[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Acquisitions and Serial timeline

[arhyno at uwindsor.ca]

>A few weeks ago, the Alpha release of the Acquisitions and Serial has 
been
>reported from Oct. 7th to Oct. 31st due to problems at U. of Windsor. 
This
>morning I noticed that this date has been changed to Nov. 31st but, since
>there are some reminiscences of the preceding date in the commentary, may 
I
>ask what should be interpreted as the good date

Hi Pierre,

I split the timeframe on the wiki because the serials prediction parts of 
acquisitions are still too fluid for inclusion, and I would hate to see 
anyone start poking at them at this point. I am updating the description 
at the "Acquisitions and Serials Functions" part of the wiki (see 
<http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=acq:functions/>) that describes 
what is done now, basically ordering, invoicing, and the integration with 
evergreen, and that is what can be installed now with some hand-holding. 
Acq/Ser is an odd case in some ways because half the challenge is in 
interpreting and configuring a very deep system that is already built and 
we need to be careful not to overwhelm the process by exposing entire 
classes of application logic that are not relevant to the problem set. The 
Evergreen developers rightfully pride themselves on their ability to meet 
deadlines, and I am definitely not as strong on that front, but I would 
say the good date is Oct. 31 for what's on the wiki page mentioned above, 
and Nov. 30* is better if you don't want to deal with a lot of changes 
that the serials layer may require. I am sorry to continually be a 
bottleneck in all this and we are trying to find more resources here to 
put forward on this project, but we have made good progress despite the 
many obstacles I seem to keep adding to the mix. We constructed the 
original timeline in the summer and much has happened since then.

On another note, we are adding to the scratchpad section of the wiki for 
Acq/Ser (see 
<http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:acq_serials/>), and I 
wanted to shout out to Carri Oviatt from Orem Public Library for 
contributing "Acquisitions Ideal for Firm Orders" (see 
<http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=acq:wishlist/>). I don't know if 
we are going to meet Carri's ideal on the first pass through, but it's 
really helpful to see these ideas. I have other contributions that I need 
to get clearance on before posting, but I encourage anyone interested in 
acq/ser to consider requesting an account on the wiki and to add material 
there.

art
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Art Rhyno
Systems Librarian
University of Windsor Libraries

* -  yes, I now know that there's no 31st in November :-)
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