[Koha-devel] We need Koha Naming Standards

[Christopher Nighswonger]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's been discussed a few times, but I think we need to formalize naming
> conventions when writing patches for Koha.
>
> The worse offenders are those things that we use many different names for
> both internally and externally. I think patrons/borrowers/members is the
> worst offender. List come to mind as well ( previously being virtual
> shelves ).
>
> I believe that our internal nomenclature should reflect our outward
> nomenclature. So if the staff and/or OPAC use the term "patron" we should
> be using the term "patron" in our code as well, especially for namespaces.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
>
+1

Kind Regards,
Chris
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