[Koha-devel] [Koha-patches] [PATCH] Removed RSS Option from UI

[LAURENT Henri-Damien]

Hi John
Thanks for clarification.
It would be great to have  a summary or a link to RFC in your patches, 
so that we can better catch the general purpose of and the general 
architecture implied by  the handfull of patches sent.
Cheers.
-- 
Henri-Damien LAURENT
John Beppu a écrit :
> This is probably not what you think it is.  It's not like we're 
> removing RSS feeds from the entire system.  We're actually just 
> removing UI elements for a messaging system feature that never even 
> existed.
>
> To clarify what happened, please run this query on your system:
>
> SELECT * FROM message_transport_types;
>
> All you should see is email and sms.  These represent the ways the 
> messaging system can send out messages. 
>
> However, in the spec that I had to work with, the UI mockup contained 
> an option for an rss transport type that had not existed before.  At 
> first, I thought I'd add go ahead and add another transport type so 
> that I could implement what I saw in the mockup.  But later on, when I 
> realized that messaging system didn't have any support for this 
> transport mechanism, I decided that it was pointless to pretend that 
> it did, so I got rid of it.
>
> This was also my first encounter with the messaging system, and I was 
> trying to figure out what was going on.  I was just undoing something 
> that I shouldn't have even done in the first place.  No real 
> functionality disappeared as a result of this.
>
> --beppu