[Koha] RFC Discussion

[Magnus Enger]

On 19 November 2010 00:54, Thomas Dukleth <kohalist at agogme.com> wrote:
>> But I still think it would be a good idea to specify that this
>> Cataloguing-category is for Cataloguing RFCs... Any thoughts on that?
>>
>
> In MediaWiki categories need appropriate names to avoid semantic confusion
> and ensure that they are used in an appropriate way.  If you intend for a
> category to be used only for RFCs related to cataloguing, give the
> category an appropriate name such as 'cataloguing RFCs'.
>
> Category parent / child relationships will not save you from ambiguity and
> if merely using 'Cataloguing' as a category name for RFCs relating to
> cataloguing.  In using such a general name you will have taken a perfectly
> good category name which most people will want to use for cataloguing
> generally.  The actual structure of categories is flat allowing them to
> have multiple parent/child relationships to other categories which does
> not provide for some particular use unless identified in the name.

I agree. I think there should be a category called something like
"Cataloguing RFCs", which has both "Cataloguing" and "RFCs" as
parents.

Regards,
Magnus
libriotech.no