#koha: Development IRC meeting 10 July 2019

Meeting summary

1. Introductions (ashimema, 14:01:58)
   1. Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City (thd, 14:02:08)
   2. Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe (ashimema, 14:02:09)
   3. Fridolin Somers, Biblibre France (fridolin, 14:03:08)
   4. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_10_July_2019 Agenda (ashimema, 14:03:21)
   5. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait, 14:05:50)
   
   
2. Announcements (ashimema, 14:06:41)
   1. The first set of maintanence releases have gone out since the last meeting.. Thanks to the RMaints :) (ashimema, 14:07:50)
   
   
3. Update from the Release manager (ashimema, 14:08:30)
   
4. Updates from the Release Maintainers (ashimema, 14:10:59)
   1. liz rea (wizzyrea, 14:11:33)
   2. maintenance releases are moving along nicely (cait, 14:13:34)
   
   
5. Updates from the QA team (ashimema, 14:13:35)
   1. Number of bad bugs on the dashboard are too high - 3 blockers, 4 criticals, 22 majors (cait, 14:14:30)
   2. Please focus on bugs for now if time is low - we need to make sure they are taken care of (cait, 14:14:53)
   3. Be nice to people starting out - new contributors :) (cait, 14:16:49)
   
   
6. General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...) (ashimema, 14:21:26)
   
7. Mana-KB Workflows (ashimema, 14:22:25)
   1. Looking for some guidance on how to progress ManaKB serverside bugs (ashimema, 14:22:33)
   2. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Website_Administration is missing infromation for Hea and Mana (cait, 14:24:22)
   3. Postponed discussion as the key parties are not in attendance (ashimema, 14:24:43)
   4. Note for later: Update/complate https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Website_Administration for Mana and Hea (cait, 14:25:05)
   
   
8. Road to Mojolicious (ashimema, 14:25:57)
   1. I'll be starting to look at bug 23161 in the next couple of weeks with a view to persuing pushing it early next month (ashimema, 14:26:28)
   2. Correction, that was meant to be bug 20582 (ashimema, 14:26:56)
   
   
9. Git maintanence (ashimema, 14:29:00)
   1. The gitlab mirror is currently failing to mirror correctly as our main repository is so large. (ashimema, 14:29:25)
   2. This really just highlights that the repository is still growing at an alarming rate and as such many of our tools are starting to struggle. (ashimema, 14:29:57)
   3. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_Splitting_and_Shrinking Git maintanence proposals (ashimema, 14:31:12)
   4. Martin will send something to the dev mailing list regarding git maintanence proposals (ashimema, 14:50:10)
   5. Martin will try to clarify the existing git splitting page (ashimema, 14:50:29)
   6. We will keep this as a standing topic on the agenda whilst it's still in progress (ashimema, 14:50:57)
   
   
10. Review of coding guidelines (ashimema, 14:56:07)
    
11. Using the Koha::Script base class (ashimema, 14:56:31)
    1. We introduced a base class for scripts in bug 22600 - We should add a guideline to facilitate it's maintanence. (ashimema, 14:59:40)
    
    
12. Update to SQL12 (ashimema, 15:00:28)
    1. Further discussion postponed pending knowledable parties. (ashimema, 15:05:20)
    
    
13. Revise JS guideline JS8 to recomment ESLint (ashimema, 15:05:49)
    1. Posponed discussion as oleonard is absent (ashimema, 15:08:47)
    
    
14. Set time of next meeting (ashimema, 15:09:00)
    1. Next meeting: 24 July 2019, 19:30 UTC (ashimema, 15:20:12)

Action items

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2. cait (80)
3. thd (21)
4. wizzyrea (13)
5. fridolin (12)
6. huginn` (9)
7. wahanui (5)
8. corilynn (2)
9. tcohen (1)
10. reiveune (1)