I got curious just how far back ZIP lookup goes, and it starts with commit 2ea132cef5bf36106378f8c15943d0acbe443361 from 2006-05-03 ... It's been a thing since since before PINES went live! Anyone up for retrospectively writing version 0.01 docs?
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Kathy Lussier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > I think a good rule of thumb is to only backport documentation as far back > as we support releases. Currently, the community only supports the 2.5 and > 2.6 releases, so I would only backport to 2.5 if the feature was available > at that time. The release notes is probably the best place to look to see > if it was something newly added to Evergreen. > > I know that zip.txt features goes way back, so it should be no problem > backporting to 2.5. When you send out a message saying that the > documentation is available, maybe you can mention how far it should be > backported. It looks like you can find that blog post in the Internet > archive: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20110417152404/http://dmagick. > wordpress.com/2011/01/06/notes-on-installing-zipcode-information/ > > Thanks for all of your work filling in some of our doc gaps! > > Kathy > > Kathy Lussier > Project Coordinator > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative > (508) 343-0128 > [email protected] > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier > #evergreen IRC: kmlussier > > > On 9/3/2014 11:10 AM, Josh Stompro wrote: > >> Hello, does anyone know where some current documentation on the zips.txt >> - zip code pre-populate feature is at? I found a thread on the devel list >> from 2011 [1] that mentions this site, http://dmagick.wordpress.com/ >> 2011/01/06/notes-on-installing-zipcode-information/ >> But I think that domain expired and was picked up by someone else, there >> is no trace of that article on the site anymore. >> >> I think I can figure most of it out by looking at the Zips.pm and from >> some comments I can find in IRC archives. >> >> If I wanted to document this feature for the official documentation - >> would it go in the "System Configuration and Customization" section? >> >> What would the official name of this feature be? "Zip Code >> Pre-Populate" "Zip Code Auto-Populate" "Patron Address pre-populate based >> on Zip Code" >> >> And a general question - should each feature section state when the >> feature was introduced, to make it easier to backport the documentation for >> previous versions. Are new documentation additions added to the older >> documentation versions? >> >> Thanks >> Josh >> >> 1 - http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.education.libraries. >> open-ils.devel/5685 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation >> > > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation > -- 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: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
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