[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alternate interfaces, Re: Documentation Interest Group Meeting: Today, December 5

[Jason Etheridge]

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> Since there is now a unified volume/copy editor, I thought it might be
> necessary to now offer two sets of docs for adding holdings since some
> libraries may continue to use the traditional volume and copy creator while
> others may move to the unified one. Does this make sense?

This reminds me; alternate interfaces are something I don't think
anyone necessarily wants to see a lot of (since it can be a burden to
documenters, testers, and maybe even to users), so if folks ever tend
to favor one interface over another, we may want to think about
deprecating and eventually removing the lesser used interfaces.  Maybe
we can sound folks out during the Evergreen conference, etc.

Examples:

* Unified Volume/Copy Editor versus separated Volume and Copy Editors
* Horizontal patron summary pane versus vertical patron summary pane
* Serial Control View versus Alternate Serial Control

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