#koha: Development IRC meeting 15 July 2020

Meeting started by ashimema at 14:07:17 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Agenda: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_15_July_2020 (ashimema, 14:07:55)

  2. Introductions (ashimema, 14:08:13)
    1. Please introduce yourselves with #info to appear in the minutes (ashimema, 14:08:31)
    2. Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe (ashimema, 14:08:41)
    3. Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, Ohio, USA (oleonard, 14:08:47)
    4. Joy Nelson, Bywater Solutions (talljoy, 14:08:52)
    5. Tomas Cohen Arazi, Theke Solutions (tcohen, 14:09:34)
    6. Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City (thd, 14:09:41)
    7. Lucas Gass, ByWater Solutions (lukeG1, 14:09:51)
    8. , Nick Clemens, ByWater Solutions (kidclamp, 14:10:25)
    9. Julian Maurice, BibLibre (not 100% there) (jajm, 14:10:42)

  3. Announcements (ashimema, 14:10:52)
    1. Nothing to announce (ashimema, 14:11:21)

  4. Updates from the release manager (ashimema, 14:11:37)
    1. RM is on holiday but has assigned tcohen and ashimema for urgent issues and is checking in occasionally (ashimema, 14:12:12)
    2. Joubu will be pushing majors and criticals later today (ashimema, 14:12:25)

  5. Update from the release maintainers (ashimema, 14:12:39)
    1. rmaint is going well, we should be on target for the next releases on July 22nd and string freeze on the 15th (ashimema, 14:14:06)

  6. Updates from the QA team (ashimema, 14:14:36)
    1. QA team are working hard but numbers remain high. (ashimema, 14:16:07)
    2. 84 bugs in the queue. (ashimema, 14:16:48)
    3. Looking for a final QA signoff on bug 20271, tochen and ashimema have both done their testing (ashimema, 14:20:38)
    4. ACTION: ashimema is working on qa for bug 15522 (ashimema, 14:21:15)

  7. Actions from last meeting (ashimema, 14:22:14)
    1. ACTION: tuxayo - write a proposal for handing over stable branches (ashimema, 14:23:11)
    2. Ashimema did a quick draft accessibility guideline to promote the use of `.maincontent` (ashimema, 14:25:07)
    3. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Coding_Guidelines#.5BDRAFT.5D_ACC1: All_OPAC_pages_require_a_single.27block.27_with_the_.27.maincontent.27_class Draft Guideline (ashimema, 14:25:17)
    4. Joy send a proposal for an Inclusive language guideline to the mailing lists (ashimema, 14:27:00)
    5. Use inclusive language that promotes a community where everyone feels they are represented. Avoid terms that express or imply negative ideas that are racist, colonialist, or otherwise biased towards groups of people. Refer to the terminology list for terms to use/avoid. (ashimema, 14:27:10)
    6. ACTION: talljoy to add the guideline as proposed to the official guidelines wiki page (ashimema, 14:28:50)
    7. ACTION: ashimema to propose a guideline ragarding using direction object notation rather than indirect object notation (ashimema, 14:30:04)
    8. ACTION: tuxayo - prepare draft update to SQL11 to improve consistency for descriptions in kohastructure files (ashimema, 14:30:33)
    9. ACTION: ashimema to update minimum koha requirements on the website (ashimema, 14:30:58)
    10. ACTION: cait to propose discussion about supported browsers at next meeting (IE especially) (ashimema, 14:31:57)
    11. ACTION: davidnind Find and update relevant places to record Perl version required, including release notes, manual and wiki (one source of the truth) (ashimema, 14:32:25)

  8. General development discussion (ashimema, 14:32:52)
    1. I'd like to thank people for jumping on accessibility bugs.. they've moved remarkably quickly with them going through SO and QA almost as fast as I can write them :) (ashimema, 14:34:21)
    2. bug 20168 is looking for testers (ashimema, 14:34:38)
    3. Bootstrap v4 for OPAC (ashimema, 14:35:03)
    4. Review of coding guidelines (ashimema, 14:36:11)
    5. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait1, 14:36:21)

  9. Review of coding guidelines (ashimema, 14:36:26)
    1. talljoy has now added "TERM3 - Inclusive language" the guidelines :) (ashimema, 14:37:04)

  10. Set time of next meeting (ashimema, 14:37:43)
    1. Next meeting: July 29, 2020 19 UTC (ashimema, 14:41:33)


Meeting ended at 14:41:40 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. ashimema is working on qa for bug 15522
  2. tuxayo - write a proposal for handing over stable branches
  3. talljoy to add the guideline as proposed to the official guidelines wiki page
  4. ashimema to propose a guideline ragarding using direction object notation rather than indirect object notation
  5. tuxayo - prepare draft update to SQL11 to improve consistency for descriptions in kohastructure files
  6. ashimema to update minimum koha requirements on the website
  7. cait to propose discussion about supported browsers at next meeting (IE especially)
  8. davidnind Find and update relevant places to record Perl version required, including release notes, manual and wiki (one source of the truth)


Action items, by person

  1. ashimema
    1. ashimema is working on qa for bug 15522
    2. ashimema to propose a guideline ragarding using direction object notation rather than indirect object notation
    3. ashimema to update minimum koha requirements on the website
  2. cait
    1. cait to propose discussion about supported browsers at next meeting (IE especially)
  3. talljoy
    1. talljoy to add the guideline as proposed to the official guidelines wiki page
  4. UNASSIGNED
    1. tuxayo - write a proposal for handing over stable branches
    2. tuxayo - prepare draft update to SQL11 to improve consistency for descriptions in kohastructure files
    3. davidnind Find and update relevant places to record Perl version required, including release notes, manual and wiki (one source of the truth)


People present (lines said)

  1. ashimema (86)
  2. talljoy (11)
  3. oleonard (10)
  4. tcohen (10)
  5. huginn (9)
  6. kidclamp (5)
  7. wahanui (4)
  8. lukeG1 (4)
  9. cait1 (2)
  10. jajm (1)
  11. thd (1)
  12. cait (0)


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