[Koha-devel] Reserve system

[Pierrick LE GALL]

Hi koha-devel,

During my investigation on bug 668 [1], I've started discovering how
reserve worked. I must admit I'm a bit disappointed about several
points:

1. A reserve can be linked to a biblio or to an item. I've asked hdl on
   IRC in which case it was useful to reserve a specific item, he told
   me that was to avoid preventing an issue on another branch. My
   opinion is that this is not the right design if branches
   independance is the reason of item number in reserve table.

2. Reserve cancellation can only be made when reserve is linked to an
   item (this is the origin of the problem, coming from the correction
   on the bug 969 [2]). When trying to issue an item reserved, only the
   first reserve is displayed for confirmation of cancel and only the
   first reserve is cancelled if asked by the librarian, without
   changing the priority of other reserves. I think it's a bug of
   course.

3. Finally, I really don't understand why Koha ask for reserve
   cancellation when issuing. A warning isn't enough? Why would a
   librarian cancel the reserve of borrower B1 if she authorizes B2 to
   issue the item? It doesn't make sense to me.

Please help me to understand the deep origin of this design I don't
understand :-)

[1] http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=668
[2] http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=969

Bye

-- 
Pierrick LE GALL
INEO media system