This will be a quick one because I’m feeling a bit under the weather, but I wanted to post a quick update on some of our tornado-like progress post-alpha.
Sometimes good enough is better
There has been quite a saga unfolding slowly over the last couple months in the #code4lib IRC channel regarding the use of Amazon’s OpenSearch technology and it’s use for searching across cooperating libraries’ catalogs. Everyone there seems to agree, on a basic level, that OpenSearch is a useful search interface and that it benefits everyone to expose our catalogs using it.
Evergreen Alpha Release
After approximately a year of software development, we are proud to announce the arrival of the Evergreen Alpha release! Programmers and other techies will probably want to go straight to the download area and grab a tarball. We’re very pleased with how this release turned out, and are looking forward to the comments and suggestions from the field.