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#koha: Koha Developer IRC meeting, 9 September 2014 - part 1
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Meeting started by tcohen at 15:07:58 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2014/koha_developer_irc_meeting__9_september_2014___part_1.2014-09-09-15.07.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introductions  (tcohen, 15:08:11)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 15:08:12)
  * Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries  (oleonard, 15:08:19)
  * Tomas Cohen Arazi, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba  (tcohen,
    15:08:44)
  * Claire Hernandez, developments manager at BibLibre  (clrh, 15:08:47)
  * Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City  (thd, 15:08:48)
  * Jonathan Druart, BibLibre  (Joubu, 15:09:22)

* RM 3.18 comments  (tcohen, 15:10:14)
  * facet retrieval from Zebra is complete, feedback is needed  (tcohen,
    15:10:46)
  * Zeno Tajoli, Cineca (Italy)ù  (ztajoli, 15:11:16)
  * Kyle M Hall, ByWater Solutions  (khall, 15:12:14)
  * Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe  (ashimema, 15:12:28)
  * facets from zebra is needs sign off, bug 11232  (tcohen, 15:12:29)
  * Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions  (nengard, 15:13:23)
  * LINK:
    https://github.com/tomascohen/koha/commit/5b0b36895bad75052e8a0e362e561a8631f103f2
    (tcohen, 15:13:38)
  * Barton Chittenden, ByWater Solutions, Louisville, KY, USA  (barton,
    15:15:56)
  * Alex Sassmannshausen, PTFS Europe, UK  (atheia, 15:16:08)

* General technical discussion  (tcohen, 15:17:21)
  * Brendan Gallagher ByWater  (bag, 15:29:42)
  * we are voting the inclusion of TestBuilder next meeting  (tcohen,
    15:49:07)
  * LINK: GST rewrite
    http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/GST_Rewrite_RFC  (tcohen,
    15:56:27)
  * feedback is needed urgently  (tcohen, 15:56:57)
  * Jonathan needs feedback on bugs 12830 and 12896. Specifically his
    approach to Class::Accessor and DBIc  (tcohen, 16:04:58)

* Additions to Coding Guidelines  (tcohen, 16:06:36)
  * LINK:
    https://trello.com/c/8d7pELLj/28-coding-guidelines-koha-preference
    (Joubu, 16:07:21)
  * AGREED: (subject to votes from part 2)
    https://trello.com/c/8d7pELLj/28-coding-guidelines-koha-preference
    will be added to Coding guidelines  (tcohen, 16:11:46)
  * ACTION: Kyle will start a discussion on the koha-dev list on taking
    advantage of DBIc in our code base. We will discuss where to use
    DBIc, and how to properly test our ResultSet classes  (tcohen,
    16:26:21)

* Naming of database columns  (ashimema, 16:29:49)
  * column_names made up of multiple words should be joined with
    underscore to maintain dbic standards  (ashimema, 16:32:53)
  * AGREED: To add a rule to the coding guidelines that mimicks that of
    the dbic conventions for column_names pending this evening meeting
    (ashimema, 16:37:06)
  * exact wording of guidline to be decided (after looking up dbic
    specifics)  (ashimema, 16:37:52)

* Requirements for CLI scripts  (ashimema, 16:39:22)
  * AGREED: To add requirement for new CLI scripts to guidlines
    (ashimema, 17:00:51)
  * Pod::Usage, GetOpt::Long, pod2usage, POD at end of file and
    --confirm (where lack of display help test)  (ashimema, 17:01:40)

* Wording of bug 10860  (ashimema, 17:04:02)
  * Agreed that 'on-site' was a better wording than 'in-house'
    (ashimema, 17:10:01)

* Big Stuff we're working on?!  (ashimema, 17:11:01)
  * hea.koha-community.org is coming :)  (ashimema, 17:12:01)
  * account rewrite is getting there.. wohoo  (ashimema, 17:12:51)
  * hea is bug 11926  (ashimema, 17:13:58)
  * bug 11944 is working it's way through QA  (ashimema, 17:17:02)

* Actions from last meeting  (ashimema, 17:17:56)
  * ashimema added a note to the wiki to encourage use of columns stuff
    for datatables  (ashimema, 17:18:25)
  * ashimema has started qa for UTF8 bug.. minimal comments left already
    (ashimema, 17:18:58)
  * Waiting to hear from gmcharlt, tcohen regarding utf8 tests
    (ashimema, 17:19:33)

* Next Meeting?  (ashimema, 17:20:40)
  * AGREED: Same time next week.. assuming that's ok with the guys this
    evening  (ashimema, 17:22:09)
  * AGREED: meeting needs to be kept shorter  (ashimema, 17:22:19)
  * more chat on the trello board before the meeting.. try to limit the
    meeting to agreements and assignments of work.  (ashimema, 17:23:18)



Meeting ended at 17:23:39 UTC.



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* ashimema (161)
* tcohen (108)
* Joubu (106)
* khall (59)
* thd (47)
* atheia (33)
* ztajoli (20)
* barton (14)
* huginn (13)
* oleonard (9)
* wahanui (7)
* jcamins (5)
* clrh (4)
* bag (3)
* nengard (3)
* indradg (2)
* pastebot (1)



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