[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] This week in development

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

This is great, Lebbeous!  Very glad you are doing this.  I can hear those
silos breaking apart already.

Lori



On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley <
lebbeous at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As part of an effort keep the community in general informed of what we
> developers are doing in our caves/silos/dungeons, I'm taking it upon myself
> to broadcast updates like the following every Friday.
>
> This one is a bit hurried and off the top of my head, but in general I
> will cover releases, development work, and dev-related policy news. In the
> future, I'll start earlier in the week and poke my fellow developers for
> input.
>
> I'm aiming for a digest format that's brief enough to be useful for the
> broadest possible audience.
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> -----------
>
> Releases:
> ---------
> Monday: 2.0.11 released: http://evergreen.sigio.com/**
> 2012/05/evergreen-2011-**release-announcement_15.html<http://evergreen.sigio.com/2012/05/evergreen-2011-release-announcement_15.html>
>
> Tuesday: 2.2 rc1 released: http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/**?p=769<http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=769>
>
> Biggish development news I know of:
> ------------------------------**-----
> The developers in the community are discussing what the Evergreen release
> schedule should look like long term.  There is broad concensus that major
> releases should start happening every March and September, so that's faster
> than they've been coming out recently.  With the current numbering scheme,
> major releases are those where the middle part of the version number
> changes.  2.1, 2.2, etc.
>
> The number itself is under discussion as well.  That's less settled, last
> time I looked.  After 2.2.0, whether the next major release will be 2.3,
> 3.0 or something with a date-based name like 12.09 remains to be
> determined.  In any case, we hope to make it happen by September 2012.
>
> Bill Erickson is serving as the release manager for the next major release.
>
> Thomas Berezansky has a feature branch that's ready or nearly ready for
> acceptance that allows a staff client to be used with current versions of
> XULRunner.  The current stable version of XULRunner is now 12.0. Once we
> can drum up a little more testing, Thomas' feature will be in master and
> will be part of the 2.3 (or whatever it gets numbered) Evergreen release.
>
> Dan Scott may have found a way to significantly improve search speed for
> broad search terms.  There's a recent commit in master about this, although
> there are reportedly issues making the new technique work alongside some
> advanced (but necessary) search features.
>
> Equinox announced upcoming development on a link checker for NRCan.
>
> Work on more added content from 3rd party providers (Syndetics, etc) in
> the new Template Toolkit OPAC is happening.
>
> Lots of serials and acq bug reports are rolling in on Launchpad, which is
> excellent, as we know there are issues out there, but concrete bug reports
> help the developers find solutions.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley
>  | Software Developer
>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>  | email:  lebbeous at esilibrary.com
>  | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com
>
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