[Koha-devel] We need Koha Naming Standards

[Jesse]

Definite +1 to this.

Should we also discuss adding this to the coding standards at the next
development meeting?

2015-06-19 8:43 GMT-06:00 Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart at biblibre.com>:

> The discussion started from bug 12598 comment 44.
> For instance, do we want Koha::Patron::Import or Koha::Import::Patron?
>
> 2015-06-19 15:35 GMT+01:00 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>:
> > 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?
> >
> > The more we hammer out now the easier it will be to vote on naming rules
> at
> > the dev meeting.
> >
> > Kyle
> >
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> >
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Jesse Weaver
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