Wahoo! Great news to have a new developer aboard the Evergreen Train! And behind every great developer is a whole team of people helping him/her know what to code. Good job, Bibliomation!
Lori On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:34:31AM -0500, Amy Terlaga wrote: > > Hi all-- > > > > I would like to share Bibliomation’s good news with the rest of the > > Evergreen general list. We just submitted a software enhancement and it > has > > been accepted by the Evergreen community. > > > > Melissa Lefebvre, Bibliomation’s Open Source Project Manager, and Ben > Shum, > > Bibliomation’s Open Source Software Coordinator, were jointly responsible > in > > making this software enhancement happen. > > > > Here are the details of this software enhancement: > > > > > When Bibliomation first installed Evergreen 1.6, we were very pleased > > > to see the addition of the Button Bar to provide quick shortcuts to > > > important staff client functions. It was an early decision to enable > > > the Button Bar by default on all staff clients in our consortium. > > > Based on user feedback from our development partner libraries, > > > however, we soon discovered a great need to expand the existing Button > > > Bar by including a "Search Catalog" option. Staff members were > > > confused given that searching the catalog for items was deemed an > > > important primary function and they were disappointed not to see a > > > button for it. > > > > > > This was our first patch created for Evergreen and was submitted to > > > the developers' mailing list on November 4, 2010. The new Search > > > Catalog button links to open a new Advanced Search screen. Melissa > > > Lefebvre created a new Search Catalog icon by adapting images drawn > > > from the original icon sets used to create the first button icons used > > > on the Button Bar. Ben Shum wrote the necessary code to create the > > > new button functionality and compiled the patch against the latest > > > version of trunk for submission to the Evergreen Community. > > > > > > Thanks to developer Jason Etheridge for answering our questions, > > > reviewing and committing our first patch for Evergreen. > > > > We’re very pleased to be able to contribute to the Evergreen community! > > Many thanks to Ben, Melissa, and Bibliomation! I know our staff will be > happy to have this additional feature; keep the good work rolling in :) >
