[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Acquisitions and Serial timeline

[Roberge, Pierre]

Hi Art,

 

Thanks for your response. As we are currently completing our analysis process, I was wondering if the features announced under Oct. 31st  will be available on the Open-ILS 'demo' site or if we may install them on our test server. 

*	Functional Book-at-a-time Ordering
*	Fund Management
*	Framework for Authentication/Authorization

On another hand, I am trying to evaluate the human resources needed to complete a major development such as the one your team is involved in. Could you give me an idea of how many developers were actively participating to this specific project (Acq & serials) since the beginning (January 2007 if I recall)?

 

Thanks for your help,

 

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Pierre Roberge

Directeur des technologies de l'information

Service des bibliothèques

Université du Québec à Montréal

Case postale 8889, succ. Centre-Ville

Montréal, Qc

H3C 3P3

Téléphone: 514-987-3000 #3163

Télécopieur: 514-987-0285

Courriel: roberge.pierre at uqam.ca <mailto:roberge.pierre at uqam.ca> 

 

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De : open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] De la part de arhyno at uwindsor.ca
Envoyé : 29 octobre 2007 15:09
À : open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
Objet : Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Acquisitions and Serial timeline

 


>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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