#koha: General IRC meeting 13 May 2020

Meeting started by ashimema at 20:00:15 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introductions (ashimema, 20:00:24)
    1. Martin Renvoize, PTFS-Europe (ashimema, 20:00:49)
    2. Chris Cormack, Catalyst IT, NZ (rangi, 20:00:49)
    3. Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City (thd, 20:00:54)
    4. Lisette Scheer, Latah County Library District/Valnet/Koha-US (lisettelatah, 20:00:55)
    5. Jonathan Druart (Joubu, 20:01:04)
    6. George Williams, Northeast Kansas Library System (georgew, 20:01:09)
    7. Jessica Zairo, ByWater Solutions (jzairo, 20:01:11)
    8. Joy Nelson Bywater (talljoy, 20:01:15)
    9. Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (bgkriegel, 20:01:17)
    10. David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand (davidnind, 20:01:27)
    11. Tomas Cohen Arazi, Theke Solutions (tcohen, 20:01:27)
    12. Mason James, NZ (mtj, 20:02:11)
    13. Nick Clemens, bywater (kidclamp, 20:02:23)
    14. Henry Bolshaw, House of Lords Library, UK (henryb, 20:02:27)
    15. tuxayo/Victor Grousset, France (tuxayo, 20:02:36)

  2. Announcements (ashimema, 20:03:22)
    1. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait, 20:03:36)
    2. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_13_May_2020 (Joubu, 20:03:45)
    3. Brendan Gallagher, ByWater (bag, 20:03:53)
    4. Kohacon2020 will be a hybrid online and in-person event - see https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2020-May/054572.html (davidnind, 20:04:38)
    5. The next scheduled releases of Koha are likely to be the last to officially support Debian 8 (Jessie). This is inline with the End Of Life upstream (ashimema, 20:06:24)
    6. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Debian LTS Details (ashimema, 20:06:34)
    7. Devs are encouraged to use D10 for their dev environment (Joubu, 20:10:05)
    8. koha-US special interest groups - see http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ for upcoming meetings (davidnind, 20:10:30)

  3. Update on releases (ashimema, 20:13:20)
    1. We are well and truly into string freeze now.. it was a little late as I had some catching up to do after a weekend of Jenkins challenges. (ashimema, 20:14:17)
    2. I will send an email with updated proposed release dates soon (ashimema, 20:14:52)
    3. Please help with the find and fix effort to polish the release.. and any help on the release notes would be appreciated too (ashimema, 20:16:08)
    4. Technical release notes are also work in progress.. if you have anything to bring up for them please contribute your idea's (ashimema, 20:16:41)
    5. https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes (tuxayo, 20:17:04)
    6. https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes Technical release notes (cait, 20:17:14)
    7. https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes Technical Notes (ashimema, 20:17:16)
    8. Maintenance releases are on track for end of the month. (ashimema, 20:19:16)

  4. Election of 20.11 Release Team (ashimema, 20:20:25)
    1. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_20.11 (Joubu, 20:20:49)
    2. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_20.11 Roles for 20.11 (ashimema, 20:20:50)
    3. Owen Leonard, Athens county Public Libraries, Ohio, USA (oleonard, 20:23:36)
    4. VOTE: Voted on "Do we elect the team as proposed on the above linked roles page?" Results are, Yes: 18 (ashimema, 20:30:21)

  5. Set time and date for next meeting (ashimema, 20:33:39)
    1. Next meeting: 17 June 2020, 15 UTC (Joubu, 20:39:45)


Meeting ended at 20:41:22 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. ashimema (71)
  2. tuxayo (40)
  3. Joubu (35)
  4. tcohen (22)
  5. cait (18)
  6. davidnind (10)
  7. huginn (10)
  8. rangi (10)
  9. wahanui (6)
  10. oleonard (5)
  11. lisettelatah (4)
  12. georgew (4)
  13. kidclamp (3)
  14. talljoy (3)
  15. thd (3)
  16. jzairo (2)
  17. henryb (2)
  18. bgkriegel (2)
  19. mtj (2)
  20. bag (2)
  21. tuxayo-read-only (1)
  22. holly (1)
  23. koha-jenkins (1)
  24. AnnaBoten (1)


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