Hi all, I know Fridays are not the best day to send out e-mails, so I'm re-sending this appeal for partners to help with acquisitions funding. This project is important for anyone who wants to see continued development of the web client or improvements to acquisitions. Many common annoyances with acquisitions will be addressed through this project.
No contribution is too small to help get this acquisitions project off the ground! We have a few development partners lined up or seeking approval from their funding authorities, but we only have about half the funds required to funds the first sprint. Feel free to let me know if you have any interest or questions. My goal is to have preliminary funding lined up, even if some of the funding is still waiting approval, before November 28. Thanks! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kathy Lussier <kluss...@masslnc.org> Date: Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:08 PM Subject: Acquisitions coding is ready to begin! To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>, <evergreen-...@list.evergreen-ils.org> Hi all, As I've mentioned in previous emails, the MassLNC Evergreen Development Initiative has been working with Equinox to implement the next step of the web client project: moving acquisitions to Angular interfaces. The coding project will be divided up into ten sprints, and I'm please to report that we have a quote and tech specs for the 1st sprint (Sprint 0). Sprint 0 is for infrastructure and tool building, which will lay the groundwork for all future sprints. Sprint 0 comes with some exciting features, some of which can be used in other web client interfaces when they eventually move from AngularJS to Angular. My favorite is a new filter available in the top row of grids that will allow users to filter the data retrieved in the grid. Although this filter is a necessary component to bring feature parity to the acq interfaces, I can think of many other web client interfaces where this filter will be handy. Sprint 0 will also include the adoption of a JavaScript library to accurately perform monetary calculations in the client. This feature will fix the existing issue where calculations are not always rounded to two decimal places. The MassLNC partners believe that implementing this project is a critical next step in the web client project. A clean and consistent client across all interfaces is essential to bring on new Evergreen libraries and to make the experience a positive one for our existing staff users. Just as the community came together to help fund the initial web client project, we're hopeful that you all can come together again to fund its continued development. The full tech specs for the project are available at https://yeti.esilibrary.com/dev/public/techspecs/angacq_sprint0_final.pdf. There are two options available for filters that are outlined in the tech specs, and the MassLNC development partners agree that Option A is the best to implement. If anyone is interested in helping us fund this project, please send me an e-mail, and I will provide more details. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions! Kathy -- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org
