As a consortia manager with lots and lots of letters in this area of Koha, I cannot emphasize enough that making the switchover process with these proposed changes as simple as possible is critical. <br><br>I&#39;m glad to see consistency getting developed for this area and moving the system forward, but please do keep in mind the day to day library users and administrators who will have to implement these changes on their end. <br><br>Just my two cents. <br><br>Galen&#39;s suggestion sounds feasible and doable. <br><br>This reminds me of the bootstrap switchover. We had, what, 2 or 3 versions of warning that prog was going to be retired, and you needed to switchover before 3.18 release? Could the same be handled here? <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:23 AM Galen Charlton &lt;<a href="mailto:gmc@esilibrary.com">gmc@esilibrary.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Kyle Hall &lt;<a href="mailto:kyle.m.hall@gmail.com" target="_blank">kyle.m.hall@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; I think Jonathan has an excellent plan of attack, but it does require a<br>
&gt; complete switchover all at once.<br>
<br>
Rather than forcing a complete switchover right off the bat, I suggest<br>
adding a flag that specifies whether old-style or TT templates are in<br>
effect for a given notice.  That way, we&#39;ll have much more flexibility<br>
to design the new templating mechanism to take full advantage of<br>
Template Toolkit, and folks will have the ability to migrate their<br>
notices definitions on their own schedule.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Galen<br>
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</blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span>Heather Braum</span><br><span>NExpress Coordinator</span><br><span>Resource Sharing Librarian</span><br><span>Northeast Kansas Library System</span><br><a href="mailto:hbraum@nekls.org">hbraum@nekls.org</a><br><br><div>&quot;The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.&quot; ~Alvin Toffler, *Rethinking the Future*<br></div></div></div>