[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12838] New: Deleting a borrower orphans that borrower's lists

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12838

            Bug ID: 12838
           Summary: Deleting a borrower orphans that borrower's lists
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Lists
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: liz at catalyst.net.nz
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl

Currently if any borrower has a list, and that borrower is deleted, the list is
effectively abandoned and unable to be deleted until that list has been
associated with an existent user.

A typical situation where this becomes an annoying problem:

Librarian A has a meticulously kept and well used list.
Librarian A changes jobs, her staff user is deleted.
The meticulously kept and well used list is now unable to be edited or deleted
by her replacement, until the list has been updated to be associated with
another staff user. This has to be done at the database level. 

There are several ways we could approach fixing this:

* simply delete all lists when a borrower is deleted (ok for regular patrons,
probably not ok for staff members)

* Delete all orphaned private lists. Assign all public orphaned lists to user 0
 and hide them from the OPAC interface. Possibly necessary would be a cron job
to periodically clean up unclaimed lists that belong to borrower 0. Also allow
privileged staff to assume ownership of a public list that belongs to borrower
0.

* ...or some other solution.

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