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#koha: Development IRC meeting 9 August 2017
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Meeting started by cait at 22:00:43 UTC.  The full logs are available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2017/development_irc_meeting_9_august_2017.2017-08-09-22.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introductions  (cait, 22:00:48)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 22:00:49)
  * Tomas Cohen Arazi, Theke Solutions  (tcohen, 22:00:51)
  * Jesse Weaver  (pianohacker, 22:00:58)
  * Liz Rea, Catalyst IT  (wizzyrea, 22:01:06)
  * Chris Cormack, Catalyst IT  (rangi, 22:01:07)
  * Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany  (cait, 22:01:13)
  * Bob Birchall, Calyx  (BobB, 22:01:14)
  * Alex Sassmannshausen, PTFS Europe, UK  (atheia, 22:01:23)
  * Josef Moravec, Municipal LIbrary Usti nad Orlici, Czech Republic
    (josef_moravec, 22:01:30)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_9_August_2017
    today's agenda  (cait, 22:01:36)
  * Lee Jamison, Marywood University  (LeeJ, 22:01:41)
  * Mason James, NZ  (mtj, 22:02:12)

* Announcements  (cait, 22:02:58)
  * We just added a section on how to add screenshots to the manual with
    gitlab  (cait, 22:03:43)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_9_August_2017
    (cait, 22:03:46)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Editing_the_Koha_Manual#Normal_-_Adding_screenshots_with_gitlab
    right link  (cait, 22:04:02)
  * Bag Brendan gallagher  (bag, 22:04:16)
  * tcohen is doing QA full time this week, please help him notice
    things you consider important besides the ones the RM notes
    (tcohen, 22:04:42)
  * Michael Cabus, caboose  (caboose, 22:04:43)
  * bug 19016 -  Add a script to fix corrupted data needs attention and
    testers  (cait, 22:07:35)
  * Koha-US Conference is taking place this week, it's broadcasted
    http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference  (cait,
    22:08:57)
  * tcohen and Joubu are exploring ways of containerizing jenkins tasks
    (tcohen, 22:11:14)
  * ByWater is handing the community another jenkins node in the
    meantime  (tcohen, 22:12:03)

* Update from the Release manager (17.11)  (cait, 22:13:22)
  * Joubu left his apologies  (cait, 22:13:42)
  * LINK: https://koha-community.org/whats-on-in-koha-devel-14/ for
    recent information about urgent topics and new things  (cait,
    22:14:08)
  * We will need help updating the manual and especially the help pages
    prior to 17.11 release in order to be able to switch it over to the
    Sphinx based one  (cait, 22:15:10)

* Updates from the Release maintainers  (cait, 22:16:20)
  * 16.11.11 will be the next 16.11.x release, planned on schedule,
    string freeze on the 15th, release on 22nd  (cait, 22:17:08)
  * 16.05.16 should be on schedule this month too  (mtj, 22:17:56)

* Updates from the QA team  (cait, 22:19:00)
  * Owen Leonard, late.  (oleonard, 22:19:13)
  * QA team members are urged to spend some time on blockers and major
    bugs  (tcohen, 22:19:56)

* General development discussion (trends, ideas...)  (cait, 22:23:13)
  * LINK:
    https://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript-transpilers-what-they-are-why-we-need-them
    - we discussed about adding a trnaspiler / preprocessing stuff
    (cait, 22:35:40)
  * LINK:
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-ie-support
    (rangi, 22:39:34)
  * LINK:
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-ie-support
    (tcohen, 22:41:24)
  * ACTION: pianohacker and oleonard are going to work out a proposal
    for adding a transpiler into our workflow  (cait, 22:46:21)

* Review of coding guidelines  (cait, 22:46:22)

* Review of coding guidelines  (cait, 22:46:22)

* Set time of next meeting  (cait, 22:47:01)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/IRC_Meetings  (cait,
    22:47:49)
  * AGREED: Next meeting will be on August 23, 14 UTC  (cait, 22:49:21)



Meeting ended at 22:49:32 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* oleonard
  * pianohacker and oleonard are going to work out a proposal for adding
    a transpiler into our workflow
* pianohacker
  * pianohacker and oleonard are going to work out a proposal for adding
    a transpiler into our workflow



People present (lines said)
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* cait (79)
* tcohen (44)
* pianohacker (40)
* bag (16)
* wizzyrea (15)
* oleonard (14)
* huginn (11)
* LeeJ (9)
* rangi (9)
* wahanui (6)
* josef_moravec (5)
* jenkins (5)
* mtj (3)
* BobB (2)
* jfowler (2)
* caboose (1)
* atheia (1)



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