[Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Dalton,

It sounds weird to me to add such specific rules (based on sort1 and/or
sort2).
Maybe it would be more useful define circ rules per patron?
As you may have noticed the UI is pretty bad currently, there is a work in
progress (or abandoned?) from ByWater (see bug 15522). It would be good to
contact them to know the status of this work before starting anything.

Regards,
Jonathan

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 at 07:47 Dalton Fury <daltonfury42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing this email representing Central Library, National Institute
> of Technology, India. We migrated to Koha from a propitiatory software over
> an year ago, and are very happy with Koha.
>
>
> After moving to Koha, various departments have approached us so that they
> can use our Koha installation to mange their libraries. One obstacle we
> face is that Circulation Rules can be defined only based on Patron
> Categories.
>
> Our patrons are categorized as UG(Under graduate), PG(Post Graduate), PHD,
> STAFF, FACULTY etc. Sort1 and Sort2 fields are used to classify patrons
> into departments (Mechanical, Civil , CS, Electrical etc)  and programs (B.
> Tech, MCA, BCA, MBA etc) respectively.
>
> Our patron categories are too broad. We need to define rules based on
> sort1 and sort2 fields as well.
>
> We are planning on taking a CS student as an intern during the summer
> vacation and get him to work on this feature.
>
> I am not a developer, and hence I want to get opinions from the koha
> developer community before I proceed with this. Some questions I have in
> mind are:
>
> Will the Koha community accept this change?
> Is it feasible?
> Can an undergrad student learn and implement this in 4 weeks of time? What
> is the difficulty level?
>
> I also have a high level objective of introducing a student to opensource
> contributions. If there is some other useful task that the intern can do
> for the community, please mention them too.
>
> Regards,
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