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

[McCanna, Terran]

+1 Sounds reasonable to me. It won't affect our implementation either way, but I can see it would be very helpful for those libraries who are upgrading in the near future.


Terran McCanna 
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Georgia Public Library Service 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Galen Charlton" <gmc at esilibrary.com>
To: "Evergreen Development Discussion List" <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 3:05:38 PM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Backporting browser client bugfixes for rel_2_10

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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