[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Proposal to add "Import holdings demo" to ILS-Contrib (was: Announcing the ILS-Contrib repository)

[Mike Rylander]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
>  Prior to the code4lib 2008 preconference workshop, I put together an
>  "import holdings demo" (with the assistance of Mike Rylander,
>  naturally) that enables anyone to load 500 records into a freshly
>  installed Evergreen instance using the out-of-the-box configuration.
>
>  The intentions for the "import holdings demo" are:
>   * to give potential Evergreen users the ability to quickly try out
>  search, circulation, hold, bookbag, and other functions that depend on
>  having bib records and holdings
>   * to give Evergreen users a simple template to use for building
>  their own import scripts to import bib records and holdings from their
>  legacy system
>
>  The import holdings demo package is currently available from
>  http://open-ils.org/downloads.php, but as I have already updated it
>  once I would like it to live in a version control repository so the
>  changes can be tracked. I would also like to be able to take advantage
>  of the ILS-Contrib wiki pages to host some of the documentation
>  online, rather than forcing users to download the package before they
>  can access the README.
>
>  Do I have a seconder who supports this project being added to ILS-Contrib?

Seconded, sir.  And thanks!

>
>  --
>  Dan Scott
>  Laurentian University
>



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