Re: [Koha-devel] Advice for restricting loans from 3M self-check

2019-04-11 Thread Barton Chittenden
Another possibility would be to create a branch for the sip machines that had different issuing rules. On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:03 PM Mason James wrote: > hi folks > > does anyone have any advice for restricting some Koha item-types from > being circulated (issued/returned) via a 3M self-check

Re: [Koha-devel] Explainshell entry for koha package utilities (and thoughts about ubuntu repos)

2019-03-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
ubuntu) > But the plan is to fix them, when we have time of course. We could > maybe make that a push at the hackfest, or kohacon :) > > Chris > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 12:14, Barton Chittenden > wrote: > > > > Explainshell.com is a very nifty site that will

[Koha-devel] Explainshell entry for koha package utilities (and thoughts about ubuntu repos)

2019-03-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
Explainshell.com is a very nifty site that will parse the man pages that they know about, and then tell you what a given command line does. For example, given the command line yaz-marcdump -i marc -o marc -f utf-8 -t marc8 -l 9=20 filenametoconvert.mrc Explainshell will tell you what the -i, -o,

Re: [Koha-devel] Discussion of account types / labels

2019-02-25 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 6:51 AM Chris Cormack wrote: > > Whatever they are changed to needs to be translatable. > Agreed. I suspect that the trade-offs between 'We would like this to be translatable' and 'we need these values to be un-editable' (I.e. not authorized values) are probably what's ke

[Koha-devel] Discussion of account types / labels

2019-02-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
The accounts system uses the following codes to show what kind of fee or credit has been issued: A = Account management fee C = Credit F = Overdue fine FOR = Forgiven FU = Overdue, still accruing L = Lost item LR = Lost item returned/refunded M = Sundry N = New card PAY = Payment W = Writeoff The

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 18.11.00 released

2018-11-28 Thread Barton Chittenden
I will, forever after, congratulate the release manager on every release, having seen the process (at least second hand). Awesome job. --Barton On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:31 AM Amit Gupta wrote: > Congrats Nick. > > On Wed 28 Nov, 2018, 6:51 PM Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > >> Congrats Nick and a

[Koha-devel] Bugzilla search question

2018-11-27 Thread Barton Chittenden
Is there any way to change the default statuses on the bugzilla advanced search page? https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/query.cgi The default statuses searched are NEW, REOPENED and ASSIGNED... which skips bugs that are 'In Discussion', 'Needs Signoff', 'Signed off', 'Passed QA', 'Pushed f

Re: [Koha-devel] What is biblioitemnumber for?

2018-11-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
uot; > cataloguing. > >>It has been removed in Koha ??? (2.2 or 3.0 ?), only MARC cataloguing > >>remained. > >>At this time biblioitems table became useless/should have been > merged, > >>but no one coded/hacked it. But yes, it can be remov

Re: [Koha-devel] Notices and slips documentation RFC

2018-11-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
Nov 2018 at 15:22, Katrin Fischer > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I feel if we want one source of truth besides the source code, it would >> make sense to submit patches to the manual directly instead of adding more >> documentation outside of it. Adding a POD file wi

Re: [Koha-devel] Notices and slips documentation RFC

2018-11-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
The field guide is based on the wiki page, which I maintained... but I think that developers should be documenting any notices they add, which is why I've added this to the agenda for Wednesday's dev meeting: *Review of coding guidelines* - Proposed coding guideline DOC2: Entries in the *lette

[Koha-devel] Notices and slips documentation RFC

2018-11-18 Thread Barton Chittenden
Koha doesn't currently have a single point of truth for documentation of notices and slips, which has lead to a proliferation of markup syntaxes, especially in regard to repeating detail, e.g. DUEDGST/PREDUEDGST: <> ODUE* <> or CHECKOUT/CHECKIN/RENEWAL Detail here ---

[Koha-devel] What is biblioitemnumber for?

2018-11-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
Just out of curiosity, why does biblioitemnumber exist? There should be a one-to-one relationship between biblio records and biblioitem records ... so why not use biblionumber as the primary key for biblioitems? --Barton ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-

Re: [Koha-devel] Price format in order by email

2018-10-24 Thread Barton Chittenden
I'm guessing that this could be fixed using template toolkit in the notice, but I don't know the syntax off hand. On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:38 AM Holger Meissner < holger.meiss...@hs-gesundheit.de> wrote: > Dear koha devs, > > when we send an order by email <> is formatted with > decimal point and

Re: [Koha-devel] New Rest API RFCs

2018-10-23 Thread Barton Chittenden
I'm not a big fan of items.onloan... If you want to check item availability, use the checkouts API. ...and then I realized that there's no route for items in the checkouts API. On Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 6:07 AM Josef Moravec wrote: > Hello developers, > > Me and Michal Denar were thinking a bit abo

Re: [Koha-devel] Questions about terminology

2018-10-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 3:39 PM Liz Rea wrote: > The term bibliographic number is easily confused with "inventory number" > and any local or old internal record numbers that migrated MARC may have. > Agreed, bibliographic number is confusing. > > I think the most accurate long form representa

Re: [Koha-devel] Questions about terminology

2018-10-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:14 AM Owen Leonard wrote: > > I'm starting with looking for instances of 'biblio', which should be > 'Bibliographic record'. > > Hopefully Bug 19833 took care of (most of?) them. > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19833 I found a dozen or so i

[Koha-devel] Questions about terminology

2018-10-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
I've been looking at the Koha terminology page ( https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology). There are still a handful of occurrences of incorrect terminology throughout the '.tt' files. I'm starting with looking for instances of 'biblio', which should be 'Bibliographic record'. I'm wonder

Re: [Koha-devel] SQL queries showing data that will cause software errors.

2018-10-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
; Bug 21150 - Data inconsistencies - item types > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21150 > > It can also check for false authority types, and missing holdingbranch and > homebranch in items. More could be added to it. > > Hope this helps, > > K

[Koha-devel] SQL queries showing data that will cause software errors.

2018-09-28 Thread Barton Chittenden
When ByWater started upgrading our partners to 17.11 last spring, I noticed that we were getting a lot of errors of the form "can't call method * on an undefined value at ..." We're starting to see these errors because more and more of our code uses Koha objects, and these will fail if a method i

Re: [Koha-devel] zebra package

2018-08-28 Thread Barton Chittenden
11:49 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > It seems 18.04 includes 2.0.59: > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/idzebra-2.0 > > It requires the 'universe' repo active. > > El mar., 28 ago. 2018 a las 12:44, Barton Chittenden (< > bar...@bywatersolutions.com>) escr

Re: [Koha-devel] zebra package

2018-08-28 Thread Barton Chittenden
As of debian jessie / Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial), I think idzebra-2.0 should be at 2.0.62 or 2.0.63. There are known bugs in 2.0.59 which is the default for debian jessie and Ubuntu 16.04, so you'll need to use indexdata's repos for those. I don't know what the version is for Ubuntu 18.04, but 2.0.44

Re: [Koha-devel] Formatting control number searches

2018-07-27 Thread Barton Chittenden
soon that incorporates this. On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Katrin Fischer wrote: > I don't know about other sources, but in Germany I've never encountered > data where the numbers in $w minus MarcOrgCode don't match the one in 001. > Maybe this problem is just specific to

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha reports wiki

2018-07-21 Thread Barton Chittenden
I agree entirely about the duplication, I'm not a fan. I think that someone had filled in the template with a real report; I edited it and made it generic: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library#SQL_Report_Template On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Cab Vinton wrote: > > If you

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha reports wiki

2018-07-21 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Cab Vinton wrote: > Hi, All -- > > All Holds, Patrons, & Circulation reports have been copied over from > the main wiki reports page to the appropriate dedicated page. > > I believe it should now be safe to delete these sections from the main > page (sections 2, 3

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha reports wiki

2018-07-21 Thread Barton Chittenden
te ... > > So my initial thought is to just proceed w/ these relatively trivial > edits to the wiki. Will certainly hold off, though, if there's > consensus that it's a waste of time :-) > > Cheers, > > Cab > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Ba

Re: [Koha-devel] Client-side git hooks

2018-07-21 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > Maybe run the QA script should be one of them? +1 ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website :

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha reports wiki

2018-07-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
Cab, the reports wiki is in a state of benign neglect, because of development of _mana_, which will create a way for reports to be shared to and imported from a central server. See https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Recommendation_engine_integrated_with_Mana_project_RFC https://wiki.koha-comm

Re: [Koha-devel] Do you want to see a Koha 18.05 running Elastic Search in production ?

2018-06-29 Thread Barton Chittenden
Congratulations! I have to say, I got goosebumps when I saw Results of search for 'juggling' with limit(s): 'suppress:0' rather than Results of search for 'kw,wrdl: juggling' Cheers, --Barton On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Nicolas Legrand wrote: > thank you Tomas ^^ > > 2018-06-29 17:42

[Koha-devel] Suggestion: create a deprecated() function in Koha.

2018-06-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
It would be useful for Koha to have a 'Deprecated' function, which would send a warning about the caller() function and the version of Koha where the function will be deprecated, and what it will be replaced by... so let's say that C4::Adequate::DoEET() is being replaced by Koha::Awesome->sauce().

Re: [Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-18 Thread Barton Chittenden
tatus : NEW On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Barton Chittenden < bar...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > Very interesting! > > Thanks for the link. > ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koh

Re: [Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-16 Thread Barton Chittenden
Very interesting! Thanks for the link. ___ 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://git.koha-community.org/ bugs

Re: [Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-16 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 2:37 AM, Michael Kuhn wrote: > > Dewey Decimal Classification uses characters that indeed do look like > Arabic numbers (standing for classes, divisions, sections), but these > characters do not behave like numbers, so the correct sorting is actually > not as you would exp

[Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-15 Thread Barton Chittenden
The documentation for GetClassSortKey says * Concatenates class and item part. * Converts to uppercase. * Removes leading and trailing whitespace and '/' * Separates alphabetic prefix from the rest of the call number * Splits into tokens on whitespaces and periods. * Leaves first digit group as is

[Koha-devel] Bug 1993 - Task Scheduler Needs Re-write

2018-06-14 Thread Barton Chittenden
This is an old issue that's never really been addressed. As I understand it, at one time, we had a tool that used the unix 'at' scheduler to run requested reports. This was a huge security hole, and we disabled it and it's never worked since. As such, those who host servers must add calls to r

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposed coding standard: always check for object existence before use

2018-06-13 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Druart < jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org> wrote: > Hi Barton, > > Yes, and no. It depends. > ... the dark side of TMTOWTDI ;-) I read through your examples, they all made good sense. Basically, we should avoid indentation blocks (if ( defined $i

[Koha-devel] Proposed coding standard: always check for object existence before use

2018-06-13 Thread Barton Chittenden
Calling a method or accessing a member of an undefined object will throw a fatal error that looks like this: "can't call method * on an undefined value at ..." For example, this code will cause a software error if $data->{itemnumber} exists, but the item doesn't exist (maybe it's been deleted?):

Re: [Koha-devel] Request for feedback: Bug 20779 - Style refresh for patron detail page

2018-06-04 Thread Barton Chittenden
+1 On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Katrin Fischer wrote: > +1 ! > > :) > > > On 04.06.2018 18:27, Séverine Queune wrote: > > I like that one ! > > 2018-06-04 18:10 GMT+02:00 Owen Leonard : > >> If there is consensus that the add/edit buttons should be in line with >> the section headings: >> >>

Re: [Koha-devel] Request for feedback: Bug 20779 - Style refresh for patron detail page

2018-05-29 Thread Barton Chittenden
I like screenshot #2; It manages to be more compact *and* it feels less cluttered, which is all win as far as I'm concerned. ​ ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-de

Re: [Koha-devel] Formatting control number searches

2018-05-25 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi Barton, > > Control-number is the index on 001. 001 should have the number and 003 the > MarcOrgCode, that's why it's stripped from $w for search. I don't know > about OCLCs practices, so can't tell how numbers are handled there. The > e

[Koha-devel] Formatting control number searches

2018-05-24 Thread Barton Chittenden
I'm working on generating links for 7XX linking fields in XSLT, a-la Bug 15140 - Add MARC21 776 to OPAC and staff display ( https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15140). This Takes the 773$w, and uses the XSLT template 'extractControlNumber' which strips the leading MARCOrgCode

Re: [Koha-devel] Can we do away with items.onloan?

2018-05-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi Manos, > > it's an item field, so it's added for every item in 952/955. > > As the complete items information is added on time of indexing, I think > what Barton suggests is already the case? > That's my understanding. For background:

[Koha-devel] Can we do away with items.onloan?

2018-05-18 Thread Barton Chittenden
One of my first trouble-shooting experiences with Koha involved a report of search results where an item was showing as 'available', but the detail showed it checked out to a patron. Some helpful bywaterian pointed me to items.onloan, and issues.date_due, and showed me that they didn't match. A dat

Re: [Koha-devel] accountlines.dispute

2018-05-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
I've looked at a lot of fines, I've never seen this used... On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > I've filed bug 20777 [1] removing that column. If you are familiar with > that pre-3.0 column and its usage, please speak up on the bug! > > Thanks! > > [1] https://bugs.koha-c

Re: [Koha-devel] For larger support companies

2018-04-26 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > I'm sure Jonathan would raise funds to put one of those on each of our > desktops :-D > ... or maybe one of these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoZGXU6Nk0 ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha

Re: [Koha-devel] Low hanging fruit: Removing un-needed use statements in C4 namespace

2018-04-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
10:10 AM, Barton Chittenden < bar...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > Just to see what happens, I enabled warnings in C4/Reserves.pm. All of the > warnings were of the form > > Subroutine * redefined at C4/Reserves.pm line *. > > This is happening because of circular depen

[Koha-devel] Low hanging fruit: Removing un-needed use statements in C4 namespace

2018-04-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
Just to see what happens, I enabled warnings in C4/Reserves.pm. All of the warnings were of the form Subroutine * redefined at C4/Reserves.pm line *. This is happening because of circular dependencies, e.g. C4/Reserves.pm uses C4::Members C4::Circulation Those modules in turn use

[Koha-devel] Using template toolkit in notices

2018-04-13 Thread Barton Chittenden
I'm trying to use template toolkit for notices, as illustrated on https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Notices_and_Slips_Library#Notices_and_slips_using_template_toolkit This uses the syntax [% USE Branches %] or [%- USE date -%] to import ... something. The wiki page says 'See Koha/Template/

Re: [Koha-devel] Hackfest in Marseille, what you missed and what you'll be see soon in 18.05

2018-03-16 Thread Barton Chittenden
Great write-up Paul! --Barton On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > Julian and Alex unveiled an OAuth2 IdP to be backed into Koha! > > El vie., 16 mar. 2018 a las 12:30, Paul Poulain (< > paul.poul...@biblibre.com>) escribió: > >> Hello all, >> >> So the 2018 hackfest in

Re: [Koha-devel] Biblibre Sandboxes with ES

2018-03-12 Thread Barton Chittenden
Huzzah! On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Fridolin SOMERS < fridolin.som...@biblibre.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm please to announce we have build sandboxes with Zebra and > ElasticSearch. > See https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes#BibLibre > > If help needed please use sandbo...@biblibre.

Re: [Koha-devel] State of HTTP::OAI versions

2018-02-05 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Feb 5, 2018 08:41, "Fridolin SOMERS" wrote: Thanks, Where do I live BTW ? LOL Directly above the center of the Earth. :-D ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha

Re: [Koha-devel] Cover image lookup via UPC

2018-01-31 Thread Barton Chittenden
David, Books might or might not be listed with a UPC in the U.S. I think the de-facto standard is to use EAN(ISBN-10 or ISBN-13), and *possibly* UPC as well. Things like mass market paperbacks are more likely to have UPC, a quality paperback book is less likely to have UPC. ... but magazines, CDs

[Koha-devel] Cover image lookup via UPC

2018-01-30 Thread Barton Chittenden
I've been trying to find out whether pulling cover images via Universal Product Code would be possible from Amazon and Google. I did some digging; we're doing this via Syndetics and Baker & Taylor already, so the groundwork is already partially laid: Bug 14607 : Make Baker & Taylor cover images

Re: [Koha-devel] Recent changes in our Bugzilla tracker

2018-01-29 Thread Barton Chittenden
Ah, sweet. Thanks for taking care of that! --Barton On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > * Barton Chittenden (bar...@bywatersolutions.com) wrote: > >> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/rest/ is also giving me the >> message >> The REST

Re: [Koha-devel] Recent changes in our Bugzilla tracker

2018-01-29 Thread Barton Chittenden
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/rest/ is also giving me the message The REST Interface feature is not available in this Bugzilla. --Barton On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > Bugzilla and the OS have both been upgraded which appears to have > removed those links >

Re: [Koha-devel] Clarification on build_browser_and_cloud.pl

2018-01-23 Thread Barton Chittenden
o2709, and not > USMARC. It applies to any MARC flavour, and is only related to the file > format, not the file content. > > HTH > > Le 17/01/2018 à 19:46, Barton Chittenden a écrit : > > The documentation for > > misc/cronjobs/build_browser_and_cloud.pl > > Sta

[Koha-devel] Clarification on build_browser_and_cloud.pl

2018-01-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
The documentation for misc/cronjobs/build_browser_and_cloud.pl States > *Important* > This preference and cron job should only be used on French systems. (see https://koha-community.org/manual/18.05/en/html/16_cron_jobs.html?highlight=cronjobs#authorities-browser ) The associated OpacBrow

Re: [Koha-devel] REST api RFCs

2017-12-15 Thread Barton Chittenden
Tomas, Thank you for putting the REST api RFCs page together; having a series of pages that document the routes was sorely needed. One question -- the RFCs lists the route for borrowers as '/patrons'. However https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_ Guidelines_-_API#SWAGGER1.2:_Resource_names

Re: [Koha-devel] no acces to debian.koha-community.org

2017-12-01 Thread Barton Chittenden
Can confirm. Still down. On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Joy Nelson wrote: > Galen, > Are you also working on the wiki.koha-community.org site? This is still > down. > > -Joy > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Galen Charlton > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It is now back up. >> >> Regards, >> >> Gale

Re: [Koha-devel] Canceling reserves via opac

2017-11-07 Thread Barton Chittenden
Alex, A borrower should not be allowed to cancel a waiting hold; that would leave items orphaned on the holds shelf. Cancelling waiting holds was removed from the OPAC, but the button was not. See discussion in https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18856 On Tue, Nov 7, 2017

Re: [Koha-devel] Write good bug report titles and commit messages

2017-09-15 Thread Barton Chittenden
>From the "Summary" section of the bug reporting guidelines: Also keep in mind that the summary is what people will see when bugs are listed in the search -- it's a good place to put keywords like which page the error occurs on, or specifics about where a problem occurs. The summary Times are for

Re: [Koha-devel] [SIGNED_OFF] labels

2017-08-25 Thread Barton Chittenden
\"echo -n \\\"[SIGNED-OFF] \\\" && cat && echo \\\"\nSigned-off-by: Barton Chittenden \\\"\" HEAD~$c^..; }; f" On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > +1 > > On vie., 25 de ago. de 2017 4:07 AM Marc Véron wr

Re: [Koha-devel] Idea for Koha documentation -- move sysprefs into an appendix

2017-07-10 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Jul 10, 2017 17:39, "Tomas Cohen Arazi" wrote: An 'introduction'? Well, technically there's already an introduction, but yes, that's exactly where I'm headed. :-) ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-comm

Re: [Koha-devel] Idea for Koha documentation -- move sysprefs into an appendix

2017-07-10 Thread Barton Chittenden
b the barrier should be > much easier, Im hoping the doc manager role is more and more that, > managing, not authoring. > > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Editing_the_Koha_Manual > > Chris > > On 11/07/17 08:49, Barton Chittenden wrote: > > I've been wondering

[Koha-devel] Idea for Koha documentation -- move sysprefs into an appendix

2017-07-10 Thread Barton Chittenden
I've been wondering for a while if it would be a good idea to move the administration section farther back in the manual. As it stands, a new user, first reading through the manual will read through a page or two of introduction, and then get thrown straight into 600+ system preferences. I'm coming

Re: [Koha-devel] Do we track / record client IP in Koha anywhere?

2017-06-27 Thread Barton Chittenden
IP address is also written to (intranet|opac)-access.log. There is no user information logged, but there might be enough URL and browser information logged to leak the user's identity, especially in combination with information in the database. On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Chris Cormack wrote

Re: [Koha-devel] UUIDs?

2017-05-23 Thread Barton Chittenden
Oooh. Very nice idea, Tomas! On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > Has anyone considered the option to use UUIDs for our PK? I'm pretty sure > DBIx::Class supports them. I'm not sure how SQL::Abstract handles them, but > I know MySQL provides the uuid() function. > > This w

Re: [Koha-devel] marcxml > biblio_metadata - Automatically convert reports

2017-05-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
Just in case anyone is late catching up on email, bug 17898 was pushed to master on 2017-05-22... so we're all set here. On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Marc Véron wrote: > +1 for this, even if we are in string freeze > > We will have a mix between translations and English anyway in the more >

Re: [Koha-devel] [ByWater Partners] Global Bug Squashing Day - Bugs Only Edition! Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

2017-05-04 Thread Barton Chittenden
I'd like to add that if anybody would like help in the next few days with a testing environment, whether it's a guided tour of the koha-sandboxes, or help setting up kohadevbox (see https://github.com/digibib/kohadevbox ), feel free to ask me (barton) in IRC. Just mention my name in #koha, and I'll

Re: [Koha-devel] REST API object property naming

2017-03-24 Thread Barton Chittenden
Do we have any conventions for snake_case vs. notsnakecase? I don't see that in https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology, although it may be somewhere else in the coding guidelines. [This is probably bike-shedding that's been discussed elsewhere; please don't let me derail the discussion]

Re: [Koha-devel] MySQL silently truncating strings due to 3 byte limit in 'utf8' charset

2017-03-24 Thread Barton Chittenden
Excellent catch, David! Please file a bug for that, if you haven't already, the use of MARC 880 for CJK languages is quite common in US libraries. Does Zebra handle 4 byte characters correctly? --Barton On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:08 AM, David Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I ran into a problem

Re: [Koha-devel] Errors when running kohadevbox on Mac

2017-03-18 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Mar 18, 2017 14:20, "Mark Tompsett" wrote: Greetings, KohaDevBox may be putting the messages into plack error logs, not the standard staff and opac ones. GPML, Mark Tompsett ... Those will be in /var/log/koha/kohadev/ ___ Koha-devel mailing list

Re: [Koha-devel] Short introduction; Jukka / KohaILS/Linux developer, Lapland/Finland

2017-03-18 Thread Barton Chittenden
Welcome to Koha-devel, jukka! Sounds like you're doing interesting stuff. Tomas (aka tcohen in #koha) has done a lot of good work with ansible in kohadevbox; I think that he's looking at re-tooling some of the koha deployment scripts to make them work better in an ansible environment. Cheers, Ba

[Koha-devel] Single character searches are slow when queryfuzzy and/or querystemming are enabled.

2017-03-06 Thread Barton Chittenden
I've got an issue that we've seen periodically at ByWater; I want to file a bug, but I don't have a clear idea of how to replicate the issue, so I'm trying to solicit information from the community on how to narrow the scope of the problem and/or measure the performance problems that I'm seeing. T

Re: [Koha-devel] proper sorting order and search for Swedish characters and ISBN search

2017-02-01 Thread Barton Chittenden
Gaetan, I've added your entry here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library#Swedish Please let me know if I've made any copy/paste errors. Thanks, --Barton On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Gaetan Boisson wrote: > Digging this back up as we finally found a solution. And by "we

Re: [Koha-devel] Developers, expect patches to no longer apply

2017-01-19 Thread Barton Chittenden
This was discussed at the last IRC developer meeting. See http://meetings.koha-community.org/2017/development_irc_meeting_11_january_2017.2017-01-11-20.01.log.html Discussion starts at 20:40:47 There are a little over 100 reports in the SQL Library that will need to be updated, most of which wil

Re: [Koha-devel] Zebra: the 'elements zebra::snippet' doesn't work

2017-01-10 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:33 PM, David Cook wrote: > I've received a reply from Adam at IndexData. He's looked into the problem > and has added a fix as part of YAZ 5.20.0. > Nice. Does IndexData have a public bug tracker? If so, is there a bug number or URL? --Barton _

Re: [Koha-devel] Enabling Arabic and Kurdish Indexing

2016-12-20 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:15 AM, MHE I.T. Admin (DRR) wrote: > 15:58:14-20/12 zebraidx(9140) [warn] default.idx:13: Could not load > icuchain config 'words-icu.xml' > I see two unrelated issues in your logs. The most crucial was Could not load icuchain config 'words-icu.xml' This is what's c

Re: [Koha-devel] Bug 16733 and related

2016-10-31 Thread Barton Chittenden
Marcel, I like the idea of having the scripts available via a git install for a couple of reasons: 1) I'm a command line weeny, and hate losing my tools when I'm working in a git environment 2) Just out of principle, I think that paths should not be hard coded... it makes it needlessly hard to ru

[Koha-devel] Where do I add a topic for discussion in the next irc dev meeting?

2016-10-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
Pardon my ignorance, but I'd like to add a topic for discussion in the next dev meeting, and I can't quite figure out where that should go -- the last dev meeting has come and gone: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_19_October_2016, but there's not another meeting schedul

[Koha-devel] ICU Chains Library -- an easy way to make Koha better

2016-10-10 Thread Barton Chittenden
After some conversations on the Koha mailing list, I re-factored some of the language specific ICU chains pages and created https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library Which documents language specific modifications to words-icu.xml (and, at least theoretically, phrases-icu.xml). If

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha 3.22/16.05 & Apache, Plack for a high load/large library

2016-10-03 Thread Barton Chittenden
Also, if you can run tail -f /var/log/koha//plack-error.log when the error occurs, that should give us a better idea of what's timing out. On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Jonathan Druart < jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > What's the frequency of your plack errors (1/

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving the API for record imports

2016-09-30 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:26 PM, David Cook wrote: > That’s awesome to hear, Tomas. I suppose I’d like to brainstorm more about > the schema changes that would be required to support a more useful API. > > > > I figure if we collect a number of use cases, we can create a general > approach to co

[Koha-devel] Discussion of mysqldump / bug 12374

2016-09-12 Thread Barton Chittenden
I recently created a patch for bug 12374 'Add koha-mqsqldump script, analagous to koha-mysql'. This prompted discussion in the ticket, as well as in IRC; Katrin requested a wider discussion: I'd like to get some more opinions on this as both Magnus and Liz have left > notes that this might be bet

Re: [Koha-devel] 16.05, zebra and jessie

2016-08-31 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Philippe Blouin < philippe.blo...@inlibro.com> wrote: > Now, may I suggest something? Documentation. Not user friendly, but at > least dev-enlightening. > > "You" guys put time in there, as with plack and memcache and whatnot, but > if you're on the outside, you

Re: [Koha-devel] schema.koha-community.org

2016-08-26 Thread Barton Chittenden
+1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > Done > > http://schema.koha-community.org/master/ > and > http://schema.koha-community.org/16_05/ > > Chris > > On 23 August 2016 at 14:30, Chris Cormack wrote: > > > > > > On 23/08/16 13:50, Mark Tompsett wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> >

Re: [Koha-devel] 16.05, zebra and jessie

2016-08-23 Thread Barton Chittenden
and why and when use_zebra_facet=1 is slow > > 2016-08-22 21:31 GMT+01:00 Barton Chittenden >: > > I haven't run into the issue with the dashes in idzebra-2.0 2.0.59, but I > > have run into this, when using ICU-Chains: > > > > Bug 16581 : ICU toke

Re: [Koha-devel] 16.05, zebra and jessie

2016-08-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
I haven't run into the issue with the dashes in idzebra-2.0 2.0.59, but I have run into this, when using ICU-Chains: Bug 16581 : ICU tokenization bug in idzebra-2.0 2.0.59-1 URL : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16581 Priority : P5 - low Urgency : enhancement Sta

Re: [Koha-devel] Search by itemnumber

2016-08-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
ly in some corner of C4/Search.pm where angels fear to tread, but those should at least be the candidates... On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Barton Chittenden < bar...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > If you do a keyword search using > itemnumber: > > That will take you to the i

Re: [Koha-devel] Search by itemnumber

2016-08-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
If you do a keyword search using itemnumber: That will take you to the item record. E.g. Log in to http://intranet.bywatersolutions.com/ (user:pass is bywater:bywater) Then click 'Search the catalog' and type itemnumber:37771 This will take you to the record for *Juggling for the complete klu

Re: [Koha-devel] Moving on

2016-07-22 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Christopher Davis wrote: > Jesse, > > Best of luck to you and thank you for your work on Koha. > I'll second that in spades! --Barton ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-co

Re: [Koha-devel] Using the file upload feature for more customization

2016-07-12 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Jul 12, 2016 11:47 PM, "David Cook" wrote: > > In regards to XSLTs, I’d love some sort of registry where you could add XSLTs and then reference them elsewhere from a dropdown. > > > > As for https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16648, I’m curious why we’d have XSLTs publicl

Re: [Koha-devel] Extending the action_logs table

2016-06-28 Thread Barton Chittenden
I like that idea. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > Hi everyone, I started to work on logging Holds actions (Bug 14642). One > of the interesting things to log is the context in which those actions take > place (OPAC, staff, CLI scripts). > > Do u have any opinion on th

Re: [Koha-devel] Using the file upload feature for more customization

2016-06-14 Thread Barton Chittenden
Owen, I've been wrestling with the issue of CSS and XSLT as well, my proposed solution is Add Content system preferences for all CSS and XSLT sysprefs that accept a URL. ( https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16648 ) that should be relatively easy to implement, simply becaus

Re: [Koha-devel] Fuzzy searching in ICU

2016-05-05 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:28 PM, David Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I thought I was going crazy(er) last night when search wasn’t working for > me in my Koha dev install... > > > > I kept seeing this message in yaz-client: > > [120] Unsupported Truncation attribute -- v2 addinfo '103' > > > > I

Re: [Koha-devel] 1 timezone system?

2016-05-04 Thread Barton Chittenden
Nuts. accidentally hit send too soon. > > > Koha is supposed to be a general purpose ILS, and I don't think that > limiting it to a > > ... and I don't think that limiting it to a single timezone is in keeping with that idea. ___ Koha-devel mailing list

Re: [Koha-devel] 1 timezone system?

2016-05-04 Thread Barton Chittenden
don't think that limiting it to a > GPML, > Mark Tompsett > > P.S. Back to your regularly scheduled Y2038 doomsday discussion. > > *From:* David Cook > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 04, 2016 8:23 PM > *To:* 'Barton Chittenden' > *Cc:* koha-devel@lists.koha-comm

Re: [Koha-devel] Invalid local time for date in time zone: America/Santiago

2016-05-04 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:23 PM, David Cook wrote: > Hey Barton, > > > ... > > > Also, I’d never heard of date_t before your email, and the only references > I can see to it are for specific projects which have implemented it as a > new data structure themselves. I think time_t is the standard an

Re: [Koha-devel] Updating Koha manual documenation

2016-04-20 Thread Barton Chittenden
Agreed. There is a 'Documentation' category in bugzilla. The documentation is in docbook format; I'm sure that you could supply patches, or I'm sure that Nicole would be happy to make edits if you supply the text. --Barton On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: > I think it

Re: [Koha-devel] Improving Zebra logging

2016-04-15 Thread Barton Chittenden
Just because I remembered this conversation, and ended up looking this up, Bug http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15714 enhancement, P5 - low, ---, m.de.rooy, Pushed to Master , Remove zebra.log from debian scripts and add optional log levels This should be released in 16.05,

Re: [Koha-devel] International ES sign-off testing day (next Tuesday/Wednesday)

2016-04-11 Thread Barton Chittenden
Leading in to the testing -- is there any documentation on * Adding indexes for ES? * Support for unicode/i18n in ES? * Understanding how ES handles relevance (and how this is configured in Koha) On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi Brendan, > > could you share some link

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