20:00:15 #startmeeting General IRC meeting 13 May 2020 20:00:15 Meeting started Wed May 13 20:00:15 2020 UTC. The chair is ashimema. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00:15 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 20:00:15 The meeting name has been set to 'general_irc_meeting_13_may_2020' 20:00:24 #topic Introductions 20:00:39 please use "#info" in front of your introduction to have it show up in the automatic minutes 20:00:49 #info Martin Renvoize, PTFS-Europe 20:00:49 #info Chris Cormack, Catalyst IT, NZ 20:00:52 rmaints? 20:00:52 hmmm... rmaints is talljoy, lukeG, hayley 20:00:54 #info Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City 20:00:55 #info Lisette Scheer, Latah County Library District/Valnet/Koha-US 20:01:00 qa team? 20:01:00 qa team are the real gatekeepers, send cookies their way 20:01:04 #info Jonathan Druart 20:01:07 qa_team? 20:01:07 qa_team is cait Joubu marcelr kohaputti josef_moravec tcohen kidclamp khall 20:01:09 #info George Williams, Northeast Kansas Library System 20:01:11 #info Jessica Zairo, ByWater Solutions 20:01:15 #info Joy Nelson Bywater 20:01:17 #info Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel 20:01:27 #info David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand 20:01:27 #info Tomas Cohen Arazi, Theke Solutions 20:02:11 #info Mason James, NZ 20:02:23 #info Nick Clemens, bywater 20:02:27 #info Henry Bolshaw, House of Lords Library, UK 20:02:36 #info tuxayo/Victor Grousset, France 20:02:47 wow.. full house tonight 20:03:22 #topic Announcements 20:03:26 * kidclamp outside with kid, so may get distracted 20:03:36 #info Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany 20:03:45 #link https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_13_May_2020 20:03:53 #info Brendan Gallagher, ByWater 20:04:24 #chair Joubu 20:04:24 Current chairs: Joubu ashimema 20:04:28 #chair cait 20:04:28 Current chairs: Joubu ashimema cait 20:04:38 #info Kohacon2020 will be a hybrid online and in-person event - see https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2020-May/054572.html 20:04:47 thanks for the agenda link Joubu.. I always forget that 20:05:37 Air New Zealand just announced they won't fly from Argentina for a while, there go my hopes 20:05:52 :-( 20:06:24 #info The next scheduled releases of Koha are likely to be the last to officially support Debian 8 (Jessie). This is inline with the End Of Life upstream 20:06:26 They seem to have cut most of their international flights, how are your yachting skills? 20:06:34 #link https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Debian LTS Details 20:06:42 * Joubu wonders if we will make video chat from pubs after the conferences 20:07:00 thats the plan Joubu :) 20:07:13 hehe great :) 20:07:15 I love that idea Joubu.. though pub time there will be breakfast time here :( 20:07:17 hehehe 20:07:27 Nice idea 20:07:33 not sure I'll get away with that.. can imagine the breakfast ptfs-e meeting with a beer in hand 20:07:38 To have also the less formal part 20:07:43 It's 5:00 somewhere 20:07:47 breakfast stout then 20:07:53 haha 20:08:06 any other anouncements to make? 20:08:44 About D8 deprecation, we must focus on D10 support then ;) 20:09:09 and maybe have it the default for devs 20:09:11 +1 20:09:13 * tuxayo notes to always run dev env with Debian 10 20:09:20 Agreed.. it's been one of my focus area's this release and it's certainly improved allot 20:10:05 #info Devs are encouraged to use D10 for their dev environment 20:10:07 Devs should certainly start focusing on using D10 for dev I think 20:10:11 :) 20:10:29 * tcohen is trying to figure why plack doesn't start in D10 ;-) 20:10:30 #info koha-US special interest groups - see http://koha-us.org/special-interest-groups/ for upcoming meetings 20:10:44 * ashimema will be going D10 end of the month.. seemed a little risky to do it just prior to release 20:11:11 ashimema: as long a docker works ^^ 20:11:14 *as 20:11:42 the special interest groups seem to be going well - it is great they are recorded as well 20:11:51 thanks koha-US! 20:12:04 * ashimema dev's on two machines... D9 and Arch.. arch is way ahead of D10 and works seemlessly with docker so I'm hoping D10 will be fine to 20:12:46 the SIG's are good.. though I'd love to see some more international representation ;) 20:12:49 * tuxayo learns about those special interest groups. Interesting 20:13:04 Should we add the koha-us meetings to the Koha agenda? 20:13:15 koha-US would be happy to see more international representation too 20:13:19 moving on... 20:13:20 #topic Update on releases 20:13:32 > koha-us meetings to the Koha agenda 20:13:32 Why not 20:13:46 georgew: ping me if you want write access to the Koha agenda 20:14:17 #info We are well and truly into string freeze now.. it was a little late as I had some catching up to do after a weekend of Jenkins challenges. 20:14:31 It makes sense to also use the agenda for international events about using Koha. 20:14:35 And not only for making it. 20:14:49 the fuller the calendar the better :) 20:14:52 #info I will send an email with updated proposed release dates soon 20:15:13 ++ on adding SIGs to the calendar 20:15:28 ashimema++ 20:15:32 tcohen++ 20:15:35 Thanks for dealing with CI hardships 20:15:45 ah 20:16:08 #info Please help with the find and fix effort to polish the release.. and any help on the release notes would be appreciated too 20:16:34 its day one of level 2 and they have decided to dig up the road outside my house, so if i go offline they dug up the fibre by mistake 20:16:41 #info Technical release notes are also work in progress.. if you have anything to bring up for them please contribute your idea's 20:16:52 # info https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes 20:17:01 whoops 20:17:04 #info https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes 20:17:14 #link https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes Technical release notes 20:17:16 #link https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes Technical Notes 20:17:20 heh :) 20:17:21 Thanks 20:17:28 haha.. thanks tcohen.. you found it a little quicker than me 20:18:07 any updates from the rmaints? 20:18:16 > find and fix effort to polish the release 20:18:16 Anything in particular? 20:18:42 ashimema: i saw joy sent out string freeze email, so they look to be on track 20:18:57 perfect 20:19:15 on schedule! 20:19:16 #info Maintenance releases are on track for end of the month. 20:19:17 tuxayo: test, bug fix, test bug fix 20:19:24 that was also my understanding.. :) 20:19:57 sooo... 20:20:05 got it ^^ 20:20:07 shall we move on to the piece everyone is waiting for? 20:20:25 #topic Election of 20.11 Release Team 20:20:49 #link https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_20.11 20:20:50 #link https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_20.11 Roles for 20.11 20:21:20 any last minute additions, now is the time to add you names :) 20:21:37 This release team is huge! 20:21:54 with few new names, that's great 20:22:01 it's grown today.. nice 20:22:01 Come an board the 20.11 ship! o/ last call ! 20:22:11 :) 20:23:11 Great to see some old names back on the QA team list 20:23:15 biblibre++ 20:23:21 :) 20:23:36 #info Owen Leonard, Athens county Public Libraries, Ohio, USA 20:23:42 biblibre++ 20:23:46 matts++ 20:23:49 jajm++ 20:23:51 Henry.. great to see you as a bugwrangler :) 20:23:52 :D 20:23:52 alex_a++ 20:23:53 alexa++ 20:24:01 siri++ 20:24:03 yes, biblibre++, I am very happy to have them all on board! 20:24:07 alex_a++ matts++ jajm++ :) 20:24:17 paul_p++ ;) 20:24:18 very happy to have them back 20:24:39 but also happy for everone else, might be able to get the queue down again :) 20:24:50 paul_p++ 20:24:52 paul_p++ 20:24:58 right.. 20:25:00 biblibre++ 20:25:02 Nice to see so many put their names down for the documentation team 20:25:13 ^^ 20:25:19 This is great 20:25:22 any points to raise/question before I call the vote? 20:25:25 all looks good to me 20:25:40 no questions 20:27:27 #vote Do we elect the team as proposed on the above linked roles page? Yes, No, Abstain 20:27:33 * #startvote Do we elect the team as proposed on the above linked roles page? Yes, No, Abstain 20:27:43 #startvote Do we elect the team as proposed on the above linked roles page? Yes, No, Abstain 20:27:43 Begin voting on: Do we elect the team as proposed on the above linked roles page? Valid vote options are Yes, No, Abstain. 20:27:43 Vote using '#vote OPTION'. Only your last vote counts. 20:27:58 #vote Yes 20:27:59 #vote Yes 20:28:01 #vote Yes 20:28:02 #vote Yes 20:28:02 #vote yes 20:28:03 #vote Yes 20:28:04 #vote Yes 20:28:06 #vote Yes 20:28:08 #vote Yes 20:28:08 #vote yes 20:28:16 #vote yes 20:28:16 #vote Yes 20:28:18 #vote Yes 20:28:18 #vote Yes 20:28:20 #vote yes 20:28:27 #vote Yes 20:28:44 (what if I vote No?) 20:28:48 :-P 20:28:57 #vote yes 20:29:26 #vote yes 20:29:30 Joubu: The team including you would still be elected right? :P 20:30:18 amazing attendance tonight.. great to see guys.. lets make this an awesome cycle for Joubu 20:30:21 #endvote 20:30:21 Voted on "Do we elect the team as proposed on the above linked roles page?" Results are 20:30:21 Yes (18): Joubu, jzairo, davidnind, cait, lisettelatah, georgew, oleonard, ashimema, tuxayo, mtj, kidclamp, henryb, bgkriegel, talljoy, holly, thd, rangi, tcohen 20:30:37 team++ 20:30:50 team++ community++ 20:30:50 team++ 20:30:51 team++ 20:30:56 ashimema++ 20:30:58 Joubu++ 20:31:06 Thanks everyone.. it's been a pleasure serving the last 12 months.. I look forward to supporting Joubu :) 20:31:21 Joubu++ 20:31:22 community++ 20:31:28 For taking the RM load 20:31:30 ashimema++ 20:31:31 ashimema++ 20:31:33 For having done it 20:31:36 ashimema++ 20:31:44 ashimema++ 20:31:49 Joubu++ 20:31:51 ashimema++ excellent work 20:32:07 thd we need to organize the developer's handbook this cycle 20:32:08 let#s work together to make sure Joubu is happy :) 20:32:09 * Joubu put his dictator hat on his head 20:32:13 not yet! 20:32:13 shucks :) 20:32:15 Project Koha_19.11_D8 build #145: UNSTABLE in 40 min: https://jenkins.koha-community.org/job/Koha_19.11_D8/145/ 20:32:52 * ashimema actually highlighted the developer handbook in his submission to be part of the docs team next cycle tcohen :) 20:33:05 benevolent dictator, Joubu 20:33:22 so.. last item for the evening 20:33:25 koha-jenkins not now, we are celebrating! 20:33:29 tcohen: they say 20:33:39 #topic Set time and date for next meeting 20:33:55 Joubu++ 20:34:00 ashimema: I've opened few bug reports for that already! 20:34:10 :) 20:34:25 ptfs-e++ biblibre++ bywater++ # for supporting me! :) 20:34:44 bywater++ ptfs-e++ biblibre++ 20:35:08 ptfs-e++ 20:35:10 biblibre++ 20:35:12 bywater++ 20:35:28 ptfs-e++ biblibre++ bywater++ 20:35:34 Joubu++ 20:35:37 koha channel reached the daily quota for its karma system 20:35:43 :) 20:35:55 June 17th sounds reasonable.. 20:35:58 (should it be in 3 lines and 3 apart messages to for the ++ to be counted?) 20:36:08 karma overflow 20:36:08 overflow has neutral karma 20:36:23 overflow++ 20:36:38 karma party 20:36:38 party has karma of 1 20:36:39 not sure it's a good idea tuxayo 20:36:55 yes ashimema 20:36:55 well, ashimema is literally just writing up the release anouncement ;) 20:36:58 @karma party 20:36:58 oleonard: Karma for "party" has been increased 4 times and decreased 0 times for a total karma of 4. 20:37:05 ^^" 20:37:08 !karma party 20:37:08 party has neutral karma. 20:37:35 time for next meeting 20:37:51 17th June sounds ok 20:37:53 your call here really Joubu.. as the in coming host 20:38:37 in theory it would switch to the early slot.. but as we're moving toward kohacon are there any request to stick late from NZ? 20:38:46 rangi, davidnind ? 20:39:00 14, 15? 20:39:15 fine for june 20:39:16 15UTC 20:39:23 can we have july in a good time for nz 20:39:31 works for me :) 20:39:36 thats when we will be making any more big announcements 20:39:45 #info Next meeting: 17 June 2020, 15 UTC 20:39:50 brill 20:39:51 (we should hopefully know what the rules around travel are by then) 20:40:13 rangi: let us know the time 20:40:19 like this one? 20:40:28 this time is fine 20:40:55 Maybe I will stop having to hunt for a new non-closed place to do my laundry by July. 20:40:57 right.. I think we can bring this meeting to a close then 20:41:07 thanks everyone.. feel free to stick around and mingle :) 20:41:09 ok, 20 UTC then for July 15th 20:41:22 #endmeeting