Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

2017-03-23 Thread Jonathan Druart
Hi Dalton, It sounds weird to me to add such specific rules (based on sort1 and/or sort2). Maybe it would be more useful define circ rules per patron? As you may have noticed the UI is pretty bad currently, there is a work in progress (or abandoned?) from ByWater (see bug 15522). It would be good

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

2017-03-23 Thread Jonathan Druart
Hi Dalton, That sounds not that hard to implement. Not sure how useful it could be, maybe ask on the other mailing list (koha). Regards, Jonathan On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 at 16:19 Dalton Fury wrote: > As per my knowledge, we can't restrict a patron in one branch from > checking out books in another

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

2017-03-23 Thread Dalton Fury
As per my knowledge, we can't restrict a patron in one branch from checking out books in another branch. Also, one patron cannot belong to multiple branches. If we work on this feature, will it be accepted into koha? On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Dalton Fury wrote: > Hey, > > Thanks for the

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

2017-03-22 Thread Dalton Fury
Hey, Thanks for the quick reply. 3.1 This won't be an issue, because the student would, after completion of the internship, be appointed as a student administrator at the library. He will be given a stipend and will work with us for 2 years. Our library systems are managed with the help of such a

Re: [Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

2017-03-22 Thread Philippe Blouin
Hi Dalton, We've played in that area, and as such I'll offer some answers to your questions 1. feasible? Yes, easily. Adding columns in the UI and in the backend should be relatively easy. 2. Most IT undergrad with curiosity, common sense and access to Google for perl/mysql questions s

[Koha-devel] Proposal to give summer internship to students for working on Koha

2017-03-22 Thread Dalton Fury
Hi, I am writing this email representing Central Library, National Institute of Technology, India. We migrated to Koha from a propitiatory software over an year ago, and are very happy with Koha. After moving to Koha, various departments have approached us so that they can use our Koha installat