IRC log for #koha, 2005-09-07

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13:55 kados hdl: you around?
13:55 thd: you around?
16:03 rach bonjour
16:21 thd kados: I am paying attention now :)
16:22 kados thd: hi
16:23 thd hello kados
16:25 kados: you had asked for me earlier.  What had you wanted?
16:25 kados thd: do you know if the leader is working for resivoir-imported records?
16:26 thd: also, are there any 'gotchas' for resevoir-imported records that you know of (asside from the normal ones that also apply to bulkmarcimport)
16:26 thd kados: I assume that you would know better than I as I never installed the leader fix, yet :)
16:26 kados thd: (leader doesn't seem to be working for me when I use addbiblio.pl and items that have previously been imported into the resevoir
16:27 ahh
16:27 thought you would have had an essay on it by now ;-)
16:28 thd kados: I had been working on rewriting the Z39.50 client so I have not experimented with bulkmarkimport stage recently.
16:30 kados: I do need to have it all working with a very low price for a bookshop client by the 22 September.
16:31 kados: I will have October to actually implement it but I need to know enough to specify the lowest possible price in advance.
16:31 kados cool you've got a client
16:35 russ hi thd and kados - i am just preparing a summary of where we are at with the content, you should have it in your inbox within the hour
16:35 kados russ: great ... sorry I've been behind in writing
16:36 thd kados: the leader question: You will not have a leader for records imported before the fix where the leader had been stripped off.
16:36 kados thd: right ... from what I can tell I've got the version of addbiblio that has record management
16:37 thd: I'll check breeding.pl
16:39 I don't see any commits related to leader for breeding.pl
16:39 thd russ:  I have been devoting several hours each day since Saturday to writing and becoming familiar with some features that I had never looked at closely in Koha.
16:39 kados I wonder if paul forgot
16:40 russ cool guys - i'll finish this, and maybe we cna get a chance to discuss in a little while
16:40 thd kados: you meant the version of addbiblo with 'leader management'
16:43 kados thd: maybe ... but it could also be a problem when breeding.pl imports the file right?
16:43 thd: every other field seems to be fine
16:43 thd russ: 'cna'?
16:43 kados thd: but the leader doesn't show up
16:43 thd: s/cna/can/ ;-)
16:49 russ sorry only one coffee so far this morning
16:49 typing requires at least 2 coffees
16:49 thd kados: I mistrust the import scripts aside from bulkmarcimport.pl.  The others only import the what is included in the MARC schema.  Paul considers that a feature, as may well be.  However I mistrust the schema as well.   I am rewriting the Z39.50 client to use bulkmarkimport.pl and bypass everything else.
16:51 russ: I never type correctly.   I now have a spell check plug-in for X-Chat at home.
16:55 russ :-) now that is a good idea
16:57 thd kados: I would like to have the MARC schema supporting every field indicator and subfield so that I could use it with confidence.  Single record importing with breeding.pl is more natural than using bulkmarcimport.pl .
17:01 russ: aspell or ispell spell checking does not fix everything, like my dropped words or poor word order.  Occasionally, it makes things much worse when I select the wrong misspelling suggested correction.
17:08 kados: are you still there?
17:11 russ: my email had asked about why Open CMS was dropped.  I did have some understanding of why Mambo had been dropped which was your reply.  Why was Open CMS dropped after all the trouble installing it?
17:14 rach it needed java to run and the good volunteers didn't have time/energy to learn how to use it
17:15 thd rach: needing Java is a big strike from the start.
17:15 rach so we (katipo) still want to give it a go, but we want a website up more :-)
17:16 for all it's faults at least we know how kea works, and how to tweak it if necessary
17:17 russ hi guys - content status report - http://www.russandsarah.gen.nz[…]-status-good.html
17:17 doing an email now
17:23 kados russ: I've got 'history' about 50% done as well
17:28 russ great
17:31 kados no ;-)
17:32 but it's probably got something to do with being late getting something done ;-)
17:33 russ http://www.silverfernz.com/pro[…]asp?idProduct=388 - it is a kiwi thing
17:33 something that often gets given out a small reward for doing something
17:34 marshmallow fish with with a little bit of caramel coated in a thin layer of chocolate
17:34 kados :-)
17:34 hehe ... now I think I remember chris mentioning it at some point
17:36 thd a tessellating chocolate fish :)
17:37 kados: have you enquired with the Argentines about barcode generation?
17:38 kados thd: naw ... I'm reading the code ;-)
17:38 thd: I already committed one fix
17:39 thd: with more on the way ;-)
17:39 thd kados: The suggestion from my message is that Koha is missing some of the code to use their barcode generation code correctly.
17:40 kados thd: really?
17:40 thd: I didn't get that from your email at all
17:40 thd: I should re-read it
17:40 thd kados: what is the purpose of the country code?
17:40 kados thd: not sure yet
17:42 thd kados: unless of course the scanner internal software is expected to strip everything out except your barcode.  Not all barcode scanners have the programming logic for that in the scanner.  Some expect the application program to supply the logic.
17:45 kados: my suggestion is that the Argentines are either using a different type or differently configured scanner from yours or Koha is missing a routine a custom routine to parse the input from the scanner.
17:51 kados: When I have written barcode generation routines,  I used code 39.   No error checking, but much easier to implement.  The encoded '*' is the start and stop character, '*BARCODENUMBER*'.  Code 128 is a much more compact symbology and better in every way except ease of programming.
17:55 kados: ISBNs have county built into the code, but the country prefix is expected to be part of the 10 digit and soon to be 13 digit code.
17:58 kados: perhaps the Argentines were trying to build codes that worked like ISBNs with a country code prefix.
02:12 osmoze hello
03:13 hdl hello
03:16 osmoze hdl>  te souviens tu d un fichier sur les bilans me semble t il que tu m avais modifier en partie et qu il fallait que je continu suivant ton modele ?
03:17 bonjour paul :)
03:17 paul salut jseb
03:17 hdl très vaguement.
03:17 Rafraîchis ma mémoire.
03:26 osmoze je retrouver en retrouvant les erreurs :)
03:26 -er +ais
03:51 paul, comment cela marche pour les correction avant la 2.2.4 ? Il y a une mise a jour des sources avec les correction petit a petit pour la 2.2.3 ou pas ?
03:52 paul tu veux dire sources publiques ?
03:52 j'annonce sur la liste les bugs bloquants/critiques avec leur fix.
03:52 pas de diff ou de patch.
03:52 il y a eu 2 annonces.
03:52 osmoze ok
03:53 paul_away oups, alt-F4 par erreur
04:17 paul ih shaun
04:18 is there a private url to see the future website ?
04:19 shaun paul: hi
04:19 yep, koha2.edit.katipo.co.nz, but unfortunately it's currently restricted to content editors
04:20 paul I saw the link, I was looking for something without .htaccess restriction ;-)
04:26 shaun it won't be long... i take it you saw the design?
04:26 paul yes, of course.
04:38 chris : some minuts to speak of rugby ?
04:38 did the last Aka from all blacks make noise in NZ ?
04:38 because in France it did !
04:39 chris did you like it paul?
04:39 yes, it was a suprise to us, but everyone really liked it
04:40 si other than the throat slitting
04:40 chris they are keeping both, and using the new one on special occassions
04:40 si which did suprise a few folks
04:40 paul the noise was about the throat slitting.
04:40 chris who obviously had never seen a real haka before
04:40 paul in france, many ppl where really angry with it.
04:40 chris throat slitting is pretty tame
04:41 si well indeed, throat slitting is pretty commonplace in schoolboy haka
04:41 paul but all blacks are world-wide famous, so they should be carefull. imho
04:42 some things that may look common for kiwis can be really strange for strangers
04:42 chris yep
04:42 they will only ever do that haka in new zealand
04:42 si paul: one suggestion is that the old haka isn't copywritable, since it's in the public domain (being over 100 years old)
04:43 so you can be sure that the rugby union will be keeping very close tabs on the new haka
04:43 chris plus its about a man who was responsible for the death of a lot of my relations
04:43 (the old haka that is)
04:43 si not just yor relations, mind
04:44 he was pretty unselective about who he killed
04:44 chris yeah, everyone from kapiti south ;)
04:44 the old all black haka is not about the all blacks or rugby at all paul
04:45 its about a man called Te Rauparaha who was a particularly ruthless and bloodthirsty man
04:48 it predates the all blacks .. and in fact predates new zealand :-)
04:51 si paul: lest you get the wrong idea, he was a local hero in the area I grew up
04:52 it's all a matter of perspective
04:52 and he did build a stunning church
04:52 chris he was certainly smart
04:53 si paul: the haka actually describes his joy at surviving an invasion from his enemies by hiding in a kumara pit, if my memory serves
04:53 chris thats right
04:54 si the old one, that is
04:54 the new one just says "heads up, this is going to hurt" as far as I can tell
04:54 chris the new one is new words, but the actions are a mish mash of other hakas
04:55 si it is hard to make up a truly unique dance move, though
04:55 chris yeah the new one is can only really be done in nz, its about how this is their land
04:56 my brother in laws cousin wrote the new one
04:56 yep ill find it for you
04:58 http://www.nzallblacks.net/haka.asp
04:58 has the translation of both of them
05:07 i think they even slipped a couple of samoan and fijian actions into it
05:07 si as you do
05:07 chris ill have to wait till the next big test to see :)
05:08 si when you pinch players from all over the souther hemisphere
05:08 chris yep
05:08 rules=rulers
05:09 si really
05:09 chris ill have to show you the video some time we converted it from my grandmas super8 camera thing
05:09 i used to do them on the back porch and get the it stuck between the slats and trip on them
05:09 slow learner obviously
05:09 si ohh, there's video?
05:09 now we're talking
05:10 chris i could bore you with the dvd of the wedding too :-)
05:11 laurels dad has been making dvd's of everything
07:20 kados /ni/nick kados
07:43 hdl Saleté d'orages...
07:46 osmoze pas touché hdl ? J ai regardé les infos a midi, c est pas beau vers chez toi
07:46 hdl J'ai failli.
07:46 Pendant que j'arrêtais ma machine, un gros pétard a éclaté bien prêt.
07:47 Dieu merci, rien de grave.
07:47 paul c'est pas très cher et quand même bien rassurant...
07:47 bon, allez, je t'ouvre un crédit pour acheter un onduleur
07:47 (c'est sérieux)
07:47 hdl En tout cas, pas par rapport à la machine.
07:48 Je vais voir.
07:48 Il en faut un de 750 VA Non ?
07:48 paul mmm... je ne me souviens plus de ce que j'ai acheté.
07:49 j'ai pris un onduleur basique, pour 1PC 300W + écran + 1 prise régulée (pour mon bon vieux speedtouch home)
09:38 kados hdl: hi there
09:39 hdl: I'm having a strange problem with the cataloging Z39.50 client in Koha
09:39 hdl: I run a query, it finds a result (I can tell from the log)
09:39 hdl: but I get an error in the other log:
09:39 [Tue Sep 06 08:36:54 2005] [error] [client 66.213.78.2] script not found or unable to stat: /home/nbbc/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/z3950/0
09:39 hdl Yes...
09:39 known problem.
09:39 kados is there a solution?
09:41 hdl yes.
09:42 In fact, you have to change the return value of a function which sometimes return a string and sometimes an int.
09:46 kados : line 103 in search.pl file in z3950 directory
09:47 refresh => ($numberpending eq 0 ? 0 : "search.pl?bibid=$bibid&random=$random"),
09:47 replace the second 0 with "" for instance.
09:48 kados hdl: ok ... I'll test it
09:49 hdl: ok ... that seems to have fixed that specific bug ... but I still get 'no results found' when in the log there are results
09:49 hdl if you search for biblio you already have, doesnot say anithing, but answers no results.
09:50 kados hdl: I'm not searching for an already existing biblio in this case
09:50 hdl AHA!!!
09:50 Did you try ISBN search ?
09:51 or author search ?
09:51 kados hdl: title search
09:51 hdl: here's the last entries in log:
09:51 21222/16 : MELVYL : 2 records found, retrieving them (max 80)
09:51 21222/16 : MELVYL : melvyl.cdlib.org:210 records retrieved 2 SPEED: 2
09:51 21222/16 : melvyl.cdlib.org:210 search done.
09:53 hdl: any ideas?
09:56 hdl I have had problems with this. But paul stated that was because it was already in base.
09:57 kados well in this case, it's definitely not ;-)
09:57 I've tried several titles that are not in the catalog
09:58 also, the titles are not in the resevoir
09:59 hdl Maybe you could try with external tools.
09:59 I can provide you with a testZ3950.pl file
09:59 kados well ... the log shows that Koha's Z3950 client is finding records
10:00 but ... for some reason, it's not listing them
10:00 so a cataloger cannot add them to resevoir
10:01 unless I'm not understanding what z3950/search.pl is supposed to do
10:01 paul: do you have any comments?
10:03 paul kados, i'm here
10:03 when a MARC record is retrieved, if it is already in the DB, it's discarded
10:04 that's why, for example, you can't do a "loop" with koha z3950 client querying  koha z3950 server
10:04 does this help ?
10:04 kados hmmm
10:04 in this case, I'm searching for a title called 'cryptonomicon'
10:04 the library does not own this title
10:05 and the record does not exist in the resevoir
10:05 paul mmm... isbn checked ?
10:05 kados searching by title
10:05 the log shows that it has found some results
10:06 but they are not visable to the user
10:06 paul that's why we think it may be a "discarded because it exist"
10:06 kados but it does not exist ;-)
10:06 paul so my question :
10:06 kados I have checked several times ;-)
10:06 paul did you also check the ISBN ?
10:06 kados no ... I will do so now
10:07 paul (because the check uses primarily the isbn)
10:08 kados paul: nothing found using the ISBN
10:09 paul: in catalog or in resevoir
10:09 paul is there an isbn is the retrieved record ?
10:09 (because i think there might be a bug if no isbn)
10:09 kados I can't see it but when I do a Z3950 search using the ISBN I get a result in the log
10:09 paul (under certain circumstances)
10:09 kados so I search by 0060512806
10:10 paul whatever you search, you get an empty result ?
10:10 kados yes
10:10 but the log shows results
10:12 paul: here is the log entries:
10:12 21517/19 : Processing isbn=0380788624 at MELVYL melvyl.cdlib.org:210 CDL90 USMARC (2 forks)
10:12 21517/19 : 2 >>
10:13 21517/19 : creating and 21517/19 : working on results entry 23
10:13 21517/19 : connected to MELVYL
10:13 21517/19 : MELVYL : 1 records found, retrieving them (max 80)
10:13 21517/19 : melvyl.cdlib.org:210 search done.
10:13 but the user sees:
10:13 Z3950 Search Results
10:13 Nothing found
10:13 I wonder if it could be a template problem
10:13 owen: what do you think?
10:13 owen Sorry...wasn't following.
10:14 kados have you ever gotten z3950 search results to display with NPL templates?
10:14 paul I think it's exactly the problem we had with z3950 client on results "disappearing".
10:14 owen Where are you testing?
10:14 paul the log shows results, and the window says "no results"
10:14 kados owen: well ... on nbbc production
10:14 paul: exactly
10:14 paul did you empty the breeding table ?
10:15 (the one that contains the reservoir)
10:15 kados paul: didn't know I needed to
10:15 paul: how is it doen?
10:15 paul: done even
10:15 paul (it's a "delete from breeding", not a Koha feature)
10:16 kados paul: marc_breeding?
10:16 paul yes
10:17 kados ok done ... I'll retest
10:17 paul: same problem
10:17 paul: and nothing in marc_breeding
10:18 owen It doesn't seem to be working on NPL's test server, even in the default template
10:22 kados switched to default for nbbc and I get same error as with NPL
10:22 paul: so I assume none of your libraries use this feature?
10:26 paul kados : almost all my libraries uses it.
10:26 so we should investigate to understand why it does not work for you ;-)
10:26 did you try with loc ?
10:26 (because sometimes, z3950 servers have strange behaviours)
10:27 (like returning an empty string if you don't specify the format you want as they expect)
10:27 (i've seen this once in France, where a server returning UNIMARC wanted a type=usmarc even !)
10:30 kados paul: can you or hdl send me a 'known good' Z3950 server config?
10:31 paul an unimarc one ?
10:31 kados paul: ip/port/db name for USMARC?
10:31 always the problem ;-) we're using two different MARCs ;-)
10:32 hdl kados : simple idea.
10:33 in processz3950queue, you could print the marcrecord you get.
10:33 kados ok ... I'll try it
10:33 hdl line 283
10:34 you can add print $rec->as_formatted;
10:34 then you could know what you receive.
10:36 kados hmmm ... I added this line but nothing shows up in the log
10:36 I wonder if I need to do a 'warn'
10:41 when I first run 'z3950daemon-launch.sh' (as root) I get:
10:41 No directory, logging in with HOME=/
10:41 could that be a problem?
11:36 hdl paul encore dans les parages ?
11:36 paul_away, ne pars pas maintenant...
11:36 paul_away still here (but leaving...)
11:37 hdl Je voulais savoir si l'on pouvait utiliser le netserver avec des bases de tests.
11:37 pour les clients.
11:37 Ca permettrai de se libérer de ces problèmes de connexion.
11:37 Mais ca a ses risques.
11:38 En fait, c'est Madame jarroux qui a été gênée dans ses tests par mes déconnexions à cause de l'orage.
11:38 paul_away mmm... je vais y réfléchir.
11:38 on en reparle jeudi si tu veux bien.
11:38 là, away pour de bon
11:38 (le pb du netserver, c'est qu'il a un disque IDE, pas bon pour les perfs...)
11:39 hdl bonne soirée.
11:39 kados, is you problem solved ?
11:39 kados hdl: nope
11:40 hdl: in fact, I've given up for today ;-)
11:40 hdl ok.
11:40 kados hdl: a bigger problem is that the leader does not appear in addbiblio
11:40 hdl: so there is data loss when a cataloger uses Koha's internal cataloging
11:41 hdl: in fact, when a record is added with bulkmarcimport the leader is preserved
11:41 hdl: but if that record is then edited with addbiblio (say to add a new item)
11:41 hdl: the leader is lost !!
11:41 hdl: it's a big bug
11:41 hdl Gosh !
11:41 If you give a try with printing marc records, tell me about it.
11:42 kados hdl: I tried that but Net::Z3950 doesn't have a 'as_formated' method
11:42 hdl: so I would need to include MARC::Record in processqueue
11:42 hdl: and that's where I gave up ;-)
11:42 hdl: I may try later today but i was sick of it for now ;-)
11:43 hdl: you should warn your clients not to us Koha's internal cataloging!
11:43 hdl: if they use it they will lose all their leaders
11:44 hdl For internal use, it is not a problem.
11:44 is it ?
11:44 kados not in Koha 2.2 ... but they will never have valid marc records again ;-)
11:45 and in Koha 3.0 we plan to use leaders for some functions
11:45 so it's a real problem
11:46 hdl: leaders cannot be 'auto-generated' they must be hand-crafted by a librarian
11:47 hdl What about leader management that paul designed a few weeks ago ?
11:47 kados hdl: it only works for bulkmarcimport
11:48 hdl: so if your client imports records with bulkmarcimport the leader is preserved
11:48 hdl: but if they then edit the record with addbiblio it is lost
11:49 hdl Is this a problem of MARC::RECORD or simply because addbiblio loose leaders
11:49 kados hdl: note that in most koha installation you must 'save' the biblio before going to 'items' ... so adding a new item to a biblio automatically results in losing the leader for that record ... even if it was there to begin with
11:49 hdl: simply because addbiblio loses leaders
11:49 hdl: I'm not sure if breeding scripts may be responsible too
11:51 hdl: I have a proposal about statuses
11:51 hdl: have you read my email to koha-devel?
11:51 hdl Maybe because there was no tag so it was quite a difference from MARC::Record.
11:51 I have seen but not read atm
11:52 kados hdl: (I don't know the reason addbiblio loses leaders ... all I know is that it does ;-))
11:55 hdl kados: about your question.
11:56 IMHO, I think that both notforloan on items and itemtype are needed... in tha way that an item which can be borrowed according to its itemtype may happen not to be borrowable since it is too old, to damaged.
11:57 But maybe I misunderstood the question.
11:57 kados hdl: yes ... paul and I already discussed this and it's now fixed
11:57 hdl: I recently replied to myself about this
11:57 hdl: and committed the fix
11:57 hdl: more important now I think
11:58 hdl: is that notforloan statuses are not updated automatically by Koha
11:58 hdl: so if I have notforloan=>1 = 'checked out' Koha does not know to update this when an item is checked out
11:58 hdl: it only works if staff manually edits the marc record
11:59 hdl: which is quite impossible in this case

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