[Koha] MARC importing tool?

[Wolfgang Pichler]

MJ Ray wrote:

>Wolfgang Pichler <wolfgang.pichler at ivv.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
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>>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 ?
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>Can you spell out exactly what documents you need?  Maybe then someone
>who knows the relevant part can start to contribute them.
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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?
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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.