Hi Bob, Thanks for your reply and explanation. I agree with you that it will be a maintenance nightmare for the upgrade. Personally, I think this is a nice to have feature. In order to realize my use case, I need to create 2 patron accounts for users who need to have this special privilege.
Best Regards, Chee On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:05 PM Bob Birchall <b...@calyx.net.au> wrote: > Hi Chee, > I am going to answer 'No, it can't be applied to 18.05', for a few reasons: > - the patch was submitted over three years ago: that is six versions of > Koha ago; > - even if it applies to the code base, it could cause any number of > problems - it has not been tested by project maintainers or subjected to > quality assurance (QA) testing; > - the concept is a bad idea, if you read the discussion in the bug > report: the concept has been rejected by the project's QA Manager no less; > - patches that are not part of Koha have to be re-applied at every > upgrade: if you do this once, you will keep doing it, and create a > maintenance headache for yourself. > The only way in Koha for a user to have two categories is to create two > records for them. That can cause its own problems. Why not just put them > in the category with the most generous circulation rules? > Otherwise, Koha does not support the functionality you are seeking. > I hope this explains, > Bob Birchall > Calyx > > On 7/1/19 9:00 am, Chee Hong wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > Thanks for your reply. Is there any problem if I want to apply the patch > > to Koha 18.05? If not, please provide the steps to do so. > > I appreciate that. Thank you. > > > > Best Regards, > > Chee > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 10:20 AM Michael Kuhn <m...@adminkuhn.ch> wrote: > > > >> Hi Chee > >> > >> > There is a patch to a bug that has my use case. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=44762&action=edit > >> > > >> > My question now is this available in Koha 18.05? > >> > >> No, this patch was never pushed to master. The discussion about it ended > >> in 2015. Thus, it is not in Koha 18.05 or any other Koha version. > >> > >> Best wishes: Michael > >> -- > >> Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis > >> Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz > >> T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E m...@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > >> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > >> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
