[Koha-devel] News and a Request

[Paul POULAIN]

Joshua Ferraro a écrit :

> I've compiled a list of features that we've discussed on the Koha 
> 3.0 Roadmap: 
> http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=KohaRoadmap3.0

OK, read & some lines added

I've some question/comments about serials management 
(http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=kohaserialsspec. I havent' read 
carefully the complete document, that is fairly long & in english ;-) )
But reading the doc quickly, it appears to me that most of requested 
features are already here (although not fully mature for some of them, I 
agree)

    1. Check In: registering status of issues (received, missing, late etc)

=> it already exists in Koha 2.2. Since 2.2.4, it also manages the 
unpublished & delete statuses.

    2. Predicting “Publication Patterns”: system will know when an issue 
is expected

=> it already exists in Koha 2.2, with 10 frequencies available. Numbers 
can only be calculated on a numeric basis, but i already know how to add 
non numeric sequences ;-) (added to 3.0 RoadMap)

    3. Monitoring subscriptions: Tracking of orders and financial 
management of all acquisitions, budgetary information, vendor 
information (Fund Management)

=> already possible, although some sentences are not clear to me (& not 
everything possible. I agree some features have to be improved)

    4. Routing lists - circulating journals to staff

=> already in CVS head, but in a simple way (search borrowers in 
borrowers list, or add manually entries. The routing list containing 
whatever the library wants, as it is manual !) a little bit basic I agree.

    5. Claims facility - when an issue is late or missing this should 
set up an alert and set in motion a claim for the missing item

=> in Koha 2.2, the library can see late issues from a given bookseller, 
print the list, that's something not too far from what is described.
=> In Koha 3.0, with the Letters system, we could easily imagine sending 
mails to whoever/when we want !

SO, MY QUESTION :
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Has kohaserialsspec been written without searching what already exists 
in Koha ? I think the stuff needed to reach what is described in this 
wiki doc is not so much.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)