=========================================== #koha: General IRC meeting 11 December 2019 =========================================== Meeting started by ashimema at 14:00:38 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetings.koha-community.org/2019/general_irc_meeting_11_december_2019.2019-12-11-14.00.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Introductions (ashimema, 14:00:39) * Please introduce yourselve with an #info to appear in the minutes. (ashimema, 14:00:56) * Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe, UK (ashimema, 14:01:04) * Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, Ohio, USA (oleonard, 14:01:08) * Jonathan Druart (Joubu, 14:01:18) * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_11_December_2019 Today's agenda (ashimema, 14:01:45) * David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand (davidnind, 14:02:10) * Announcements (ashimema, 14:05:41) * Magnus Enger. Libriotech, Norway (magnuse, 14:05:57) * The 19.11 release happened, all be it a little late. Thanks go out to Mason for stepping in and doing the packaging at the last minute. (ashimema, 14:06:21) * Nick Clemens, BYWater Solutions (kidclamp, 14:06:30) * 19.11, 19.05.x and 18.11.x releases all included security patches this recent release (ashimema, 14:06:58) * Extended closing date for Kohacon20 proposals for talks is 13 December (davidnind, 14:08:15) * Update on releases (ashimema, 14:09:06) * 20.05 (next release) (ashimema, 14:09:29) * 19.11 have been branched and master is now the working version for the next feature release, 20.05 (ashimema, 14:10:01) * As is the pattern, we will be sticking to bugfixes only up until the end of the month, but then I hope to start pushing enhancements early January, focusing on the more experimental one's first to give us a large a section of the release cycle to fix any subsequent bugs before release. (ashimema, 14:11:09) * `fail fast` and `experiment and stabalise` (ashimema, 14:11:53) * Caroline Cyr La Rose, inlibro (caroline_catlady, 14:13:32) * koha-US is planning an online conference (Koha-a-thon) for 24 April, call for talks closes 10 January (davidnind, 14:14:57) * Rmaints are tentatively starting to push bugs to their respective branches. (ashimema, 14:15:02) * Details for the Koha-a-thon https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2019-December/053991.html (davidnind, 14:15:09) * The dates for the BibLibre Koha Hackfest in Marseille are 23-27 March 2020 (davidnind, 14:16:08) * Any Other Business (ashimema, 14:20:06) * Proposal to try rocket.chat as an alternative/compliment of IRC (ashimema, 14:20:20) * the 3rd Koha Pakistan International Conference is 16-18 April 2020 http://2020.kohapakistan.org/ (davidnind, 14:20:27) * I've discussed with a few people the prospect of adding an alternative to IRC as it seems to be a barrier to entry for some. (ashimema, 14:21:50) * After a little research I'm proposing the creation of a rocket.chat server (I'll try to take on setting one up for a trial) and having it bridge to the existing IRC room. (ashimema, 14:23:49) * After a little research I'm proposing the creation of a rocket.chat server (I'll try to take on setting one up for a trial) and having it bridge to the existing IRC room. (ashimema, 14:25:37) * LINK: https://rocket.chat/ (caroline_catlady, 14:26:17) * ACTION: ashimema is going to investigate setting up a bridged rocket.chat server to allow a more modern form of instance communication for the community. (ashimema, 14:34:40) * Shall we bring back an internation bug squashing day? (ashimema, 14:37:39) * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:Global_bug_squashing_days (davidnind, 14:40:15) * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Catalyst_Academy (Joubu, 14:42:56) * ACTION: ashimema to send out a global bug squashing day announcement email (ashimema, 14:47:55) * Next global bug squashing day to take place 17th January (ashimema, 14:48:12) * Are we happy with the existing release process and cycle? (ashimema, 14:49:02) * liz rea (wizzyrea, 14:55:26) * Joy Nelson (talljoy, 14:56:27) * ACTION: ashimema will summarise the release cycle discussion on a wiki page and invite people to contribute/comment via as many comms methods as he can muster. (ashimema, 15:21:13) * Time of next meeting (ashimema, 15:22:53) * Next meeting: 8 January 2020, 20 UTC (ashimema, 15:27:06) Meeting ended at 15:27:17 UTC. Action items, by person ----------------------- * ashimema * ashimema is going to investigate setting up a bridged rocket.chat server to allow a more modern form of instance communication for the community. * ashimema to send out a global bug squashing day announcement email * ashimema will summarise the release cycle discussion on a wiki page and invite people to contribute/comment via as many comms methods as he can muster. People present (lines said) --------------------------- * ashimema (157) * cait (43) * talljoy (36) * Joubu (29) * davidnind (26) * oleonard (22) * caroline_catlady (20) * magnuse (11) * kidclamp (6) * wizzyrea (6) * huginn (6) * kellym (6) * tcohen (5) * eythian (2) * jzairo (2) * georgew (2) * TGoat (2) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4