Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner
Bibliomation would want 1,3, and 4. There may be other wishes, but I wanted to add a vote for Janet's items. Mary -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Janet Schrader Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 12:05 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner I believe that CW/MARS libraries would like: 1.) Public notes display. This was a feature we lost when we migrated to EG. 2.) Bib records with no items display in PAC. 3.) Cross-references are another feature we'd like to see in PAC. 4.) Ability to scope 590 and 690 fields for local notes and subject headings using subfield '9' as the 856 fields do. Janet Janet Schrader Bibliographic Services Supervisor C/W MARS Inc. 67 Millbrook Street Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 tel: 508-755-3323 ext. 25 fax: 508-787-7801 jschra...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of Kathy Lussier [kluss...@masslnc.org] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:21 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Bill Erickson Cc: Evergreen Development Discussion List; Evergreen General Discussion List Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner Hi Bill, Do you have opinions on these items or think some items are missing? Let your voices be heard. It's safe to say this will be the shortest feature development cycle of any major Evergreen release. Within the next month or so, we'll have a pretty good sense of everything that's making the cut. In six weeks, we hit the feature freeze. Now is the time to effect change. Thanks for asking the question! Since jspac is scheduled to be deprecated as of 2.3, I think it might be useful to identify which of those unsponsored pending features from http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac:template-toolkit:planrev= 1339016264 should be addressed before jspac is phased out. There are two that jump out at me: * Display of public copy notes - it might seem to be minor, but public notes aren't really public if the public can't see them. * Check for password strength at login and force change if password is weak. There are several other items on that list that I would like to see eventually incorporated into tpac, but the above two features are basic things I think should be available before tpac becomes the default catalog for Evergreen. Also, I didn't see the new xulrunner branch (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/942134) in the links you sent out. Is that something that might be tested and committed in time for 2.3? Thanks! Kathy =
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner
* Display of public copy notes - it might seem to be minor, but public notes aren't really public if the public can't see them. Public copy notes are important if you use these for donor information and it's the equivalent of the bookplate. Always good to show appreciation to donors! The lack of scoped call number browsing is also a real issue here. (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/973618) The other things we really want are the group formats and editions for both searching and holds, more advanced limiters including local copy locations. I also greatly prefer the way facets display in the JSPac, which has a more structured approach to grouping, for example, the Subject facets together. I also like the way the JSPac lists the top five items for each facet, with a More button to display the full listing. TPac lists the first ten, with no option to see the full list. (If there's a way to change this in TPac, please let me know!) -- Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange 26 Cherry Hill Drive Danvers MA 01923 E-mail: e...@noblenet.org
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:21:59PM -0400, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi Bill, Do you have opinions on these items or think some items are missing? Let your voices be heard. It's safe to say this will be the shortest feature development cycle of any major Evergreen release. Within the next month or so, we'll have a pretty good sense of everything that's making the cut. In six weeks, we hit the feature freeze. Now is the time to effect change. Thanks for asking the question! Since jspac is scheduled to be deprecated as of 2.3, I think it might be useful to identify which of those unsponsored pending features from http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac:template-toolkit:planrev=1339016264 should be addressed before jspac is phased out. There are two that jump out at me: * Display of public copy notes - it might seem to be minor, but public notes aren't really public if the public can't see them. * Check for password strength at login and force change if password is weak. Good suggestions. I didn't find any matching LP tickets for these. (Perhaps I'm just missing them?). Kathy (or anyone), would you mind opening a couple of LP tickets? There are several other items on that list that I would like to see eventually incorporated into tpac, but the above two features are basic things I think should be available before tpac becomes the default catalog for Evergreen. Also, I didn't see the new xulrunner branch (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/942134) in the links you sent out. Is that something that might be tested and committed in time for 2.3? I've updated this ticket to target the 2.3 series. I have plans to poke at this some and I see some testing has already occurred. Clearly, this is a change that would benefit more than most from a diverse groups of testers. -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: erick...@esilibrary.com | web: http://esilibrary.com
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner
Hi everyone, Sure, a whole pile of releases came out yesterday (you_know_who_your_are++), but what have you done for us lately?? As the EG 2.3 release manager, it's my pleasure to remind everyone that the first Evergreen 2.3 alpha release is right around the corner. The scheduled release date is July 2. Developers, keep those engines running. We already have a growing list of committed features for 2.3. https://launchpad.net/evergreen/+milestone/2.3.0-alpha We also have a list of not-yet-committed features that are tentatively targeting 2.3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/2.3/+bugs Do you have opinions on these items or think some items are missing? Let your voices be heard. It's safe to say this will be the shortest feature development cycle of any major Evergreen release. Within the next month or so, we'll have a pretty good sense of everything that's making the cut. In six weeks, we hit the feature freeze. Now is the time to effect change. 2.3 Release Schedule: July 2 : Alpha 1 (as necessary, followed by A2, ...) Aug 1 : Beta 1 / feature freeze (as necessary, followed by B2, ...) Aug 31 : RC 1 (before US Labor Day holiday) Sept 19 : 2.3 General Release Thanks. Happy coding and Launchpad'ing. -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: erick...@esilibrary.com | web: http://esilibrary.com
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner
Hi Bill, Do you have opinions on these items or think some items are missing? Let your voices be heard. It's safe to say this will be the shortest feature development cycle of any major Evergreen release. Within the next month or so, we'll have a pretty good sense of everything that's making the cut. In six weeks, we hit the feature freeze. Now is the time to effect change. Thanks for asking the question! Since jspac is scheduled to be deprecated as of 2.3, I think it might be useful to identify which of those unsponsored pending features from http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac:template-toolkit:planrev=1339016264 should be addressed before jspac is phased out. There are two that jump out at me: * Display of public copy notes - it might seem to be minor, but public notes aren't really public if the public can't see them. * Check for password strength at login and force change if password is weak. There are several other items on that list that I would like to see eventually incorporated into tpac, but the above two features are basic things I think should be available before tpac becomes the default catalog for Evergreen. Also, I didn't see the new xulrunner branch (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/942134) in the links you sent out. Is that something that might be tested and committed in time for 2.3? Thanks! Kathy
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner
I believe that CW/MARS libraries would like: 1.) Public notes display. This was a feature we lost when we migrated to EG. 2.) Bib records with no items display in PAC. 3.) Cross-references are another feature we'd like to see in PAC. 4.) Ability to scope 590 and 690 fields for local notes and subject headings using subfield '9' as the 856 fields do. Janet Janet Schrader Bibliographic Services Supervisor C/W MARS Inc. 67 Millbrook Street Suite 201 Worcester, MA 01606 tel: 508-755-3323 ext. 25 fax: 508-787-7801 jschra...@cwmars.org From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] on behalf of Kathy Lussier [kluss...@masslnc.org] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:21 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Bill Erickson Cc: Evergreen Development Discussion List; Evergreen General Discussion List Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner Hi Bill, Do you have opinions on these items or think some items are missing? Let your voices be heard. It's safe to say this will be the shortest feature development cycle of any major Evergreen release. Within the next month or so, we'll have a pretty good sense of everything that's making the cut. In six weeks, we hit the feature freeze. Now is the time to effect change. Thanks for asking the question! Since jspac is scheduled to be deprecated as of 2.3, I think it might be useful to identify which of those unsponsored pending features from http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac:template-toolkit:planrev=1339016264 should be addressed before jspac is phased out. There are two that jump out at me: * Display of public copy notes - it might seem to be minor, but public notes aren't really public if the public can't see them. * Check for password strength at login and force change if password is weak. There are several other items on that list that I would like to see eventually incorporated into tpac, but the above two features are basic things I think should be available before tpac becomes the default catalog for Evergreen. Also, I didn't see the new xulrunner branch (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/942134) in the links you sent out. Is that something that might be tested and committed in time for 2.3? Thanks! Kathy
