Totally agree with this. All we need to do is imagine where we want Koha to be pluggable! So far we have the ability create Report/Tool plugins, arbitrary file to MARC conversion plugins, and I also have submitted a patch to make EDIFACT pluggable ( once it gets it ). The first step is to know what behavior needs to be modified, then make that behavior pluggable. It's almost a chicken or the egg issue. I suppose what we need to do is watch for new patches for very region specific features ( such as Norwegian patron DB ) and suggest a path to plug-ability rather pushing the code itself into Koha.
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 Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Julian Maurice <julian.maur...@biblibre.com > wrote: > +1 to "one Koha to rule them all" > +1000 to a more powerful plugin system! > Having a plugin system to build custom tools and reports is great, but I > think we could (and should) go further. > > Le 11/02/2016 10:38, Magnus Enger a écrit : > > Dear Community! > > > > A quote from another thread on koha-devel: > > > > "I look at the code, and beside wondering why that custom feature > > [Norwegian patron DB] is so profoundly imbricated into master Koha, I > > was wondering what is not working." > > > > I think this raises an interesting question. Should we let features > > into Koha that are only of interest to libraries in one or a small > > number of countries? Or should we confine those features to > > country-specific forks? > > > > The quote above implies (I think) that support for the Norwegian > > patron DB should be in a country-specific fork. > > > > On the other hand, the project implementing Koha for public libraries > > in Turkey has been criticized for not integrating their customizations > > into Koha. To which someone replied that the customizations were not > > of much interest to libraries outside Turkey. > > > > So do we want one Koha to rule them all, including country-specific > > features, or do we want one fork per country? > > > > Personally, I prefer the former. In the case of the Norwegian patron > > DB, that is one of the 2-3 "must have" features that all Norwegian > > public libraries will be looking for when they are choosing between > > Koha or some proprietary system. Should we be telling them "Nope, you > > can't use the real Koha, but you can use this fork over here"? That > > will not increase their confidence in choosing Koha, I suspect. > > > > That said, I do think some principles should be applied: > > > > - Strive to make even the country specific features as general as > > possible, so that others can use them as starting points for similar > > features. > > > > - Strive to make the features as unobtrusive as possible. > > > > And maybe, in time, the plugin system can be made powerful enough that > > it can handle some or all of the country-specific features? > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Best regards, > > Magnus Enger > > Libriotech > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > > -- > Julian Maurice <julian.maur...@biblibre.com> > BibLibre > _______________________________________________ > 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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