RFCs for Koha 3.2

This page contains RFCs for version 3.2 of Koha. All RFCs for major new features for Koha 3.2 should be posted to koha-devel and copied here. As work progresses, bugs should be linked here.

• Timeline and roadmap

• System groups
• Holdings or summary records
• Online help : It is possible to locally edit the online help. A great feature could be to send a manual edit to patches@koha.org (patch format) to have the online help being improved by the community itself !
• Description Translations
• Koha E-R diagrams and tables information
• Add 'use warnings' to all scripts and modules See bug 2505
• Update parts of the staff interface to use AJAX
• Central Authentication Service compatibility
• Alert staff when unsaved changes have been made
• Improved granular permissions
• Barcode Prefixes in Consortial Environment
• Stop copying item records to bib's MARC and MARCXML
• Improvements to security and data privacy
• Mandate item-level circulation rules
• RFC for using DBIx::Class in Koha
• Merge biblio and biblioitems tables
• Add column to biblio table for subtitle / remainder of title
• Split interface for Circulation Rules and Circulation Policy
• bib response service should provide URL recipe
• process files from an offline circulation tool
• Upgrade jQuery to 1.3.2 See bug 3297

• Acquisitions

• Managing permissions on acquisition module

• Order workflow changes/improvements (done)
• Basket filling improvements (done, except line moving)
• Output order upon closing the basket
• Improving searches on orders (partially done)
• Create item when ordering

• Buying-analysis (done)
• Improving statistics on acquisitions (partially done)
• Refining the budgets hierarchy and informations (done)
• Refining the management of funds & budgets
• Bibliographic searches within acquisitions
• Allow stemming for other languages

• Opac suggestions: search catalogue and suggestions before adding
• Opac suggestions: Put a hold on item when suggestion is received
• Enhance Suggestions Workflow

• Import/Export All System Preferences

• PQF search
• Sorting display of items
• Storing queries

• Authority control improvements
• Item status auto-change
• Item status bulk change
• Advanced cataloging search
• Improved batch capabilities (overlaps with Item status bulk change)
• Requiring items
• Koha Z39.50 client process discussion
• adding/updating call number splitting algorithms in C4/Labels.pm
• Staff search results interface changes See bug 3263 and its dependencies

• Hourly circulation policies
• Email checkout slips
• Fine batch forgiveness and thresholds
• Library opening hours and term loans
• Recall requests
• Hold request flag in circ matrix
• General improvements for holds requests
• Hold request targeting - see koha bug 2522
• Fast Add capability
• Brief records and record maintenance (overlaps with fast adds)
• Fine tuning of circulation policies
• Calculate fines in days debarred
• process files from an offline circulation tool (done)
• Filtering and sorting the overdue report using patron attributes See bug 2866 (done)

• Patron Reading record management
• Advanced patron search
• Patron self-managing privacy
• Default Messaging Settings (done)

• Support for Syndetics enhanced content (done)
• Place hold on multiple items See bug 3093
• Tag multiple items See bug 3034 (done)
• Ability for staff to place a hold for any customer from the opac
• Support for multiple PAC interfaces by URL See bug 3244 (done)
• Web standards support
• OPAC display with XSLT for UNIMARC
• OPAC XSLT stylesheets are not translatable
• Basket email FROM address is KohaAdminAddress syspref
• Impossible to disable Amazon reviews without disabling Amazon book cover (done)
• Show user comments in staff client
• Search authorities using keywords from same menu as keyword search

• Notifications and OPAC messaging
• guided reports
• holds queue report needs additional fields
• Fill the borrowernumber field, and show author and creation date

• Improvements to security and data privacy