General IRC Meeting 2009-08-05

== General IRC Meeting 5 August 2009 ==
[Meeting transcript from IRC channel]
=== Agenda ===
The next general IRC meeting will be held on #koha on 5 August 2009 at 10:00 UTC+0 [web time converter] [another time converter])
Expected to attend: gmcharlt,chris
Apologies from: kf
The agenda will include the following:
# Update on Roadmap to 3.2
# Update on Roadmap to 3.0
# Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting, 1 July 2009
# Management of Koha on Social Networks
# Tutorials for new contributors
=== Attendees ===
* Galen Charlton, release manager
* J. David Bavousett, PTFS
* Joann Ransom. Horowhenua Library Trust. NZ
* Jane Wagner, PTFS
* chris cormack, translation manager
* Nicolas Morin from %%BibLibre%%
* MJ Ray, software.coop
* sekjal: NYU Health Sciences Libraries
* Irma Birchall from CALYX information essentials
* David Birmingham, PTFS
* Paul Poulain, France, from %%BibLibre%%, reprensenting hdl, ( 3.0 RMaint), that is in vacation
* savitri, Nucsoft OSS labs
* Magnus Enger, Libriotech, Norway
* chris nighswonger, FBC
* Colin ptfs-europe
* Katrin Fischer, BSZ
* Joe Tholen SEKLS KS
* David Schuster Plano ISD Plano TX
* mason james, new zealand
* Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Thane India and www.granthalaya.org
* Indranil Das Gupta, L2C2 Technologies, Kolkata, India
* Amit Gupta Nucsoft osslabs
* Liz Rea, NEKLS
* Ruth Vargas, Howard County Library
* Nicole Engard / Koha Doc Manager/%%LibLime%%
* Davi Diaz, software.coop
* Tomás Cohen Arazi, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
=== Update on roadmap3.2 ===
* GC applauded %%LibLime%% for their contributions.
* GC thanked hdl for moving us closer to a new_acq branch and encouraged people to check out the koha-biblibre.git tree and not the SOPAC topic branch.
* GC called a soft feature freeze for end of 2009-09-06.
* PP noted other additions on koha-biblibre: over 300 patches.
* GC highlighted the labels rewrite, sysprefs editor and RFID features as wanted in 3.2.
* GC appealed for old bugs to be moved to CLOSED if they are actually fixed.
* GC declared that UTF-8 problems and circulation bugs are blockers or criticals.
* GC will update the roadmap with best guesses by 2009-08-12.
* The choice between 3.4 and 4.0 for the next version was discussed, possibly including a user poll during feature freeze.
* GC deferred 3.1.0 tarball to after the feature freeze.
=== Update on roadmap3.0 ===
* GC thanked HDL for releasing 3.0.3.
* PP announced 3.0.4 as ready soon, to include all bugfixes and some improvements already deployed by %%LibLime%%.
* HDL has called for user testing of 3.0.4 - CC reported local test success.
* PP expects call for translations quite quickly.
* Release date is unknown but hoped for before mid-September.
=== Follow-up on actions from last meeting ===
* GC thanked Nicole Engard for the new list welcome message which is in place.
* MJR reported the wiki relicensing process as running from before next meeting until the early-October meeting.
* guidelines for command-line script argument processing were added to the coding guidelines on the wiki, and as they seem fine and GC hasn't heard any problems with it, they stand
=== Management of KohaSocialNetworks ===
* all networks open to all - recognised users and developers as admins.
* wiki page to be updated to list admins (or lack of admins).
* contributions should be majority Koha-related unless the network is labelled as "social".
* off-topic spammers to be booted on sight where possible.
=== Tutorials for new contributors ===
A page has been created for further discussion on this topic. Koha Tutorials
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