[Koha] Hackfest Edinburgh 2012 - Very last minute proposal (librarian oriented)

[Francois Charbonnier]

Hi all,

Lately, I've been watching game of thrones and I realised that Koha's 
smart rules were like Theon Greyjoy. It's something you think you know 
but in the end, does something that wasn't expected at all. :^)

Actually, it's not that dramatic but I think the hackfest is a good 
oportunity to build a focus group on the circulation rules. They are, if 
not the first, one of the feature that need to work really well. But I 
noticed recently, weird transfer or hold situations... At the same time, 
I discovered this new floating item feature. I don't know if it's 
related but I'm sure that even 2 or 3 people is not enough to QA any 
features that have impacts on circulation...

So, my idea is to set up a focus group to :
* work on koha circulation weaknesses
* help people testing circulation feature with different settings

At least, I think we should :
* list the different circulation settings we know (indenpendant branchs 
or not, etc...) :
* point out koha weaknesses for each of them
* and make a list of tests to run each time there is a new circulation 
feature to be tested

This way,  it's going to be easier for everyone to get involved in 
testing these features and in the end, to be sure the circulations 
rules... rules! ;^)

MJ, do you think it's possible to propose this during the hackfest?
If not, who's interested? IRC and Skype can be our friends! ;^)

François

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