#koha: Development IRC meeting 26 June 2019

Meeting started by ashimema at 19:00:17 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introductions (ashimema, 19:00:21)
    1. Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe (ashimema, 19:00:36)
    2. Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, Ohio, USA (oleonard, 19:00:50)
    3. Brendan Gallagher ByWater (bag, 19:00:53)
    4. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait, 19:00:56)
    5. Andreas Hedström Mace, Stockholm University Library (andreashm, 19:01:04)
    6. Alex Buckley, Catalyst IT Wellington NZ (alexbuckley, 19:01:06)
    7. Josef Moravec, Czech Republic (josef_moravec, 19:01:09)
    8. Hayley Mapley Catalyst IT Wellington NZ (hayley, 19:01:28)
    9. David Nind (davidnind, 19:03:04)

  2. Announcements (ashimema, 19:03:08)
    1. We have a new leaderboard on the dashboard - 'Rescues', let's gamify getting bugs out of Failed QA/Patch doesn't apply :) (ashimema, 19:04:03)
    2. https://dashboard.koha-community.org Dashboard (ashimema, 19:04:22)
    3. ACTION: ashimema to get vertical alignment of like for like columns working on the dashboard again (ashimema, 19:07:34)
    4. Next Hackfest in the diary is Marseille, 30th Sept - 4th Oct 2019 (ashimema, 19:11:00)
    5. http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2018-November/044964.html Marselle Hackfest dates (cait, 19:11:55)

  3. Update from the Release Manager (ashimema, 19:12:08)
    1. We've started pushing small enhancements now, having been concentrating mostly on bugs for the last month. (ashimema, 19:12:45)

  4. Update from the Release Maintainers (ashimema, 19:16:49)
    1. 19.05.01 scheduled for release tomorrow (ashimema, 19:18:30)

  5. Update from the QA team (ashimema, 19:18:50)
    1. QA queue is currently at around 50 (cait, 19:19:41)
    2. Tomas Cohen Arazi, Theke Solutions (tcohen, 19:20:03)
    3. Agustin Moyano, Theke Solutions (amoyano, 19:20:44)
    4. Currently we face 1 blocker, 3 criticals and 21 majors, patch writers, testers and QA people needed (cait, 19:21:26)
    5. additional testing/sign-offs on some of the long sitting patches in QA queue would be great to get more confidence in passing them along (cait, 19:22:35)

  6. General development discussion (ashimema, 19:23:11)
  7. Bugzilla status proposals (ashimema, 19:23:48)
    1. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_26_June_2019 Agenda (ashimema, 19:24:14)
    2. Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City (thd, 19:27:11)

  8. Deprecate package support for Debian 8 and Ubuntu 16.04 (ashimema, 19:29:10)
    1. VOTE: Voted on "Can we deprecate support for Debian 8 (Jessie) and Ubuntu 16.04 in the packages?" Results are, Yes: 12 (ashimema, 19:39:24)
    2. AGREED: We will deprecate our support for Debian 8 and Ubuntu 16.08 in the packages.. announcement from Mirko to follow (ashimema, 19:40:34)

  9. Proposal to fork 'simple keyboard project' (ashimema, 19:41:00)
    1. This is a proposal to maintain our own fork of the 'simple keyboard project' to allow community members to contribute new keyboard layouts. (ashimema, 19:41:40)
    2. We will need to work on a process for keeping our fork up to date with upstream whilst maintaining our fork. (ashimema, 19:42:26)
    3. it's Mottie Keyboard and not Simple Keyboard Project (ashimema, 19:47:23)
    4. ashimema will write a summary of the above conversation and submit it to the bug.. (ashimema, 20:00:20)

  10. What are the workflows with regards maintaining the mana-kb serverside project (ashimema, 20:01:05)
    1. Mana (and HEA) discussion shelved untill next meeting. (ashimema, 20:05:45)

  11. Moving PayPal payments into a plugin (ashimema, 20:06:35)
    1. https://gitlab.com/thekesolutions/plugins/koha-plugin-pay-via-paypal (tcohen, 20:08:18)
    2. https://github.com/ebsco/edsapi-koha-plugin/tree/master/Koha/Plugin/EDS/bootstrap/includes/lang (tcohen, 20:11:59)
    3. Theke (amoyano in particular) have build a Paypal online payments plugin (ashimema, 20:15:58)
    4. We should look at deprecating the core PayPal code some time during the next couple of cycles (ashimema, 20:16:29)
    5. We need to work on further plugin guidlines and infrestucture (a plugin store for example) to build a path ahead for this. (ashimema, 20:16:51)
    6. https://gitlab.com/thekesolutions/plugins/koha-plugin-pay-via-paypal/-/releases PayPal Plugin (ashimema, 20:18:27)
    7. remainder of General topic for discussion will be posponed to the next meeting (ashimema, 20:21:07)
    8. We will postpone the review of the coding guidelines untill the next meetng when those invovled should be present. (ashimema, 20:21:53)

  12. Set time of next meeting (ashimema, 20:21:55)
    1. Next meeting: 10 August 2019, 14:00:00 UTC (ashimema, 20:32:28)


Meeting ended at 20:32:30 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. ashimema to get vertical alignment of like for like columns working on the dashboard again


Action items, by person

  1. ashimema
    1. ashimema to get vertical alignment of like for like columns working on the dashboard again


People present (lines said)

  1. ashimema (167)
  2. cait (99)
  3. tcohen (51)
  4. amoyano (15)
  5. wizzyrea (14)
  6. oleonard (9)
  7. huginn` (9)
  8. thd (9)
  9. josef_moravec (7)
  10. alexbuckley (7)
  11. hayley (7)
  12. wahanui (6)
  13. davidnind (4)
  14. andreashm (2)
  15. bag (1)
  16. Nemo_bis (1)


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