[Koha-devel] Alerting users to breaking changes / backwards incompatibility

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Create an SQL report with the following query:

SELECT COUNT(marcxml) FROM biblioitems;

And then go to the reports list. You will notice it tells you this:
https://snipboard.io/5wjCUc.jpg

El mié., 27 may. 2020 a las 21:23, <dcook at prosentient.com.au> escribió:

> Oh great. I don’t think I’ve seen that?
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> David Cook
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> *From:* Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 28 May 2020 9:53 AM
> *To:* David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> *Cc:* koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Alerting users to breaking changes /
> backwards incompatibility
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> We already do something similar with the biblio_metadata table.
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> El mié., 27 de mayo de 2020 20:35, <dcook at prosentient.com.au> escribió:
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> Hi all,
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> I was just thinking how a lot of SQL reports will return unexpected
> results when we merge the deleted* tables with their live/active
> counterparts.
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> What do people think about a modal popup in the reports (on a per user
> basis) alerting them to how they may need to update their reports following
> an upgrade which changes reporting behaviour?
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> I’m not 100% sure how we’d do it, but it’s something we could re-use
> through much of the Koha staff client.
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> Or maybe we could raise a flag in the borrower row during an upgrade, and
> when they log into the staff client, they’re presented with a “You need to
> know…” kind of page. After all, users aren’t going to be reading release
> notes, and sysadmins doing upgrades aren’t necessarily going to do the best
> job communicating to every single staff user about what they need to know
> in an upgrade.
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> But that’s easier said than done too, especially when you’re upgrading
> past multiple versions.
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> Anyway, just putting it out there. As you can see, I haven’t thought about
> it too deeply yet.
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> David Cook
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