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

1. Update on Roadmap to 3.2
2. Update on Roadmap to 3.0
3. Follow-up on actions from General IRC Meeting, 5 August 2009
4. bugs.koha.org finding new default assignee's and tidying up orphaned bugs
5. 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