[Koha] From the Kaitiaki

[Glen Eustace]

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;

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.

>    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.

Glen
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