On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Glen Eustace wrote: Thanks for your response.
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 05:45, Pat Eyler wrote:
1.4 Paul Poulain, Steve Tonnesen, and Sergey Yanovitsky have been hard at work laying out a database schema for MARC. Now that they're down to dotting I's and crossing T's, they're going to be starting on a clean API for developers. These two pieces will provide the foundation for a stronger, faster, better Koha.
Just a couple of suggestions, hoping it isn't too late;
I think we're still early enough on for suggestions to be welcome. One things we're trying to do is develop in small bites. This should make the overall cost of change a bit lower than it would be in a traditional system. (Translation: suggest early, suggest often.)
1. Can some of the table and column names be shortened please. When I converted the database to postgresql, some of the automatically generated objects, i.e. sequences and indices ended up with names that got truncated. Fortunately, they were still unique but that was more luck than good management.
2. Remove the hardcoded Horowhenua stuff from the source i.e. the logic dealing with branches and collections.
I think you'll see this happening as we move along. One of our big desires is that Koha become a systems that works well for everyone.
Documentation Nicholas Rosasco has started writing our documentation. We already have some volunteers, but could certainly use more. Even if you can only contribute a little time to read it and give us your feedback, or to write a short article, your help will be appreciated.
3. IMHO, there needs to be two distinct flavours of documentation. I am not a librarian and need to see the system from a technical/implementation point of view. The prospective users who were evaluating Koha, wanted to see the system from the Librarian point of view to help them make decisions about its usefulness.
I'll let Nick respond to this in more detail, but there is a very nice outline taking shape that includes developer, user, and administrator flavors of documentation. thanks, -pate
Glen