https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24501 --- Comment #1 from Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrew@bywatersolutions.com> --- There's a function within Koha two take two authority records and combine them into one authority record. Koha refers to this as merging. That's a good name for that and doesn't confuse people. But then there's also a cron job that takes changes made to authority records and pushes them out to bibs. Koha also refers to this as merging. This *does* confuse people. They see a cron called "merge_authorities.pl" and assume it's going to clean up duplicate authorities or something. So I'd propose renaming the cron and the various system preferences that refer to the cron, though I understand that's a change to a very well-established Koha feature. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24501 Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl --- Comment #3 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl> ---

From ExLibris: Authorities - Preferred Term Correction – This job performs preferred term correction on all bibliographic records that are linked to authority records using the Authorities - Link BIB Headings job. For example, if a bibliographic record contains the non-preferred term “Narcotics, Control of,” and the associated authority record contains the preferred term “Drug control,” the Authorities – Preferred Term Correction job replaces “Narcotics, Control of” with the preferred term “Drug control.” Bibliographic records are also updated with any subsequent updates to authority records.

=> The general term updating is used here in connection with preferred term correction. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24501 --- Comment #5 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl> --- (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #2)

I understand that it is confusing, but changing a cronjob name means that in every installations people might have to change their cronjob setup... I am not sure if we should do this. And if we do it, maybe it should be a gradual process turning the current script into a wrapper that sends a deprecation warning to the logs for one release and asks you to switch.

We have renamed cron jobs in the past. But I agree that we should not do that too often ;) In this case I think it is more important to update interface, documentation etc. and even the routine name (C4::AuthoritiesMarc::merge) than renaming the script and cronjobs. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24501 David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dcook@prosentient.com.au --- Comment #6 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- (In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #5)

We have renamed cron jobs in the past. But I agree that we should not do that too often ;) In this case I think it is more important to update interface, documentation etc. and even the routine name (C4::AuthoritiesMarc::merge) than renaming the script and cronjobs.

Agreed. Having a legacy script name isn't too big of a problem, if you can open that file and see that it's about processing heading updates in bib records from authority records. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24501 Catrina Berka <catrina@bywatersolutions.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |catrina@bywatersolutions.co | |m --- Comment #7 from Catrina Berka <catrina@bywatersolutions.com> --- While the documentation has great warning notes about the actual function of this cron, I agree with the previous comments that renaming it will reduce confusion. Any plan, however slow, that moves us towards this end would be welcome. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24501 Maude Boudreau <maude.boudreau@collecto.ca> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |maude.boudreau@collecto.ca -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.