==================================================== #koha: General IRC meeting 19 November 2014 - part 1 ==================================================== Meeting started by cait at 05:04:15 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetings.koha-community.org/2014/general_irc_meeting_19_november_2014___part_1.2014-11-19-05.04.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * introductions (cait, 05:04:23) * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient (wahanui, 05:04:23) * Mark Tompsett, Canadian contributor. (mtompset, 05:04:53) * Brendan Gallagher ByWater (bag, 05:04:58) * Katrin Fischer, BSZ (cait, 05:05:08) * Bob Birchall, Calyx Australia (BobB, 05:05:10) * David Cook, Prosentient Systems (dcook, 05:05:12) * Manny, I am Koha- Philippines (manny, 05:05:55) * Arslan Farooq, Pakistan (Oak, 05:06:00) * Clint Anact (clint_, 05:07:28) * Announcements (cait, 05:08:02) * Ryan Terrenal National library of the Philippines (RTerrenal, 05:08:26) * Mason James, NZ (mtj, 05:08:28) * Update on releases (3.8 - 3.18) (cait, 05:08:59) * LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHav6PL_4Bo&feature=youtu.be (dcook, 05:09:39) * Koha, a community - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHav6PL_4Bo&feature=youtu.be A video made during KohaCon14 in Argentina got published yesterday (cait, 05:10:14) * String Freeze for 3.18 is on 20th this week (cait, 05:11:25) * Release 3.18 is on 28th next week (cait, 05:11:39) * There is a list of critical bugs to be solved before release on the wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Critical_circ_bugs (cait, 05:12:21) * bug 11998 is waiting for sign off - syspref caching issues (cait, 05:13:41) * Eugene Espinoza House of Representatives Library (schnydszch, 05:14:31) * Elections! (cait, 05:15:01) * Nominations are http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.20 (cait, 05:15:27) * Wanted: 3.16 Release maintainer (cait, 05:16:21) * AGREED: Meeting part 1 elects Tomas Cohen Arazi for release manager of 3.20 (cait, 05:19:04) * AGREED: Release Maintainers: 3.18 - Chris Cormack and 3.14 - Fridolin Somers (cait, 05:21:53) * AGREED: Module Maintainers: Martin Renvoize (Auth), Colin Campbell (SIP), Kyle M Hall (Holds), Galen Charlton (Patron Privacy) (cait, 05:26:24) * AGREED: Translation manager: Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel (cait, 05:29:27) * LINK: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_3.20 (mtompset, 05:29:52) * AGREED: (Database) Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard (cait, 05:31:48) * AGREED: Quality Assurance (QA) Manager - Katrin Fischer (bag, 05:34:50) * AGREED: Quality Assurance (QA) Team (all listed on the wiki) (bag, 05:39:57) * AGREED: QA team: Marcel de Rooy, Jonathan Druart, Paul Poulain, Christopher Brannon, Brendan Gallagher, Martin Renvoize, Kyle M Hall (cait, 05:40:02) * AGREED: Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat (cait, 05:41:21) * AGREED: Bug Wrangler: Magnus Enger (cait, 05:42:45) * AGREED: Release Maintainer 3.16: Mason James (cait, 05:45:34) * Establish a roat map for Koha (cait, 05:46:20) * Establish a road map for Koha (cait, 05:46:33) * LINK: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roadmap_to_3.12 (BobB, 05:47:19) * LINK: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roadmap_to_3.12 (cait, 05:47:48) * the idea is to have a road map that is not time linked, (BobB, 05:48:13) * not linked to any one release (BobB, 05:48:21) * so people can see what is coming up, but not necessarily when it might get there (BobB, 05:49:02) * The suggestion is to include both proposed new features and also plumbing improvements (BobB, 05:50:11) * It was suggested the Road Map could have just a brief description of each proposal ... (BobB, 05:50:46) * with a link to a separate page where the full RFC might be (BobB, 05:51:09) * It was also suggested .. (BobB, 05:52:20) * the idea is to reevaluate after each release (cait, 05:52:22) * that the meeting after each major release could consider updates to the road map (BobB, 05:52:41) * but that its maintenance can also be a continuous process (BobB, 05:52:56) * IDEA: Have a retrospective meeting as part of the release process (cait, 05:55:16) * IDEA: so we could endorse the idea today, and list it for more discussion at the next meeting? (BobB, 05:55:33) * IDEA: use the next meeting to have more discussion, past and future on the road map (cait, 05:56:57) * Establish new roles within the release team (cait, 05:57:21) * This arose from the same discussion (BobB, 05:57:40) * the proposal is to establish a Wiki Maintainer as a member of the release team (BobB, 05:58:05) * and a Communications Manager (BobB, 05:58:16) * peeps thought these might be available to Librarians rather than developers ... (BobB, 05:58:37) * who are busy enough already (BobB, 05:58:48) * /Wiki Manager/ Wiki Curator/ (BobB, 05:59:39) * , if agreed to, these roles would be defined and advertised on the list: a call for nominations (BobB, 06:04:10) * AGREED: Look for a Wiki Curator and Communication manager (cait, 06:08:34) * ACTION: BobB will email the mailing list about the new roles (cait, 06:09:39) * KohaCon15 (cait, 06:09:58) * LINK: http://kohacon15bid.projektlinkkonsult.com/ (mtompset, 06:14:31) * LINK: http://kohacon15bid.projektlinkkonsult.com/ (cait, 06:15:22) * http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohacon15 (cait, 06:18:37) * LINK: http://imgur.com/ZfFPZjt may be amusing (liw, 06:19:36) * Koha on FLOSS weekly (cait, 06:24:33) * we generally like the idea, but no volunteer yet (cait, 06:26:31) * Actions from General IRC meeting 22 October 2014 (cait, 06:27:00) * Actions from General IRC meeting 22 October 2014 (cait, 06:27:14) * LINK: http://meetings.koha-community.org/2014/general_irc_meeting_22_october_2014.2014-10-22-13.05.html (cait, 06:27:58) * Set time and date of next General IRC meeting (cait, 06:30:36) * AGREED: meeting part 1 suggests December 17th for the next meeting (cait, 06:33:51) Meeting ended at 06:34:22 UTC. Action items, by person ----------------------- * BobB * BobB will email the mailing list about the new roles People present (lines said) --------------------------- * cait (183) * mtompset (70) * BobB (65) * bag (61) * rangi (40) * Oak (32) * gbengaadara (19) * mtj (11) * clint_ (9) * schnydszch (9) * huginn (8) * dcook (6) * RTerrenal (6) * manny (4) * wahanui (3) * liw (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4