This is great, Lebbeous! Very glad you are doing this. I can hear those silos breaking apart already.
Lori On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As part of an effort keep the community in general informed of what we > developers are doing in our caves/silos/dungeons, I'm taking it upon myself > to broadcast updates like the following every Friday. > > This one is a bit hurried and off the top of my head, but in general I > will cover releases, development work, and dev-related policy news. In the > future, I'll start earlier in the week and poke my fellow developers for > input. > > I'm aiming for a digest format that's brief enough to be useful for the > broadest possible audience. > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ----------- > > Releases: > --------- > Monday: 2.0.11 released: http://evergreen.sigio.com/** > 2012/05/evergreen-2011-**release-announcement_15.html<http://evergreen.sigio.com/2012/05/evergreen-2011-release-announcement_15.html> > > Tuesday: 2.2 rc1 released: > http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/**?p=769<http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=769> > > Biggish development news I know of: > ------------------------------**----- > The developers in the community are discussing what the Evergreen release > schedule should look like long term. There is broad concensus that major > releases should start happening every March and September, so that's faster > than they've been coming out recently. With the current numbering scheme, > major releases are those where the middle part of the version number > changes. 2.1, 2.2, etc. > > The number itself is under discussion as well. That's less settled, last > time I looked. After 2.2.0, whether the next major release will be 2.3, > 3.0 or something with a date-based name like 12.09 remains to be > determined. In any case, we hope to make it happen by September 2012. > > Bill Erickson is serving as the release manager for the next major release. > > Thomas Berezansky has a feature branch that's ready or nearly ready for > acceptance that allows a staff client to be used with current versions of > XULRunner. The current stable version of XULRunner is now 12.0. Once we > can drum up a little more testing, Thomas' feature will be in master and > will be part of the 2.3 (or whatever it gets numbered) Evergreen release. > > Dan Scott may have found a way to significantly improve search speed for > broad search terms. There's a recent commit in master about this, although > there are reportedly issues making the new technique work alongside some > advanced (but necessary) search features. > > Equinox announced upcoming development on a link checker for NRCan. > > Work on more added content from 3rd party providers (Syndetics, etc) in > the new Template Toolkit OPAC is happening. > > Lots of serials and acq bug reports are rolling in on Launchpad, which is > excellent, as we know there are issues out there, but concrete bug reports > help the developers find solutions. > > Thanks! > -- > Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley > | Software Developer > | 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 >
