[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Serials in alpha4

[Repke de Vries]

Dear Kathy

here at IISH ( http://www.iisg.nl) a team of testers has been sinking  
its teeth in alpha4 Serials Management as well - even without the  
help of the release notes you are mentioning: thanks for the pointer !!

Like you we hit stumbling blocks and will contact you off list the  
coming Monday [1] if  we can work together getting a basic grip on  
functionality: right now it is complete trial and error here in  
Amsterdam.  This "documentation would help testing would help  
feedback to the [Serials, Acquisition] developers" issue was also  
raised at the EG IRC Developers meeting last Tuesday.

Right now I wish to bring up a related issue and would like to ask  
Dan Wells or Lebbeous (sorry: don't know your first name) the following:

is there a command line MFHD importing script yet that will populate  
all the Serials Management related database tables ?

That would fast track functionality testing and down the road I guess  
your library Dan (Wells) would need to import legacy MFHD data just  
as much as IISH needs to do so for that part of our collection where  
the "raw MFHD record editing" [2] approach is not enough.

Thanks, Repke Eduard de Vries, IISH

[1] also impressed with your work here Kathy:  http:// 
masslnc.cwmars.org/node/2039  (to the extent that we have access)
[2] we are well aware of Dan Scott's work here: http://svn.open- 
ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/tests/datasets/README  ;
works fine but not for all of our serials collection

Op 5-nov-2010, om 16:19 heeft Kathy Lussier het volgende geschreven:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been digging into serials on a 2.0 alpha4 installation by  
> following the
> notes at
> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php? 
> id=acq:serials:release_notes:initial_t
> runk_merge, but I've run into various stumbling blocks