MJ Ray wrote:
Wolfgang Pichler <wolfgang.pichler@ivv.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
i appreciate your and your colleague's work very much and i could contribute heavily as perl hacker, but it is VERY hard to do just reverse engineering because no architectural or other docs helpful to analyze the beast are available besides bare code. also cvs seems not to be the latest *common* effort, or am i not right in this case ?
Can you spell out exactly what documents you need? Maybe then someone who knows the relevant part can start to contribute them.
field of work could/would be : consistent import of existing data (the whole old working library -> working koha library - not just biblio breeding :-) found a visualized RD-scheme at http://irref.mine.nu/user/dchud/koha-scheme/ as a starter, but it seems somehow useless without a list of values used for indicator/status-fields or a list of constraints checked obviously programmatically in various places, or more bad, never checked and evocating hard-to-find delayed bugs due to perl's smatrness of operating everything somehow. as stated before a definitive list of calculated (when,how,... nasty questions, i admit,... :-) vs. untouched "bare" legacy data would be great. i ever some "design" was applied, this could be no problem, but koha seems to be some grown beast with different code-quality and maybe no one remembers the old assumptions any more :-) so i do not expect some kind of petri-net, but if koha is a multi-developer-effort, at least some negotiated interfaces could be documented in some descriptive emails ... irc seems a quite good channel too, but only if massive experience on the "skeleton" is present, or it will be waste of time for the others.
Did someone post a link to a cross-referenced source of koha, or did I imagine that?
SO WHERE IS AT LEAST THE LATEST CVS ? sf ? looked at dates : seems, everyone keeps it's own copy and check-ins are rather rare.