Hello all,

We had a quite productive meeting regarding mana-kb during the hackfest. We had many ideas regarding improvements / new features that could be added, I've created a bugzilla entry for each idea. Below is a summary of our work

reminder : and "object" is something that is shared through mana. For now, subscription patterns and reports can be shared.

• there's a web interface (ui.mana-kb) to look at data, and delete old/outdated. The idea is to curate data regularly. Anyone can apply to become a curator of the data in mana-kb. New features idea :
  
• add a button "apply as curator" https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23738
  
• prepare some SQL queries that could show librarians contributing a lot, and proposing them to join the list of curators https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23739
  
• Let curators flag a content (3 values : non-flagged / hide this object, to be discussed for deletion / 'star' this object, it has a high quality/value) https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23740
  
• Sharing reports guidelines https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23741
  
• When you share a report, Koha could check if there's a runtime value to set (<<xxxx|yyyy>>). If there's none, add a confirmation checkbox, most useful reports need a runtime parameter.
• Add a hint : "do not share a report with hardcoded value related to your own data" that is displayed when the librarian want to share a report
• Languages checks are made on the full language code (fr_FR). We need only the first 2. Thus, reports with language fr_FR are displayed also for our canadian-Quebec friends (same thing for en_EN, en_US, en_NZ, of course) https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23742
  
• In the admin/share_content.pl page => show if a token has not been validated yet https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23743
  
• In the result lists (for object (reports, ...) searching, add a column with the language of submission, that can be filtered/sorted https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23744
• in ui.mana-kb : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23745
  
• hide the token column, a curator does not need to know the token of a librarian
• add a feature 'resend token' => resend the validation email to the librarian
• In Koha : check that the associated email is an email, to avoid unvalidable tokens  https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23746
• replace a local Koha object by a mana-kb one: currently, it's not possible to modify a local object with one coming from Mana-kb. Add this feature, 2 sub-features: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23747
  
• if the local object comes from Mana, have a message "hey, the mana object has been updated, clic here to update your local one"
• if the local object is 'home-made', add a button "update from mana-kb" that let the librarian search in mana, and update his local data.
• "golden mana-kb contributor": we expect to have some librarians contributing very efficiently and frequently. Those librarians should be able to update existing mana objects. The golden mana-kb contributor is given by curators, coopt/consensus. The golden contributor status can be given for reports and for subscriptions, separately.
  

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Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
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