Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-06-03 Thread Robin Sheat
Paul schreef op za 01-06-2013 om 17:37 [-0400]: 3.8 is now old stable, 3.10 is stable and 3.12 development is advertized 3.12 isn't development, it's the current release. Only things with odd numbers in the minor version number are development. 3.12, 3.10, and 3.8 are all supported releases*,

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-06-01 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Tarballs, packages, gits (including vendors), stables, latest, bugs and patches, wikis (various), tools, reports, live-DVDs, mailing lists, chat, maybe more, and now plug-ins?  Could we please look at what the open source world is doing? Apache, SendMail, Perl, PostFix, FireFox, Debian,

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-06-01 Thread Paul
At 07:17 AM 6/1/2013 -0700, BWS Johnson wrote: Salvete! Tarballs, packages, gits (including vendors), stables, latest, bugs and patches, wikis (various), tools, reports, live-DVDs, mailing lists, chat, maybe more, and now plug-ins? Could we please look at what the open source world is doing?

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-06-01 Thread Tomas Cohen Arazi
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Paul pau...@aandc.org wrote: At 07:17 AM 6/1/2013 -0700, BWS Johnson wrote: I know that a number of you will ... whatever ... Paul's a pain in the neck, doesn't understand, does his own thing, but the bottom line is that

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Kyle Hall
If it turns out that a lot of folks are writing plugins or are planning to, I think we should encourage them to go through a QA process, and creating an official plugin repository would move us toward that. That's pretty awesome! I didn't know there were that many people interested writing

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Kyle Hall kyle.m.h...@gmail.com wrote: That's pretty awesome! I didn't know there were that many people interested writing plugins! Well, there's clearly at least one. :) More seriously, I don't know how much interest there is overall, but for the plugin

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Kyle Hall
Plugins have unrestricted access to the database, right? Even if one couldn't readily write one that interjects itself into the loan rules calculating, unrestricted database access means that plugins have the potential to intermingle with core functionality. Yes, that is correct. MARC

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Christopher Nighswonger
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kyle Hall kyle.m.h...@gmail.com wrote: Rolling Hard Due Dates - This is by far my most complicated plugin, and has undergone rigorous testing. It allows you to schedule updates to the hard due dates for circulation rules, and update the due dates for

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Paul
At 01:02 PM 5/31/2013 -0400, Kyle Hall wrote (and maybe some attributions got lost): [snip] Agreed. Most plugin logic would make for a very good basis for an Koha patch. [snip] I'm getting a bit of a twitch here -- I see the utility of this as a workaround, but I hope that this plugin has a

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Chris Cormack
On 1 June 2013 05:24, Christopher Nighswonger chris.nighswon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kyle Hall kyle.m.h...@gmail.com wrote: This sort of thing has been asked for before and discussed IIRC. I think it was waiting on a circ rule re-write due to the undue complexity

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-31 Thread Christopher Nighswonger
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Chris Cormack ch...@bigballofwax.co.nz wrote: On 1 June 2013 05:24, Christopher Nighswonger chris.nighswon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kyle Hall kyle.m.h...@gmail.com wrote: This sort of thing has been asked for before and discussed

[Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-30 Thread Tomas Cohen Arazi
Hi, with the inclusion of a plugin system we provide a convenient way of injecting functionalities to Koha. I was about to write one myself for implementing some cute graphics (jqPlot) and circulation statistics we had in our 3.0.x fork prior to our 3.8 upgrade. Then I came to think this should

Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: Plugins QA

2013-05-30 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi tomasco...@gmail.com wrote: So, I belive we should discuss the creation of a sort of Official plugins repository where QAed plugins could be uploaded. If it turns out that a lot of folks are writing plugins or are planning to, I think we