#log: Developer meeting, 12 March 2014 (part1)

Meeting started by gmcharlt at 08:01:24 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Developers_IRC_Meeting,_March_12_2014 Agenda (gmcharlt, 08:01:40)

  2. Introductions (gmcharlt, 08:01:43)
    1. wahanui, a bot that has become sentient (wahanui, 08:01:44)
    2. gmcharlt = Galen Charlton, 3.16 RM (gmcharlt, 08:01:50)
    3. Colin Campbell, PTFS Europe (ColinC, 08:02:25)
    4. Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries (oleonard, 08:02:28)
    5. Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands (marcelr, 08:02:37)
    6. Jared Camins-Esakov, C & P Bibliography Services (jcamins, 08:02:40)
    7. Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City (thd, 08:02:53)
    8. Dobrica Pavlinušić, FFZG Zagreb, Croatia (dpavlin, 08:03:04)
    9. Katrin Fischer, BSZ Germany (cait, 08:03:46)
    10. Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe (ashimema, 08:04:25)
    11. Brendan Gallagher ByWater (bag, 08:04:30)
    12. Jesse Weaver ByWater (pianohacker, 08:04:47)
    13. paul Poulain, BibLibre, France (paul_p, 08:05:00)
    14. Jesse Maseto, ByWater (JesseM_, 08:05:56)

  3. Hackfest update (gmcharlt, 08:06:28)
    1. numbers from the hackfest - http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Marseille_hackfest_2014 (gmcharlt, 08:08:18)
    2. Magnus Enger, Oslo Public Library (magnuse, 08:08:19)
    3. Lots of sign-offs has QA fighting to keep up :) (cait, 08:08:23)
    4. Greg Lawson, Rolling Hills Consolidated Library (rhcl, 08:09:00)
    5. bug status numbers for this week are available from http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Marseille_hackfest_2014 (magnuse, 08:09:12)
    6. clrh & alex_a will submit soon a patch to collect datas about Koha setups&users (paul_p, 08:09:27)
    7. I'll send a mail to koha-devel to request a DNS entry to host the stats server (paul_p, 08:09:45)
    8. there was a nice demo about the new textual cataloguing interface ByWater's pianohacker is working on (cait, 08:09:54)
    9. professional catalogers thingy has been submitted - good comments and discussion on using it for more than just Marc21 - bug 11559 (bag, 08:10:00)
    10. We discussed SIP implementations in various libraries with various vendors and how it works currently and how it could be improved (cait, 08:10:47)
    11. http://thenounproject.com/term/monster/24989/ (oleonard, 08:12:27)
    12. CHEESE!!! and froglegs too (bag, 08:12:47)
    13. Joubu gave a good introduction on profiling and debugging - showing us how to turn on Plack and use NYTprof (cait, 08:12:50)
    14. we also discussed RFID, based on work that is being done at Oslo Public Library, see bug 11858 (magnuse, 08:13:08)
    15. plack bug 7844 got signed off (magnuse++) so we might get something into koha soon (dpavlin, 08:13:46)
    16. dpavlin also looked at a bunch of LDAP related bugs and patches (cait, 08:14:11)
    17. There was also work on sample SQL reports to install with Koha (cait, 08:15:28)
    18. And looking into a new default XSLT for UNIMARC (cait, 08:15:42)
    19. ... there also was a lot of cheese... (cait, 08:17:14)

  4. Performance - Plack (gmcharlt, 08:19:12)
    1. Plack bug 7844 is in progress (gmcharlt, 08:19:59)
    2. http://git.catalyst.co.nz/gw?p=koha-plack.git;a=summary contains some stuff for Debian-package management of Plack for the OPAC (gmcharlt, 08:20:51)
    3. Catalyst also has some patches for dealing with restarting Zebra connections (gmcharlt, 08:21:12)
    4. RM announces Plack configs for both OPAC and intranet as a release goal for 3.16 (gmcharlt, 08:26:05)
    5. Plack support will almost certainly be experimental for production use, but will be encouraged for development environments to shake out remaining bugs (gmcharlt, 08:26:43)

  5. Performance and QA (gmcharlt, 08:28:12)
    1. Question: Should performance be an issue during the QA process? (gmcharlt, 08:28:15)
    2. Mark Tompsett (mtompset, 08:42:41)
    3. https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Performance+Plugin ? (magnuse, 08:48:52)
    4. AGREED: http://paste.koha-community.org/158 is provisionally approved as a QA guideline for performance t (gmcharlt, 08:49:03)
    5. Jesse Weaver ByWater (pianohacker, 08:50:30)
    6. AGREED: http://paste.koha-community.org/160 is provisionally accepted as an amendment to the coding guidelines regarding performance (gmcharlt, 08:53:41)

  6. Action items from previous meeting (gmcharlt, 08:54:34)
    1. gmcharlt was laid low by his sinuses over the weekend, still workingo n DBIC examples and clearing the PQA queue (gmcharlt, 08:54:59)


Meeting ended at 09:00:05 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. (none)


People present (lines said)

  1. gmcharlt (65)
  2. ashimema (40)
  3. cait (34)
  4. bag (28)
  5. pianohacker (25)
  6. magnuse (25)
  7. paul_p (22)
  8. marcelr (10)
  9. mtompset (8)
  10. dpavlin (5)
  11. huginn (5)
  12. ColinC (5)
  13. pastebot (4)
  14. oleonard (3)
  15. thd (3)
  16. - (2)
  17. jenkins_koha (2)
  18. jcamins (1)
  19. rhcl (1)
  20. Joubu (1)
  21. wahanui (1)
  22. JesseM_ (1)


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