[Koha] Goods and bads...

[Galen Charlton]

Hi Ernesto,

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Ernesto Silva <erniesilva at gmail.com> wrote:
> -How is the code today? Does it still have library specific hard-coded pieces?

Most of the bits hardcoded for a specific library are gone, and the
last few stragglers will be removed by the time 3.2 is released.

> -Are Authorities and Serials working well?

Both are working well enough for production use, although there are a
number of improvements to authorities that will be made as part of
3.2.

> -How about acquisitions?

Koha 3.0's acquisitions module is also being used in production by a
number of libraries.  Paul Poulain and BibLibre have just submitted a
large number of improvements which will be incorporated into 3.2.

> -How does Zebra performs with complex queries, say, 5 to 10 terms ( A
> and B and not C or D... etc.)

Zebra performs very well indeed and can be expected to handle 10-term
queries faster than the 10-20 seconds it sounds like you achieved with
your custom search system.

> We hired Jean Pierre Ducassou, he was the one who finished the search
> system and developed a new record display system based on XML+XSL+XSLT

Koha 3.0 supports the use of XSLT for the display of bib records in
the OPAC, but I'd be curious to see what Jean Pierre has done.

> which we still don't have online but will have in a few months. We
> need to alter some MARC data to unify criteria here at ORT.
> Of course this code is available for free to everyone who wants it,
> just ask for it.

I, for one, am interested in seeing it.  If you have a CVS/SVN/git
repo of your version, please consider publishing it.  While it likely
would be difficult to merge your changes directly into the 3.x
codebase given the amount of reorganization that has taken place since
the days of 2.2, seeing what you've done can inform the future
direction of 3.x.

Regards,

Galen
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