[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.3 alpha around the corner

Bill Erickson erickson at esilibrary.com
Fri Jun 15 13:04:25 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:21:59PM -0400, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> 
> >Do you have opinions on these items or think some items are
> >missing?  Let your voices be heard.  It's safe to say this will be
> >the shortest feature development cycle of any major Evergreen
> >release.  Within the next month or so, we'll have a pretty good
> >sense of everything that's making the cut.  In six weeks, we hit
> >the feature freeze.  Now is the time to effect change.
> 
> Thanks for asking the question! Since jspac is scheduled to be
> deprecated as of 2.3, I think it might be useful to identify which
> of those unsponsored pending features from http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:opac:template-toolkit:plan&rev=1339016264
> should be addressed before jspac is phased out. There are two that
> jump out at me:
> 
> * Display of public copy notes - it might seem to be minor, but
> public notes aren't really public if the public can't see them.
> 
> * Check for password strength at login and force change if password is weak.

Good suggestions.  I didn't find any matching LP tickets for these.  (Perhaps I'm just missing them?).  Kathy (or anyone), would you mind opening a couple of LP tickets?

> 
> There are several other items on that list that I would like to see
> eventually incorporated into tpac, but the above two features are
> basic things I think should be available before tpac becomes the
> default catalog for Evergreen.
> 
> Also, I didn't see the new xulrunner branch
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/942134) in the links you
> sent out. Is that something that might be tested and committed in
> time for 2.3?

I've updated this ticket to target the 2.3 series.  I have plans to poke at this some and I see some testing has already occurred.  Clearly, this is a change that would benefit more than most from a diverse groups of testers.

-b

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