[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.1 back-port of patron collections exempt permission

[Dan Scott]

+1

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently pushed a change to 2.1 and master that allows staff to mark a
> patron as exempt from collections processing:
> 0e0026ad7a81812b1831433aedf12c6884a50c64.  It's managed with a user setting
> set in the patron editor.  Not long after, though, I added a permission to
> control who gets this power.  The permission didn't come along until after
> the 2.1 feature freeze, so I didn't back-port it.  I'm here to make the
> argument that, though this is not a bug fix per se, lack of the permission
> 2.1 is a security concern that justifies the back-port.  It doesn't require
> a DB change, just some seed data.
>
>
> 368f391165fef5b71810f324d33f5c1720ab0f18
>        Permission to control patron-collections-exempt
> 690618a0510ccdf8efd5623397972fe01a6d99f9
>        Un-stamped upgrade script for collection exempt perm
>
> If there are no objections, I'll back-port before the next 2.1 RC cut...
>
> Thanks
>
> -b
>
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> Bill Erickson
> | Senior Software Developer
> | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
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