#koha: General IRC meeting 8 January 2020

Meeting started by ashimema[m] at 20:03:51 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany (cait, 20:04:08)
    2. Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, Ohio, USA (oleonard, 20:04:15)

  2. Introductions (ashimema[m], 20:04:18)
    1. Caroline Cyr La Rose, inLibro (caroline_catlady, 20:04:20)
    2. Cori Lynn Arnold, DGI, Connecticut (corilynn, 20:04:24)
    3. Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe, UK (ashimema[m], 20:04:30)
    4. David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand (davidnind, 20:04:44)
    5. Hayley Mapley, Catalyst IT New Zealand (hayley, 20:05:03)
    6. Lisette Scheer, Latah County Library District/Koha-US, Idaho, US (lisettelatah, 20:05:07)
    7. George Williams, Northeast Kansas Library System (georgew, 20:05:38)
    8. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_8_January_2020 Agenda (ashimema[m], 20:05:42)
    9. Chris Cormack, Catalyst (rangi, 20:06:21)

  3. Announcements (ashimema[m], 20:07:07)
    1. Been wading through old open bugs until up to 2015 - marked some Academy for those who want to have a go :) (cait, 20:08:26)
    2. Koha-US koha-a-thon is looking for presentation proposals for our online conference this spring. The conference is free and anyone is welcome to attend. (lisettelatah, 20:08:50)
    3. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJtMl835FOT9aWYTT-JDjWsSl0GoLtmFu5aEuQbE0rsrOz1w/viewform?usp=sf_link (lisettelatah, 20:09:05)
    4. some bad news is there is no catalyst academy this year (we have no space in teh building and it got left a bit late to sort it out) (rangi, 20:09:10)
    5. https://www.catalyst.net.nz/open-source-academy (rangi, 20:11:12)
    6. Next global bug squashing day is 17 January (from last month's general IRC meeting) (davidnind, 20:11:53)
    7. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Catalyst_Academy_2019#Day_1 <-- they got tons done last year! (rangi, 20:13:19)
    8. Aleisha Amohia, Catalyst IT New Zealand (aleisha, 20:13:29)
    9. We are now entering an 'experimental pushing' period of the relase cycle.. this means master will be a tad less stable as I encourage the QA team to work through challenging and scary enhancements and new features. (ashimema[m], 20:14:30)
    10. Marshal Breeding's 2019 International Library Automation Perceptions Survey closes soon, provides useful info on Koha https://librarytechnology.org/web/breeding/AutomationSurvey/ (davidnind, 20:15:30)
    11. Hackfest in Marseille hosted by BibLibre 23rd - 27th March (ashimema[m], 20:17:23)

  4. Kohacon20 (ashimema[m], 20:18:55)
    1. Registrations for KohaCon are open! (cait, 20:18:58)
    2. https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/registration/ (rangi, 20:19:01)
    3. https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/location/ details here (rangi, 20:19:32)

  5. Update on releases (ashimema[m], 20:21:08)
    1. First releases of the cycle have taken place (ashimema[m], 20:21:52)
    2. 18.11: In the process of working through the relevant patches for 18.11.13. If anyone has anything to flag for the 18.11.13 please let me know and I will take a look! (hayley, 20:22:09)
    3. Packaging was a little slow, xmas break combined with challenges getting hold of the packaging manager. (ashimema[m], 20:23:12)
    4. Lots of bugfixes have gone in during this first month of bugfixes only (ashimema[m], 20:23:36)
    5. Now moving into a short period of more experimenal pushing... (ashimema[m], 20:24:14)

  6. Any Other Business (ashimema[m], 20:25:45)
    1. Koha Release Team is looking for packaging volunteers to spread the load (cait, 20:33:22)

  7. Next meeting (ashimema[m], 20:35:08)
    1. 12 Feb 2020, 20 UTC (ashimema[m], 20:39:36)


Meeting ended at 20:39:52 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. ashimema[m] (55)
  2. rangi (21)
  3. cait (20)
  4. davidnind (6)
  5. corilynn (5)
  6. hayley (5)
  7. lisettelatah (4)
  8. huginn` (4)
  9. georgew (3)
  10. caroline_catlady (3)
  11. oleonard (3)
  12. aleisha (2)
  13. wahanui (1)
  14. Marie-Luce (1)


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