe otherwise?
17:05 chris      just the main koha list to announce too?
17:05 slef       chris: first I heard about dates was your blog.
17:05 russ       i had hoped to get it out there yesterday
17:05 kados      thd: i can't announce it publicly :-)
17:06 chris      ahh
17:06 russ       it has been on the website for about 2 weeks
17:06 thd        kados: I guessed that was the reason :)
17:06 paul       i'm just waiting for a confirmation from ineo to adv french librarians
17:06 chris      but we were waiting for a few more details, to do the big announcement is that right?
17:06 slef       russ: web site is still not legible. I know I have login, so I wanted to look whether I can fix before bugreporting.
17:06 chris      slef: im pleased someone looks at my blog :-)
17:06 paul       I'm just waiting for ineo confirmation. I let russ take care of the english announcement.
17:07 russ       http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/index.html
17:07 slef       russ: illegible here, so I don't visit www.koha.org much.
17:07 chris      bad css slef?
17:07 slef       1mo, will screenshot
17:07 slef       chris: aye
17:07 chris      ta
17:07 pierrick   chris, I'm also RSS connected to your blog ;-)
17:08 russ       weird - first i have heard of this
17:08 slef       russ: have you validated the css?
17:08 russ       i didnt do the css
17:09 russ       but i am pretty sure that both shaun and bob looked at that
17:09 kados      looks like the html is missing a </meta> tag
17:09 chris      i wonder what happened to them
17:09 kados      http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkoha.org%2F
17:09 kados      chris: exactly what we thought would happen to them :-)
17:09 kados      <poof> :-)
17:09 paul       poof ?
17:10 chris      (shaun and ben, disappeared back into the ether)
17:10 kados      anyway, I've got to get something to eat before I fall over
17:10 paul       ok.
17:10 kados      so I'm gonna close the meeting
17:10 paul       and i've got to get some sleep !
17:10 thd        paul: poof is the sound of disappearance
17:10 paul       ok. I'll be on irc on wednesday. tomorrow, i'll be with OUEST PROVENCE.
17:10 slef       kados: poof is a pejorative term to denote a homosexual. Is that what you wanted to say about shaun and ben?
17:10 pierrick   so do I, long night waiting for me (kid's ill)
17:10 paul       in french we say "pouf" too ;-)
17:11 kados      slef: not at all of course
17:11 slef       What is the plan for announcing kohacon to mailing lists? When and where do announcements go?
17:11 paul       I let russ answer for english.
17:12 paul       for french, we have 3 very large mailing lists. And Ineo will send a mail to the 300 largest french libraries.
17:12 pierrick   'night #koha
17:12 osmoze     hello
17:12 paul       osmoze arrives really late. meeting is closing !
17:13 paul       can I leave ?
17:13 russ       slef - as i mentioned earlier
17:13 russ       rachel is proof reading an annoucnement for me
17:13 osmoze     excuse me, but my mother doen't love to be cut on dinner ;)
17:13 slef       http://g.towers.org.uk:70/ss.png is how I see www.koha.org since the redesign
17:13 russ       i will post to koha, koha-dev, and koha-win32
17:13 russ       later today
17:14 chris      yikes no wonder you dont look at it
17:14 owen       slef: using what browser/platform/browser dimensions?
17:14 slaf       damn intercontinental links
17:14 slaf       what was my last line?
17:15 russ       
17:15 russ       09:13AM|<slef> http://g.towers.org.uk:70/ss.png is how I see www.koha.org since the redesign
17:15 russ       09:13AM|<russ> i will post to koha, koha-dev, and koha-win32
17:15 russ       09:13AM|<russ> later today
17:15 russ       09:14AM|<chris> yikes no wonder you dont look at it
17:15 russ       09:14AM|<owen> slef: using what browser/platform/browser dimensions?
17:15 owen       slef: images turned off?
17:15 slaf       owen: firefox-based/GoboLinux/512x640ish
17:16 slaf       owen: yes, no images most of the time
17:16 owen       And a user stylesheet that turns some text yellow?
17:17 slaf       no, just default colours of yellow-on-navy to make it nicer to read
17:17 osmoze     good night paul :)
17:17 slaf       I'd use white not yellow, but enough sites use a white background with no text colour that I'd never know there was text there!
17:17 owen       slaf: with a setup like that, is there anything on the internet that /doesn't/ look like crap for you?
17:17 owen       Besides maybe plain text?
17:18 slaf       owen: sites which follow www.w3.org/TR/WCAG are fine.
17:20 slaf       owen: web users have a range of settings. Sites which can't cope with a fairly minor eyesight problem are very buggy.
17:32 slef       owen: sorry. The "it's your fault for setting your browser to be comfortable" subtext is a bit annoying.
17:34 slef       As mentioned, I was going to check if the login details I had let me fix it and not complain until after that. I didn't realise some news only appeared on the web site now.
17:35 owen       I think the ideal you espouse is a worthy goal, but it's a bit misleading to tell someone their site is broken without explaining the details of your browsing environment
17:37 slef       owen: neither the xhtml nor the CSS validate. My browsing environments are not very relevant.
17:38 owen       But all the problems with your screenshot are a result of your browsing environment, not the validations problems
17:40 slef       owen: The most severe are because the CSS is semi-complete, as described in the validator's warning output.
17:48 owen       slef: if you're posting a screenshot like that in order to help diagnose/solve a problem with a site, you have to put it in context.
18:03 slef       owen: it's just an illustration. The diagnosis is all in the validation reports.
04:21 osmoze     hello from France :)
04:26 pierrick   hi osmoze
05:00 osmoze     bonjour hdl
05:00 hdl        bonjour osmoze
05:00 hdl        ca gaze ?
05:00 osmoze     c est plutot gazeux ce matin :(
05:01 hdl        Tu as pu tester plus en détail la doc que j'ai mise à disposition ?
05:01 hdl        ou bien tu as abandonné, signe que c'est TRES mauvais ?
05:01 osmoze     non, j ai pas continuer car j ai eu un probleme perl...J avoue ne pas avoir pousser plus que cela, je recommence dans la journée
05:01 osmoze     (avec l install phpmyadmin, pas l autre)
05:02 osmoze     par contre, une petite question, la pres de la kohaconf est en anglais, vas t il y avoir une version francisé ?
05:02 osmoze     (c est pour la demande a mon président)
05:15 pierrick   osmoze, Kohacon day1 et day2 sont officiellement en français
05:15 pierrick   certaines presentations seront en anglais, mais traduites a la volee en theorie
05:16 osmoze     pierrick, pour les inscription je parle, en gros, que cette page : http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/usergroup.html soit en francais
05:17 pierrick   hdl, les documents sur l'editeur MARC sont inaccessible sur koha-fr.org, tu saurais m'aider a les trouver ?
05:17 pierrick   hdl, http://www.koha-fr.org/MARC-E.pdf
05:19 pierrick   osmoze, il y a aura une presentation en francais au moins sur les mailing-list des bibliothecaires, la mailing-liste d'info Koha en francais
05:21 hdl        pierrick: Je rétablis ce lien tout de suite.
05:23 osmoze     hdl > une reponse ou je presente tout a mon president en anglais ? ;)
05:23 hdl        pierrick: ok
05:23 hdl        Normalement, si tu peux attendre Mercredi, une version Française va arriver.
05:23 hdl        :)
05:24 osmoze     ok, j attend demain sans probleme mais c etait pour en avoir le coeur net ^^
05:24 osmoze     merci
05:25 hdl        Je n'ai pas accès à la page du magazine que tu cites. Ce serait possible de me la faire parvenir ?
05:25 pierrick   hdl, merci pour le document sur l'editeur MARC :-)
05:25 hdl        No prob.
05:25 hdl        C'était un problème de passage à la nouvelle interface du site.
05:27 osmoze     <hdl> Je n'ai pas accès à la page du magazine que tu cites. Ce serait possible de me la faire parvenir ? <-- c est pour moi ca ?
05:27 hdl        oui osmoze. J'aurais du le préciser.
05:29 pierrick   bizarre, j'y accede bien moi
05:29 pierrick   le texte est tout petit:
05:30 pierrick   KOHA, le futur logiciel documentaire de la médiathèque intercommunale
05:30 pierrick   KOHA est un système intégré de gestion de bibliothèque (SIGB) en « Open Source », donc en distribution libre sans paiement de droits d'utilisation. C'est aussi le premier logiciel de gestion de bibliothèque libre au monde, qui respecte les normes internationales (Marc, Z39.50 et ISO2709) spécifiques à ce type d'outil.
06:03 osmoze|out pierrick c est juste le resumé
06:07 pierrick   oui, hdl me l'a fait remarque
06:07 pierrick   le texte entier est accessible en ligne?
06:12 osmoze     non, sauf si tu payes ;)
11:25 osmoze     ++ all
11:34 thd        kados: are you around?
11:35 pierrick   kados, another question for you :-)
11:36 thd        pierrick: Did you take a visit to a large Ineo client as you had been planning?
11:38 pierrick   thd, no I didn't :-/
11:39 pierrick   thd, I was ill at the end of last week and my colleagues are very busy this week in our client offices
11:40 thd        pierrick: Does Ineo develop its own software for serving large clients?
11:40 pierrick   I hope I will go this week, but I was confirmed
11:40 pierrick   thd, no
11:41 pierrick   thd, INEO develops a kind of "supersoftware" to limitate OS capabilities
11:41 pierrick   I mean... for computers in libraries
11:41 pierrick   such as one computer can only open the OPAC
11:42 pierrick   but INEO does not develop any ILS, they integrated the more appropriate ILS depending on customer needs
11:42 thd        pierrick: Does Ineo markets services using other companies software based on whatever software is best suited to the library?
11:43 pierrick   yes, INEO is a software integrator (and not a software editor)
11:45 pierrick   Koha participation is something new to INEO
11:45 thd        pierrick: So Ineo, has no vested interest in any particular system except for the user management system that you described.
11:45 pierrick   (and for myself, working as an integrator is something new, I used to work for an editor previously)
11:46 pierrick   thd, INEO has some partnership with several ILS I think (do be confirmed)
11:46 pierrick   s{do be}{to be}
11:47 pierrick   why those questions ?
11:48 thd        pierrick: I was trying to discover if Ineo would plan only to have Koha serve small libraries even if it could serve much larger libraries in future.
11:50 thd        pierrick: I was trying to gauge the interest Ineo had in improving the features of Koha so that it could serve large libraries.
11:50 pierrick   I believe that if first experiences are really positive, INEO will try to promote Koha in larger libaries
11:50 pierrick   what do you call a "large library" ?
11:51 thd        pierrick: well large is perhaps not the appropriate term
11:52 thd        pierrick: I should have said libraries with complex collections and complex record needs
11:53 thd        pierrick: large is also an issue for scalability to collections with millions of records.
11:53 pierrick   I don't know the strategy in the long run thd, I know things and I guess others :-)
11:53 thd        s/scalability/performance and response time scalability/
11:55 pierrick   what I'm sure about is that INEO waits for a first complete success project with Koha, that's why I'm here
11:58 thd        pierrick: I am pleased to know that there is no absolute commitment to an in house proprietary ILS where they might want to protect the market they had already with their own in house software.