wishlist: add new best-hold sort option for proximity between user home library and item owning library

[Andrea Neiman]

This development is sponsored by Westchester Library System.

Does what it says - adds an option to the Best Hold Selection Sort Order interface to allow taking into consideration the proximity of item owning library (in a non-float setting) and patron home library.

Setting this option to the top of the BHSSO will allow an institution to prioritize using Library A's copies to fill holds for Library A's patrons.

Branch forthcoming.

[Jason Etheridge (phasefx)]

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/collab/phasefx/holds-chase-home-lib-patrons

collab/phasefx/holds-chase-home-lib-patrons @ working/Evergreen.git

[Lindsay Stratton (lstratton)]

Representing Westchester Library System, I tested this and confirm that it works as advertised.

Our org structure is composed of a single consortia with single outlet libraries and libraries with branches.

The "holds chase home lib patrons" prioritizes item lib A=patron lib A holds regardless of request date, or other holds for pickup at lib B, when a lib A item is returned to lib B and a lib A patron has a hold for pickup there.

This BHSSO will also prioritize holds for branch libraries, matching branch A patron holds with lib A items when there is no lib A patron hold.

When there are no lib A or branch A patron holds, a lib A item will fill holds by opportunistic capture or request date.

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

Added a hopeful 3.5.0 target to this - it is a wishlist item but it's small and I'd love to see it in 3.5 if we can get another community signoff (pending RM approval, of course).

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Hi, I reviewed (but not tested) the code and have no objections to merging this into 3.5.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Reviewing and testing this code, also sent an email to Lindsey Stratton to request verification on their testing so that we can try adding the additional testing commit lines for this feature prior to merging.

[Lindsay Stratton (lstratton)]

Officially (finally) now:

I have tested this code and consent to signing off on it with my name, Lindsay Stratton, and my email address, <email address hidden>

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Added Lindsay's signoff and pushed to master for inclusion in 3.5