21:07:39 #startmeeting General IRC meeting 2 May 2018 21:07:39 Meeting started Wed May 2 21:07:39 2018 UTC. The chair is cait. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 21:07:39 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 21:07:39 The meeting name has been set to 'general_irc_meeting_2_may_2018' 21:07:46 #topic Introductions 21:07:46 #info wahanui, a bot that has become sentient 21:07:53 please introduce yourself using #info 21:07:56 #info George Williams, Northeast Kansas Library System 21:08:10 #link https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_2_May_2018 Today's agenda 21:08:13 #info Caroline Cyr La Rose, inLibro, Canada 21:08:17 #info Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany 21:08:19 #info David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand 21:08:24 #info liz rea Catalyst NZ 21:08:26 #info Clint Deckard, Anact NZ 21:08:29 #info Chris Cormack Catalyst NZ 21:08:32 #info Bernardo Gonzalez, Cordoba, Argentina 21:08:57 #info Marti Fuerst, Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama, USA 21:09:02 nice :) 21:09:13 giving a little more time, then moving on 21:09:20 #info Tomas Cohen Arazi 21:09:37 #info Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City 21:09:55 moving on 21:10:00 #topic Announcements 21:10:13 #link http://dashboard.koha-community.org/ Dashboard - 20 days until release today 21:10:40 We are really close to release day now already, we are in hard feature freeze now and will enter string freeze on Friday 21:11:08 neat 21:11:13 Friday till when? 21:11:17 #link http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-18-05-release-dates-td5971005.html Release dates 18.05 21:11:33 caroline: short before release, translations are one of the last things pushed 21:12:30 So the 18 is still good? 21:12:38 should be 21:12:45 The french team is having a traslation blitz 21:12:48 bgkriegel_: do you know exactly? 21:13:34 We are still looking for some roles on the next release team 21:13:49 #link https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_18.11 Roles for 18.11 21:13:54 I'll will update strings a couple of times before relase 21:14:01 bgkriegel++ 21:14:20 we are still short a documentation team and 2 release maintainers 21:14:43 please consider signing up! Especially documentation team needs more hands... well... than zero :) way more hands 21:14:46 and packaging manager 21:14:47 what do those imply? 21:14:56 correct 21:15:13 #info Still looking for release maintainers, packaging manager and documentation team - please consider signing up! 21:15:22 caroline: the maintaines or documentation? 21:15:23 I will pass along the need for documentation team members at the next koha-us meeting 21:15:28 docs 21:15:30 thx georgew! 21:15:43 it basically says that you will be working on the manual 21:16:13 I'm trying to collaborate right now, but is it something more like what Lee is doing? 21:16:33 not necessarily, it would depend on the team how they organize 21:16:45 i am willing ot help with the more technical where possible 21:17:05 davidnind++ and LeeJ++ have been adding tons of tasks to a Taiga kanban for people to work on 21:17:28 i am currently working on separating the files a bit more and reorganizing 21:17:36 next i think would be adding all the new things 21:17:37 I'm willing to be officially on the team 21:17:39 davidnind: about right? 21:18:02 caroline: :) 21:18:02 I am - 21:18:40 -? 21:18:40 hmmm... - is nengard's brain just tired or does this site lack information on what the heck it means? http://libraryrenewal.org 21:18:56 lots of writing to do for the manual - tasks list feels a little overwhelming at the moment, but we'll make some progress before the release I think 21:19:10 step by step 21:19:16 yep, the only way to do it 21:19:34 if someone wants to write, i am willing to help making patches 21:19:40 "how do you eat a whale?" "one bite at a time" 21:19:44 Documentation should be a patch along with the code for the functionality :) 21:19:44 i am not a native speaker, so happy to pair up with one :) or have you correct my writing 21:19:59 wizzyrea: lol! 21:20:03 thd: we have a huge backlog from old releases, don't think that's going to happen soon :) 21:20:07 I think LeeJ's focus for us is on documenting the new features then working on the other tasks as we get time 21:20:41 cait: well, we introduced the requirement for release notes description, that shoul dhelp 21:20:42 i am splitting in order to get the translation files a bit smaller too 21:20:44 easier to handle 21:21:20 I think it will load more nicely and faster if it's split too 21:21:28 and the TOCs are shorter 21:21:35 https://tree.taiga.io/project/ldjamison-kohadocs-1805/us/22 is where i am at 21:21:42 feel free to disagree/add others 21:21:44 :) 21:22:15 #info documentation team and anyone who wants to join it will work on adding new features/enh to the manual 21:22:46 anything else to add? 21:23:17 we drifted off a little, but i'd like to suggest having a separate election meeting in 2 weeks 21:23:19 or 1 week? 21:23:19 i guess 1 week is a bit short ;) 21:23:26 before 22nd :) 21:25:00 happy with either 21:25:15 16 may? 16 utc? 21:25:19 two meetings next week on same day - dev meeting + documentation 21:25:31 next week there are already two irc meetings i think, so 2 weeks would be better 21:26:01 ok, so stick with 16th then 21:26:19 The 23rd should not be fatal 21:26:37 13 UTC please 21:27:09 16 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+General+IRC+Meeting+18-11+Election&iso=20180516T1600 21:27:30 13 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+General+IRC+Meeting+18-11+Election&iso=20180516T1300 21:27:45 i hink nz is out either way 21:27:55 hard to find a good one 21:28:27 13 UTC ok for people otherwise? for europe it would work well i think 21:28:48 and i htink for US 21:28:50 mostly 21:29:02 Would NZ be out with UTC 16? 21:29:08 yes 21:29:09 eastern us/canada is good, its like 9am 21:29:29 basically everything that works for europe doesn't work well for NZ i think 21:29:52 yes - NZ = 4am, but pcan put a note on agenda or roles page I guess 21:30:04 #info A general IRC meeting will be held in 2 weeks time for elections, 16 May 2018, 13 UTC 21:30:05 yep 21:30:11 It is hardly as if there are contested seats in the election. 21:30:12 you can alway sdo that to make your opinion known for a vote 21:30:51 #info Please feel free to add comments/vote on the apologies section of the agenda wiki page if you can't attend 21:30:56 ok, moving on? 21:30:57 When we do have an issue of real contest we have had a vote over several days 21:31:22 #topic Update on releases 21:31:30 RM? 21:31:34 Joubu? 21:31:34 rumour has it Joubu is not sure how to fix that correctly 21:31:37 RMaints? 21:31:37 rumour has it RMaints is kidclamp (17.11), fridolin (17.05), rangi (16.11) 21:31:47 trying to ping them 21:31:52 16.11 is retired 21:32:07 what's it doing now with all the free time? 21:32:08 Has put in apologies - update from dev meeting is here: http://meetings.koha-community.org/2018/development_irc_meeting_25_april_2018.2018-04-25-21.02.log.html 21:32:24 thx davidnind 21:32:43 #info For update on 18.05 see http://meetings.koha-community.org/2018/development_irc_meeting_25_april_2018.2018-04-25-21.02.log.html 21:32:48 #info 16.11 is retired 21:33:06 there are no othe rtopics on the agenda, anything to add? 21:34:22 just quickly looking up how to do the ending so that the auto-creation of th enew wiki page works right 21:34:27 nothing to add from me...:) 21:34:54 #info Next meeting: 16 May 2018, 13 UTC 21:35:06 I don't chair so often anymore, always forget :) 21:35:12 ok, ending the meeting hten - thx for being here! 21:35:20 #endmeeting