User:Dcook

Bio

Software engineer at Prosentient Systems in Sydney, Australia.

Working in the library world since 2006, and developing Koha since 2012.

Development interests

• Koha Plugins
  • Add a plugin to many Koha instances at once using the CLI
    • To make plugin management easier for vendors
  • Prevent Intranet users from uploading plugins (so only system administrators can add available plugins)
    • To prevent library administrators from adding unverified plugins
  • Provide Intranet users a preconfigured list of plugins to download and install into Koha
    • To allow library administrators to only install plugins they actually want

• OAI-PMH
  • Add import API to core Koha code
  • Create Koha plugin to use high performance interactive OAI-PMH harvester

• Pluggable authentication system
  • OpenID Connect auth Koha plugin
    • Much of this work already exists but needs upstreaming

• RabbitMQ-based task scheduler / FIFO job queue
  • Usable by Koha plugins

• APIs
  • Provide Koha search results via API

• Discovery interfaces

• Better database migration system
  • Possibly use DBIC for deploying and upgrading schema

• Creating more effective ways of maintaining MARC bibliographic frameworks

• Replacing CGI with PSGI

• Upgrading to Perl 7