[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Backporting browser client bugfixes for rel_2_10

[Bill Erickson]

+1 to back-porting browser client fixes to 2.10 where feasible.

-b

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to suggest a change of policy for backporting certain
> specific browser client bugs to the rel_2_10 branch after release of
> 2.10.0: specifically, that the rel_2_10 branch will accept web staff
> client bugfixes — particularly in the areas of circulation and patron
> management — as well as relevant core AngularJS services.
>
> This would mean that:
>
> * committers would be free (but not obligated) to backport such
> bugfixes (note that all testing and QA guidelines would be in effect
> for such bugfixes)
> * Evergreen developers in general would be encouraged to write such fixes
> * users would be encouraged to report such bugs
>
> This would not be tantamount to full community support for using
> webstaff for circulation in production — I don't think we're at the
> point where we can do so, unfortunately — but would mean that folks
> who are using it in a beta test capacity would have at least some hope
> that bugs opened in LP would be looked at.
>
> One thing I should mention is that at some point relatively soon
> backporting webstaff fixes may become more time-consuming [1]; my
> suggestion should not be taken to me that anybody should feel any
> obligation to rewrite bugfixes to work under AngularJS 1.2.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1554714
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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> Galen Charlton
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> Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library
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