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#koha: Development IRC meeting 19 October 2016
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Meeting started by cait at 10:01:21 UTC.  The full logs are available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2016/development_irc_meeting_19_october_2016.2016-10-19-10.01.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introductions  (cait, 10:01:29)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 10:01:29)
  * Bob Birchall, Calyx, Sydney Australia  (BobB, 10:01:46)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_19_October_2016
    (cait, 10:01:52)
  * Nick Clemens, ByWater Solutions  (kidclamp, 10:01:56)
  * Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany  (cait, 10:01:57)
  * Claire Gravely, BSZ, Germany  (LibraryClaire, 10:02:00)
  * petter, Oslo public library, Norway  (petter, 10:02:02)
  * Jonathan Druart, France  (Joubu, 10:02:14)
  * Benjamin Rokseth, Norway  (bensinober, 10:02:31)
  * Dimitris Antonakis, Athens, Greece  (d_antonakis, 10:03:30)
  * Kyle Hall, Bywater Solutions  (khall, 10:04:13)

* Announcements  (cait, 10:04:51)
  * Irma, CALYX, Sydney Australia  (irma, 10:04:53)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_17.05  (cait,
    10:05:44)
  * ACTION: all Sign up for roles for 17.05  (cait, 10:06:48)
  * Mirko Tietgen, Berlin, Germany  (drojf, 10:07:59)

* Review of coding guildelines  (cait, 10:08:10)

* Deadlines for 16.11  (cait, 10:08:57)
  * Zeno Tajoli, CINECA  (tajoli, 10:10:23)
  * November 1st will be the feature slush, so only bug fixes will get
    pushed after that  (cait, 10:10:42)
  * November 3rd: first draft of the release notes for review  (cait,
    10:10:58)
  * Novmeber 10th: second draft of the release notes  (cait, 10:11:25)
  * November 15th: String freeze, only bug fixes requiring no string
    changes to be pushed  (cait, 10:14:28)
  * November 17th: final draft of release notes  (cait, 10:14:39)
  * November 22nd: Release!  (cait, 10:14:50)
  * QA team to focus on enh/new features until the feature slush date
    (exceptions for bad bugs and security of course)  (cait, 10:17:04)

* General development discussion  (cait, 10:17:50)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes  (cait,
    10:18:46)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes  (cait,
    10:18:55)
  * New 'Tester handbook' on the wiki, collecting pages with information
    important for beginners and testers  (cait, 10:19:41)
  * ACTION: all please add/suggest changes to the tester handbook
    (cait, 10:22:40)
  * Use 'academy' keyword' in bugzilla for highlighting easily testable
    bugs  (cait, 10:22:56)

* Updates from the QA team  (cait, 10:23:32)
  * ACTION: Joubu to send a 'post hackfest' email  (cait, 10:24:48)

* Koha and Qvarn  (cait, 10:25:28)

* Set date of next meeting  (cait, 10:27:55)
  * Magnus Enger, Libriotech, Norway  (magnuse, 10:32:53)
  * Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe  (ashimema, 10:33:05)
  * Next meeting Novembe 9th, 19 UTC  (cait, 10:34:19)



Meeting ended at 10:35:12 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* Joubu
  * Joubu to send a 'post hackfest' email
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * all Sign up for roles for 17.05
  * all please add/suggest changes to the tester handbook



People present (lines said)
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* cait (98)
* khall (15)
* Joubu (14)
* wahanui (4)
* BobB (3)
* kidclamp (3)
* huginn (3)
* LibraryClaire (2)
* ashimema (2)
* drojf (2)
* d_antonakis (2)
* irma (1)
* magnuse (1)
* bensinober (1)
* tajoli (1)
* petter (1)



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