General IRC Meeting 2009-09-02

== General IRC Meeting 2 September 2009 ==
The next general IRC Meeting will be held on #koha on 2 September 2009 at 19:00 UTC+0 web time converter another time converter)
Transcript: http://stats.workbuffer.org/irclog/koha/2009-09-02#i_295504
=== Agenda ===
# Update on Roadmap to 3.2
# Update on Roadmap to 3.0
# Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting, 5 August 2009
# bugs.koha.org finding new default assignee's and tidying up orphaned bugs
# To mantain documentation about DB Schema (tables, indexes, relations).
=== Attendees ===
* Brendan Gallagher, %%ByWater%% Solutions (brendan)
* Chris Cormack, Translation manager (chris)
* Chris Nighswonger, FBC (chris_n)
* Colin Campbell, PTFS-Europe (Colin)
* David Schuster, Plano ISD (schuster)
* Galen Charlton, 3.2 release manager (gmcharlt)
* Garry Collum, Kenton County Library (collum)
* Greg Lawson, Rolling Hills Consolidated Library (rhcl)
* Henri-Damien LAURENT, 3.0 release maintainer (hdl_laptop)
* Ian Walls, NYU Health Sciences Libraries (sekjal)
* J. David Bavousett, PTFS (jdavidb)
* Jesse Weaver, programmer (pianohacker)
* Joe Atzberger, Equinox (atz)
* John Rose, PTFS (jmr)
* Katrin Fischer, BSZ Konstanz (cait)
* Krishnan Mani, India (kr1shnan)
* Liz Rea, NEKLS (wizzyrea)
* MJ Ray, webmaster for TTLLP software.coop (slef)
* Magnus Enger, Libriotec, Norway (magnusenger)
* Owen Leonard, Nelsonville Public Library, Interface designer for 3.x (owen)
* Ricardo Dias Marques (ricardo)
* Ruth Vargas, Howard County Library (ruth)
* Sébastien Hinderer ( Lupin )
* Thomas Dukleth, Agogme (thd)
* Vicki Teal Lovely, South Central Library System, Madison, WI (vickiteal)
* Zeno Tajoli, CILEA, Italy (tajoli)
Apologies from: Davi Leals, Paul Poulain, Nicolas Morin
=== Summary ===
(Note: "CC:" below refers to Chris Cormack)
* GC: Feature freeze is September 6th (which is also tenth anniversary of Koha work)
** Feature freeze: all new features must be in, but can be submitted by sending patches, pull requests, or links to Git repositories
** Some leeway on freeze
** Roadmap to 3.2 will be updated after freeze with list of submitted items
** Please contact GC if anything is missing
** Rough alpha couple weeks after freeze
** Bugfixes still welcome after freeze
** New features after freeze will be put on 3.4 unstable branches
* GC: Significant changes:
** New biblibre-integration branch
** new_acq branch (new acquisitions module from %%BibLibre%%)
** new sysprefs editor from Jesse Weaver
* GC: Hoped for: RFID device driver from MJ Ray
* GC: Possible %%BibLibre%% hackfest in France, proposal for general Koha bugsquashing session on weekend of 19-20 September (Chris Cormack: possibly help from Catalyst employees)
* GC: More details at next meeting, also planning for 3.4/4.0
==== 3.2 Questions/Comments ====
* DS: All features should be on roadmap by Sep 7? CC: yes, ask if not
* HDL: Merge order? GC: biblibre-integration, labels_recon, new_acq, new_sysprefs
* HDL: Solution to merge conflicts? GC: Will merge myself if possible, otherwise send back to submitter
* CC: Help GC with testing latest merges
* HDL: Working on making biblio merge tool more user friendly
==== 3.0 ====
* HDL: Working on reconciliation branch (merging in select new features and bugfixes)
* HDL: Test server for reconciliation (please help test):
** Staff: http://integration_3.0.x.git.biblibre.com/
** OPAC: http://catalogue.integration_3.0.x.git.biblibre.com/
** Login: kohatest / kohatest
** Report issues by emailing HDL (henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com)
* GC, CC: Preferred help with testing 3.2 rather than 3.0
* 3.0.4 will fix Amazon Content
* HDL: Any bugfixes for 3.2 will be applied to 3.0 as well, but helps if patch than can be applied on 3.0 is sent
==== Action items ====
* GC: Koha Tutorials has been started, webcasts and online tutorials should be scheduled (after 3.2 release)
** DS: request for tutorials on installing and upgrading to 3.2
** GC: so far, interest is in tutorials on development
** specifically, tutorials on Git for new Koha hackers
** RDM: http://gitcasts.com/ is a possible source of help.
** CC: Existing tutorials:
*** How to request a pull
*** How to add a system preference
** MJR: tutorial on naming conventions and development procedures
* MJR: wiki relicensing still open, will discuss at next meeting
==== Bugzilla ====
* CC: %%LibLime%% seems to have withdrawn from community; no patches or IRC participation in last month (but see below)
** Is still technically managing Bugzilla
* CC: Need new default assignees
** Current list: Default assignees for components in the Koha bugs database
** Can become assignee by volunteering on koha-devel mailing list
** JDB: willing to be default for Installation/Command-Line Utils/System Administration
** If unwilling to accept entire category, accept bugs one at a time
** ZT (as [CILEA]): volunteering for %%MySQL%%/About
** GC: willing to offload some of own categories
* CC: Need to take care of orphaned bugs
** Any help appreciated
* Unsure if Nicole will be able to continue role as Documentation Manager
==== MySQL Schema Documentation ====
* ZT: Documentation on %%MySQL%% tables, index and relations is updated to database of 3.0.3 release
* ZT: Based on automatic output of [SchemaSpy], and edited
* JA: Sometimes relationships are not entered as foreign-key constraints, so dependencies can be deleted (for historical data)
* Some relationships are simply missing
* Should include manual notes on relationships in main DB schema
* ZT: Process for adding column notes to existing Koha installation available
* Need to figure out where/if to have in-DB comments (due to cross-DB compatibility problems) on koha-devel mailing list
==== Comments/Questions ====
* %%LibLime%% involvement with Koha community?
** RDM, CC: Would like to have public statement from %%LibLime%%, have not had one yet
** DS: Possibly simply scrambling due to lost staff
** Also many migrations due
** Summary: Cannot be certain of anything yet
** MJR: Would help if there were a Koha foundation
* Hope for Koha/Evergreen collaboration on common modules
* RDM: Finishing of translation of Koha to Portuguese has been accepted as a [SAPO.PT Summerbits] project
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