Excellent list Jonathan! I think You've summed up most if not all the terms that need clarifying. The only one I could possibly add is Lists, but I don't think anyone has called them virtual shelves in ages.
Kyle http://www.kylehall.info ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com ) On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Druart < jonathan.dru...@biblibre.com> wrote: > I have created a page on the wiki for the terminology: > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Terminology > > IMO what we need, most of all, is a consensus on how we want to see > the Koha namespace organised. > > 2015-06-19 15:35 GMT+01:00 Kyle Hall <kyle.m.h...@gmail.com>: > > It's been discussed a few times, but I think we need to formalize naming > > conventions when writing patches for Koha. > > > > The worse offenders are those things that we use many different names for > > both internally and externally. I think patrons/borrowers/members is the > > worst offender. List come to mind as well ( previously being virtual > shelves > > ). > > > > I believe that our internal nomenclature should reflect our outward > > nomenclature. So if the staff and/or OPAC use the term "patron" we > should be > > using the term "patron" in our code as well, especially for namespaces. > > > > What does everyone think? > > > > The more we hammer out now the easier it will be to vote on naming rules > at > > the dev meeting. > > > > Kyle > > > > http://www.kylehall.info > > ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) > > Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) > > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) > > Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com ) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha-devel mailing list > > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >
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