[Koha-devel] RFC: plan to reorganize cronjobs for overdues, notices, and fines

[Andrew Moore]

This is just a reminder that I'm working to consolidate the three
misc/cronjobs/overduesnotices*.pl programs. From what I can tell two
of them are nearly identical, but don't really work, and the third
doesn't add enough extra functionality to justify a separate program.
I expect to send out a proposed patch by tomorrow and (depending on
the amount of suggestions I receive from that) have a final version to
patches at koha.org by Friday.

I'll document this work at
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2274

Thanks,
-Andy


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Moore <andrew.moore at liblime.com> wrote:
> Hi Koha Developers -
>
> After a brief audit of some of the code in misc/cronjobs it looks to
> me that the cronjobs that handle things like overdues, notices, and
> fines could use some work. There's a lot of overlapping functionality
> in the scripts in that directory, and not everything that we need for
> 3.0 is there yet. So, I'm hoping to find a reasonable way to get what
> we need easily. I'm looking for guidance here on developing a roadmap,
> so please speak up if you have recommendations.
>
> These are the scripts that I think we need:
>
> overdue_notices.pl - will prepare notices for items that are overdue.
> This increments the overdue notice counters.
> fines.pl - will calculate and update patron fines. This will NOT
> prepare notices.
> advance_notices.pl - will prepare notices for items that are not yet
> due, or have just become due. Patrons will have the option of
> receiving these or not.
>
> This is what will happen to many of the scripts that are there now:
>
> overduenotices-30.pl will get folded into overdue_notices.pl
> overduenotices-csv.pl will get folded into overdue_notices.pl
> overduenoties.pl will get replaced by overdue_notices.pl
> smsoverdues.pl will get replaced by overdue_notices.pl
>
> fines2.pl will get replaced by fines.pl
> fines-ll.pl  will get folded into fines.pl. This script has good
> calculation stuff that should be salvaged.
> fines-sanop.pl will most likely be replaced by fines.pl.
>
> There are also some changes to the staff interface that will probably
> be done, as there is a similar disorganization there, but we can deal
> with that separately, I think.
>
> If we can agree on a general path like this, it will help us work
> together to reach a common goal. I can certainly get to much of this
> work myself in time, but there is some work going on in this directory
> by others and I want to make sure I'm not stepping on anyone's toes.
>
> If it looks like this path won't get us to where you think we should
> be, please speak up. If it looks like this is a reasonable way to
> proceed, please feel free to help out.
>
> Thanks!
> -Andy
>
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