Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self Check login

2020-02-19 Thread Daniel Wells
These are pretty cool solutions, I think maybe it is time for us to stop logging them in every day :) Ryan, I have one question about your example config. Have you had issues using a 301 redirect rather than 302? It seems like that could potentially prevent the cookie from being set on reload,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Setting the currency in the patron billing interface

2019-05-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Eva, The AngularJS interfaces are using the built-in currency filter, which supplies a dollar sign by default. More here: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter/currency It does appear that the filter can specify a different symbol; it is fairly limited otherwise. The newer Angular

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.3.0 Released

2019-04-02 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, It is my pleasure to announce general availability of the first stable release for Evergreen 3.3. The download for Evergreen 3.3.0 is available here: https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ As we close out this development period, I think the overall theme of this release can be

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.3 Release Update - Release Candidate Deadline

2019-03-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello once more, Just a quick note that today we reach the penultimate milestone in the 3.3 release process, the Release Candidate stage. Any bug fixes which you would like in the RC should be committed by the end of the day today, 3/20. We made some good progress during bug squashing, but

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.3-beta1 Released

2019-03-06 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, On behalf of the Evergreen community, I am pleased to (finally) announce last Friday's release of Evergreen 3.3-beta1. The beta release is a significant milestone in each version's journey, as it marks the point where the release is considered feature complete. You can grab your copy

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.3 Release Update

2019-02-20 Thread Daniel Wells
and we can probably work it in. I intend to start doing internal building and testing starting tomorrow morning, and will not be terribly keen on straggling code walking in unannounced. Thank you for your diligence and understanding. Sincerely, Dan On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:40 PM Daniel Wells

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.3 Release Update

2019-02-06 Thread Daniel Wells
Dearest fellow Evergreeners, After several months of quiet contemplation and tireless toiling by many members of the Evergreen community, it is past time for a brief message from me, your minimalist 3.3 release manager. First, as we enter this final trimester of the release process, it seems

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ebooks not in Title Browse search

2018-11-09 Thread Daniel Wells
Praha 2 > > > > čt 8. 11. 2018 v 19:09 odesílatel Donald Butterworth < > don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu> napsal: > >> Dan, >> >> We are on 3-1-2. Thanks for looking into this! >> >> Don >> >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:26 AM Daniel Wells w

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ebooks not in Title Browse search

2018-11-08 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Don, What version of Evergreen are you running? I believe this to be a bug. We are on a semi-custom but recent 3.0 and seeing the same behavior. The titles are also not showing up in search suggestions, so maybe that is related, maybe not. I am going to start looking into this, and will

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for Release Manager nominations - Evergreen 3.3

2018-10-26 Thread Daniel Wells
Dear Evergreen Community, After some consideration, I am writing to offer myself as release manager for 3.3. Our library is an independent academic installation, and will be live on Evergreen for 9 years this December. I served as Release Manager most recently for 3.1, and previously for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Towards more consistent terminology in the web client

2018-08-16 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Very happy to see the term "Holding" getting some traction. I would also agree that changing the record-level "Add Copies" button to "Add Holdings" makes a lot of sense! Furthermore, after 9 days of suspense, I have finally found time to unveil the one term I feel has been misused in

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] August point releases set for 8/22

2018-08-15 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Based on volunteer availability, August point releases for Evergreen 3.0 and 3.1 are set for 8/22. Sincerely, Dan

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Towards more consistent terminology in the web client

2018-08-07 Thread Daniel Wells
Janet, I can speak to those textual changes, as I am probably responsible for both. They were attempts to improve accuracy and consistency within the great ball of changes touched by the omnibus branch. Whether these attempts succeeded is of course debatable :) To explain a little further,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Maintenance Release Plans

2018-06-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Just a quick update, maintenance releases 3.1.3 and 3.0.9 are now tentatively scheduled for next *Thursday*, June 28. If plans change due to project activity or buildmaster availability, I will send another update on or before that day. Sincerely, Dan

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Evergreen to have patrons read a "user agreement"?

2018-06-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Yamil, This sounds like a fun and very doable project. Just spitballing: 1) From what I can understand, the conceptual requirement is a flag which can both block circulation (etc.) and be changeable by the user (on their own account). We certainly have things which do one or the other,

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wiki Cleanup

2018-06-06 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, As part of my (glacially slow) attempts to move the dev docs project over to the main wiki, I spent a few days right before the conference doing some cleanup of the main wiki. Here are a few things worth noting about that process: 1) There is a new namespace for "archiving" pages

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Point Releases Postponed Until Next Week

2018-05-16 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, After some consideration and consultation with the community, we have decided to postpone point releases scheduled for today until Wednesday of next week (or a bit later, please read on). There are a number of high-priority bug fixes very close to completion (particularly for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Lost/Long-Overdue Survey

2018-05-04 Thread Daniel Wells
Sandberg <sand...@linnbenton.edu> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Are you still accepting responses for this survey? I know our circ > folks were interested in this, but haven't had a chance to fill it out > yet. > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Wells <dbwe...@g

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Lost/Long-Overdue Survey

2018-04-19 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, There are currently a variety of bugs involving "lost" vs. "long-overdue", and it appears (to me at least) some of that may be caused by different understandings of what each status means (or should mean). We all want the system to work as best as possible for as many people as

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed Change to LP Bug Tracking

2018-03-30 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Our current practice is to only allow bugs to be targeted to a release only if there is code ready for testing. This change was made several years back to help focus community efforts on testing of existing fixes, and also to avoid a lot of extra work in constantly moving huge numbers

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1.0 Released

2018-03-30 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, After several positive reports from testers, and following shortly after the security releases on Wednesday, the 3.1 release candidate has been rolled over to become the official 3.1.0 release. As expected, the only changes from RC to 3.1.0 were the template security patches and minor

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 Release Candidate

2018-03-27 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, As of yesterday morning, the Evergreen 3.1 Release Candidate is available on the main downloads page: http://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ While we haven't always been consistent over the years, this release candidate is meant to not be a final "beta", but to be a preliminary

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 RC

2018-03-20 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Time marches on, and preparations for the 3.1 release candidate are already underway. Please note, due to a personal scheduling conflict, I am delaying the official cutoff for the RC by one day. You now have until 2:00pm (EDT) on Thursday, March 22, to push reviewed bugfixes freely

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 Release Update: Beta Available

2018-03-07 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the first (and likely only) beta release for Evergreen 3.1 is available on the main Evergreen downloads page: https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ Being a beta release, Evergreen 3.1 is now considered to be feature frozen. Overall, we can all be proud

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 - Timeline Tweaks

2018-02-28 Thread Daniel Wells
! Sincerely, Dan On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Daniel Wells <dbwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > At some point in the last few weeks, I realized that I had broken one of > the "rules" of release management. The period between feature-slush and >

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 - Timeline Tweaks

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, At some point in the last few weeks, I realized that I had broken one of the "rules" of release management. The period between feature-slush and feature-freeze is best attended to with undivided attention, but at it would turn out, one of the two weeks for that period coincided with a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 Release Update

2018-02-15 Thread Daniel Wells
e documentation to evaluate and work > on if someone is adding comments to a specific file. > > > > Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director > > > > *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general- > boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Wells > *S

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 Release Update: Feature Slush

2018-02-09 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, As I look out my window at a fresh 6" blanket of snow, I would like to remind everyone that we have reached our "feature slush" point for the 3.1 release. What does this mean? From the wiki: *feature slush*: major planning for features is complete - at this point, all

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1 Release Update

2018-01-25 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, We are now entering the busy period of the release cycle, so I would like to take a moment to highlight a variety of efforts underway for the 3.1 release. 1) We are about two weeks away from "feature slush", currently set for Feb. 9. What does this mean? To quote from our

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] unAPI from getAttribute in WWW/SuperCat.pm?

2018-01-02 Thread Daniel Wells
holdings. I'm not sure exactly why but it is my > understanding that certain vendors that we work with need it there. > > If there is some other place we should be doing this I would like to > know. It seems to me WWW/SuperCat.pm is the only place to do it. > > Thanks again! >

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] unAPI from getAttribute in WWW/SuperCat.pm?

2018-01-02 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello John, This part of the code is pulling data from the unapi.bre() function in the DB, so in this case, you want 'copy_id', i.e.: ... f => $copy->getAttribute('copy_id'), ... This said, I think we'd all be interested to know exactly what you are trying to accomplish, as there are other

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 3.1: Schedule and Roadmap

2017-11-07 Thread Daniel Wells
Dear Evergreen friends, Welcome to Evergreen 3.1! As a first order of business as Release Manager for this release, I propose the following as a base schedule. This proposal is modeled heavily on the successful schedule for 3.0, but getting us back within our typical time frame (March release).

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Call for Release Manager nominations - Evergreen 3.1

2017-10-19 Thread Daniel Wells
Dear Evergreen Community, I am writing to offer myself as release manager for 3.1. The following proposal may seem familiar, as it borrows heavily from my offer for 3.0 :) Our library is an independent academic installation, and will be live on Evergreen for 8 years this December. I served as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Another Serials Prediction Question

2017-09-21 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Irene, If "no." is the top level, and it just increments forever, then you don't need a restart at all. So, something like this (untested): ["2","0","8","1","a","no.","i","(year)","j","(month)","w","q"] Does that do what you are after? If so, I can update the wiki page you referenced.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials Prediction - Quarterly

2017-09-21 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Irene, This issue is an inherent weakness in the MFHD specifications, as the "x" restart only affects the top-level numbering, in this case volume (as you discovered). There is in Evergreen a (not well known) workaround, though, which is to specify "4" issues, then list winter first.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Lost Processing fee question

2017-07-31 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Glen, The setting is an Org Unit setting, i.e. the ones you can set via the "Library Settings Editor". It should be there under "Lost materials processing fee". Does that help? I know the settings can get rather jumbled. You might also need to change your Org Unit context in the editor

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Limit supercat data to one location

2017-05-18 Thread Daniel Wells
Not sure about Supercat; what about using unAPI instead? Something like: http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/extras/unapi?id=tag:open-ils.org,2016-11-01:biblio-record_entry/568925/CALVIN=marcxml-full In this example, 568925 = database ID and CALVIN = org_unit shortname. Dan On Thu, May 18, 2017 at

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Developer Documentation Organization

2017-04-26 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, A bit later than hoped, here are an assortment of small proposals for (re-)organizing the developer documentation on the Evergreen wiki. The overall goal is to develop what we have and what will come into a useful and cohesive corpus. 1. Use the wiki As mentioned in our talk, after

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgrading from 2.10 to 2.11 error questions

2017-04-19 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello Jesse, For your first issue, it appears you have some kind of encoding problem in some of records. This is very common for any record with foreign characters. Without getting into too much detail, MARC records are generally supposed to use UTF8 encoding (a modern, universal encoding) or

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Tomorrow's RM Election

2017-03-27 Thread Daniel Wells
Hello all, Since our project adopted the idea of "release managers" in 2012, we have managed to select each by consensus. While we typically had elections, the nominees until now have always run unopposed. I find this tradition to be a beautiful thing, and one I would like to see preserved for

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for nominations for release manager — Evergreen 3.0

2017-03-21 Thread Daniel Wells
[I apologize for possible duplication; my calvin.edu email is getting "greylisted" by the mailing list, so I am sending this a second time from Gmail.] Dear Evergreen Community, I am writing to offer myself as release manager for the upcoming 3.0 release. Our library is an independent academic