[Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

[Christopher Nighswonger]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:


>> > Rolling Hard Due Dates - This is by far my most complicated plugin, and
>> > has
>> > undergone rigorous testing. It allows you to schedule updates to the
>> > hard
>> > due dates for circulation rules, and update the due dates for items
>> > checked
>> > out that those rules apply to. This was written for a university where
>> > they
>> > change the due dates on checkouts near the end of each semester.
>>
>> I have stronger reservations about this one -- not about the
>> functionality it implements, but that it exists as a plugin.
>> Adjusting due dates at the end of a semester strikes me as something
>> that a number of academic libraries might want; I hope this get
>> submitted for consideration as a core feature.
>
>
> If I had known this would be of interest to more users, I would have started
> with a patch instead of a plugin. I'd be more than happy to patch-ify this
> plugin when I have the time. In general, I'd say a patch is always better
> than a plugin, as plugins will have to be maintained actively in case the
> database schema changes or some of the internal Koha functions the plugin
> uses are altered or removed,

This sort of thing has been asked for before and discussed IIRC. I
think it was waiting on a circ rule re-write due to the undue
complexity (read "poor coding") of the original feature.

Kind Regards,
Chris