#koha: Development IRC meeting 10 May 2017

Meeting started by kidclamp at 21:01:47 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introductions (kidclamp, 21:01:57)
    1. wahanui, a bot that has become sentient (wahanui, 21:01:57)
    2. Nick Clemens, ByWater Solutions (kidclamp, 21:02:05)
    3. Jonathan Druart (Joubu, 21:02:13)
    4. Eric Phetteplace, California College of the Arts (phette23, 21:02:49)
    5. brendan gallagher bywater (bag, 21:03:13)
    6. chris cormack, catalyst (rangi, 21:03:24)
    7. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait1, 21:03:38)
    8. , Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City (thd, 21:03:43)

  2. Announcements (kidclamp, 21:04:13)
    1. lots to do for upcoming release, many hands make light work :-) (kidclamp, 21:07:45)

  3. Update from the Release manager (17.05) (kidclamp, 21:10:03)
  4. Updates from the Release Maintainers (kidclamp, 21:11:00)
    1. 16.11 - freeze on 15th, release on 22nd (kidclamp, 21:13:46)
    2. 3.22 - hea v2 has been backported (kidclamp, 21:14:03)
    3. next 3.22.x will be final (kidclamp, 21:14:20)

  5. Updates from the QA team (kidclamp, 21:14:52)
  6. General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...) (kidclamp, 21:21:14)
    1. Joubo working on a 'write a patch' tutorial (kidclamp, 21:25:26)

  7. Review of coding guidelines (kidclamp, 21:27:26)
    1. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Draft:Gender_Neutral_Pronouns (phette23, 21:30:41)
    2. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Draft:Gender_Neutral_Pronouns Gender Neutral Pronouns Proposal (kidclamp, 21:30:49)
    3. VOTE: Voted on "Should we add a guideline for use of gender neutral pronouns stating "When referring to a person who could be of any gender, you should use the words they/them/their or avoid the pronoun. This goes for code comments, text in templates, and strings in tests."?" Results are, Yes: 8 (kidclamp, 21:42:38)
    4. Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, USA (oleonard, 21:44:12)

  8. Set time of next meeting (kidclamp, 21:45:13)
    1. Next meeting: Wednesday, May 24th, 14 UTC (kidclamp, 21:48:50)


Meeting ended at 21:50:00 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. (none)


People present (lines said)

  1. kidclamp (75)
  2. Joubu (37)
  3. cait (25)
  4. phette23 (18)
  5. thd (17)
  6. rangi (12)
  7. huginn_ (8)
  8. bag (6)
  9. oleonard (6)
  10. cait1 (2)
  11. wahanui (1)
  12. wizzyrea (1)


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