Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-08-24 Thread Tom Morris
Karen / Jessamyn - this thread has drifted a long way from its original topic (and the subject doesn't represent any of the things talked about), so I'm going to spin up a new thread or two to cover the topics being recently discussed. Some of them are probably more appropriate to ol-tech than

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-08-21 Thread Tom Morris
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:44 PM, jessamyn c. west jessa...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be in touch with some of the IA folks after the holiday weekend in the US and I will raise this question. Jessamyn / Sam - did anything ever come of the discussions with the IA folks? I noticed Giovanni (@gdamdam

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-08-21 Thread jessamyn c. west
Jessamyn / Sam - did anything ever come of the discussions with the IA folks? We had a very fruitful discussion about where we'd like to see things going, but ultimately we have a fractional dev (Giovanni, who is wonderful) which makes progress staggered at best as he moves between projects.

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-07-02 Thread Charles Horn
On 30 June 2015 at 03:00, jessamyn c. west jessa...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies for a late reply, it seems like you've done some great work. We can work to update the documentation. Thanks, I'm happy to be able to help out! What should people like me who want to contribute to the codebase

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-07-02 Thread Karen Coyle
On 7/2/15 4:35 AM, Charles Horn wrote: I'm worried now that getting updates released might be a much harder goal that getting code merged if there aren't any IA devs to oversee the release process, or support if something should go wrong. Merging code on github is one thing, getting it

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-07-02 Thread Anand
On 02-Jul-2015, at 8:47 pm, jessamyn c. west jessa...@gmail.com wrote: Anand no longer works for OL/IA but it's true I think it's true that he had the test version. I'm a little new to OS development, what is the difference between getting the code merged and deploying it? While I’m not

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-07-02 Thread Anand
On 02-Jul-2015, at 5:53 pm, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: On 7/2/15 4:35 AM, Charles Horn wrote: I'm worried now that getting updates released might be a much harder goal that getting code merged if there aren't any IA devs to oversee the release process, or support if something

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-07-02 Thread jessamyn c. west
I'll be in touch with some of the IA folks after the holiday weekend in the US and I will raise this question. That list of spammers is HUGELY helpful because at least it's a few clicks to undoing thousands of edits until we can script the process. Jessamyn librarian.net :::

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-07-02 Thread Charles Horn
On 30 June 2015 at 04:29, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 29, 2015 2:15 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: There's a bunch of stuff that could be done to streamline the spam flagging and processing, do more automated spam detection, etc. The current web form

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-06-29 Thread Samuel Klein
On Jun 29, 2015 2:15 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: There's a bunch of stuff that could be done to streamline the spam flagging and processing, do more automated spam detection, etc. The current web form reporting and lone pioneer cleaning up doesn't scale... It's sad to see

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-06-29 Thread Tom Morris
The ol-tech list is probably the right place to engage with potential developers. We had a brief period of re-invigoration a couple of years ago where a group of developers were granted commit privileges to the developer pages on the wiki and started getting things cleaned up. Forking the code

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-06-11 Thread Charles Horn
On 9 June 2015 at 04:18, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: My gut feeling is that the instructions at http://code.openlibrary.org/en/latest/ may not be up to date, but if folks are interesting in creating a version of OL we could ping the most recent committer and find out exactly what

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-06-08 Thread todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
Colby, Let's jumpstart that movement by forking https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary On Sunday, June 7, 2015, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: +1 On 6/7/15 8:25 AM, Colby Russell wrote: On 06/06/2015 09:32 AM, jessamyn c. west wrote: It's a thing that isn't built into the

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-06-06 Thread smbreau
I'm wondering if there are any plans to open up adminship/moderatorship to some more people so volunteers can tidy up the mess rather than having to report it. Zapping spam/vandalism/obvious crap as it happens is important so as to ensure that OpenLibrary does not end with broken

Re: [ol-discuss] Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 1

2015-06-06 Thread jessamyn c. west
I'm the one paid staff member that I know of who is Open Library only. I've asked before about trying to get some granular level of privs (merges and spam would be the two important ones) for power users. It's a thing that isn't built into the back end so they've been reluctant to do it' but it's