[Koha-bugs] [Bug 33932] Why multiple statuses on item record

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33932

--- Comment #5 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
(In reply to Jonathan Druart from comment #4)
> Look at cgi-bin/koha/admin/koha2marclinks.pl: 1 DB column is mapped to 1
> MARC subfield.
> 
> Everything is always possible, but that would be really hard to change :)

Everything is hard to change from my perspective, especially mechanisms that
have been in place for years, but there is a community of programmers out there
that put together a brilliant ILS from nothing.  Complexity should not be the
deciding factor.  I'm sure that answer could be given to most of the things the
community programmers have contributed to Koha over the last 23 years.

The question is, does the current setup tie our hands, and is it something that
libraries would benefit from if it were changed?  That's really why this is a
discussion at this point.  I am curious why the statuses are compartmentalized
the way they are, and does this layout limit setup or functionality?  Could
consolidation improve system administration or item workflow?

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