Time Nick Message 12:05 gmcharlt bbiab 12:20 chris_n g'morning koha 12:25 chris_n g'morn gmcharlt 12:25 gmcharlt hi chris_n 12:26 gmcharlt I survived - that's about all I'll say ;) 13:44 jwagner Someone around who understands zebra & relevance ranking? 14:17 hdl_laptop jwagner: throw your question. 14:18 jwagner If you do a search for Woolf (as in Virginia Woolf), the relevancy ranking seems to always put entries with Wolf, Wolves, etc. in the hitlist ahead of entries with Woolf. I can see that zebra is trying to be helpful, but why doesn't it return an exact match first in the list? Fuzzy searching is off. 14:19 jwagner Same results for Reed -- it returns Red first in the list, along with things like Rede. 14:20 jwagner If you search for "Virginia Woolf" in quotes, it brings up a reasonable list, but Virginia Woolf without the quotes seems to search for anything with Virginia plus any variation on wolf, wolves, etc. 14:27 owen I thought zebra didn't understand quotes. 14:27 jwagner No, it uses quotes to treat as an exact phrase -- I've done that with several searches. 14:28 jwagner It does choke on certain symbols, like ? and : 14:31 hdl_laptop jwagner: which value is AutoTruncation ? 14:31 hdl_laptop jwagner: what is the value of queryStemming ? 14:32 jwagner QueryAutoTruncate and QueryStemming are both on. Should that make a difference? From the descriptions they both seemed to operate at the end of terms, like making cat and cats equal. 14:32 hdl_laptop If QueryStemming is 1 Then you are trying first to "stem" your operands and then search relevancy. 14:33 hdl_laptop So i guess in english wolf is stemmed wol and searches on wol* before doing the search. 14:33 hdl_laptop (and relevancy ranking) 14:33 hdl_laptop which might not be what you want. 14:33 jwagner Hmmm. I just turned them both off, but it didn't make a difference. A search for Woolf still produces the same large result set, with wolf and wolves near the top. 14:36 jwagner (This is the general keyword search, incidentally -- which 99% of users are going to do. A subject search for Woolf produces a more appropriate result set.) 14:37 owen jwagner: I don't find that putting search terms in quotes excludes results which don't have that exact phrase. 14:37 owen http://acpl.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=space+jam 14:38 owen http://acpl.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=%22space+jam%22 14:39 jwagner OK, now we have another variation, sigh. 14:40 owen Could it be a zebra configuration issue? 14:40 owen I *know* I was told previously that zebra didn't do exact phrase searching via quotes. 14:40 jwagner That's what I'm wondering, but I don't know enough about zebra's inner workings to even know what I'm looking for. 14:41 jwagner The only changes I've done to record.abs on these systems are to add the 035 field (it was in record.abs but commented out) and add the 856 field. 14:43 jwagner owen, with regard to quotes, I've found that searching time and again and "time and again" produce different result lists, and the one with quotes is more accurate. Same for time again and "time again" (different title, again the one with quotes is more accurate). I've seen it work the same way on other titles. 14:47 atz owen: zebra does it, but Koha pre-parsing strips it out 14:47 atz so in yaz client you can specify a search that is an exact string, or a truncated string, possibly even a left-truncated string, etc. 14:48 hdl_laptop jwagner: in fact, zebra has some relevancy ranking on the fly 14:48 jwagner atz, would the pre-parsing account for my problem? Why variations on wolf, wolves show up in the hitlist before the term that was actually searched (Woolf)? 14:49 hdl_laptop And koha is building the query. 14:49 hdl_laptop jwagner: maybe relevancy suppose that you are also using stemmed operands. 14:49 hdl_laptop (in koha) 14:50 atz jwagner: i'm not sure... i would bet wol* shows up in more fields for the "wolf" records than just the one author field for Virgina's books 14:50 atz so that probably affects relevance 14:50 jwagner That might be the case. Any way to tweak zebra in that regard? 14:50 hdl_laptop jwagner: it is in C4/Search.pm 14:51 hdl_laptop not in zebra that you should look. 14:51 atz jwagner: like i said, you *could* search zebra that way. koha doesn't 14:51 atz mostly because of having a fairly clunky pre-parser 14:56 jwagner hdl_laptop, I'm looking at C4/Search.pm. Not quite sure what I'm looking for, but it seems to give 1st priority to title-cover, followed by exact title, then phrase title, then exact any, then word list any. So since I'm searching one word (Woolf) which may show up in a title but isn't a phrase, is that part of the problem? 14:57 jwagner Sorry, exact any, then word list any are commented out, never mind those. 15:06 hdl_laptop jwagner: you are searching for QueryWeightFields 15:06 hdl_laptop and its options. 15:10 jwagner hdl_laptop, thanks. I think I'm going to have to turn that over to one of the programmers to research. Sigh.... 17:16 kf hi there, testing requests atm, I m able to put a item on hold, that is already checked out to me (current HEAD) - can somebody try this and tell me if its a bug in my configuration or a real bug? 18:01 chris morning 18:01 sekjal good morning, chris 18:03 chris heya sekjal, hows it looking for the migration? 18:04 sekjal I think it's going alright; discovered that I can't import ALL the records first, then run rebuild_zebra.pl. Run out of space about 80% through the merge 18:04 sekjal once this latest load finishes, I've just got to get the patrons over, then the current circulation transactions, and I'm set 18:05 chris sweet, sounds like its going fine 18:05 chris (apart from the hiccup with diskspace) 18:06 sekjal yeah. since some of my bibs have over 1000 attached items, I've got to run rebuild_zebra.pl with the -x flag 18:06 chris ahh 18:06 chris those are serials? 18:06 sekjal yes 18:07 sekjal we've got a couple that go back to the 1800s, with several volumes per year 18:07 sekjal and multiple copies at different locations 18:07 chris medical journals eh? 18:07 sekjal yes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences was the first one I noticed 18:08 chris my sister is a 'research fellow' in public health at the school of medicine here, she would be jealous :) 18:09 sekjal we do have a pretty good medical collection. sadly, a lot of it is in storage now due to space constraints 18:09 atz sekjal: so as soon as you get done w/ the migration, you start a digitization project... 18:10 sekjal atz: sounds good to me. our Digital Project's librarian is deciding on institutional repository software now 18:11 chris http://www.wnmeds.ac.nz/academic/gp/staff/Donna%20Cormack%20profile.html <--- thats her (she has finished her Phd now) 18:12 sekjal chris: very cool 18:12 atz PhD, eh? cormacks not known for their slouching, apparently.... 18:13 chris http://www.uow.otago.ac.nz/academic/dph/research/HIRP/Staff/Donna_Cormack.html 18:13 chris the internet .. you can find anything 18:13 chris atz: yeah im the black sheep of the family hehe, i only have a BA, and a BSc 18:14 owen chris, you forgot to add "international fame" 18:15 chris infamy maybe? 18:18 chris http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books_result.php?author=Ian%20Cormack 18:18 chris my dad is more famous 18:20 owen "Getting the Buggers to Turn Up" Awesome title! 18:22 chris heh 18:27 chris He Pa Auroa is in Library of Congress's catalogue, i use it to test z3950 on koha usually :-) 18:29 chris find the router Sharon ? 18:29 Sharon yep, it was unboxed, but safely stored here in the office 18:31 chris :) 18:48 sekjal Zebra is really frustrating me. Even doing it in two batches, I still get the same memory error halfway through the second 18:50 atz sekjal: further bifurcation is in order... or you can try to target the problem record, if it is a precise one 19:02 sekjal it seems to be a problem with the register's allocated memory 19:02 sekjal do I really have that big an index? 19:17 atz guess i can turn off the sprinkler now that it's pouring rain! 19:22 tomascohen hi, i sent an email to koha-devel asking about 19:22 tomascohen setting up a dev environment for koha 19:22 atz eclipse, right? 19:22 tomascohen yeap 19:22 atz I'm replying right now... 19:22 tomascohen ah, ok 19:23 tomascohen I'll wait for your reply 19:23 atz haven't used eclipse, but my main point was to get familiar w/ git 19:23 atz (if you haven't already) 19:24 tomascohen yeap, I've been using it 19:24 tomascohen the main purpose of my question 19:24 tomascohen was to kknow what pwoplw use for debugging 19:24 tomascohen koha development 19:24 atz it depends what is being developed 19:25 atz i.e., web interface or AJAX features... or the installer, or reports, etc. 19:26 tomascohen i've been developing extra modules (perl + html::template) 19:26 tomascohen and reports with google viz api 19:26 atz interesting 19:26 atz the most powerful tool I've used for perl debugging is NYTprof 19:27 atz (New York Time profiler) 19:27 atz *Times 19:28 atz it generates a ton of performance analysis down to how many picoseconds a given line takes to execute 19:28 tomascohen i see, interesting 19:29 tomascohen is there a way to introduce breakpoints and inspect variables? 19:29 tomascohen that's why i've been trying with EPIC 19:29 atz ah... that is more basic kind of debugging... 19:30 atz you can send data to the error log with statements like: 19:30 atz warn "var1: $var1"; 19:30 atz to make it smooth, do: 19:30 atz use C4::Debug; 19:30 tomascohen yesm that's what i've seen commented out in some files 19:30 tomascohen and used it 19:30 atz $debug and warn "var1: $var1"; 19:31 tomascohen i just thought koha devs might use more interesting methods 19:31 atz C4::Debug provides the variable $debug 19:32 atz and you can set that from the command-line like: 19:32 atz export DEBUG=1 19:32 tomascohen in eclipse, using EPIC you can run a Perl/CGI project 19:33 atz or in Apache VirtualHost like: SetEnv DEBUG 1 19:33 tomascohen setting several environment variables 19:33 tomascohen is not difficult to have a full development environment for this kind of projects 19:34 tomascohen my doubt has to do with "the proper way" of working for this project 19:34 tomascohen as I intend that our efforts 19:34 tomascohen can be usefull for some anytime 19:34 atz the project does not necessarily constrain the types of tools you should use 19:35 atz you are welcome to use newer or more advanced tools (and perhaps demo them to the rest of us!) 19:36 tomascohen I'll try to share my settings for eclipse if I reach an usable config 19:37 tomascohen well, have to leave or i'll be locked in my office till tomorrow! 19:37 tomascohen thanks for your time 19:37 tomascohen bye (atz) 19:37 atz np, ttyl 19:39 johnson hi all 19:43 owen Hi johnson 19:43 johnson a few months back I upgraded Koha for the small library I was working for at the time 19:45 johnson i'm looking at taking a job now with a university in the US, and i'm hoping to be a shill for koha within the organization 19:45 johnson +i'm looking at getting involved in development 19:45 johnson so i'm just introducing myself 19:45 johnson i might be around a lot in the future 19:46 gmcharlt johnson: great! 19:50 chris yay !! 19:51 chris sekjal: you can control the index size in the zebra config 19:52 chris memMax or something 19:52 sekjal chris: there is that, and register 19:52 sekjal register seems to be what's throwing the error for me 19:53 chris ah right 19:53 sekjal though I probably should have increased memMax, too... 19:53 chris cant hurt to try 19:54 sekjal each failure costs about an hour right now... and I'm running low on those (tomorrow is my last day for two weeks) 19:55 chris :( 19:56 hdl_laptop hi johnson 19:56 hdl_laptop welcome 19:56 chris how big are your 2 files, in megabyte size? 19:57 chris or you 2 directories .. if are using rebuild_zebra with -k 19:57 sekjal each somewhere between 200 and 300 MB 19:57 chris i have 12 hours of daylight coming up, if you wanted to email me them 19:57 johnson thanks hdl_laptop 19:58 chris so if it gets time to knock off work, and its still jamming 19:58 chris feel free to email them, and i can have a crack with my zebra 19:59 chris and now i have to go catch my bus to work 19:59 sekjal thanks, chris. I really appreciate that. 19:59 chris bb in about 40 mins 19:59 sekjal ride safely! 20:09 richard hi 20:12 hdl_laptop good nite koha 20:15 Wizzyrea_ owen++ for posting all of his jquery hackery. 20:32 chris_n I think there's light at the end of the tunnel now 20:44 sekjal chris: I got my bibliographic records to index. it was just a matter of adjusting the size of the register directory 20:44 sekjal still can't get my authority records to be searchable, though 20:45 sekjal but that's considered a lower priority right now 20:46 chris yay! for biblios boo! for authority 20:46 chris authorities are always keeping us down 20:46 sekjal its true 20:47 chris why is the man always messing with us 20:48 sekjal apparently, my problem is the field 001's aren't being properly recognized, and are resulting in undefined objects 20:49 chris ahh 20:49 sekjal doesn't matter if I bring them in as MARCXML from our old catalog, or fresh binary from NLM 20:50 gmcharlt sekjal: pure MeSH? 20:50 sekjal yes 20:51 gmcharlt sekjal: just loading using bulkauthimport? 20:51 sekjal yes 20:52 sekjal the database shows that authids have been assigned, and inserted into the MARCXML (and I think the binary MARC, too) 20:53 sekjal I just can't seem to retrieve the values from the field when it comes time 21:17 Jo morning all 21:17 chris hi Jo 21:22 sekjal day's end. time to catch a train. cheers, all! 21:35 Wizzyrea_ question: what order, if any, are the holdings tables sorted by 21:35 Wizzyrea_ that is to say, what is the sort order of the items tables 21:35 Wizzyrea_ we can't seem to figure it out 21:36 chris url ? 21:44 Wizzyrea_ cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl 21:46 Wizzyrea_ cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl 22:19 atz could be just the order they appear in the items table... not sure 22:22 gmcharlt I think atz has it 22:22 Wizzyrea_ yea,it makes more sense in the OPAC so I may just take a look at how that works and duplicate that on the staff side. 22:25 atz a few different things make sense... table order is actually pretty useful in additem, since it will be chronological order 22:25 atz and that makes sense to the adder of items 22:26 Wizzyrea_ yea, if you only have one library 22:26 Wizzyrea_ it gets confusing, for example, with items like serials, where you have zillions of items 22:27 atz yeah, a lot of things are exploded by serials 22:27 Wizzyrea_ and 26 libraries 22:27 Wizzyrea_ it's merely annoying with most bibs, but it's really obnoxious with a serial title 22:28 atz Might throw in a jquery control box for filtering the table display. Like: 22:28 atz Items per branch: 22:28 atz MAIN - 3 (show only, hide) 22:29 atz AUX - 2 (show only, hide) 22:29 atz etc 22:29 Wizzyrea_ hmmm yes that idea has merit, especially since what they really want is to sort by logged in branch first 22:29 atz the nice thing about that jquery approach is that it doesn't have to build any kind of tablesorter index at load time 22:30 Wizzyrea_ that one would take me longer to figure out, but I'm willing to give it a go 22:30 Wizzyrea_ (seems like an opportunity to learn something :P) 02:14 chris ack well that might be a hurdle, or more a brick wall 02:14 chris i wonder if anyone has tried to get biblios working with unimarc before 02:39 johnson chris: where do you recommend I start with getting familiar with Koha's architecture? 02:40 chris easiest thing, is pick something you want to work on, and jump in 02:41 johnson that's what i'll do, then 02:41 chris http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3516 02:41 munin 04Bug 3516: enhancement, P5, ---, oleonard@myacpl.org, NEW, Display picture of patorns in OPAC 02:41 chris looks like a fun one :) 02:41 johnson break the thing a few times and see what happens 02:41 lamiette learn by doing :) always fun 02:42 chris bugs.koha.org has a ton of things people would like to see, or little (or big) bugs 02:42 chris and if you have a new feature you want to work on 02:42 chris its a good idea to register an bug, marked enhancement there 02:43 chris stops people doubling up 02:47 johnson yes, i've seen the bug reports 02:47 johnson and the 3.2 roadmap 02:47 johnson i'll just dig in 02:47 chris cool 03:21 Amit hi chris, brendan 03:21 Amit good morning koha 03:21 Amit hi jo, pie 03:43 brendan hey amit 04:17 brendan harry potter 04:17 brendan whoops -- wrong screen there 04:17 chris heh 04:17 brendan hi #koha 04:17 brendan it's funny what amuses me these days :) 04:19 pie sometimes you gotta laugh at yourself, best way to get through the day :D 04:19 brendan :P 04:21 chris oh laugh at squirrels 04:21 chris http://www.urlesque.com/2009/08/10/squirrel-photobomber-steals-the-scene/ 04:22 brendan priceless :) 05:58 brendan anybody got a favorite online resource for RegEx (find and replace) ? 06:00 hdl_laptop which kind vi ? perl ? 06:01 brendan vi 06:01 hdl_laptop http://delicious.com/laurenthdl/vim 06:01 brendan thanks -- taking a look now 06:02 brendan :) 07:14 chris evening 07:14 kf morning chris 07:14 kf can you test something for me? I m not sure if its a bug or a configuration problem 07:15 kf I cant place holds on titles with one item and allowOnShelfHolds OFF and OpacItemHolds OFF 07:15 kf I can place a hold, when I add a second item and check it out, so that both items are checked out 07:15 hdl_laptop hi 07:16 kf its current head - well, patched on friday 07:16 kf hi hdl 07:16 kf check in second item, delete it - no hold can be placed :( 07:21 chris hmm 07:21 kf hmm? 07:22 chris sure sounds like a bug 07:22 chris thats in the librarian interface eh? 07:23 kf no in Opac, sorry 07:23 kf librarian interface works fine 07:23 chris so if you only havfe one item, and its checked out, you cant place a hold 07:23 chris ? 07:24 kf yes 07:24 chris ok, ill check waht the code is doing 07:25 chris but i have to put kahu to bed first 07:26 kf thx chris - just thought you could test it (because you sure have a current head installation) - so that I can file a bug if you can repeat it 07:27 kf I dont want to steal too much from your time this late 07:50 chris right he's asleep 07:51 kf I have a short talk about dokuwiki in ten minutes - will be back soon (I hope) 07:54 kf ok, dont look at it 07:54 kf I tried everything I could think of yesterday to put this item on hold :( and now it works 07:54 kf with another user 07:54 kf I m sorry 07:56 kf seems to be a problem with current location and permanent location 07:56 kf will do more tests later 07:59 kf current location is borrowers location, but permanent isn't - so it may be a configuration problem 07:59 chris ah 07:59 chris :) 07:59 kf have to leave no for the meeting - but thx chris! 08:00 chris hehe i didnt do anything :) 08:01 chris hdl_laptop: you about? 08:02 hdl_laptop yes 08:02 chris have you ever tried biblios? 08:03 hdl_laptop tried for usmarc it is quite helpfull 08:03 chris yep 08:04 chris im doing some work for a UNIMARC library, and they wanted it integrated with koha, but i dont think it will work with unimarc without a lot of work 08:04 hdl_laptop but adapting to unimarc would be quite ressource demanding. 08:05 chris *nod* 08:05 hdl_laptop yes... many xsl are hardcoded. 08:06 hdl_laptop And taking all the values from UNIMARC format would require much more time than simply processing UNIMARC to MARC21 back and forth. 08:06 chris yeah 08:06 hdl_laptop (nonetheless, MARC212UNIMARC is not roundtrip) 08:07 chris i think i will recommend that they dont at this time, unless they have the funds for the work to add unimarc to biblios 08:09 chris thanks, i just wanted to check i wasnt missing something simple 08:22 hdl_laptop or they could use opencataloger which is not as powerfull and friendly as biblios 08:23 hdl_laptop but was developped in xul and well adapted for UNIMARC. 08:23 hdl_laptop but still alpha and no devs. 08:24 chris that was what toins was working on eh? 08:33 hdl_laptop chris yes 08:40 kf back 08:49 kf chris: I just tested with borrower location = permanent location = current location - it works :) 08:50 chris yay :) 08:52 hdl_laptop tell gmcharlt SOPAC_integration branch updated 08:52 hdl_laptop munin : tell gmcharlt SOPAC_integration branch updated 08:52 munin hdl_laptop: I suck 08:52 hdl_laptop @later gmcharlt SOPAC_integration branch updated 08:52 munin hdl_laptop: downloading the Perl source 08:52 hdl_laptop @tell gmcharlt SOPAC_integration branch updated 08:53 chris that will do it straight away 08:53 chris @later tell 08:53 munin chris: (later tell <nick> <text>) -- Tells <nick> <text> the next time <nick> is in seen. <nick> can contain wildcard characters, and the first matching nick will be given the note. 08:53 chris will do it next time the bot sees him do something 09:33 hdl_laptop later tell gmcharlt SOPAC_integration branch updated 09:37 chris heh, not having much luck :) 09:38 chris hands too :) 10:15 gmcharlt hdl_laptop: thanks 11:22 gmcharlt hdl_laptop: about? 11:34 gmcharlt @later tell hdl_laptop got a biblibre-sopac integration branch at git://git.librarypolice.com/git/koha-rm.git (also: http://git.librarypolice.com/?p=koha-rm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/biblibre-sopac) 11:34 munin gmcharlt: The operation succeeded. 11:34 hdl_laptop here. 11:34 gmcharlt hdl_laptop: hi 11:34 hdl_laptop hi gmcharlt 11:35 gmcharlt unless there's more pending in the queue for SOPAC, probably ready to push soon 11:35 gmcharlt and may be easier for Jean-Andr? to develop against that branch 11:35 hdl_laptop nothing more. 11:35 gmcharlt ok 11:36 gmcharlt main issues are - syspref (I just need the SQL script updates, I do the updatedatabase and slot it in) 11:36 gmcharlt the ilsdi.tmpl is still missing (did it ever exist?) 11:36 hdl_laptop do you want me to send you ? 11:36 gmcharlt yes 11:37 gmcharlt need documentation of Koha's implementation of the API 11:37 gmcharlt and lastly, documentation of how to hook up SOPAC to Koha 11:37 hdl_laptop I don't have any help ilsdi.tmpl. 11:37 gmcharlt (whew!) 11:38 hdl_laptop but Kivutar wrote some page on how to connect to SOPAC. 11:39 Kivutar I did, but in french 11:39 gmcharlt Kivutar: that's OK - I'd like the link anyway 11:40 gmcharlt if nothing else, can running it through babelfish 11:41 Kivutar It is on our private wiki, so I should send you by mail 11:41 gmcharlt Kivutar: ok, thanks 11:48 Kivutar gmcharlt: I forgot I had it on my blog http://blog.kivutar.me/2009/06/10/0/ 11:49 Kivutar ask me if you need help 11:51 hdl_laptop gmcharlt: sysprefs do you need them to be sent via email ? 11:51 gmcharlt hdl_laptop: please 11:52 hdl_laptop doing this straight away 11:57 hdl_laptop done.