[Koha] 2 different circulation rules against a patron

[Chee Hong]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply and explanation. I agree with you that it will be a
maintenance nightmare for the upgrade. Personally, I think this is a nice
to have feature. In order to realize my use case, I need to create 2 patron
accounts for users who need to have this special privilege.

Best Regards,
Chee

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:05 PM Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au> wrote:

> Hi Chee,
> I am going to answer 'No, it can't be applied to 18.05', for a few reasons:
> - the patch was submitted over three years ago: that is six versions of
> Koha ago;
> - even if it applies to the code base, it could cause any number of
> problems - it has not been tested by project maintainers or subjected to
> quality assurance (QA) testing;
> - the concept is a bad idea, if you read the discussion in the bug
> report: the concept has been rejected by the project's QA Manager no less;
> - patches that are not part of Koha have to be re-applied at every
> upgrade: if you do this once, you will keep doing it, and create a
> maintenance headache for yourself.
> The only way in Koha for a user to have two categories is to create two
> records for them. That can cause its own problems. Why not just put them
> in the category with the most generous circulation rules?
> Otherwise, Koha does not support the functionality you are seeking.
> I hope this explains,
> Bob Birchall
> Calyx
>
> On 7/1/19 9:00 am, Chee Hong wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  Is there any problem if I want to apply the patch
> > to Koha 18.05? If not, please provide the steps to do so.
> > I appreciate that. Thank you.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Chee
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 10:20 AM Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Chee
> >>
> >>   > There is a patch to a bug that has my use case.
> >>   >
> >>   >
> >>
> >>
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=44762&action=edit
> >>   >
> >>   > My question now is this available in Koha 18.05?
> >>
> >> No, this patch was never pushed to master. The discussion about it ended
> >> in 2015. Thus, it is not in Koha 18.05 or any other Koha version.
> >>
> >> Best wishes: Michael
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