[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] apostrophe in title search causing problems(Bug #744513)

[Dan Scott]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Gordana Vitez <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks to all for providing information and feedback. The patch has been applied successfully for the libraries of the Niagara Evergreen Consortium.
>
> Don't you just love it when things work so well, so quickly?!?

Applying the "what can we learn from this" test - perhaps skin-level
patches need to be called out separately in the release notes for each
release? Without diving into everyone's catalogues, I can't say for
sure, but I bet (& hope!) that most sites don't use
/opac/skin/default/.

The default skin is, of course, what we developers test, so a nice
out-of-the-box install of Evergreen will have its bugs fixed, but most
other Evergreen instances will not get bug fixes at upgrade time
without special attention.

The release notes section could look something like:

Bug fixes - catalog
---------------------------

The following list of catalog bugs were fixed in this release. When
you upgrade to this release, your catalog will only benefit from these
bug fixes if you are using the 'default' skin; if you are using a
customized skin, you will need to apply the same fixes to your own
customized version of the listed files.

* 744513 - Do not strip apostrophes from advanced searches
  ** opac/skin/default/js/adv_global.js

* ####### - Some other bug
  ** File 1
  ** File 2

This would take a fair amount of effort to pull together, but might be
worthwhile if someone(s) is/are willing to step up and do the work.