[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] zip code - zips.txt - pre-populate - Documentation

[Mike Rylander]

I got curious just how far back ZIP lookup goes, and it starts with
commit 2ea132cef5bf36106378f8c15943d0acbe443361 from 2006-05-03 ... It's
been a thing since since before PINES went live!  Anyone up for
retrospectively writing version 0.01 docs?



On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:

> Hi Josh,
>
> I think a good rule of thumb is to only backport documentation as far back
> as we support releases. Currently, the community only supports the 2.5 and
> 2.6 releases, so I would only backport to 2.5 if the feature was available
> at that time. The release notes is probably the best place to look to see
> if it was something newly added to Evergreen.
>
> I know that zip.txt features goes way back, so it should be no problem
> backporting to 2.5. When you send out a message saying that the
> documentation is available, maybe you can mention how far it should be
> backported. It looks like you can find that blog post in the Internet
> archive:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20110417152404/http://dmagick.
> wordpress.com/2011/01/06/notes-on-installing-zipcode-information/
>
> Thanks for all of your work filling in some of our doc gaps!
>
> Kathy
>
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>
> On 9/3/2014 11:10 AM, Josh Stompro wrote:
>
>> Hello, does anyone know where some current documentation on the zips.txt
>> - zip code pre-populate feature is at?  I found a thread on the devel list
>> from 2011 [1] that mentions this site, http://dmagick.wordpress.com/
>> 2011/01/06/notes-on-installing-zipcode-information/
>> But I think that domain expired and was picked up by someone else, there
>> is no trace of that article on the site anymore.
>>
>> I think I can figure most of it out by looking at the Zips.pm and from
>> some comments I can find in IRC archives.
>>
>> If I wanted to document this feature for the official documentation -
>> would it go in the "System Configuration and Customization" section?
>>
>> What would the official name of this feature be?  "Zip Code
>> Pre-Populate"  "Zip Code Auto-Populate"  "Patron Address pre-populate based
>> on Zip Code"
>>
>> And a general question - should each feature section state when the
>> feature was introduced, to make it easier to backport the documentation for
>> previous versions.  Are new documentation additions added to the older
>> documentation versions?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Josh
>>
>> 1 - http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.education.libraries.
>> open-ils.devel/5685
>>
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