#koha: General IRC meeting 4 October 2017

Meeting started by kidclamp at 14:02:24 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introductions (kidclamp, 14:02:32)
    1. wahanui, a bot that has become sentient (wahanui, 14:02:33)
    2. Nick Clemens, ByWater Solutions (kidclamp, 14:02:49)
    3. Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, USA (oleonard, 14:02:50)
    4. Marcel de Rooy, Netherlands (marcelr, 14:02:51)
    5. Jonathan Druart (Joubu, 14:02:54)
    6. Tomas Cohen Arazi (tcohen, 14:03:00)
    7. Nate Curulla, ByWater (NateC, 14:03:05)
    8. Marc Véron, Switzerland (mveron, 14:03:06)
    9. Dimitris Antonakis, Greece (d_antonakis, 14:03:48)
    10. Kyle M Hall, ByWater Solutions (khall, 14:04:05)
    11. Adam Brooks, ByWater Solutions (AdamB, 14:04:15)
    12. Lisette Scheer, Latah County Library District (lisettelatah, 14:04:30)
    13. George Williams, Northeast Kansas Library System (georgewilliams, 14:04:53)
    14. Chris Cormack (only sorta here actually at a conference in Baltimore) (rangi, 14:05:28)
    15. Indranil Das Gupta (indradg, 14:05:51)

  2. Announcements (kidclamp, 14:06:04)
    1. Today is documentation sprint day! (kidclamp, 14:06:18)
    2. Next wednesday is GBSD! (kidclamp, 14:06:25)
    3. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait, 14:14:12)
    4. Documentation Sprint Day is now and until 4 October had ended everywhere (cait, 14:15:09)

  3. Update on releases (kidclamp, 14:18:53)
    1. 16.11.13 is on schedule for release around 22 October (cait, 14:19:53)
    2. Release managers are trying to coordinate so packages are available on release day (cait, 14:20:08)
    3. Bob Birchall, Calyx, Australia (BobB, 14:23:01)
    4. if you need update about the RM, read dev meetings minutes or last "what's on in koha-devel" on the koha website (Joubu, 14:23:12)
    5. Fridolin Somers, Biblibre, France (fridolin, 14:23:30)

  4. KohaCon 18 (kidclamp, 14:25:07)
    1. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon18_Proposals (oleonard, 14:25:49)
    2. AGREED: Dealine for KohaCon 18 submissions extended to end of the day 17 October 2017 (kidclamp, 14:32:22)

  5. Alternatives for help files (kidclamp, 14:35:49)
    1. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Alternatives_for_help_files (cait, 14:37:49)
    2. in a nutshell the issue is that help files duplicate the manual, require doulbe translations, and are overwritten on updates (kidclamp, 14:40:41)
    3. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Alternatives_for_help_files Current bugs/options for dealing with help files (kidclamp, 14:41:08)
    4. Magnus Enger, Libriotech, Norway (magnuse, 14:56:43)
    5. proposal is a syspref/mapping to local files and other wise pointing to the manual on the web (kidclamp, 14:57:11)
    6. email will be sent to devs/translators once manual translation is sorted again (kidclamp, 14:57:46)
    7. ACTION: cait will check with bernardo and send proposal (kidclamp, 14:58:03)

  6. Next meeting (kidclamp, 15:04:22)
    1. next meeting: 18 October 2017, 21 UTC (kidclamp, 15:04:44)


Meeting ended at 15:06:03 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. cait will check with bernardo and send proposal


Action items, by person

  1. cait
    1. cait will check with bernardo and send proposal


People present (lines said)

  1. cait (68)
  2. kidclamp (54)
  3. Joubu (22)
  4. mveron (18)
  5. tcohen (15)
  6. wahanui (8)
  7. oleonard (6)
  8. huginn` (5)
  9. marcelr (5)
  10. fridolin (4)
  11. BobB (3)
  12. khall (3)
  13. magnuse (3)
  14. rangi (3)
  15. lisettelatah (2)
  16. georgewilliams (2)
  17. pastebot (1)
  18. NateC (1)
  19. indradg (1)
  20. reiveune (1)
  21. d_antonakis (1)
  22. AdamB (1)


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