[Koha-devel] Pre-RFC on new discrete calendar

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Philippe,

thx for trying to get things moving again - I know there are quite a lot
calendar related bugs to be found in bugzilla.

Can you explain a bit about how this would change the GUI for the users?
Do you have to keep it up to date or does the table get filled
automatically for recurring events?

I am a bit concerned about the limitation of one year into the past and
one year into the future. What happens if a due date goes beyond that or
an item is overdue before that?

Katrin

Am 21.07.2016 um 18:43 schrieb Philippe Blouin:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm throwing a line here, and I'd just like to get a feel for the value
> of offering some work to the community.  Mind you, the work is "big" so
> honest responses could save us lot of wasted hours.
> 
> We've developed a parallel calendar table to specify each individual day
> if it's opened or not (instead of rules and exception).  We added to it
> the opening hours, and keep a year of them in the past, and a year in
> the future.
> The reasonning being:
> - We need the opening hours.  They need to vary season to seasons.  We
> need them for hourly and minute loans.
> - Exception and holidays and etc... are complicated.  To manage, to
> calculate, to fix.  We need the past info as well, to calculate precisely.
> - Performance.  Calculating with C4/Koha Calendars is sloooooooooow. 
> Our little table cut fines.pl calculation times by 97%.  Not a typo. 
> Checkout improvement by 30-60% but metric is unreliable so take with
> grain of salt this one.
> 
> So before I go and write a wiki RFC, then open bugzillas, make the code
> community acceptable (we're not using Schemas), complete it, write
> tests, etc...  Is there an interest?  Would it answer a need (outside of
> our clients) ?  Maybe a subset? 
> 
> All comments, suggestions, questions are welcomed.
> 
> High regards,
> 
> Philippe Blouin,
> Responsable du développement informatique
> 
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