MJ, My opinion is that it is worth to file a bug. We should try to get consistent wording. It makes live easiar for users - and for translators :-) Marc Véron marc veron ag informatik information internet www.veron.ch Am 14.12.2012 00:38, schrieb MJ Ray:

I was working on a patch and I noticed that I was using "borrower" in the text, but the file I was editing used "member" more often. So I then asked myself which I should use.

Should I use "member" or "borrower"?

And it turns out the answer is "no, probably not". It should say "patron"!

See the coding guideline http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#PERL7:_Definitions which includes * We have decided to use [ODLIS].

http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_p.aspx#patron defines Patron as Any person who uses the resources and services of a library, not necessarily a registered borrower. Synonymous with user. Compare with client.

http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_b.aspx#borrower defines Borrower as A person who checks out books and other materials from a library.

ODLIS isn't big on member.

At the moment, the templates have about 1250 hits for patron, 800 for borrower and 400 for member. Those later two numbers will never get to zero, as both terms are used in links and variable names, as well as the text (for example, the borrowernumber query string to various scripts in the members folder).

But it would be really lovely if we could keep using "Patron" in the text, please. Should I open a bug for this?

Thanks,