[Koha-devel] We need Koha Naming Standards

[Barton Chittenden]

+1. Would definitely recommend to a friend.

--Barton

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Jesse <pianohacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> > http://www.kylehall.info
>> > ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com )
>> > Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
>> > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
>> > Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )
>> >
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> Jesse Weaver
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