Hi Paul, I have this idea (share reports) in mind for a while. The main point was to keep up-to-date the reports listed on the wiki page (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library). IMO one important thing is to cover each report with tests, to confirm they still pass from one version to another. It will also permit to have a versioning of them: "this report is valid from version 3.XX to version 3.YY" For a another use, have a look at the commit message of the first patch of bug 14100: Generic solution for language overlay - Item types: N/ Implement a webservice to centralize all the translations and give the ability to sync the item types/authorised values description with the rest of the world (push and pull). It would be good to keep that in mind for a future implementation. 2016-01-20 14:18 GMT+00:00 Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>:
Ladies & gentlemen,
We're competing more and more against providers that promote a "cloud multi-tenant LMS". Koha is a cloud application (and it is since 2000, long before cloud is born). What does "multi-tenant" mean ? It mean that you'll get access to many resources that are shared worldwide.
I think that the "multi-tenancy" is a way for proprietary vendors to lock-in their customers [1]. But the idea of having a worldwide database for some informations is interesting and relevant. Proprietary vendors take care of updating this database. Open Source projects are not working centrally, so we must find another way of creating and maintaining such a database.
With this thing in mind, BibLibre has decided to sponsor an intern + some internal resources for next summer dedicated to a project dedicated to sharing data between koha instances worldwide.
I wrote a 1st draft of RFC and I'd like to have your feedback: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SharingDatasBetweenKohas_rfc
If this project is successful, in the automn version of Koha, we may see a way to share worlwide data between all Koha libraries !
[1] if you're a proprietary vendor and are reading this: I don't mean it's the only reason for multi-tenancy.
-- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
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