Road map 24.05

For each release the community, especially the development team, will define milestones/goals that they aim to reach.

There is no guarantee that all of these will make it into a release. In some cases progress on certain projects will be made over multiple versions or projects will have to be postponed.

But it helps us to get a common understanding about important tasks and work on achieving them together. Also, road map project will be prioritized in certain circumstances.

Schedule

• Discussion: Development IRC meeting 13 December 2023
• Deadline for projects: 2023-12-31 (expired)
• Deadline for completing project entries: 2024-01-12 (expired)
  • Add project leads, supporters and missing bugs/Taiga cards
  • Don't add new projects
    

How to use this page

• New projects, unless already meeting the criteria, should be added as a Project proposal first to the table at the bottom.
• Once it has met the requirements, it can be moved up to Accepted projects. At this time, we will also add the roadmap_24_05 keyword on the bug in Bugzilla.
• Requirements:
  • Proposal has a Project lead
  • Proposal has at least 2 supporters
  • Proposal has a useful description and a linked (omnibus) bug.

Columns

• Status: I suggest putting a percentage, that will allow us to sort the the table sensibly when reviewing.
• Category: Categories to help a bit with sorting: Infrastructure, Feature, Architecture...
• Project lead: First point of contact, coordinator, might also be main developer.
• Supporters: Supposed to help with testing, developing, QA etc. The more the merrier, but putting your name equal commitment to actively work on the project.
• Omnibus bug: This is the entry point for the project in Bugzilla. Please post status updates here and link any other related bugs. If the project only consists of one bug (are you sure?) then it also goes here. Must be linked to Bugzilla or the issue tracker in gitlab.
• Project description: Short description of the goals of the projects, what's included and what's not. Please try to make it easy to understand without requiring to read code ;)

Accepted projects

In order to be listed in this table, a project needs to have at least: a Project lead and at least 2 supporters and a link.

Important: Please use the roadmap_24_05 keyword in Bugzilla to highlight any bugs/patches related to your projects.

Scheduled	Status	Category	Project lead	Supporters	Omnibus bug	Project description
	Signed off, waiting for QA (patch still applies)	Feature	Aleisha	Katrin David Nind	31391	Be able to place recalls from the staff interface and also to limit placing recalls to either staff interface or OPAC.
		Feature	nugged	Tomas Michal (testing)	20447	Add support for MARC holdings records. RFC: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/MARC_Holdings_Records_RFC This year talk from PerlKohaCon.fi: youtube This feature is already in active production use in Finnish libraries.
		Feature	Pedro	Martin nugged Tomas	35604	Interlibrary Loans Rethink
		Feature	Matts	David Cook Sonia Bouis	35659	Adds an OAI-PMH harvester to Koha
		Feature	Martin	Nick Kyle Laurence Rault	29002	Bookings - Polishing and next steps
		Feature	Martin	Paul D. David Cook	23975	Plugins - Discovery, Authenticity
		Feature	Mark Hofstetter	Thomas Klausner (domm) David Schmidt	31652	Geo-Search
	Needs SO & QA review	Refactoring	Joubu	Tomas Nick Martin nugged	33568	Use the REST API to display items on the biblio detail view
	PQA	Refactoring	Joubu	Martin Tomas Owen	35329	Move patron searches to a modal
	Jonathan to send email	Refactoring	Joubu	Katrin Tomas Martin	16846	Move C4 to Koha Create a team: agree on what to move next and make it happen
		Refactoring	Paul D.	Joubu Matt (PTFS)	30225	Cities on Vue
		Refactoring	Emily	Martin Katrin	15278	Port default slips and notices from bespoke syntax to Template Toolkit
	Failed QA	Refactoring	Marcel	Joubu Martin Tomas	33537	Move domain limits from koha-conf to staff SMTP configuration
	Needs Rebase	Refactoring	Tomas	Martin Emily	25260	Merge 'reserves' and 'old_reserves' into a new 'holds' table
	Passed QA	Test suite / plugins	Marcel	Martin Kyle	35507 and friends	Improving tests for Koha plugins
		Architecture	didier	Joubu David Cook	pad	Performance improvements (CPU, memory)
		Architecture	Marcel	Joubu Katrin	35092	Job queue/RabbitMQ bugfixes and improvements
		Infrastructure	Katrin	Emily Joubu	Taiga card	Move from master to main for our development branch in git. Git, scripts, documentation need to be updated.
		Infrastructure	Paul D.	Joubu David Cook	34315 Taiga card	Provide an alternative to the mailing lists - Discourse
		Infrastructure	Joubu	Mason Paul D.	Taiga card	Debian packages - share the load!
		Infrastructure	Joubu	Tomas Mason Martin	Taiga card	Prevent push to main repository when Jenkins is not happy Always have stable stable branches, maybe use a WIP branch
		Documentation	Joubu	David Nind Philip	34076	Automated screenshots for the manual
	Drafting doc brief, creating topic list to cover, finding existing resources	Documentation	David Nind	Emily Katrin	34472	Template Toolkit reference guide for notices needed

Project proposals

Add anything you'd be interested in, once it fulfills the criteria for an Accepted project it can be moved to the first table.

You might also add projects where you can't take the lead and use this for advertising.

Projects hat Missed deadline don't have official road map status for 24.05. They might still be worked on, but won't take priority.

Status	Category	Project lead	Supporters	Omnibus bug	Project description
Missed deadline	Feature	nugged	Martin nugged Tomas	Pad, taiga, bug, wiki page... please create an entry point.	Interlibrary Loans - Supplier role (incl. ISO2021 ILL + international UK-FI alignment)
Missed deadline	Feature	Matt	Katrin Martin Michaela	Pad, taiga, bug, wiki page... please create an entry point.	Acquisitions - Blue sky thinking
Missed deadline	Feature	Aude	Martin	34793	Cookie Policy fixes - Just needs a QA workthrough for that tree.
Missed deadline	Infrastructure		Jake (PTFS) Tomas Joubu (stepping back from lead)	FIXME	Review the CI pipelines for more efficiency
Missed deadline	Architecture	Joubu	David Cook	FIXME	Make Vue code available from other areas of Koha (especially fetch.js)
Missed deadline	Architecture	David Cook	Martin	34088	Database upgrade should run faster when there is no change to make
Missed deadline	Architecture	David Cook	Martin	35445	OPAC self-registration verification triggered by email URL scanners (ie state change should be by POST not GET)
Missed deadline	Cataloguing	Tomas	Martin	31791	Record locking by source
Missed deadline	Packaging/Docker	Tomas		FIXME	Tidy the docker image and sample compose file(s) for production. Add to the CI pipeline
Missed deadline	Infrastructure	Nick	Martin	FIXME	Groups/Consortial improvements - limiting acquisitions view, and other areas, to the current signed in group and more - pairs with Blue sky acquisitions
Missed deadlinek	Infrastructure	Nick	Martin	FIXME	Power to the users - moving backend configurations (SIP users, cronjobs, etc.) into the interface where viable to increase what libraries can configure on their own
Missed deadline	Refactoring	Tomas	Martin	26129	Add a new 'configurations' table
Missed deadline	Infrastructure	Martin	Paul D.	FIXME	Migrate POD generator to a new system to modernise view and make more reliable
Missed deadline	Staff client	Martin		34255	Enhance catalog concerns to become a general ticketing/request/enquiry management solution
Missed deadline	Framework plugins	Julian	Marcel	30975	Use event delegation for framework plugins to avoid using private jQuery method _data
Missed deadline	Architecture	Joubu	Marcel	17427	Replace CGI::Session with Data::Session
Postponed to next cycle	Packaging	Joubu			koha-l10n per languages to investigate Have a separate package for each language
Postponed to next cycle	Architecture		Martin	15279	Deprecate bespoke syntax for slips and notices
Postponed to next cycle	Refactoring	Martin	Emily	31714	DRY out slip printing One script instead of 5 for printing slips

Questions

You can add any questions about the projects above here.