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Hi!<br>
<br>
I'm throwing a line here, and I'd just like to get a feel for the
value of offering some work to the community. Mind you, the work is
"big" so honest responses could save us lot of wasted hours.<br>
<br>
We've developed a parallel calendar table to specify each individual
day if it's opened or not (instead of rules and exception). We
added to it the opening hours, and keep a year of them in the past,
and a year in the future.<br>
The reasonning being:<br>
- We need the opening hours. They need to vary season to seasons.
We need them for hourly and minute loans.<br>
- Exception and holidays and etc... are complicated. To manage, to
calculate, to fix. We need the past info as well, to calculate
precisely.<br>
- Performance. Calculating with C4/Koha Calendars is
sloooooooooow. Our little table cut fines.pl calculation times by
97%. Not a typo. Checkout improvement by 30-60% but metric is
unreliable so take with grain of salt this one.<br>
<br>
So before I go and write a wiki RFC, then open bugzillas, make the
code community acceptable (we're not using Schemas), complete it,
write tests, etc... Is there an interest? Would it answer a need
(outside of our clients) ? Maybe a subset? <br>
<br>
All comments, suggestions, questions are welcomed.<br>
<br>
High regards,<br>
<br>
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