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Alma NERS Enhancement process and voting (from Alma-L Jan 28 2019)
Tips when submitting new enhancement requests
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Alma enhancement timelines
First round Alma Enhancements
When in 2022 | What |
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Jan. 23-Feb. 5 | New Enhancements to NERS (2 weeks) |
Feb. 6-Mar. 19 | Enhancement Team reviews, dedups, scopes, verifies and sets up vote in NERS (6 weeks) |
Mar. 20-Apr. 9 | First round of voting (3 weeks) |
Apr. 10-12 | Enhancement Team reviews results, prepares to send to Ex Libris for pointing |
Apr. 13 | Enhancements to point to Ex Libris |
Apr. 14-June 9 | Ex Libris pointing work (8 weeks, includes ELUNA meeting) |
June 12-25 | Second round of voting on pointed enhancements (2 weeks) |
Primo enhancement timelines
First round Primo Enhancements
When in 2022 | What |
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February 5 | Deadline to submit new enhancement requests in NERS (New Enhancements Request System) for the 2022 round |
February 6 – March 19 | The Primo Enhancements Team* reviews and vets the submissions. This includes dedup’ing, rewrites for clarity, contacting submitters if needed, withdrawing if already in-product, on the Roadmap (if certain) or a bug rather than an enhancement, transferring to Alma and vice versa, and setting up the vote (6 weeks) Please help us! Check for duplicates before submitting and write a good submission yourself. See guidelines and examples here |
March 20 – April 9 | Voting round (3 weeks) Note: This is a longer period to allow for consideration of the full list of submissions, and avoids the Easter holiday period 15th-18 April |
April 10 – April 13 | The Enhancements Team reviews the results, and they’re sent to Ex Libris to assign development points Note: The top 20 are requested to be pointed, per the Product Development Collaboration Agreement, but the full list of results are sent as a good opportunity for Ex Libris to see community interests |
April 14 – June 9 | Ex Libris assigns development points and the Enhancements Team determines if a second round of voting is needed, such as if there is doubt over community preference with rejected requests or no clean alignment of assigned points for top submissions against available points (8 weeks) FYI: The development points for Primo have increased to 200 for 2022 (from 150 in previous years), with thanks to the IGeLU and ELUNA Steering Committees for negotiating this increase with Ex Libris |
June 12 – June 25 | If necessary, a second round of voting takes place (2 weeks), or otherwise we’ll advise of the successful accepted submissions to be delivered |
And then? | Ex Libris delivers the accepted enhancements within one year, customarily by the next September |
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