Hello, There's a feature freeze for Koha 3.2, but BibLibre just won a development contract for Koha 3.4 with a university library here in France. I'll be updating the wiki during the next few days, with the details of the developments we plan to do as part of this contract. Most of them have to do with the Circulation module.
The entry point for RFCs for Koha 3.4 is thus: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.4 I started out with 3 RFCs: Ergonomics of smart-rules and circulation parameters A lot of development is intended to allow for more refined parameters as far as circulation is concerned: see other RFCs for 3.4. There's going to be many more options and many more toggles / choices / more possibilities. It's doubtful this can be accommodated within the current smart-rules.pl page. So a new way to deal with the UI aspect of managing rules is in order. (to be continued with actual proposals: feel free to chime in) (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:ergonomics_of_smart-rules_and_circulation_parameters) Flagged patrons: enhancements In 3.2 when a patron is manually flagged using gonenoaddress, lost or debarred, it's just managed as a toggle choice. Enhancements proposed are: * add a comment field to the current 3 choices: e.g. debarred_comment * add a hidden timestamp to the choices: e.g. debarred_timestamp * add a timestamp, entered through the UI, to put an end date to the flag: e.g. debarred_enddate or some such * add a script which lifts the flags based on the myflag_enddate * display the myflag_comment when the record is pulled in circulation.pl (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:enhancements_to_debarred_patron) Enhancements to the display of extended patron attributes in circulation Extended patron attributes are a great tool, which provides nice flexibility in the information one wants to manage in the patron's record. But as of version 3.2 we don't have any way to manage how this information will be displayed once entered. For some extended attributes, it might be useful to have them display in circ/circulation.pl, in the Check Out tab, which is arguably the most important tab in this page. This RFC proposes: * to make the Check Out tab rather than Details the default tab called in the UI when the librarian scans the card's barcode and calls the patron's record from the checkout box at circulation-home.pl or at circulation.pl * to add a field to admin/patron-att-types.pl?op=edit|add_attribute_type → labeled “display in check out”, with a checkbox * manage the display of those selected attribute types in the display of the patron's information in the checkout tab on circulation.pl (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:enhancements_to_the_display_of_extended_patron_attributes_in_circ) Feel free to add your thoughts in the wiki. Again: more RFCs pertaining to circulation to be added in the coming days. Cheers, Nicolas -- Nicolas Morin Mobile: +33(0)633 19 11 36 http://www.biblibre.com _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel