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#koha: Development IRC Meeting 16 February 2016
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Meeting started by cait at 19:02:59 UTC.  The full logs are available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2016/development_irc_meeting_16_february_2016.2016-02-16-19.02.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introductions  (cait, 19:03:03)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 19:03:04)
  * Tomas Cohen Arazi, Theke Solutions  (tcohen, 19:03:07)
  * Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries  (oleonard, 19:03:18)
  * Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions  (nengard, 19:03:18)
  * Brendan Gallagher, ByWater  (bag, 19:03:26)
  * Magnus Enger, Libriotech, Norway  (magnuse, 19:03:32)
  * Julian Maurice, BibLibre  (jajm, 19:03:34)
  * Barton Chittenden, Bywater, Louisville, KY, USA  (barton, 19:03:41)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_16_February_2016
    (cait, 19:03:45)
  * JOy Nelson ByWater Solutions USA  (talljoy, 19:03:58)
  * JEsse Weaver ByWater Solutions USA  (pianohacker, 19:04:25)
  * Mark Tompsett  (mtompset, 19:04:52)
  * Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany  (cait, 19:05:06)
  * Indranil Das Gupta, L2C2 Technologies, India  (indradg, 19:05:34)
  * Philippe Blouin, Solutions inLibro  (blou, 19:06:42)

* Announcements and news  (cait, 19:07:40)
  * Nick Clemens, ByWater Solutions  (kidclamp, 19:09:18)
  * tcohen is woring on classes for handling Koha instances  (cait,
    19:09:33)
  * IDEA: make maintenance mode a flag, like for email  (cait, 19:12:21)
  * ACTION: tcohen to write up a wiki page  (cait, 19:14:38)
  * ACTION: tcohen to write up a wiki page ... about using classes for
    handling Koha instances  (cait, 19:15:11)
  * People needed for testing Elastic search!  (cait, 19:15:48)
  * Frédéric Demians, Tamil (passing through)  (fredericd, 19:17:33)
  * LINK: http://elasticsearch.koha.catalystdemo.net.nz/  (bag,
    19:19:35)

* Review Coding Guidelines  (cait, 19:19:51)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines  (cait,
    19:20:08)
  * AGREED: New coding guideline "Code Plack friendly". Wording: Forbid
    global state variables in modules and CGI scripts, and discourage
    their use elsewhere. (see
    https://perl.apache.org/docs/general/perl_reference/perl_reference.html#my____Scoped_Variable_in_Nested_Subroutines
    for context)  (cait, 19:25:25)
  * AGREED: New coding guideline for handling disagreements: If a
    community member has concerns with a patch that: * Are specifically
    about coding style (not stated functionality or regressions in other
    code) * Are not covered by an existing coding guideline - then the
    patch and concern should be brought up on the development mailing
    list and/or next development IRC meeting so a new coding guideline
    can be added. (Rationale: While it is reasonable for c  (cait,
    19:36:42)
  * AGREED: New coding guideline: All methods and functions should take
    a single argument: either a database ID, arrayref, or hashref with
    named arguments.  (cait, 19:52:42)
  * Mirko Tietgen, broken internet connection  (drojf, 19:53:13)
  * General solution to prevent XSS problems (bug 13618) had to be
    reverted - other possible solutions to be discussed next time
    (cait, 19:57:01)
  * ACTION: mtompset to add note about PERL12  (cait, 19:58:10)

* General development discussion  (cait, 19:58:24)
  * LINK:
    http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-January/042207.html
    (cait, 19:58:48)
  * LINK: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8926
    (nengard, 20:02:28)
  * LINK: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8926
    (nengard, 20:02:32)
  * LINK:
    https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13667
    (nengard, 20:03:07)
  * concerns about perfomance with one big table  (cait, 20:03:58)
  * LINK: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7021
    (nengard, 20:04:54)
  * concern, about having to change a lot of the code, sql queries etc
    to exclude deleted patrons etc.  (cait, 20:05:10)
  * plus: less complicated sql reporting  (cait, 20:09:11)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Benchmark_for_3.22
    (cait, 20:12:47)
  * Please give some priority to performance related bugs - linked to
    the omnibus bug 15342  (cait, 20:15:54)
  * ACTION: pianohacker to add 15350 to agenda for discussion at the
    next meeting  (cait, 20:18:19)

* Date and time of next meeting  (cait, 20:20:40)
  * AGREED: Next developer meeting will be on March 1st at 15 UTC
    (cait, 20:21:44)



Meeting ended at 20:21:53 UTC.



Action items, by person
-----------------------

* mtompset
  * mtompset to add note about PERL12
* pianohacker
  * pianohacker to add 15350 to agenda for discussion at the next
    meeting
* tcohen
  * tcohen to write up a wiki page
  * tcohen to write up a wiki page ... about using classes for handling
    Koha instances



People present (lines said)
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* cait (185)
* pianohacker (73)
* mtompset (41)
* tcohen (30)
* nengard (29)
* barton (20)
* huginn (14)
* bag (11)
* jajm (7)
* talljoy (6)
* kidclamp (5)
* larryb (5)
* wahanui (4)
* mtj (3)
* kyr (2)
* magnuse (2)
* oleonard (2)
* drojf (2)
* pastebot (1)
* indradg (1)
* blou (1)
* fredericd (1)



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