Re: [CODE4LIB] Librarians and computer science

2018-03-09 Thread Ian Walls
. On the plus side, though, I think there are quite a few of us in this boat, and many of us have found Code4Lib, so while we may not have like-minded colleagues in our institutions, we can still have a professional network. Cheers, Ian Walls Web Services & Emergin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Insert data into LibAnalytics via API

2017-01-19 Thread Ian Walls
You can POST to LibAnalytics directly, bypassing their interface, if you have the following information: 1. LibAnalytics URL 2. your institution ID (iid) 3. your data set ID (did) 4. your answerer ID (answerer) 5. The id numbers of each field in the data set you're submitting 6. How many records

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

2016-03-23 Thread Ian Walls
Mark, Oddly enough, we're looking at this kind of thing right now. I also just got a message from my ILL Librarian that she saw a great conference presentation on this kinda thing by Scott Bertagnole of Brigham Young University. From our perspective, the trick is authentication. We want t

[CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

2016-03-11 Thread Ian Walls
can start to form a pool of those libraries who have interested libtech workers, so when we go to our directors/deans/boards, we can point to peers/aspirational peers and say "see, we're not alone!". Thanks, Ian Walls

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hours of Operation on Website - management tool

2015-07-01 Thread Ian Walls
This sounds remarkably similar in feature-set to the Hours module I wrote for our CMS (Silverstripe) for our recent website upgrade. We defined Academic Terms first (name, startdate, enddate), and then could associate Regular Hours (start time, end time and optional textual description for eac

Re: [CODE4LIB] replacing deprecated PHP code throughout website

2015-04-30 Thread Ian Walls
I second Cary's recommendation to go with a CMS. Another one to consider is SilverStripe. It's highly extensible, though model administration is done on the PHP level, so be prepared to open up your favourite text editor and mind your syntax. Ian Walls Web Services & Emergin

Re: [CODE4LIB] IFTTT and barcodes

2014-09-10 Thread Ian Walls
I don't think IFTTT is the right tool, but the basic idea is sound. With a spot of custom scripting on some server somewhere, one could take in an ISBN, lookup via the III WebPac, assess eligibility conditions, then return yes or no. Barcode Scanner on Android has the ability to do custom search

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Services on Small Devices (like Watches): Discuss

2014-09-09 Thread Ian Walls
I'm the happy owner of an Android Wear device, which looks to do pretty much everything the Apple Watch does (minus the force sensing). I've been looking at use cases for this new screen on my wrist, and trying to tune the notifications I get so they are frequent (it's fun to use this thing!) yet

Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Walls
ff to someone else for maintenance, but talk to me again in a year, and I should. Cheers, -Ian Walls Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian UMass Amherst Libraries -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Wel

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Ian Walls
If you're using TinyMCE as the WYSIWYG editor, you could configure it so that particularly offensive HTML tags or attributes are stripped out, reset or replaced: http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/configuration:valid_elements If you stripped out 'style' from the list of valid attributes in elements,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool Library 2.0

2014-02-27 Thread Ian Walls
A great idea! Some other hardware to consider: Raspberry Pi alternative: Beagle Bone Black Further Arduino support: Gemma (smaller version of FLORA) Various breakout boards (GPS, GSM, LCD, etc.) Sensors Servos For helping teach/interest younger folks: Snap Circuits littleBits For larger setup

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications

2013-11-25 Thread Ian Walls
Perhaps Code4Lib could have some form of nominal membership, and the funds derived from membership dues could be put into an array of scholarships. Membership wouldn't necessarily have to be a privileged state, but for some (many?) library positions, promotion criteria include "membership in profes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-16 Thread Ian Walls
Suma is the most practical and reliable way to do this right now, I think. I've been investigating using a sensor network, but there are a lot of limits on the accuracy of PIR, and trip-lasers are low enough and require enough power that they'd be troublesome to maintain in a busy undergraduate en

Re: [CODE4LIB] phone app for barcode-to-textfile?

2013-06-06 Thread Ian Walls
Android has Barcode Scanner, which can do both scan to text, as well as send to custom URL (if you've got a RESTful kinda setup you want to GET to). Not sure if there is a good solution for iOS... but you might be able to build something in Phonegap (now Cordova), if you're keen. -Ian -Orig

Re: [Koha-devel] OPAC dir structure redesign

2013-05-06 Thread Ian Walls
I'd like to interject here again the idea of creating a stable API for template variables, so that if people feel the need to template out there out theme, they can do so without having to re-engineer it mid-release. Any changes to this API would need to be well publicized between major releases.

Re: [Koha-devel] Major surprise - "automatic" upgrade

2013-04-30 Thread Ian Walls
Paul, You mentioned earlier in this thread that you could reproduce this issue now that you've restored. Would it be possible for you to create a screencast of what steps you're taking and what your output is for each of those steps? When you're performing the commandline operations, what direc

Re: [Koha-devel] Fwd: Canadian Library Association Information Request

2013-04-29 Thread Ian Walls
You can check Koha against WCAG 2.0 AA using open source AChecker ( http://AChecker.ca). Last time I ran it, our default template did very well. It helps that we're web-based, and our philosophy of not being too Javascript dependent pays off here. You can also download the Fangs and WebAIM Firefox

Re: [CODE4LIB] File based CMSes

2013-04-29 Thread Ian Walls
I'd like to throw in another recommendation on Dokuwiki. Out of the box, I'd call it about 80% of a solution, as there are some things I've wanted to do with it that have proven really difficult with existing modules strung together, but overall, it has the potential to do the job of a CMS well

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha numbering

2013-04-08 Thread Ian Walls
I'm on the side of moving to Koha 4.0, and then looking into a browser-based means of upgrading the system from there. Firefox, Chrome, Dokuwiki and most mobile apps do not require any kind of additional process to upgrade; you just click the button, and it works (or you look up, and it's updated,

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha.next: Consolidate OPAC themes?

2013-04-08 Thread Ian Walls
I think the key thing to do is to provide a consistent and well documented set of template variables that do not change within any given version. This is a pretty common practice for many CMS and other templatable systems. That way, we always know what parts we have to work with. This would great

Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

2013-02-21 Thread Ian Walls
was you were doing before. -Justin On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Ian Walls wrote: > Agreed. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Pick the > one that works best for your situation, factoring in not only what the > application needs to do, but your and your team's

Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

2013-02-21 Thread Ian Walls
Agreed. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Pick the one that works best for your situation, factoring in not only what the application needs to do, but your and your team's level of experience, and the overall community context in which the project will live. The peculiaritie

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Ian Walls
My library is about to launch into a series of quick usability testing sessions next week for our website. In terms of software, we wanted to do a screen and audio capture, but the programs we experimented with were not sufficiently stable or responsive to fit into our workflow. There was far too

Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

2013-01-25 Thread Ian Walls
+1 Perhaps, instead of a policy document (which is inherently rules-based), we have a statement of belief and a pledge to stand by it (which is more of a good-faith social contract). Those of us who believe in it could sign it in some way, perhaps through GitHub This way we'd still have a docume

Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

2013-01-25 Thread Ian Walls
My concern over the anti-harassment policy is part of the definition of "harassment", particularly: "It includes offensive verbal comments or non-verbal expressions related to gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, rel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tablets to help with circulation services

2013-01-23 Thread Ian Walls
The original (white) Square reader is unencrypted, and the output can be read by an app, but you'll need to a) know how to write an app for the platform(s) you wish, and b) figure out how to decode the serial data, which isn't particularly well documented out there in the world. If you're using Ch

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2013 location

2013-01-14 Thread Ian Walls
>From the UIC Forum, bus route 12: http://goo.gl/maps/zyPx5, about every 10-15 minutes -Ian -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Fleming, Declan Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 2:30 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB

[CODE4LIB] Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug

2013-01-09 Thread Ian Walls
following versions are safe: 3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, or 2.3.15 Cheers, -Ian Walls Web Services and Emerging Technologies Librarian UMass Amherst Libraries

Re: [Koha] Links shelving locations to maps

2012-12-06 Thread Ian Walls
So, what we're looking at here is a WALDO library, which is running one of the LibLime forks. The various features they're offering (Maps, Facelift and Mobile) are all Javascript libraries that can be dropped into the OPAC system preferences. The most integration they do is to reference the templ

Re: [Koha-devel] Some thoughts from QA team

2012-10-24 Thread Ian Walls
I agree with Marc V. agreeing with Katrin. :) Ian On Oct 24, 2012 11:11 AM, "Marc Véron" wrote: > Hi all, > > I agree with Katrin in both points. > > Marc V. > > > > Am 24.10.2012 16:53, schrieb Fischer, Katrin: > >> Hi all, >> >> I think so far we have a lot of votes for keeping the discussion

Re: [Koha-devel] OPAC themes

2012-10-06 Thread Ian Walls
I believe Koha needs to keep maximum standards compliance and backwards compatibility, as we often do encounter older hardware and software in the line of international duty. However, we do have the mechanisms in place to support multiple templates. The chief difficulty with using this feature has

[Koha-devel] Officially supported OS versions

2012-08-17 Thread Ian Walls
Koha Developers, As I try to get back in the swing of things after a long absence, I'm finding a lot of changes to Koha's dependencies to be particularly frustrating, as I need to add new package repositories or even upgrade my OS. This leads me to the question: What OS versions does Koha run o

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal for a new coding guideline for command line scripts

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Walls
+1 Ian On Jul 25, 2012 3:07 AM, "Julian Maurice" wrote: > Le 24/07/2012 18:06, Robin Sheat a écrit : > >> Op 24-07-12 18:02, Paul Poulain schreef: >> >>> Do we agree it's a good idea to request that for future scripts, and add >>> this in the coding guidelines ? >>> >> >> I find this also makes

Re: [Koha-devel] Authority indexing

2012-07-12 Thread Ian Walls
If no one can voice a reason to have separate indexes for the OPAC v. the staff client, best to use the same ones. It's what we do for biblios, and authorities is just another Zebra database. Keeping things simple will improve life for everyone. -Ian On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Jared Cam

Re: [Koha-devel] About Release process

2012-07-12 Thread Ian Walls
I'm mostly in favour of solution 1 (in that it's close to what I think we should to, and solution 2 is not good in my opinion). But I think there is a little more to it. There are several factors in our current workflow and environment that are causing these bugs and regressions: - *Lack of r

Re: [Koha-devel] QAing patches [was Re: Signing-off a patch for a customer]

2012-07-06 Thread Ian Walls
Points: 1. Yes, I believe it's okay for someone to do the action of sign off for someone who is not technically inclined or does not have access to Git, provided the person doing the signoff has verifiable permission from the person who's name it is they are using. It would primarily be on the

Re: [Koha] [discussion] Privacy issue (bug 3280)

2012-07-06 Thread Ian Walls
IP address is not sufficiently rigourous to identify and individual or even a location (TOR network and all that). It's routinely mis-used as such an identifier. I don't see any benefit to adding it to Koha's outgoing emails, since it cannot be relied upon, and it could put people at risk of ill-

Re: [Koha] import_borrowers-cli.pl

2012-07-06 Thread Ian Walls
Umer, There is no Koha 4.2; the highest version of Koha available right now is 3.8.2. It looks like you may have downloaded LibLime Koha (a fork of the Koha project). I'd highly recommend you stick with the stable release as available from http://koha-community.org/download-koha/, as LibLime Ko

Re: [Koha-devel] urgent call for testing!

2012-06-20 Thread Ian Walls
Bug 8251 has also been a bit nasty, and is now passed QA. http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8251 -Ian On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Paul Poulain wrote: > Le 19/06/2012 22:54, Melia Meggs a écrit : > > Hi Koha developers! > Hi Melia, > > > We have hundreds of libraries

Re: [Koha-devel] Bug 7167 New updatedatabase

2012-06-15 Thread Ian Walls
Just bringing this back to original intent: it's hard for developers and testers to work with patches that have DB revs, so we want to fix that. Basically, that means being able to easily tell what changes have been made to the DB beyond the natural Koha progression. The problem with the code we

Re: [Koha-devel] using CHI directly to use all of it's advantages

2012-06-15 Thread Ian Walls
> This should never have been in the database. Also, there is a 1-1 > relationship between almost all the language tables. We should just have > sort of configuration file with that information (maybe in YAML?). Also, > using just one type of language code might be nice. > > * XSLT parsing. That's

Re: [Koha-devel] About IRC meeting & voting

2012-06-14 Thread Ian Walls
I think we've got two issues here to resolve here: 1. some kind of asynchronous voting mechanism. We need to be able to create arbitrarily many issues to vote on, with set opening and closing datetimes. We also need some kind of mechanism for preventing spam or other abuse. Personal

Re: [Koha-devel] bugzilla default assignee changes

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Walls
It would probably be best to take me off as default assignee for any components, since I have little time for coding lately, and what time I do have is going towards QA. Cheers, -Ian On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nicole Engard wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Paul Poulain > wro

Re: [Koha-devel] Authority control - request for comments

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Walls
Jared, All you plans are most excellent, and I've been thinking about (and to some limited capacity, discussing) them for a while now. I'm glad to see them on the road to reality. A couple comments: About point 13, adding a "Did you mean?" feature... this should be done in a way that applies t

Re: [Koha] how to undo global due date?

2012-06-01 Thread Ian Walls
ceilingDueDate and globalDueDate shouldn't be in your 3.8 system; they were deleted as part of the database update that moved them to the circulation matrix (issuingrules table). You should be able to re-enter your rules in the Circulation and Fines rules area under the Administration. You'll hav

Re: [Koha] Issues with Serials

2012-06-01 Thread Ian Walls
Haik, In this respect, Koha has 4 entities to keep track of: 1. The Biblio 2. Any Items attached to the Biblio 3. a Subscription attached to the Biblio 4. Serial issues for the Subscription (which can correspond to Items, if you wish) You can have multiple Subscriptions to a Bibl

Re: [Koha-devel] Signing-off a patch for a customer

2012-05-29 Thread Ian Walls
To me, the role of QA is to be highly conservative. The QA team needs to look at a piece of incoming code, and not only judge it on how well it does it's intended purpose, but how it affects all the other code and workflows that surround it. The folks creating and signing off on code are often lo

Re: [Koha-devel] [DISCUSSION] Database schema & coding guidelines

2012-05-25 Thread Ian Walls
I also favour "_id" in general... the underscore separates it out as an identifier, and it's already this way in a large percentage of the database. We need to be very careful, though, if we change any of the existing key names, so that it not only doesn't break the Koha code, but also doesn't bre

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposed QA Enhancements

2012-05-22 Thread Ian Walls
For my part, I tend to review patches textual to see if they make sense as a changeset. If I cannot tell from reading what this patch does, I'll either apply and test, or ask for clarification. Generally, both of those actions take more effort than reading on Bugzilla, and thus take longer. I ag

Re: [Koha-devel] Guided report in Koha 3.8.0

2012-05-11 Thread Ian Walls
Bug 8072 is now Passed QA, and can be added to the 3.8.1 release at the Release Maintainers discretion. -Ian On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > On 4 May 2012 23:09, Partha Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > Dear all > > > > Thanks for a great new look (Staff interface in particular)

Re: [Koha-devel] Multi-branch SCO [Was: Re: Branch Specific System Preferences]

2012-05-10 Thread Ian Walls
Chris, If you don't specify the SCO user in the sysprefs, you have to manually log in as that user on the workstations you are designating as SCO. This is then subject to timeout, I believe. So, if you don't mind maintaining the distinct logins on your workstations manually, you're in good shap

Re: [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

2012-05-10 Thread Ian Walls
es would come in. -Ian On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Paul Poulain wrote: > Le 10/05/2012 17:04, Ian Walls a écrit : > > Paul, > > > > > > Creating a new table allows us to develop this in parallel and commit > > progress incrementally without risking damage

Re: [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

2012-05-10 Thread Ian Walls
Koha namespace. I think building new would be better here than modifying what we already have, since C4::Circulation is already pretty messy. Cheers, -Ian On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Paul Poulain wrote: > Le 10/05/2012 02:47, Ian Walls a écrit : > > RFC up on the wiki: > &

Re: [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

2012-05-09 Thread Ian Walls
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Ian Walls wrote: > Chris, > > > I'm seeing the Contextual Preferences Engine (CPE) as a replacement to the > issuingrules and related tables, first and foremost. It would be put in > place, then be migrated into slowly over time by develop

Re: [Koha-devel] SQL reports [error]

2012-04-30 Thread Ian Walls
I agree with Katrin; this is a very risky proposition and probably shouldn't be added to the Koha codebase. Not only is doing this securely hard, but it also makes the job of your system support specialist much harder (speaking as a former professional Koha support guy here). If you're in a situa

Re: [Koha] Koha 4 timeframe

2012-04-18 Thread Ian Walls
We haven't nailed this down with any finality as a community, but the general idea is that when Solr search indexing is ready, we'll bump from the 3.X line to 4.0. Hopefully, that will be soon, like April or Oct of 2013. -Ian On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 04:01, Chris Cormack wrote: > On 17 April 20

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha performance enhancement overview

2012-04-18 Thread Ian Walls
Unless we're working with a small catalogue, or one with only a few popular items, I'm not sure we'd get much benefit from caching the XSLT-processed HTML for individual biblios. Outside of those cases, I don't think a lot of people will be looking at the same records, so we're just storing info u

Re: [Koha] Ping KUDOS

2012-04-13 Thread Ian Walls
Greg, Answers in-line (as best I can), then some commentary. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:20, G. Laws wrote: > 1. What does KUDOS stand for (the breakout of the acronym, if it is)? I > presume Koha Users and Developers xxx xxx? > Legally (that is, in our founding documents), KUDOS doesn't stan

Re: [Koha] Kohacon13, was: KUDOS 2012

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
Marijana, It'd be great to see Croatia! I don't think we have a strict rule about KohaCon rotations (aside from not doing it in the same country within 3 years), rather just a convention/tradition of rotating continents westward by roughly 6-8 hrs. By that rotation, we'd be due for the Americas

Re: [Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
...and the other places with XMLout are patron and item card creation, and the Syndetics external service. Dealing with those places another way would reduce our dependency on XML::Simple by about half. -Ian On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 13:15, Ian Walls wrote: > C4/ILSDI/Services.pm also uses

Re: [Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
C4/ILSDI/Services.pm also uses XML::Simple to do output. Strings are actually composed in the subroutines, making any changes to the schema a C4-editing patch. Having an ILSDI template directory would serve us much better here, I think. -Ian 2012/4/11 Robin Sheat > Op 11-04-12 23:31,

[Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
Right now, the few web services we have all create their XML output using XML::Simple. This is not the fastest parser in the world, so I've been looking to minimize/remove it's usage. Looking at it in /svc got me thinking: perhaps we should be using T:T to generate our web services output instea

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
yn SOMERS > fridolyn.som...@gmail.com > Marsillargues - France > > > 2012/4/10 Ian Walls > >> I'd advocate ISO-2709 only being an import/export format, and never using >> it internally. It's just got too many limitations, as we're seeing here. >> >&

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-10 Thread Ian Walls
I'd advocate ISO-2709 only being an import/export format, and never using it internally. It's just got too many limitations, as we're seeing here. On import, we check for valid leaders, and warn if not. On export, we calculate the leader, and if it exceeds 9, we warn. We can develop several

[Koha-devel] Koha performance enhancement overview

2012-04-09 Thread Ian Walls
Everyone, I was doing some thinking this weekend about the overall goal of making Koha perform faster. We're approaching this from several different angles, so I thought it might be a good idea to come up with a summary of all the various methods we could use to speed Koha up. Tuning & Hardware

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Koha::Persistent - for plack and general performance

2012-04-06 Thread Ian Walls
Would it be practical and efficient to cache shared data to file (or a series of files)? My understanding is that reading files is faster than doing SQL queries, but not as fast as accessing memcached. But, the file would have the advantage of being non-threaded. I don't think configuration thin

Re: [Koha] Call for Nominations: Roles for 3.10

2012-03-28 Thread Ian Walls
Just a bump... we still need a Translation Manager (someone with a non-English first language preferred), and specific module maintainers. More bug wranglers are always welcome, too! We have single candidates for the other single-person positions, which will make the voting quite... limited. Anyo

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Call for Nominations: Roles for 3.10

2012-03-28 Thread Ian Walls
Just a bump... we still need a Translation Manager (someone with a non-English first language preferred), and specific module maintainers. More bug wranglers are always welcome, too! We have single candidates for the other single-person positions, which will make the voting quite... limited. Anyo

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8 feature freeze

2012-03-27 Thread Ian Walls
Looking over the patches on the Equinox branch, it does seem that while this is a significant feature in terms of it's meaning and utility, it has very little impact on the existing code, and will sit benignly in the corner until it is called upon. One of the XSLTs for DOM authorities is moved so

Re: [Koha-devel] Adding support for PostgreSQL, no new MySQLisms, please

2012-03-23 Thread Ian Walls
w there is plenty of literature on it's merits over MySQL, but how do those translate to something that the users of Koha can benefit from? Cheers, -Ian On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 13:48, Marc Balmer wrote: > Am 23.03.12 17:23, schrieb Ian Walls: > > According to rule SQL6 of our Codi

Re: [Koha-devel] Adding support for PostgreSQL, no new MySQLisms, please

2012-03-23 Thread Ian Walls
According to rule SQL6 of our Coding Guidelines ( http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#Database), backquotes are not acceptable, as they are a MySQL-ism. Part of the duty of QA is to verify that the coding guidelines are met, so it is reasonable to say that such markings *should*

Re: [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Walls
for a long while, but other things (like testing Hourly Loans) have taken priority recently. I'd love to have this in place for 3.10, to some degree or another. Cheers, -Ian On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 13:44, Chris Nighswonger < cnighswon...@foundations.edu> wrote: > Hi Ian, >

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Walls
Chris, I've been meaning to write a Contextual Preferences Engine for Koha for a while now, to solve the problems we have with the Circ Matrix, as well as with global sysprefs that should really be more configurable. The idea is that it will be a DB table with 5 main columns: Branch, Patron Cat

Re: [Koha-devel] Branch Specific System Preferences

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Walls
Chris, I've been meaning to write a Contextual Preferences Engine for Koha for a while now, to solve the problems we have with the Circ Matrix, as well as with global sysprefs that should really be more configurable. The idea is that it will be a DB table with 5 main columns: Branch, Patron Cat

Re: [Koha-devel] Acquisitions, safe to modify a basket's booksellerid?

2012-03-15 Thread Ian Walls
Kyle, I can see several use cases where this could be a desirable change... which is your partner looking for? 1. The particular order was transferred from one vendor to an affiliate vendor through some partnership process or relationship 2. The initial vendor was absorbed by another, e

Re: [Koha] Computers in Libraries

2012-03-15 Thread Ian Walls
The conference also overlaps with the Marseilles Hackfest, so lots of our international community members will be out that way. So long as I've got connectivity, I'll try to be on IRC, so we can stay virtually connected. -Ian On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:06, G. Laws wrote: > I might have been i

Re: [Koha-devel] small patches & dependencies (was: User configurable slips pushed (bug 7001) )

2012-03-13 Thread Ian Walls
We've run up against this problem a few times in recent history. Small patches are easier to test, but harder to keep track of. Large patches make our paperwork simpler, but are much harder to test, and one broken aspect can delay many functional ones. I think the first part of the solution is t

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha 3.8 release schedule & perltidy process

2012-03-08 Thread Ian Walls
t to update the index, and then restore back to master when you're done. If you're tracing out lots of blames, then this can be a serious crimp in workflow. -Ian On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 13:50, Chris Cormack wrote: > * Ian Walls (koha.sek...@gmail.com) wrote: > >Doing a large

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha 3.8 release schedule & perltidy process

2012-03-08 Thread Ian Walls
Doing a large updating commit does not cost us any history. It just counts as an "update" to the code, even though none of the logic has changed. This change would alter SLOC counts and such, messing with our statistics, since we only want to measure intellectually significant contributions (tidyi

Re: [Koha-devel] Google Apps integration

2012-03-06 Thread Ian Walls
Paul, Has the work on Shibboleth required a refactoring of C4/Auth? It's sorely needed. Looking forward to testing it out! -Ian On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 08:04, Paul Poulain wrote: > Le 06/03/2012 13:52, Tomas Cohen Arazi a écrit : > > 2012/3/6 Fridolyn SOMERS : > >> Hie, > >> Development can

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 preconference proposals wanted!

2012-01-19 Thread Ian Walls
ulting > carl.wiedem...@gmail.com | skype: c4rlww > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ian Walls > wrote: > > > Yup, for better or worse, I'll help shepherd this preconference along. > > Anyone interested in sharing their knowledge and experience is welc

Re: [Koha-devel] Bugzilla

2012-01-16 Thread Ian Walls
http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater

Re: [Koha-devel] Making bulk changes to bugs.koha-community.org; bug emails will be turned off briefly

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Walls
ause of this change. Discussion of additional fields to add can be put into separate threads, for easy readability. Cheers, -Ian On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Ian Walls wrote: > Everyone, > > > As I mentioned in my previous thread about updating Bugzilla to better > make use of

[Koha-devel] Making bulk changes to bugs.koha-community.org; bug emails will be turned off briefly

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Walls
mails once the changes are complete. I'll try to be on IRC for the duration of this maintenance job, in case anyone has any emergency questions. Cheers, -Ian -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Midwinter Booth #2048 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersol

Re: [Koha-devel] deafult for biblio.frameworkcode

2012-01-09 Thread Ian Walls
ha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Ian Walls Lead Develo

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to change Bugzilla Status and PatchStatus values

2012-01-07 Thread Ian Walls
lofwax.co.nz/2011/11/04/nice-visualisation-of-when-work-is-done-on-koha/ > > Great graphics! :-D > > Late +1 for the proposal. > To+ > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Midwinter Booth #2048 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.wa...@b

Re: [Koha-devel] link_bibs_to_authorities.pl can corrupt records

2012-01-06 Thread Ian Walls
http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel> >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.**org/<http://bugs.koha-community.org/> >> > > _

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to change Bugzilla Status and PatchStatus values

2012-01-06 Thread Ian Walls
Katrin wrote: > ** > > > What do people think? Does this sound like a reasonable change to make? > > +1 > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Midwinter Booth #2048 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.

[Koha-devel] Proposal to change Bugzilla Status and Patch Status values

2012-01-06 Thread Ian Walls
es to the Patch Statuses; otherwise, we'll all get spammed to high heaven with meaningless updates when the migration occurs. What do people think? Does this sound like a reasonable change to make? Any objections? Cheers, -Ian -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA

Re: [Koha] Searching Tips in the Manual

2011-12-21 Thread Ian Walls
users like the fact that the > language index populates from 008 (chars 35-37), and 041adej > > ___ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > >

Re: [Koha-devel] adding fields in XSLT (bug 7332)

2011-12-16 Thread Ian Walls
http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Midwinter Booth #2048 Phone # (8

Re: [Koha-devel] Bug 5636

2011-12-12 Thread Ian Walls
3 questions: don't break existing behaviour, do what it announces, > consistent with existing feature & code. (double check if there can be a > security issue !) > > -- > Paul POULAIN > http://www.biblibre.com > Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc > T

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Walls
o >> catalogue our library books. which are in Chinese and English. Does the >> software support unicode searches and have multi-lingual support where I >> can translate all the texts into Chinese? >> >> thanks >> nancy >> > > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Midwinter Booth #2048 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal

Re: [Koha] Primary & secondary email addresses

2011-12-06 Thread Ian Walls
gt; "Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and > getting dollars back." Thomas Sowell > > > > 2011/12/6 Ian Walls : > > There is a system preferenece, AutoEmailPrimaryAddress, that determines > > which email is used to send notices. O

Re: [Koha] Primary & secondary email addresses

2011-12-06 Thread Ian Walls
all method "as_usmarc" on an undefined value at > > /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Search.pm line 2397. * > > > > But for the four digit copy numbers that i have entered I get the search > > reult properly for the given copy number. > > > > I am using koha version 3.02.06.000 on Debian Squeeze > > Please help m

Re: [Koha-devel] Version numbering, starting a discussion

2011-12-01 Thread Ian Walls
ll help. Perhaps we should have an explanation somewhere in the wiki – > but the current numbering is logical and has a lot of important information. > > -- Katrin > > > From: koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org [mailto: > koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org] On B

Re: [Koha-devel] Version numbering, starting a discussion

2011-12-01 Thread Ian Walls
//www.software.coop/products/koha > _______ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http:

Re: [Koha-devel] updatedatabase (bug 7167)

2011-11-30 Thread Ian Walls
enhancements, you remove this > option. > > I maintain my opposition to not back-porting the db update changes. > > Kind Regards, > Chris > ___ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.ko

Re: [Koha] Installing Koha 4.02 with Ubuntu 11.10 on vmware

2011-11-28 Thread Ian Walls
bin/perl Makefile.PL --testdb=test --testuser=test --testpass=test > -- NOT OK > Running make test > Make had some problems, won't test > Running make install > Make had some problems, won't install > Failed during this command: > CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.020.tar.

Re: [Koha-devel] Update database changes proposal [IMPORTANT]

2011-11-24 Thread Ian Walls
p://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html > Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/ > ___ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >

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