[Koha-devel] We need Koha Naming Standards

Jesse pianohacker at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 18:32:45 CEST 2015


I've gone ahead and added them anyway, since we still have opac-shelves.pl
and C4:VirtualShelves hanging around.

2015-06-22 8:28 GMT-06:00 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>:

> Excellent list Jonathan! I think You've summed up most if not all the
> terms that need clarifying. The only one I could possibly add is Lists, but
> I don't think anyone has called them virtual shelves in ages.
>
> Kyle
>
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> ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com )
> Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
> Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
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>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Druart <
> jonathan.druart at biblibre.com> wrote:
>
>> I have created a page on the wiki for the terminology:
>> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology
>>
>> IMO what we need, most of all, is a consensus on how we want to see
>> the Koha namespace organised.
>>
>> 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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>> > 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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