Developer meeting minutes: 2009-07-03

• Windsor diacritics - seems to be resolved, Dan waiting for go-ahead from Shuzhen
• Equinox support - ACTION Dan to re-contact Brad to figure out what needs to happen next
• Support hours:
  • Robin, Art, Kevin; 3rd week of August is bad for Art
  • Need to work out who gets called when
  • September will need coverage of late hours more than August
• Brain dump:
  • July 29th-30th sounds good to all parties
  • ACTION Ensure schedules are clear
  • Conifer podcast
  • ACTION Dan to try and fill in blank spots in wiki during his spare time
• Circulation rules:
  • Dan wrote a script to make certain items due at 23:59 rather than NOW() + some interval (because we're running the fine generating scripts on an hourly rather than daily basis)
  • In-database vs. scripts? Robin is trying out in-database in the Vbox image; should be easier to translate in-database to scripts than other way around, if need be
• Acquisitions:
  • Windsor has to give Finance the interface they've had for the past five years, but still dealing with dumping data from Oracle to spreadsheet and reverse-engineering old complex practices
  • Laurentian is going to deal with Evergreen, requires 1.6
  • Art strongly recommends sticking with one PO per item
  • ACTION Kevin to load all legacy data into copies of spreadsheets (one copy per year), then tackle loading said data into Evergreen
• Journal management:
  • Robin hopes to mate ScholarsPortal management with Evergreen by building an OpenSRF application
• Reserves
  • Needs smoother Z39.50 implementation (PyZOOM or PyZ3950 instead of expect)
  • Interface needs translation into French
  • Need to document the workflow and process for getting physical materials on reserve; checkout to a fake SIP user?
• OPAC enhancements:
  • Peter put together a call for participants
    • Ashley Thomson, head of public services at LU, has signed on to the discussion list
    • Robin volunteered to be a technical participant on the committee
• Static vs. dynamic requests & occasional missing JavaScript? calls:
  • Someone needs to test and document the nginx approach
• Make Google Books lookup call async rather than blocking
  • ACTION Robin or Art to take a look at this, either using the current OPAC approach or relying on Dojo