[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP2 Enhancements

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

This is great news, Jason!  Thanks for sharing the details.

Lori


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org>wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I sent this message to the dev list yesterday and thought that I should
> also share it with the general list.
>
> I have been working on two branches of enhancements for SIP2 in Evergreen,
> and they are ready for general testing.
>
> The first of these two branches adds support for the fee paid message
> response pair (message 37 and response 38). We are actually using an earlier
> commit of this code in production on our SIP server and will begin using the
> most recent revisions with our update this weekend. I am that confident that
> this code is ready to go.
>
> If you 'd like to test it, I've put the relevant details in a Launchpad
> bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**evergreen/+bug/803121<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/803121>
>
> The second enhancement supports what 3M calls "chargeable loans," i.e.
> charging a fee at checkout. The Evergreen staff client and self check module
> already support this, but not SIP2. This branch attempts to add support for
> this checkout mode to SIP2 in Evergreen.
>
> This branch has received less testing, and has not yet been tested on an
> actual self check system. We will not likely get to testing this until
> sometime next week with an actual self check.
>
> The relevant details of this branch, if you'd like to test, are in this
> Launchpad bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/**evergreen/+bug/806131<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/806131>
>
>
> Of the two branches, the fee payment branch is likely the easier to test.
> It requires only a recent version of the SIPServer software. The most recent
> revision of the master branch at git://git.evergreen-ils.org/**
> SIPServer.git <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/SIPServer.git> should do.
>
> You can then merge or cherry-pick the SIP23738 branch into a checkout of
> the Evergreen master branch. If you want to try it on rel_2_0 or rel_2_1
> instead of master, the branch does cherry-pick cleanly into the HEAD of
> either  origin branch. Alternatively, you can just checkout the SIP23738
> branch and build from that, but you'll then be missing the most recent
> additions in master.
>
> The chargeable loans branch requires that you install a special branch of
> the SIPServer code as mentioned in the Launchpad bug. This is because the
> SIPServer code required some changes to fully support the chargeable loans
> workflow as outlined by 3M.
>
> Additionally, the chargeable loans branch depends on recent commits to
> Evergreen master, so it will likely not apply to rel_2_0 or rel_2_1 unless
> you also cherry-pick the other necessary commits. If there is much demand,
> and if it looks like there is a chance of the code then being included in
> rel_2_1, I'll make a backport branch of the chargeable loans code.
>
> Anyway, I just thought that I'd share the above with the community since I
> know many of you anticipate getting these features. I would also like for
> this code to get some more wide spread testing before it is adopted into the
> mainline Evergreen codebase.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason Stephenson
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>
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