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<p>Hi Dalton,</p>
<p>We've played in that area, and as such I'll offer some answers to
your questions</p>
<ol>
<li>feasible? Yes, easily. Adding columns in the UI and in the
backend should be relatively easy.</li>
<li>Most IT undergrad with curiosity, common sense and access to
Google for perl/mysql questions should manage.</li>
<li>Acceptance is not a given. You start with two strikes against
you:</li>
<ol>
<li>Your dev will leave after four weeks. Who will maintain the
work, rebase it regularly, promote it, until it gets accepted
?</li>
<li>This is very specialized request. Most libraries manage
with using branches to differenciate these situations.
Getting support MIGHT prove a hurdle.</li>
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<p>Regards,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/22/2017 06:47 AM, Dalton Fury
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi,</span>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">I am writing this email
representing Central Library, National Institute of
Technology, India. We migrated to Koha from a propitiatory
software over an year ago, and are very happy with Koha.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br
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After moving to Koha, various departments have approached us
so that they can use our Koha installation to mange their
libraries. One obstacle we face is that Circulation Rules can
be defined only based on Patron Categories.<br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">Our patrons are categorized as
UG(Under graduate), PG(Post Graduate), PHD, STAFF, FACULTY
etc. Sort1 and Sort2 fields are used to classify patrons into
departments (Mechanical, Civil , CS, Electrical etc) and
programs (B. Tech, MCA, BCA, MBA etc) respectively.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Our patron categories are too
broad. We need to define rules based on sort1 and sort2 fields
as well. </div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">We are planning on taking a CS
student as an intern during the summer vacation and get him to
work on this feature.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">I am not a developer, and hence I
want to get opinions from the koha developer community before
I proceed with this. Some questions I have in mind are:</div>
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</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Will the Koha community accept
this change?</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Is it feasible?</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Can an undergrad student learn and
implement this in 4 weeks of time? What is the difficulty
level?</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">I also have a high level objective
of introducing a student to opensource contributions. If there
is some other useful task that the intern can do for the
community, please mention them too.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">Regards, </div>
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