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[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.5 Release Update [RM2.5]
Hello all, [NOTE: This message was sent yesterday, but I am told that list problems prevented it from getting through, so this is a resend.] The purpose of this email is to announce the official delay of the 2.5 release, and to establish a new timeline for release. A number of factors are contributing to this delay, including some exciting development targeted at making the TPAC work better on mobile devices. In talking with many community members, the consensus opinion was that the benefits of delaying and including the to-be-reviewed work outweighed the costs, but several also cautioned that we must emphasize these costs (loss of release predictability, increased chance of instability). How the community wants to balance similar tradeoffs in the future will need to be discussed more thoroughly at a later date. Here is the new timeline: 9/26, noon - feature freeze for master (beta cutoff) 9/26, end-of-day - packaged beta release 10/4 -2.5 RC1 release 10/14 - 2.5 final release In addition to the mobile TPAC branch (which Lebbeous and I have both offered to review), there are still 4 outstanding branches (well, more like 3.25) on the original beta-blockers list which I would like to include if possible. I know this recent burst in development activity has spread everyone a little thin, but any help in reviewing these would be much appreciated: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bugs?field.tag=2.5-beta-blocker Thanks as always, Dan Daniel Wells Library Programmer/Analyst Hekman Library, Calvin College 616.526.7133
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spinals
Has anyone had success in printing spinals from Evergreen using an 8.5 x 11 inch (50 spinals per page) sheets of spinals. Specifically Bro Dart laserink jet labels 55-395-014. -- Mary Toma Head Librarian South Central Regional Library 160 Main Street Box 1540 Winkler, MB R6W 4B4 204-325-5864
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spinals
I know that folks have but I wasn't personally involved with the process so I can't help, sorry. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Mary Toma scrlhead...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone had success in printing spinals from Evergreen using an 8.5 x 11 inch (50 spinals per page) sheets of spinals. Specifically Bro Dart laserink jet labels 55-395-014. -- Mary Toma Head Librarian South Central Regional Library 160 Main Street Box 1540 Winkler, MB R6W 4B4 204-325-5864 -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. -- C.S. Lewis http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spinals
Hi Mary, Will this help you: http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/? Tina Quoting Mary Toma scrlhead...@gmail.com: Has anyone had success in printing spinals from Evergreen using an 8.5 x 11 inch (50 spinals per page) sheets of spinals. Specifically Bro Dart laserink jet labels 55-395-014. -- Mary Toma Head Librarian South Central Regional Library 160 Main Street Box 1540 Winkler, MB R6W 4B4 204-325-5864 Tina Ji 1-888-848-9250 Trainer/Help Desk Specialist BC Libraries Cooperative/Sitka
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Placing Holds on Records with Parts
Hi Brent, The mention of parts and part holds makes me twitch! When we first started implementing parts, like you, we had a mixture of items with and without parts. The All Parts label for the title level hold confused librarian and patron alike, leading them to think that the hold was being placed upon every part. Instead, patrons would often get an item that should have had a part label, but didn't, so they'd get a piece they didn't want, as you describe Getting Part 2 when they thought they were getting the entire collection. Unhappy patrons, unhappy librarians. So we removed the text All parts and left it blank, hoping that would lead the patron to actually open the dropdown list when placing the hold, so they would actually look at the list of parts and select one. That didn't fly either. Finally, we made a rule that if one library broke a set into parts and labeled them, then the other libraries that circulated the set as a whole needed to use a part labeled as boxed set. We removed the title level hold entry entirely for bibs with items with parts. The result is the patron can pick either the boxed set part or an individual. No more title level holds in this case. Any library not applying a part will not have their items available for holds. I think that has calmed things down a bit. But don't get me started about the librarians that want their patrons to be able to place holds on part 1, part 2, part 3, in one step, not realizing that defeats the purpose of parts.to be able to control the order in which the part hold is filled! Mary Mary Llewellyn Database Manager Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Ave. Waterbury, CT 06708 mllew...@biblio.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Brent Mills Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:37 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Placing Holds on Records with Parts Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone could help me get some clarity on hold targeting within records that have a mix of items with parts and without. In a record like this one: http://tinyurl.com/pbg9lkz, there are a mix of libraries that don't split out the item into parts and those that do. My question is, when a patron (or staff member) goes to place a title level hold on a record that has a mix of parts and no parts, if they select the default All Parts option instead of Part 1 or Part 2 (pic: http://tinyurl.com/lqaogmy), does the hold target both parts as a whole in addition to the other, non-parted items? Or does it fill the hold by grabbing the first available item? Basically, when a patron selects the All Parts option, what is Evergreen looking at when choosing where to place the hold? Hope that made some sense. Curious if patrons might be getting a Part 2 of something when they thought they were getting the entire collection. Just basically looking for some advisement on hold targeting behavior with a mix of parts/no parts. Thanks! - Brent Mills Sage Technical Support Specialist Hood River Library District 502 State Street / Hood River OR / 97031 email: br...@hoodriverlibrary.org tickets: https://sagesupport.eou.edu https://sagesupport.eou.edu/
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Placing Holds on Records with Parts
Hi All, Implementing parts does have it's challenges, and it's not perfect yet, but we feel it's a big step in the right direction. Implementing parts affords the huge benefit that patrons are able to place their own holds on materials like popular dvds, and actually get the part they want, rather than needing to ask a staff member to place copy level holds for them. We are still working on converting data to parts after migration, and we struggled with the catalog display that didn't make it clear enough that a choice of part might need to be made. We tried to make the display clearer, which has helped. Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/Y4gc7bplc There are also a few bugs that make managing parts and converting the data difficult, but we still feel that the benefits of using parts outweigh the current headaches. -Michele On 9/25/2013 2:12 PM, Mary Llewellyn wrote: Hi Brent, The mention of parts and part holds makes me twitch! When we first started implementing parts, like you, we had a mixture of items with and without parts. The “All Parts” label for the title level hold confused librarian and patron alike, leading them to think that the hold was being placed upon every part. Instead, patrons would often get an item that should have had a part label, but didn’t, so they’d get a piece they didn’t want, as you describe “Getting Part 2 when they thought they were getting the entire collection.” Unhappy patrons, unhappy librarians. So we removed the text “All parts” and left it blank, hoping that would lead the patron to actually open the dropdown list when placing the hold, so they would actually look at the list of parts and select one. That didn’t fly either. Finally, we made a rule that if one library broke a set into parts and labeled them, then the other libraries that circulated the set as a whole needed to use a part labeled as “boxed set.” We removed the title level hold entry entirely for bibs with items with parts. The result is the patron can pick either the “boxed set” part or an individual. No more title level holds in this case. Any library not applying a part will not have their items available for holds. I think that has calmed things down a bit. But don’t get me started about the librarians that want their patrons to be able to place holds on part 1, part 2, part 3, in one step, not realizing that defeats the purpose of parts…to be able to control the order in which the part hold is filled! Mary Mary Llewellyn Database Manager Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Ave. Waterbury, CT 06708 mllew...@biblio.org *From:*open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Brent Mills *Sent:* Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:37 PM *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Placing Holds on Records with Parts Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone could help me get some clarity on hold targeting within records that have a mix of items with parts and without. In a record like this one: http://tinyurl.com/pbg9lkz, there are a mix of libraries that don't split out the item into parts and those that do. My question is, when a patron (or staff member) goes to place a title level hold on a record that has a mix of parts and no parts, if they select the default All Parts option instead of Part 1 or Part 2 (pic: http://tinyurl.com/lqaogmy), does the hold target both parts as a whole in addition to the other, non-parted items? Or does it fill the hold by grabbing the first available item? Basically, when a patron selects the All Parts option, what is Evergreen looking at when choosing where to place the hold? Hope that made some sense. Curious if patrons might be getting a Part 2 of something when they thought they were getting the entire collection. Just basically looking for some advisement on hold targeting behavior with a mix of parts/no parts. Thanks! - Brent Mills Sage Technical Support Specialist Hood River Library District 502 State Street / Hood River OR / 97031 email: br...@hoodriverlibrary.org mailto:br...@hoodriverlibrary.org tickets: https://sagesupport.eou.edu https://sagesupport.eou.edu/ -- Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmor...@noblenet.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis
Hi Rogan, The db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS is mostly configuration things, work mem, max connections, etc. They have been fine tuning all those settings to get the best performance. These settings wouldn't help other people as it would be dependent on each libraries load. Another change made by Command Prompt was to remove slony replication and move to pgpool. If anyone needs help doing the same with their database I would highly recommend Command Prompt. As for work done by Catalyst, all work that is directly applicable and beneficial to the community has been added. Kyle Tomita https://launchpad.net/~tomitakyle and Fred Parks https://launchpad.net/~fparks have been the most active community members from our team with Kyle being the 9th on the top contributors list as of 9/24/13. Catalyst also shared a multithreaded bib reingest that greatly reduces the time needed to do a full reingest. We also plan to share the way that Catalyst deploys code to KCLS without downtime. Catalyst considers itself part of the community and is actively working to add more value. We have developed a strong relationship with KCLS and enjoy working with them greatly and our relationship has allowed us to gain a strong understanding of Evergreen. We've got some interesting work that we are going to be doing in the near future for KCLS, and as we have in the past, that which is beneficial to the community will be shared. If you would like detail on any of these items now, feel free to reach out to me. You have my cell phone number. Thanks Scott Myers From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:10 AM To: Joshua D. Drake Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis Picking back up an old thread... I was hoping at some point to hear more about the db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS and perhaps see some work in git. I was sad to see that in the new LJ article that Jed Moffitt said that at this point KCLS has forked Evergreen so I suppose the work Catalyst and Command Prompt has done isn't relevant to the rest of the Evergreen community. I suppose that also means that any experience gained in working on the KCLS system isn't transferrable. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.netmailto:rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: Hi Joshua, I don't know if you had a chance to see my message below so I'll copy you in directly as well and maybe touch base again after labor day. With the Evergreen community having a rich collection of input from various contributors (many like yourself paid to do individual development by community members) all participating in the open source spirit and putting their code out there, allowing others to build on top of it or modify it or package it into master it would be exciting to see this work since you've indicated it's had a big impact for your customers. I did a quick mark mail search since I sometimes lose emails to spam filters and noticed that back in Feb you mentioned that your Evergreen customer has been KCLS. I know that at the conference they talked about setting up a public repo that would be available right after the conference. Maybe they can chime in on an update on that? On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.netmailto:rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: HI Josh, Can you share with folks some more specifics? For example: In regards to optimizing the conf file can you share what kind of optimizations and the benchmarks? E.g. with X records we see Y performance in activity Z. A lot of other changes obviously touch on changes to code and/or schema changes. Are these going to be released on a public repo or fed back into master? On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.commailto:j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On 08/07/2013 10:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote: I'm guessing maybe Joshua doesn't keep track of the list serv but is there someone else from Command Prompt or whomever they did the development work for that could chime in? When he says they've made improvements do those include GPLed code? Sorry folks, I do watch this list but not as much as the postgresql lists. We have also been very busy. Here are some of the basic things we have done: 1. Optimized the postgresql.conf, it is amazing how much you can get from some minor tweaks after some performance analysis. 2. Converted some of the procedures to C, for example translate_isbn1013 3. Modified the holds process to use a look up table. 4. Changed the process for holds so they don't indefinitely exist but get migrated out for reporting but does not affect performance of the active table. 5. Partitioning of larger tables 6. Upgraded versions of PostgreSQL to more modern versions
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis
Hi Scott, I am curious about any improvement metrics you've seen from work you've done and where it might be available to look at for replication. Joshua made some pretty broad comments that sound really interesting and anything that improves db performance is of great interest to me. Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis On Sep 25, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Scott Myers smy...@catalystitservices.com wrote: Hi Rogan, The db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS is mostly configuration things, work mem, max connections, etc. They have been fine tuning all those settings to get the best performance. These settings wouldn’t help other people as it would be dependent on each libraries load. Another change made by Command Prompt was to remove slony replication and move to pgpool. If anyone needs help doing the same with their database I would highly recommend Command Prompt. As for work done by Catalyst, all work that is directly applicable and beneficial to the community has been added. Kyle Tomita https://launchpad.net/~tomitakyle and Fred Parks https://launchpad.net/~fparks have been the most active community members from our team with Kyle being the 9th on the top contributors list as of 9/24/13. Catalyst also shared a multithreaded bib reingest that greatly reduces the time needed to do a full reingest. We also plan to share the way that Catalyst deploys code to KCLS without downtime. Catalyst considers itself part of the community and is actively working to add more value. We have developed a strong relationship with KCLS and enjoy working with them greatly and our relationship has allowed us to gain a strong understanding of Evergreen. We’ve got some interesting work that we are going to be doing in the near future for KCLS, and as we have in the past, that which is beneficial to the community will be shared. If you would like detail on any of these items now, feel free to reach out to me. You have my cell phone number. Thanks Scott Myers From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:10 AM To: Joshua D. Drake Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis Picking back up an old thread... I was hoping at some point to hear more about the db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS and perhaps see some work in git. I was sad to see that in the new LJ article that Jed Moffitt said that at this point KCLS has forked Evergreen so I suppose the work Catalyst and Command Prompt has done isn't relevant to the rest of the Evergreen community. I suppose that also means that any experience gained in working on the KCLS system isn't transferrable. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: Hi Joshua, I don't know if you had a chance to see my message below so I'll copy you in directly as well and maybe touch base again after labor day. With the Evergreen community having a rich collection of input from various contributors (many like yourself paid to do individual development by community members) all participating in the open source spirit and putting their code out there, allowing others to build on top of it or modify it or package it into master it would be exciting to see this work since you've indicated it's had a big impact for your customers. I did a quick mark mail search since I sometimes lose emails to spam filters and noticed that back in Feb you mentioned that your Evergreen customer has been KCLS. I know that at the conference they talked about setting up a public repo that would be available right after the conference. Maybe they can chime in on an update on that? On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: HI Josh, Can you share with folks some more specifics? For example: In regards to optimizing the conf file can you share what kind of optimizations and the benchmarks? E.g. with X records we see Y performance in activity Z. A lot of other changes obviously touch on changes to code and/or schema changes. Are these going to be released on a public repo or fed back into master? On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On 08/07/2013 10:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote: I'm guessing maybe Joshua doesn't keep track of the list serv but is there someone else from Command Prompt or whomever they did the development work for that could chime in? When he says they've made improvements do those
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis
P.S. I hit send too soon. I really appreciate the response Scott. I look forward to seeing some of the information you referenced and am glad to see that Jed at KCLS was still committed to sharing. If it can be reasonably forward ported to the community Evergreen is obviously what I am hoping will be the case. And I think I speak for most if not all when I say we value everyone who contributes. Obviously, I don't expect Catalyst to speak for other vendors. But I hope that all the vendors in the community are as dedicated to sharing as you are and I look forward to seeing more of what you've developed while working with KCLS. Certainly other vendors such as Equinox and Emerald Data have been similarity minded and I think it helps the community as a whole to have strong vendors participating. Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis On Sep 25, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Scott Myers smy...@catalystitservices.com wrote: Prompt.
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis
Scott, I echo Rogan's down-thread thanks for following up here. I'm curious where the multi-threaded reingest project is shared. I can't find anything like that searching any of the Evergreen the mailing lists or launchpad for terms like ingest and multi. Perhaps I'm just missing it. Some interest was expressed in the community IRC channel, but also some confusion as to what exactly that means. TIA, -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Scott Myers smy...@catalystitservices.com wrote: Hi Rogan, The db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS is mostly configuration things, work mem, max connections, etc. They have been fine tuning all those settings to get the best performance. These settings wouldn't help other people as it would be dependent on each libraries load. Another change made by Command Prompt was to remove slony replication and move to pgpool. If anyone needs help doing the same with their database I would highly recommend Command Prompt. As for work done by Catalyst, all work that is directly applicable and beneficial to the community has been added. Kyle Tomita https://launchpad.net/~tomitakyle and Fred Parks https://launchpad.net/~fparks have been the most active community members from our team with Kyle being the 9th on the top contributors list as of 9/24/13. Catalyst also shared a multithreaded bib reingest that greatly reduces the time needed to do a full reingest. We also plan to share the way that Catalyst deploys code to KCLS without downtime. Catalyst considers itself part of the community and is actively working to add more value. We have developed a strong relationship with KCLS and enjoy working with them greatly and our relationship has allowed us to gain a strong understanding of Evergreen. We've got some interesting work that we are going to be doing in the near future for KCLS, and as we have in the past, that which is beneficial to the community will be shared. If you would like detail on any of these items now, feel free to reach out to me. You have my cell phone number. Thanks Scott Myers From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:10 AM To: Joshua D. Drake Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis Picking back up an old thread... I was hoping at some point to hear more about the db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS and perhaps see some work in git. I was sad to see that in the new LJ article that Jed Moffitt said that at this point KCLS has forked Evergreen so I suppose the work Catalyst and Command Prompt has done isn't relevant to the rest of the Evergreen community. I suppose that also means that any experience gained in working on the KCLS system isn't transferrable. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: Hi Joshua, I don't know if you had a chance to see my message below so I'll copy you in directly as well and maybe touch base again after labor day. With the Evergreen community having a rich collection of input from various contributors (many like yourself paid to do individual development by community members) all participating in the open source spirit and putting their code out there, allowing others to build on top of it or modify it or package it into master it would be exciting to see this work since you've indicated it's had a big impact for your customers. I did a quick mark mail search since I sometimes lose emails to spam filters and noticed that back in Feb you mentioned that your Evergreen customer has been KCLS. I know that at the conference they talked about setting up a public repo that would be available right after the conference. Maybe they can chime in on an update on that? On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: HI Josh, Can you share with folks some more specifics? For example: In regards to optimizing the conf file can you share what kind of optimizations and the benchmarks? E.g. with X records we see Y performance in activity Z. A lot of other changes obviously touch on changes to code and/or schema changes. Are these going to be released on a public repo or fed back into master? On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On 08/07/2013 10:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote: I'm guessing maybe Joshua doesn't keep track of the list serv but is there someone else from Command Prompt or whomever they did the development work for that could chime in? When he says they've
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE: Evergreen Software Performance Analysis
Mike, The multithreaded reingest project was shared during the hackathon at the last evergreen conference. Here is a link to what we ended up running for moving KCLS from 2.1 to 2.2. https://github.com/CatalystIT/multithread_2_2_update The files to pay attention to are the data_update_driver.pl and the update_driver.pl both have pod files attached with quite a few comments on how they work. If I can clear up what that means basically we created driver files that divide large amounts of data into smaller chunks and run those on multiple connections for cpu bound updates. A good example is the 2.1-2.2 which had changes in how the data was stored in the metabib field entry tables. This was a very CPU bound update and ended up being run with 32 simultaneous connections to reduce the amount of estimated time from 5 days to complete in 4 hours. Let me know if you have questions on how this can be setup or run. Thanks Scott Myers -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:41 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis Scott, I echo Rogan's down-thread thanks for following up here. I'm curious where the multi-threaded reingest project is shared. I can't find anything like that searching any of the Evergreen the mailing lists or launchpad for terms like ingest and multi. Perhaps I'm just missing it. Some interest was expressed in the community IRC channel, but also some confusion as to what exactly that means. TIA, -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: mi...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Scott Myers smy...@catalystitservices.com wrote: Hi Rogan, The db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS is mostly configuration things, work mem, max connections, etc. They have been fine tuning all those settings to get the best performance. These settings wouldn't help other people as it would be dependent on each libraries load. Another change made by Command Prompt was to remove slony replication and move to pgpool. If anyone needs help doing the same with their database I would highly recommend Command Prompt. As for work done by Catalyst, all work that is directly applicable and beneficial to the community has been added. Kyle Tomita https://launchpad.net/~tomitakyle and Fred Parks https://launchpad.net/~fparks have been the most active community members from our team with Kyle being the 9th on the top contributors list as of 9/24/13. Catalyst also shared a multithreaded bib reingest that greatly reduces the time needed to do a full reingest. We also plan to share the way that Catalyst deploys code to KCLS without downtime. Catalyst considers itself part of the community and is actively working to add more value. We have developed a strong relationship with KCLS and enjoy working with them greatly and our relationship has allowed us to gain a strong understanding of Evergreen. We've got some interesting work that we are going to be doing in the near future for KCLS, and as we have in the past, that which is beneficial to the community will be shared. If you would like detail on any of these items now, feel free to reach out to me. You have my cell phone number. Thanks Scott Myers From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:10 AM To: Joshua D. Drake Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Software Performance Analysis Picking back up an old thread... I was hoping at some point to hear more about the db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS and perhaps see some work in git. I was sad to see that in the new LJ article that Jed Moffitt said that at this point KCLS has forked Evergreen so I suppose the work Catalyst and Command Prompt has done isn't relevant to the rest of the Evergreen community. I suppose that also means that any experience gained in working on the KCLS system isn't transferrable. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Rogan Hamby rogan.ha...@yclibrary.net wrote: Hi Joshua, I don't know if you had a chance to see my message below so I'll copy you in directly as well and maybe touch base again after labor day. With the Evergreen community having a rich collection of input from various contributors (many like yourself paid to do individual development by community members) all participating in the open source spirit and putting their code out there, allowing others to build on top of it or modify it or package it
