[Koha-devel] Status of head (some infos)

[Joshua M. Ferraro]

----- "Paul POULAIN" <paul.poulain at free.fr> wrote:
> I've installed, as previously said, what will be Koha 3.0 in 2 
> libraries. Here is a summary of some missing things that have to be
> done :
> Installer
> ==========
> i've installed from CVS. the 2.2 installer has to be rewritten almost
> completly, as :
> 1- the librarian part of the install is now done through the
> webinstaller
> 2- the config file has heavily changed (.conf => .xml)
> 
> Does anyone plan to work on that in the next 2 months ?
I think MJ has talked about re-doing this, but I'm not sure about
the timeline ... MJ?

> MARC editor
> ============
> The actual MARC editor has some limits :
> - the code is ugly (i've written most of it, I assume the ugliness ;-)
> )
> - the templates are heavy & hard to maintain
> - the indicators are poorly written
> - duplicating a field requires a form submission, thus it's slow
> 
> So, i've asket toins to rewrite the editor. There won't be new major 
> features, it's just a "code cleaning" and "very complex bug fixing".
Hmmm ... will he be doing only UNIMARC? or MARC21 also?

> Fines and Overdues
> ===================
> SAN-OP has commited some interesting features about fines and
> overdues. 
> Except they work only if you have fines on overdues. Which is not the
> cas of every libraries. we will fix this problem asap (1 of our 2 koha
> 3.0 libraries don't have fines, but they want to be able to know which
> borrowers have overdues)
> I'll also have to describe a little bit what SAN-OP features does...
This sounds great!

> Letters
> ========
> The new letters system is not yet used everywhere : suggestion accept
> or reject for example, still have to be completed
Sounds great also.

> Database commit
> ================
> A fresh install from the CVS won't work at all, i'm almost sure.
> I'll commit a uptodate koha.sql and updated UNIMARC frameworks asap. 
> I'll let libLime or anyone else work on MARC21.
Something for this Koha Project day I think ... 

Some additional things:

Re-write Members Entry
==================
SAN-OP re-wrote member entry and it doesn't conform to our coding
guidelines, we need to fix it.

Spruce up Templates
==================
The prog templates aren't really suitable for a release. I'm wondering
if we could maybe do a contest or something for a new design?

Extensive User Testing
==================
We need volunteers to test all functionality and document those
functional tests.

Documentation
==================
We need documentation of all the new features (and translations of the
ones paul has already done).

Well that's all I can think of at midnight on a Saturday :-)

Cheers,

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