Bug 9537

Summary: Add a list of the patches that have been applied to a Koha installation
Product: Koha Reporter: Manos PETRIDIS <egpetridis>
Component: System AdministrationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dcook, gmcharlt, katrin.fischer, liz
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Manos PETRIDIS 2013-02-03 21:43:25 UTC
I wonder if it would be useful to add a tab in the home, about koha section, displaying a list patches that have been applied to the specific koha installation, similar to the list of pearl modules.

This could prove handy when trying to ascertain why a bug that doesn't exist in the main distribution manifests itself in some git derivative or other.
Comment 1 Liz Rea 2013-02-03 21:50:28 UTC
This development would be welcomed, however it seems unlikely that it will be fixed without a code submission by someone who is really interested in seeing this feature in Koha.
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2016-08-28 12:34:26 UTC
I am not sure how this could work outside of a git installation - I think you'd have to keep all the information about the patches in Koha somehow.
Comment 3 David Cook 2022-08-22 02:34:24 UTC
I can't see this really being practical. I think that it would require every bug patch set to include a database update of some kind, and its only utility would really be for debugging, which should mostly be done in koha-testing-docker anyway where you have easy access to the source code and database.

I reckon this issue could probably be closed.
Comment 4 Katrin Fischer 2023-01-08 01:42:21 UTC
I agree with David on this one. It would also be hard to keep this information current, make it nicely searchable etc.

We do note on bugzilla now which versions a patch has been released with, so things have improved since this has been filed.