So I’ve been pretty slack about posting dev stuff as of late. I can blame most of my silence on being busy writing code, but I won’t have that excuse pretty soon. With any luck we’ll be able to slow down a bit after July (watch for the alpha release!) and I’ll get to do some brain dumping here.
Circulation Demo Release
The Evergreen software development team has spent the past couple of days attending the PINES Annual Membership meeting and demonstrating the progress we’ve made so far with Evergreen. We are now ready to release the circulation demo to everyone, and instructions are below for accessing the software.
Also, on a related topic, we’ve come to an important milestone in the Evergreen project. When we started on this path, we determined that we would stop approximately a year into the project, assess our progress, and determine if we should continue. We’ve come to this point, and the PINES Executive Committee has unanimously “blessed” the Evergreen project, and gave their permission for the project to continue. We’re very excited about this decision.
Back to the Circulation demo, this release includes some new basic circulation functionality as well as some previously released cataloging functionality. Also, ahead of schedule, a portion of the re-made Evergreen OPAC is back and ready for review. The partial demo OPAC is available here: http://gapines.org/opac/
Development Schedule Update
After some discussion here at PINES central, we’ve decided it would be advantageous to change the release date for the Evergreen Circulation Demo to coincide with the PINES Annual Membership meeting. Our original release date was May 13th. We have decided to change the release date to May 18th, the day that the Evergreen development staff is scheduled to demonstrate the system at the PINES Annual Membership meeting. After we have completed our demonstration, we will post the demo on the website so that everyone can take a look.
We have also decided to change the date of the Evergreen Alpha release. Our original expected release date was July 1st. We’ve decided to change that to a more broad release date; expect the Evergreen Alpha release in July 2005. One of us is getting married, some of us want to take a vacation this summer, and we don’t want to rush this important release.
We hope to see many of you at the PINES Annual Membership Meeting.