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#koha: General IRC meeting, 6 November 2013
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Meeting started by gmcharlt at 02:02:40 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2013/general_irc_meeting__6_november_2013.2013-11-06-02.02.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Agenda is at
  http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting,_6_November_2013
  (gmcharlt, 02:02:56)
* Introductions  (gmcharlt, 02:03:01)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 02:03:02)
  * gmcharlt = Galen Charton, Equinox Software, Inc.  (gmcharlt,
    02:03:19)
  * Katrin Fischer, BSZ Germany  (cait, 02:03:23)
  * Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel, Córdoba Argentina  (bgkriegel, 02:03:30)
  * Ed Veal w/ ByWater Solutions  (edveal, 02:03:33)
  * Bob Birchall, Calyx Australia  (BobB_, 02:03:34)
  * rhcl = Greg Lawson, Rolling Hills Consolidated Library  (rhcl,
    02:03:38)
  * Robin Sheat, Catalyst IT  (eythian, 02:03:45)
  * Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries  (oleonard, 02:03:45)
  * Joel Sasse Plum Creek Library System MN USA  (joels68, 02:04:06)
  * Kyle Hall, ByWater Solutions  (khall, 02:04:55)
  * , Mason James, NZ  (mtj, 02:05:17)

* Announcement  (gmcharlt, 02:07:03)
  * clintD  (clintD, 02:07:07)
  * 3.14 beta is out; folks are encouraged to test  (gmcharlt, 02:07:18)
  * David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand  (davidnind, 02:07:24)

* Update on Koha 3.8  (gmcharlt, 02:08:58)
  * Koha 3.8.19 was released on 29 October 2013  (gmcharlt, 02:09:10)
  * there is a volunteer to continue as RMaint for 3.8  (BobB_,
    02:09:49)

* Update on 3.10  (gmcharlt, 02:11:55)

* Update on 3.12  (gmcharlt, 02:12:38)
  * Bruce Metcalf, Augustan Society  (Bruce_, 02:13:01)
  * 3.12.6 released on 28 October 2013  (gmcharlt, 02:13:27)

* Update on 3.14  (gmcharlt, 02:13:38)
  * 3.14 beta is available for testing  (gmcharlt, 02:13:54)
  * ACTION: All the people will test the beta  (gmcharlt, 02:14:29)
  * gmcharlt will branch 3.14.x later this week, thereby allowing
    enhancements to continue to go into master  (gmcharlt, 02:15:10)
  * Mirko Tietgen, Berlin, late  (drojf, 02:17:25)

* Elections for 3.16  (gmcharlt, 02:18:28)
  * List of roles and candidates proposed for 3.16 is at
    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.16  (gmcharlt,
    02:18:40)
  * AGREED: Chad Roseburg is elected Newsletter Editor, with Joanne
    Dillon assisting  (gmcharlt, 02:21:21)
  * AGREED: Samuel Desseaux elected as a meeting chair  (gmcharlt,
    02:23:15)
  * IDEA: Is there any controversy about any nomination?  Should we take
    them as a set?  (BobB_, 02:24:15)
  * AGREED: Joanne Dillon and Chris Cormack elected as bug wrangler
    (gmcharlt, 02:24:53)
  * LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Obmnz_1hZk  (gmcharlt,
    02:28:18)
  * AGREED: Samuel Desseaux elected as VM manager  (gmcharlt, 02:30:01)
  * AGREED: Robin Sheat elected as packaging manager  (gmcharlt,
    02:30:11)
  * AGREED: Jared Camins-Esakov elected as module maintainer for
    authorities  (gmcharlt, 02:30:30)
  * AGREED: Kyle Hall elected as module maintainer for holds  (gmcharlt,
    02:30:39)
  * AGREED: Tomas Cohen Arazi elected as module maintainer for the
    Debian scripts  (gmcharlt, 02:30:56)
  * AGREED: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel elected as release maintainer for
    3.10.x  (gmcharlt, 02:31:19)
  * AGREED: Tomas Cohen Arazi elected as release maintainer for 3.12.x
    (gmcharlt, 02:31:32)
  * AGREED: Fridolyn Somers elected as release maintainer for 3.14.x
    (gmcharlt, 02:31:45)
  * AGREED: Ruth Bavousett, Kyle Hall, Paul Polain, Martin Renvoize,
    Marcel de Rooy, and Jonathan Druart elected as members of the QA
    team  (gmcharlt, 02:32:29)
  * AGREED: Katrin Fischer elected as QA manager  (gmcharlt, 02:32:40)
  * AGREED: Joy Nelson elected as database documentation manger, with
    Samuel Desseaux assisting  (gmcharlt, 02:32:57)
  * AGREED: Nicole Engard elected as documentation manager  (gmcharlt,
    02:33:08)
  * AGREED: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel elected as translation manager
    (gmcharlt, 02:33:25)
  * AGREED: Galen Charlton elected as release manager  (gmcharlt,
    02:33:36)
  * AGREED: whether to continue the 3.8.x branch and elected an rmaint
    for it to be decided by the December IRC meeting  (gmcharlt,
    02:37:17)

* Debrief on KohaCon 13  (gmcharlt, 02:39:31)
  * AGREED: the community thanks Nancy Keener and the other staff at the
    Washoe County Library system for hosting KohaCon13  (gmcharlt,
    02:42:32)
  * Daniel Grobani listed info sources in the last community newsletter
    - very helpful reference  (BobB_, 02:44:30)
  * Joy Nelson ByWater solutions  (talljoy, 02:45:57)

* KohaCon 14 and 15  (gmcharlt, 02:47:39)

* Action items from the October IRC meeting  (gmcharlt, 03:01:05)
  * the one action item from the October IRC meeting, creating the 3.16
    project roles wiki page, was completed by rangi  (gmcharlt,
    03:01:23)
  * Announcement: edveal and nengard have created an XSLT library page
    on the wiki - http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/XSLT_Library
    (gmcharlt, 03:03:22)

* setting time of next meeting  (gmcharlt, 03:03:44)
  * AGREED: the next general IRC meeting will be held at 18:00 on 4
    December 2013  (gmcharlt, 03:06:22)



Meeting ended at 03:06:53 UTC.



People present (lines said)
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* gmcharlt (117)
* BobB_ (30)
* oleonard (21)
* cait (18)
* Bruce_ (17)
* bgkriegel (15)
* khall (12)
* drojf (11)
* joels68 (10)
* davidnind (9)
* eythian (8)
* edveal (8)
* crose (7)
* rhcl (6)
* cait1 (4)
* talljoy (4)
* huginn (4)
* clintD (2)
* wahanui (1)
* mtj (1)
* cjh (1)



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