This is just a reminder that I'm working to consolidate the three misc/cronjobs/overduesnotices*.pl programs. From what I can tell two of them are nearly identical, but don't really work, and the third doesn't add enough extra functionality to justify a separate program. I expect to send out a proposed patch by tomorrow and (depending on the amount of suggestions I receive from that) have a final version to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Friday.
I'll document this work at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2274 Thanks, -Andy On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Koha Developers - > > After a brief audit of some of the code in misc/cronjobs it looks to > me that the cronjobs that handle things like overdues, notices, and > fines could use some work. There's a lot of overlapping functionality > in the scripts in that directory, and not everything that we need for > 3.0 is there yet. So, I'm hoping to find a reasonable way to get what > we need easily. I'm looking for guidance here on developing a roadmap, > so please speak up if you have recommendations. > > These are the scripts that I think we need: > > overdue_notices.pl - will prepare notices for items that are overdue. > This increments the overdue notice counters. > fines.pl - will calculate and update patron fines. This will NOT > prepare notices. > advance_notices.pl - will prepare notices for items that are not yet > due, or have just become due. Patrons will have the option of > receiving these or not. > > This is what will happen to many of the scripts that are there now: > > overduenotices-30.pl will get folded into overdue_notices.pl > overduenotices-csv.pl will get folded into overdue_notices.pl > overduenoties.pl will get replaced by overdue_notices.pl > smsoverdues.pl will get replaced by overdue_notices.pl > > fines2.pl will get replaced by fines.pl > fines-ll.pl will get folded into fines.pl. This script has good > calculation stuff that should be salvaged. > fines-sanop.pl will most likely be replaced by fines.pl. > > There are also some changes to the staff interface that will probably > be done, as there is a similar disorganization there, but we can deal > with that separately, I think. > > If we can agree on a general path like this, it will help us work > together to reach a common goal. I can certainly get to much of this > work myself in time, but there is some work going on in this directory > by others and I want to make sure I'm not stepping on anyone's toes. > > If it looks like this path won't get us to where you think we should > be, please speak up. If it looks like this is a reasonable way to > proceed, please feel free to help out. > > Thanks! > -Andy > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
