Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Web Staff Client Install

2020-04-13 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jake, When you installed OpenSRF, did you also enable all the parts to run websockets? For the Evergreen web staff client, this parts are required. And also it could be that even if you did enable, depending on whether there was firewall, etc. it might be affecting your browser connection to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] i18n in Angular client

2019-01-21 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jane, Thanks for the questions! Just a comment about Pootle... during the last Hack-A-Way, we did setup a Pootle test instance and it was unable to distinguish and was actively stripping out the code elements needed for angular from the generated xliff files. Because of this, we started to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Informal vote to apply XUL-removal patch to 3.2

2018-08-29 Thread Ben Shum
surprised or bug fixes change something). This separates my i18n concerns from the primary XUL retention question. I still vote "yes" though. -- Ben On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:21 PM Ben Shum wrote: > > I vote "yes" to getting rid of XUL now. > > From i18n si

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Informal vote to apply XUL-removal patch to 3.2

2018-08-29 Thread Ben Shum
I vote "yes" to getting rid of XUL now. >From i18n side of things, we've been working around the problems with running the translation process with our old XUL code by using the older template toolkit set from Ubuntu 14.04. That Ubuntu version is EOL next year April 2019, and I'd rather not have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Angular6 update / input needed on template translation options

2018-08-16 Thread Ben Shum
translations that we already have due to major structural changes in how the code/strings work. -- Ben On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Ben Shum wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Spinning up a Pootle instance has been on our community to-do list for > awhile as part of our ongoing discussions abou

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Angular6 update / input needed on template translation options

2018-08-16 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Bill, Spinning up a Pootle instance has been on our community to-do list for awhile as part of our ongoing discussions about the desire/plans to switch off Launchpad. I started playing with this during the last couple conferences locally in a VM on my laptop, but we still have yet to agree on

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automated installs scripts for EG 3.x for creating test VMs?

2018-04-25 Thread Ben Shum
Hey Yamil, Take a look at this wiki page: https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=server_installation:semi_automated It has a listing of various "semi" automated installation scripts folks have put together. I've been using berick's ansible script for Ubuntu 16.04 as my primary test platform

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] TypeError: g.my_libs_tree is null

2016-04-10 Thread Ben Shum
Those sound like the right places (by default). Maybe also the apache log, which I think goes towards /var/log/apache/*.log You did restart apache service after you ran autogen, right? And exit out of the client and try over. -- Ben On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Chris Rafferty

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Let's Encrypt on Evergreen server

2016-03-07 Thread Ben Shum
d be interested in knowing some more about what you changed within > eg.conf, Ben. > > Thanks, > Kelsey > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Ben Shum <b...@evergreener.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Kelsey, >> >> I've been using Let's Encrypt on my personal Ev

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Let's Encrypt on Evergreen server

2016-03-06 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Kelsey, I've been using Let's Encrypt on my personal Evergreen test server (https://demo.evergreener.net) for this past month or so. Prior to that, I used Let's Encrypt for some other test systems at my previous place of work. The biggest issue I encountered initially was that my system

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] AFOK no longer in SIP server Patron Information Response

2015-04-29 Thread Ben Shum
So, the AFOK was removed from Evergreen during 2.7 series' development. This is the Launchpad number for the change: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1246745 This is a link to the change in git:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.6 to 2.7 upgrade records re-ingest?

2015-02-03 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jesse, Surprisingly enough, I just went back through the upgrade scripts so far from 2.6 to 2.7, and I cannot find anything that explicitly requires a reingest action. Which is probably why there's no mention of it in the existing upgrade scripts or instructions. That said, I usually

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.6 to 2.7 upgrade records re-ingest?

2015-02-03 Thread Ben Shum
Actually, I take it back. There appears to have been a missed reingest needed to combat an ingest function that was repaired during 2.6.3's time. We're going to coordinate some new maintenance releases shortly, and this will be reflected then. -- Ben On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ben Shum bs

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Bill, Dates look reasonable to me. Having gone through the alpha cutting stage myself now, I may agree with you that very few people tend to test them and provide feedback with the majority often waiting for the beta when more features have been added of note or substance. Or you know...

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.6 slowness

2014-10-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, When we upgraded to Evergreen 2.6, we also changed a lot of our infrastructure in terms of moving to better database server equipment (faster CPU, memory, using SSDs, etc.) so at first, we felt things were nice and speedy. Things became slow for us due to unforeseen performance issues

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Week of Hack-A-Way

2014-07-21 Thread Ben Shum
Agreed, I really like the potential dates suggested for end of September. Hopefully we will be done with 2.7.0 release and free to start fresh on the next round of development work too! -- Ben On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Sounds good to me!

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] browser client dev update July 18 2014

2014-07-21 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Terran, Bill can probably answer the rest, but just to get a quick reply out there on the four digits as password for new accounts in patron registration... yes, that is a library setting that must be configured on the server. By default, that is not enabled and you will get a randomly

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Quick march to 2.7 alpha1

2014-07-07 Thread Ben Shum
Hi folks, We will be fast approaching the intended deadline for our first alpha cut for Evergreen 2.7, which is due this Thursday, July 10, 2014. This is a link to launchpad bugs which are targeted for work during 2.7: https://launchpad.net/evergreen/+milestone/2.next The same target list, but

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] What is the 'safest' (or recomended) version of XULRunner for Staff Client 2.5

2014-06-14 Thread Ben Shum
As is, Evergreen staff client development stopped with xulrunner 14 around Evergreen 2.2. Beyond that version of xulrunner, there are more issues with parts of the staff client, like MARC editing (I think) and others. For myself, I just use the Linux 64 bit tarball that's generated with my staff

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] June developers meeting

2014-06-10 Thread Ben Shum
Since the dates are fast approaching, I'm making an executive decision and setting the next developer meeting date and time as Thursday, June 12, at 2:00 pm ET. A draft agenda has started at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:meetings:2014-06-12 Please feel free to add items for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Understanding Launchpad Bugs

2014-05-02 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Tim, So, there's different ways that the Evergreen Community has applied milestones for tracking over the years and some of the concepts have changed over time depending on the nature of the release process and the specific bugs involved. For some additional history, in the past, we used to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Ejabberd error

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Shum
I'd be curious also how the system was setup. This may not be a related problem, but if the IP or hostname were changed on the machine between restarts, it's possible ejabberd is not starting back up properly or trying to listen for things that no longer exist. This has happened in other email

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Need feedback for planning IRC practice time meeting

2014-03-26 Thread Ben Shum
For whatever it's worth, the IRC logs are generally updated instantly. You can view http://irc.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/today as a link to the logs for a given day, and as folks type in channel, it should get logged immediately and displayed on refresh of that page. -- Ben On Mon, Mar 24,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Developer meeting at the Evergreen Conference

2014-03-20 Thread Ben Shum
+1 from me to the lunch time meeting. That would be fine for me. -- Ben On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: I suggest that we meet in the hotel lobby at 11:45 a.m. and find

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Thoughts about the Staff Client Part 1 of 4 - TT2 and AngularJS

2014-01-27 Thread Ben Shum
For whatever it's worth, I've always really appreciated how simple TT2 was to learn once it became such a huge part of our lives with the current Evergreen catalog code. So perhaps I'm far less wary of having TT2 use extended and applied where it makes sense to do so in other places. While we

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Vote Needed: Release Manager 2.6 Approval

2013-12-19 Thread Ben Shum
+1 from me, fearless leader. -- Ben On Dec 19, 2013 10:44 AM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Hello all, Back at the dev meeting on Nov. 12, I made an offer to continue as RM for an abbreviated 2.6 release. In the meeting, the discussion concluded with Galen suggesting that “voting the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Guidelines for submitting documentation needs to Launchpad

2013-11-13 Thread Ben Shum
Actually, we tend to make use of that Assigned to field in development to indicate that a particular bug is intended to be worked on by the assigned person. This is especially tied to use of the status In Progress with a particular person assigned to that bug. Additionally, sometimes reviewers

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Mac client slowness

2013-04-16 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Carl, Yes, unfortunately we noted similar reaction times when using xulrunner 1.9 with older Evergreen versions. The most I ever learned about this was that xulrunner 1.9 was just darned slow on Macs. Since it wasn't being supported by Mozilla anymore, we never got to the bottom of it. The

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Running git fsck on Evergreen

2013-04-14 Thread Ben Shum
Hi all, From one of the late Saturday night conversations post-conference, I mentioned a recent post shared by Anoop Atre in G+ and IRC about the near git disaster suffered by the KDE project earlier this year. See full article here: http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/ For fun

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-03-29 Thread Ben Shum
Hi all, As noted in http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013, the organization applications open March 18 and end on March 29 (today). At the March developer meeting, I'd volunteered to be the lead administrator for Evergreen's application and coordinate activities related to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] OpenSRF 2.1.3?

2013-03-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Galen, Backporting both of those fixes to rel_2_1 sounds reasonable to me. The Wheezy part only makes sense though if we're intending that OpenSRF 2.1 (and by extension Evergreen 2.3 and 2.2) will be usable on Wheezy. Otherwise, we could also just leave that Wheezy support for OpenSRF 2.2

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Mr. Rylander, we have a problem.

2013-03-14 Thread Ben Shum
I was not around much yesterday, so I'm still playing catch up with everything that's happened. But I feel that I need to say something in this area as well. First of all, I'd like to emphasize that I am very grateful and appreciative of efforts made by *all* developers in this community to

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Minor issues with 0752, 0753, and 0756

2013-02-16 Thread Ben Shum
Just noting some minor issues as I was worked through upgrading a copy of our production DB with the new upgrade scripts: 0752: evergreen.is_json might be public.is_json on older upgraded databases; creating that as a new function or changing the script to allow for the old naming worked for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Feature proposal: SSN-censoring functionality

2012-08-29 Thread Ben Shum
Well, in our consortium, we also do not use any SSN identifiers for similar reasons to the others listed thus far. We actually use the ident_value field to store student ID numbers for our school library patrons as an alternate means of identifying students separate from barcodes, etc. The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hold prioritizing for branches within a system

2012-08-03 Thread Ben Shum
to test in the future. -- Ben On 07/30/2012 01:17 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Hi folks, So here's a situation. A library system has multiple branches, and each owns their own copies/patrons. Library A owns a copy of an item

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hold prioritizing for branches within a system

2012-07-30 Thread Ben Shum
Hi folks, So here's a situation. A library system has multiple branches, and each owns their own copies/patrons. Library A owns a copy of an item and Library B does not. But patrons from both A and B place holds against the material. Because of how holds target / opportunistically

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: Evergreen 2.3.0-alpha2 uploaded

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Bill, I've updated the website's downloads page to reflect the alpha2 release. Cheers, -- Ben On 7/18/12 4:35 PM, Bill Erickson wrote: Hi, Evergreen 2.3.0 Alpha2 files are uploaded. The usual suspects should all be there. Server:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] upgrading uinstructions for 2.2

2012-07-11 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Robert, In anticipation of this request, I had already written a git commit to change the page to the new link once you informed us that the docs end of things was squared away. Website updated! Thanks, -- Ben On 7/11/12 9:49 AM, Soulliere, Robert wrote: Hi, I wonder if it would be

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Using marc_export to extract only a single library's holdings

2012-06-14 Thread Ben Shum
I'm not sure, but it seems like it may not be possible to use marc_export script to extract only a single library's holdings as associated to bib records. Using an option for --library SHORTNAME definitely gives me the bib records with that library attached, but using the option for --items

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen 2.2 RC1 fresh install questions

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Shum
For 2.2, the goal was to replace the original slimpac (simple OPAC) with Tpac and it is there now as the simple catalog. However, there is still ongoing work to further enhance and refine various aspects and add features to Tpac before it will fully replace the JSPac. The projected time

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Hiding prefix/suffix in volume creation

2012-04-07 Thread Ben Shum
Hi folks, So I've been trying to figure out how best to hide prefix/suffix from being seen in the volume editor since we're not planning to implement these at this time. We've tried using the CSS example to hide both prefix and suffix from view, and it results in errors when trying to

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Testing 2.1-2.2-beta1 upgrade script

2012-04-05 Thread Ben Shum
It seemed to be going well till I hit this and the rest of the script died out: psql:Evergreen/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/version-upgrade/2.1-2.2-upgrade-db.sql:15328: ERROR: cannot drop language plperl because other objects depend on it DETAIL: function migration_tools.add_codabar_checkdigit(text)

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Testing 2.1-2.2-beta1 upgrade script

2012-04-05 Thread Ben Shum
So I skipped over the drop language command and now hit my next snag: psql:Evergreen/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/version-upgrade/2.1-2.2-upgrade-db.sql:15516: ERROR: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before (end of string)) at line 20.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: OpenSRF 2.1.0 RC1 uploaded

2012-04-03 Thread Ben Shum
Website updated with the provided patch. Thanks Dan! -- Ben On 04/03/2012 10:05 AM, Dan Scott wrote: Not that I think there is an OpenSRF release team, but if there was you might be interested in knowing that I've uploaded OpenSRF 2.1.0 RC1 to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM

2012-03-12 Thread Ben Shum
Downloads page updated to include links to Evergreen 2.2 alpha3. Includes links to OpenSRF 2.1 alpha1 too. Question, should we generate the README and RELEASE_NOTES text files to give folks some stuff to look at? Maybe more stuff to store in various /preview subdirectories... -- Ben On

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Scheduling IRC Developer Meetings

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Shum
Hi all, Should we consider moving our developer meeting time to a different hour of the day in order to accommodate folks? It seems that the 12 pm EST on Tuesdays tends to be difficult for several since it conflicts with lunchtime. berick had suggested later in the afternoon so that we can

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Newbie question re. ue*.* files

2011-12-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Rob, If memory serves, all the "ue" files are legacy patron registration elements from earlier versions of Evergreen (1.6 and earlier).  The current 2.0/2.1 stable series utilize other files for patron registration / edits, which is probably why they're all

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: EDI Problems

2011-12-01 Thread Ben Shum
I'm not sure yet, still thinking on this, but curious, when you deleted entries, did you remove any extra outputs from action_trigger.event_output? Perhaps you have remnant entries in there that are still trying to be pushed, but since you deleted the associated acq.* contents, it doesn't

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Community Meeting for Friday Dec 2

2011-11-28 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is an announcement that our next Evergreen Community IRC Meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday Dec 2, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday Dec 2, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 Friday Dec 2, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the Evergreen

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: questions about testing modifications to database and client

2011-11-15 Thread Ben Shum
Some thoughts below based on what I know so far with my very limited poking around... On 11/15/2011 7:01 PM, Scott Prater wrote: I'm working on the patron statistical category enhancements. I made the changes to the database, adding a few columns and a new table, and I updated the install

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] bringing more developers into the fold

2011-11-01 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Lori, Overall read pretty well to me. One tidbit I saw was that the list of core committers on page 2 did not include Thomas Berenzansky from Merrimac Valley Library Consortium. His name is on the wiki page equivalent: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contributing:contributors

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for Friday Nov 4

2011-10-26 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is an announcement that our next Evergreen Community IRC Meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday Nov 4, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday Nov 4, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 Friday Nov 4, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Looking for information on Vandelay Merge/Overlay Profiles

2011-10-04 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jason, It's funny you should ask on dev, one of my colleagues is seeking similar assistance in the general list I think. I suggest taking a peek at the following two places: http://markmail.org/message/nodjs2m7e247dqw2 http://markmail.org/message/nodjs2m7e247dqw2 - is a link to a screenshot

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggested change to the OpenSRF install directions

2011-09-29 Thread Ben Shum
Comparing differences between various installation wiki pages, it looks like the exit command in the Evergreen install steps was changed to . ~/.bashrc # inherit the new environment at some point between Evergreen 1.4 and 1.6.0. The OpenSRF wiki pages weren't as scrutinized apparently, but the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Scheduled: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for Friday Sept 23

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is an announcement that our next Evergreen Community IRC Meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday Sept 23, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday Sept 23, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 Friday Sept 23, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.1 RC2 upgrade script testing

2011-08-20 Thread Ben Shum
Pushed minor tweaks for hold_matrix_matchpoint similar to what I observed for the circ_matrix_matchpoint table to this working branch: http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/bshum/2.0-2.1-hold_matrix_fix Trying another test with those modifications in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.1 RC2 upgrade script testing

2011-08-20 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Mike, I think this approach will work great, unless the site in question doesn't have the correct ID values appropriate to the code. In our case, since we had identified some missing permissions didn't exist yet in 2.0, but required it before the community had added them, something like

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.1 RC2 upgrade script testing

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Shum
Continuing along the lines of what Robert has, these were the results from our attempts to use the existing 2.0-2.1 upgrade script. Our test system is based on 2.0.6, but contains database patches up through 2.0.8 release. Line 13 - CREATE SCHEMA evergreen This fails and subsequently kills

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.1 RC2 upgrade script testing

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Shum
Short follow-up, just tested our script on a freshly restored test copy of our DB and hit this error twice now: psql:Evergreen-ILS-2.1-RC2/Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/2.0-2.1-upgrade-db.sql:6003: ERROR: function force_unicode_normal_form(text, unknown) does not exist LINE 1: SELECT

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Developer Meeting at 12:00 noon EST tomorrow

2011-08-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi everyone, We have our regularly scheduled IRC meeting in the #evergreen channel on Freenode at 12:00 noon EST tomorrow, August 16, 2011. The agenda has begun at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:meetings:2011-08-16 See you there! -- Ben

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.1-rc2

2011-08-13 Thread Ben Shum
Evergreen 2.1-RC2 staff client has been built and uploaded to web server. I had to manually bump the xulrunner version to 1.9.2.19 for the win client to build properly. Noted this in the steps taken for RC2 on the wiki. Pushing changes to website git repo for the downloads page, but won't

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.1-rc2

2011-08-13 Thread Ben Shum
, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: Evergreen 2.1-RC2 staff client has been built and uploaded to web server. I had to manually bump the xulrunner version to 1.9.2.19 for the win client to build properly. Noted this in the steps taken for RC2 on the wiki. Pushing changes

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.0.8 tarball cut and uploaded ...

2011-08-09 Thread Ben Shum
2.0.8 staff client built and uploaded to downloads folder. -- Ben On 08/09/2011 12:11 AM, Mike Rylander wrote: ... finally. Please have at the Staff Client and web bits.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.0.8 tarball cut and uploaded ...

2011-08-09 Thread Ben Shum
Updated downloads page on website, and wiki instructions. -- Ben On 08/09/2011 07:51 AM, Ben Shum wrote: 2.0.8 staff client built and uploaded to downloads folder. -- Ben On 08/09/2011 12:11 AM, Mike Rylander wrote: ... finally. Please have at the Staff Client and web bits.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Installation of Perl modules has failed

2011-07-29 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Elliot, Looks like Chris nailed an important part of the database restore process. I'd like to point you also to this wiki page: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:maintenance:backups The section entitled Backing up the Evergreen database includes some generic

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Setting up our librarians with launchpad accounts

2011-07-11 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Liam, I believe every organization deals with bug reporting differently. At our site, I manage most all of the Launchpad bug reporting for Bibliomation's libraries, and help to provide more detailed explanations of issues to the community. We end up resolving most things in-house first

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ALERT: Evergreen 2.0.7 and locales problem

2011-06-29 Thread Ben Shum
Hi everyone, We've received reports of problems using the latest release of Evergreen 2.0.7 with locales other than en-US and have traced it back to a problem with one of the locale files being empty (circ.properties). This also affected the Evergreen 2.1-RC1 as well. Mike Rylander is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.0.7 tarball uploaded to lupin

2011-06-28 Thread Ben Shum
Staff client has been built and uploaded to server. Downloads page set as well. -- Ben On 06/28/2011 03:50 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-2.0.7.tar.gz http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-2.0.7.tar.gz.md5

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.1-RC1 cut

2011-06-21 Thread Ben Shum
The staff client was built and has been copied over to /downloads/previews. I ended up having to make a minor tweak to the rc1 windowssetup.nsi file in order for the build to complete without errors. The downloads page has been updated. It's ready to go as soon as we do a git refresh on the web

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Question about lang.dtd

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Shum
Hi June, I think it depends on which labels are being altered. Most of the pieces in lang.dtd related to staff client pieces for patron registration are legacy editor pieces from the pre-2.0 patron registration, I think. Checking our local customizations, it looks like to change staff client

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen developer meeting: 2011-05-24 @ 16:00 UTC / 12:00 EDT

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Shum
One minor edit: The agenda link should be http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:meetings:2011-05-24 2012 is going to be an awesome year though :) -- Ben On May 23, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Dan Scott wrote: If you work on Evergreen or OpenSRF code, then you should join the Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] OpenSRF 2.0.0 final release

2011-05-08 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Dan, I've copied the pertinent files from legacy over to live and also copied the ChangeLog file to the server as well. Web pages have been updated so that links and names are correct. I've also changed the wiki install instructions for opensrf-2.0 to reflect this official release

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] PHP short tags (was: Website Redesign Patch)

2011-04-10 Thread Ben Shum
Awesome job with this Anoop! I really enjoy the new design elements and how much community input has gone into this work. I made a couple of changes to the repo's after Dan committed your changes. One major thing of note that I would like to seek feedback on: use of short tag ? instead of

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for Friday April 1

2011-03-30 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Friday April 1, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Friday April 1, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Friday April 1, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: RELEASE TEAM: 2.0.4, hot off the presses

2011-03-17 Thread Ben Shum
Patch for downloads.php attached. I included links to older 2.0 staff clients on the page again temporarily for now while we work to shift contents around the old code museum page. Also made some tab to whitespace changes. Will update the wiki install pages accordingly with the newest

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.0.3 tarball wrapped ...

2011-03-10 Thread Ben Shum
Staff client done, wiki has been updated. See attached file for update to downloads.php page. -- Ben On 03/09/2011 02:59 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: ... and uploaded to the usual spot. ChangeLog is next to it. Next up: Staff Client, downloads page, wiki, blog and email announcements ... in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Server-side OPAC development project: an introduction

2011-03-08 Thread Ben Shum
For fun I tried those steps outlined with a test box running Squeeze and Evergreen 2.0.1 and pointing at a copy of our 2.0 database. Overall the steps worked quite flawlessly, though I did have to use a slightly different path directory for the OpenILS/WWW contents than what was given on the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] What do Unix log messages mean?

2011-03-04 Thread Ben Shum
I noticed that the local unix.log files being generated on each of our servers keep repeating the same messages over and over. Safely ignorable or indication of big problems elsewhere? What are the unix log messages supposed to be telling us? In open-ils.storage_unix.log, this message repeats

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for TOMORROW Tuesday March 1

2011-02-28 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday March 1, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday March 1, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Tuesday March 1, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] RELEASE TEAM: 2.0.2 source tarball wrapped

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Shum
2.0.2 staff client uploaded by Mike via IRC conversation. Huzzah! On 02/21/2011 02:48 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: It's up at the usual spot, just waiting for a Staff Client, the download page update, upgrade instruction adjustment (safer 1.6.1-2.0, thanks to testing by George Duimovich, BTW) and

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Upgrading to 2.0 DB (check your sequences!)

2011-02-20 Thread Ben Shum
Hi all, Mike asked me to post this to the -dev list, so here we go: Earlier this weekend, we began the upgrade process from Evergreen 1.6.1 to 2.0. Specifically our production environment is 1.6.1.3 and we're going to 2.0.1. We used the upgrade scripts included in the 2.0.1.tar.gz file and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6.1 - 2.0 upgrade documentation

2011-02-16 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Robert, Looks like a great start to me. I think it would be good to include some caveats in an introductory paragraph. Some things to include might be that there may be an upgrade required to get to PostgreSQL 8.4 (which is the minimum required version). Also, I'm unsure about 2.0

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for TOMORROW Tuesday Jan 25

2011-01-24 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 25, 2011 in UTC This is a public meeting

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bug Targeting Practices?

2011-01-11 Thread Ben Shum
These questions are aimed mostly for Jason, our head bug wrangler, but I would appreciate any other suggestions for best practices when helping with bug management on Launchpad. How do we decide which bugs we target to different milestones? Is that action designed to put a face on bugs that

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Evergreen Developer IRC Meeting for Tuesday Jan 4

2011-01-03 Thread Ben Shum
The next developer meeting will be held in the #evergreen IRC channel on the Freenode network tomorrow at: 09:00:00 a.m. Tuesday January 4, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles 12:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 4, 2011 in Canada/Eastern 04:00:00 p.m. Tuesday January 4, 2011 in UTC The evolving agenda for the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Nature of the compositional pattern in biblio.record_entry.marc

2010-12-21 Thread Ben Shum
I'm not sure what canonical composed form quite means, but I believe that the marc field in biblio.record_entry uses a marcxml format. See http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd for some more information. Maybe someone else can comment on the more technical parts of that. --

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting for Tuesday Dec 21

2010-12-17 Thread Ben Shum
Greetings! This is a reminder that our next Evergreen community IRC meeting will be held at: * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday December 21, 2010 in America/Los_Angeles * 02:00:00 p.m. Tuesday December 21, 2010 in Canada/Eastern * 07:00:00 p.m. Tuesday December 21, 2010 in UTC This is a public

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.0 Beta3 Upgrade Script Troubles

2010-11-28 Thread Ben Shum
AM, Dan Scott wrote: On 28 November 2010 06:23, Ben Shum bs...@biblio.org wrote: I was poking around with the 1.6.1-2.0 upgrade script that comes with Evergreen 2.0 Beta3. Two issues came up during our upgrade process using a copy of our live production data (based on a 1.6.1.4 system

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Clark Kent Debugging

2010-11-12 Thread Ben Shum
Anoop Atre and I were working through 1.6.1.3 issues on IRC (http://www.open-ils.org/irc_logs/evergreen/2010-11/%23evergreen.12-Fri-2010.log) and noticed that our reports were malfunctioning. After a few twists and turns we found that there was an issue with this changeset that was applied for

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Developer IRC Meeting, Tuesday November 2 - Time Set!

2010-11-01 Thread Ben Shum
Hi all, The official meeting time for the Developer IRC Meeting has been decided! We will meet earlier at: * 08:00:00 a.m. Tuesday November 2, 2010 in America/Los_Angeles * 11:00:00 a.m. Tuesday November 2, 2010 in Canada/Eastern * 03:00:00 p.m. Tuesday November 2, 2010 in UTC This is

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Reminder: Developer IRC Meeting, Tuesday November 2

2010-10-28 Thread Ben Shum
Hi all! At the conclusion of the last IRC meeting it was decided to discuss on the mailing list the exact time we wished for this meeting. While tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. Eastern, there was also the suggestion to start earlier in the morning instead and aim for 11 a.m. Eastern. Please

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Toolbar Buttons in New Tab Option

2010-10-20 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Thomas, Wow, very cool stuff. I applied it by hand to one of my Linux staff client folders for EG 1.6.0.2 and it seemed to work quite well. From the patch though, the setting in prefs.js was shown to be: pref(open-ils.toolbar.defaultnewtab, false); I had to set this to true in order to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen 2.0 alpha4 new sidebar facets

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Shum
going to give the upgrade from 1.6.x a whirl once we get our test database in order. Cheers, Ben Shum On 10/14/2010 11:04 AM, Soulliere, Robert wrote: Thanks Mike, I got them to reingest after cleaning up the marc field in the biblio.record_entry table. For other who venture into this: One

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Documentation technical questions and clarifications

2010-09-01 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Robert, I'm not sure about the source of the yaz-client problem, but I replicated your test for the SRU connection using yaz-client version 3.0.52 (using a Ubuntu 10.04 desktop) and it returned similar failures. I tried the same test using a yaz-client on one of our test servers, version