Excellent list Jonathan! I think You've summed up most if not all the terms that need clarifying. The only one I could possibly add is Lists, but I don't think anyone has called them virtual shelves in ages.

Kyle

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@biblibre.com> wrote:

I have created a page on the wiki for the terminology:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology

IMO what we need, most of all, is a consensus on how we want to see
the Koha namespace organised.

2015-06-19 15:35 GMT+01:00 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com>:
> It's been discussed a few times, but I think we need to formalize naming
> conventions when writing patches for Koha.
>
> The worse offenders are those things that we use many different names for
> both internally and externally. I think patrons/borrowers/members is the
> worst offender. List come to mind as well ( previously being virtual shelves
> ).
>
> I believe that our internal nomenclature should reflect our outward
> nomenclature. So if the staff and/or OPAC use the term "patron" we should be
> using the term "patron" in our code as well, especially for namespaces.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> The more we hammer out now the easier it will be to vote on naming rules at
> the dev meeting.
>
> Kyle
>
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