[OPEN-ILS-DEV] demo data generation tools in ILS-Contrib

[Bill Erickson]

Hi all,

Jason Etheridge and I have separately developed some tools to autogenerate 
patron, volume, and copy data for demonstration purposes.  Jason's is cool, 
because it actually scrambles census data into mostly-realistic looking 
patrons.  My copy/volume script is much simpler, taking advantage of a lot of 
random number/string generation for barcodes and call numbers.  They do, in 
their own way, get the job done, though.

I'd like to propose that these two projects be added to the ILS-Contrib 
repository.  With Dan Scott's blessing, they could even live in the existing 
import_demo project.

They are documented here: 

http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=advocacy:demonstration_data

Comments?

Thanks,

-- 
Bill Erickson
| VP, Software Development & Integration
| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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