Comment 14 for bug 677074

You are right, the ideas I have expressed to this point do not account for prioritizing all the different stakeholders which might be involved in any given circ. That is a problem that needs to be addressed, and maybe that is primarily what we are trying to do here, and I certainly support that.

My bigger concern is that we should be doing so in the context of simplifying the setup in general. After all, circulation policies are written by people and need to be understandable by patrons. Because of these natural limits, they tend to not be overly complicated, and we should take advantage of as many reasonable assumptions as we can, then provide fallback mechanisms only when the simple ones fail.

The primary questions we are trying to answer are:

1) Whose policies count in this situation?
2) What are those policies?

Right now the matrix tries to answer both questions at once, but maybe we could be better served by asking and answering them separately.