Hot out of the oven! The latest Evergreen release: Beta .05. Downloads at the usual spot. Thanks to everyone who has been reporting bugs and sending in suggestions. Many suggestions have been integrated and bugs fixed in this latest release, including enhancements in cataloging and a more powerful Z39.50 client. More to come shortly…
Evergreen has reached Beta
It’s hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since we started down the path to create a powerful, flexible, open source, enterprise-class ILS. I’m very happy to report today that we’ve reach an important milestone on this journey: Beta.
The PINES libraries have already been working hard on an internal release of the Evergreen Beta, giving us suggestions and feedback on how to make the software better. Know that we’re going to be working steadily between now and the Production release this summer tweaking and improving the software.
The Evergreen staff client is available for download at http://www.open-ils.org/cvs.html.
The Evergreen online catalog is available at http://demo.gapines.org.
Of course, as always, you can get the source code from our public CVS respository at http://open-ils.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/.
Documentation is growing on the wiki at http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php.
Give Evergreen a test drive and tell us what you think.
Behind the Curtain
In about every meeting or presentation we participate in, we’re asked about the PINES/Evergreen servers, what they are, where they live, how many there are… basically, what is behind the green curtain? Some PINES librarians that attended the focus group meetings we held in February got an opportunity to take a tour of the datacenter and see the PINES server cluster for themselves. Unfortunately, for the rest of you, we’ve had to resort to whiteboard drawings and obtuse hand gestures.