Hi Jason, I've asked for input from the PINES Subcommittees on the billing changes you've been asked to make. In general their overall response was a request for you to make each of the items optional (system-wide) so that if they are included in the core Evergreen product eventually, that PINES will be able to opt out of the changes if they conflict with current or desired work processes.
1. Support for conditional negative balances Responses: Not a strong for or against sentiment, but overall request to make it optional. 2. Support for lost and paid status Responses: The responses indicated that they are unclear about where these status’ would be listed and for what reason they would be used for. Would the status be listed under the Item Status window or in the patron’s account? Regardless, if it were made optional, PINES could opt in or out of it. 3. Void lost fees for claims returned items Responses: Tentative support, but overall request to make it optional. 4. Allow renewal on lost, long overdue and claims returned items Responses: All responses were firmly against this change. If you make it optional, PINES will be able to opt out of it. Thank you for announcing the work you are doing to the community and giving us the opportunity to give you our feedback! Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Stephenson" <jstephen...@mvlc.org> To: "Open-ILS General" <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 11:07:00 AM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Billing Fixes and Enhancements Sponsored by MassLNC I thought I'd write the general list in order to get the broadest coverage of the community. The developers likely either read this list or get bug emails from Launchpad that will inform them of the following. MassLNC has hired me to work on four enhancements for billing in Evegreen: 1. Support for Conditional Negative Balances 2. Support for Lost & Paid Status 3. Void Lost Fees for Claims Returned Items 4. Allow Renewal on Lost, Long Overdue and Claims Returned Items Details of the work can be found at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/evergreen/+spec/billing-enhancements and http://www.sigio.com/evergreen/billing2013.html I am sharing this in order to solicit community feedback. The above is being done under contract to MassLNC. It is not at all related to my work at MVLC. My use of my MVLC email address to send this email is not to be construed as indicating it is. Cheers, Jason Stephenson ja...@sigio.com
