Roadmap for 23.11

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 things will have to be moved on. But it helps us to get a common understanding about important tasks and work on achieving them together.

Each section should include these items:

• Status: Information on the current status of the item: done, partially done, in progress, waiting for X...
• Who: Anyone who is committed to help moving the item forward (writing code, testing, documenting, ...)
• What: A short description of what this is about, what needs to be done and why.

It can also include:

• Comments: If you want to leave a comment, please mark it with your name.

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UI

Update Font Awesome - Bug 32910

Status: DONE, but there still might be some outstanding/remaining issues to be fixed during the cycle.

Who: Owen, Joubu, Tomas

What: Update Font Awesome to version 6. This will give us access to more and newer icons among other things.

Replace and remove jQueryUI components - 29222

Status: In progress

Who: Owen

What: jQueryUI is no longer being developed: https://blog.jqueryui.com/2021/10/jquery-ui-1-13-0-released/. The goal is to replace it where used and remove any related code after. See Autocomplete - Bug 34113, Sortable - Bug 34114 (fixed), Accordion - Bug 29224 (fixed), Tabs - Bug 29226 (fixed)

Use template wrappers for common Bootstrap components - 32571, 32507

Status: In progress

Who: Owen

What:

Creating Template Toolkit WRAPPER directives for commonly-used Bootstrap components will help ease transitions between Bootstrap versions. See Tabs - Bug 32571 (fixed), Breadcrumb navigation - Bug 32507. Other candidates: Collapse, Dropdowns, Modals

Administration

Add mail domain limits to SMTP config - 33537

Status: ASSIGNED

Who: Marcel

What: Web interface configuration for the koha-conf section mail_domain_limits as added in 22.11, bug 33360.

Translation of authorised values - 24975, 24977, 20307

Status: In Discussion

Who: ? (Marcel happy to SO/QA)

What: We have two parallel implementations for this currently. The work got stuck somewhere.

Cataloguing

Record sources registry - 32607

Status: NQA (missing Cypress tests)

Who: Tomas

What: We propose to add verifiable record sources CRUD. There will be system-defined sources (Koha's cataloguing module, Z39.50, etc) as well as user defined. User defined record sources will be passed (at least for now) on API-generated records. Edit permissions will be set on top of this.

Record locking - 31791

Status: In progress

Who: Tomas

What: On top of the new record sources management, a mechanism for sourced-based locking will be implemented.

Task queue streamlining

There are still major issues with the task queue.

ILL

Add core backends to the codebase - ?

Status: ?

Who: ?

What: We should have core backends in the codebase:

• FreeForm
• Koha2Koha

Fully move backends into the plugin infrastructure

Status: ?

Who: ?

What: We should not have multiple ways of doing 'extensions' to Koha. We should be able to manage (install, uninstall, activate etc.) like any other plugin in Koha.

Bookings

Add the beginnings of an item bookings system

Bug 29002 - Add ability to book items ahead of time

Refactorings

Use the REST API to display items on the biblio detail view - 33568

Status: Waiting for testing

Who:

• Author: Joubu

What: Replace the items tables on the bibliographic record detail page (catalogue/detail.pl) with a KohaTable using the REST API route /biblios/XX/items

It will clean the code, improve the UI and bring performance improvement when there are several items attached to a bib record.

Replace CGI::Session with Data::Session - 17427

Status: Need more brain power - currently stuck - HELP

Who:

• Author: Joubu
• Marcel

What: Replace obsolete CGI::Session module with Data::Session. Author of the patch is currently stuck. There is a bug to solve! Please help!

Move get_cardnumber_length and checkcardnumber to Koha - 33940

Status: Done

Who:

• Author: Joubu

What: Simply move get_cardnumber and checkcardnumber to the Koha namespace (Koha::Policy::Patrons::Cardnumber)

Get rid of GetReservesControlBranch - 30825

Status: Done

Who:

• Author: Tomas
• QA: Joubu

What: Move C4::Reserves::GetReservesControlBranch to Koha::Policy::Holds::holds_control_library

Move GetAllIssues to Koha - 33947

Status: Waiting for testing

Who:

• Author: Joubu

What: There is a bug tree to end with the removal of C4::Members::GetAllIssues. It's an interesting one as we are replacing the different occurrences of the ugly and time consuming GetAllIssues with Koha::Checkouts and Koha::Old::Checkouts

Reduce unnecessary unblessings of objects in Circulation.pm - 32496

Status:

Done

2023-07-04 - Needs QA

Waiting for testing

Who:

• Author: David Gustafsson
• Tester: Joubu

What: Bring performance improvement in the circulation module by adjusting the code to avoid unnecessary unblessed calls (and so pass object to subroutines instead).

Additional contents: We need a parent and child table - 31383

Status: 2023-11-01 - Pushed to master

Who:

• Author: Joubu
• SO: Marcel
• QA: Martin Renvoize

What: Split the additional_contents into 2 different tables to create a parent-child relation. Several reports show that we would be better off creating a parent table listing the main news items, CMS pages or HTML content.

Note that this first step is a preliminary step to clean this area and make it more robust and extensible. More enhancements to come.

• Bug 31509 - Additional contents: Allow changing the column 'code' that groups records
• Bug 31642 - Additional contents: Allow free text in location field for html blocks
• Bug 31503 - Allow several consent types on the consents tab of OPAC account page
• Bug 31275 - AdditionalContents.search_for_display returns branch block and All block

Creation of a new 'Preservation' module - 30708

Status:

2023-08-03 - Waiting for QA

2023-07-03 - Waiting for an independent signoff

Waiting for submission but already waiting for feedback. Testing in progress by the sponsor.

Who:

• Author: Joubu
• Testers:
  • BULAC (sponsor)
  • Heather Hernandez
  • Laurence Rault
• QA:

What: This is a whole new module (written in Vue.js and using REST API routes) to manage preservation processings/treatments.

Progress, discussions, next steps can be found at on this taiga board.

Automatically renew (selected) patrons - Bug 33245, 33522, 28688

Status: Needs Signoff

Who:

• Author: Marcel

What: Changes to membership_expiry.pl script to allow account renewal for selected patrons, say e.g. only active patrons.

Continue patron search improvements - 34092 et al.

Status: Waiting for testing

Who:

• Author: Pedro, Martin, Joubu

What: Reduce code duplication in patron searching bring more consistency to the application of system preferences etc.

Remove C4::BackgroundJob - 33963

Status: DONE

Who:

• Author: Joubu

What: Remove C4::BackgroundJob

Manual

Automated screenshots using Cypress.io testing framework - 34076

Status: In discussion - waiting for feedback/testers

Great summary from Caroline on the ML - https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2023-September/060003.html

Who:

• Author: Joubu
• Author: We need more here!

What: Use Cypress Studio to generate (localized) screenshots of the manual (see comment 0 and comment 1 for more detail).

Translation workflow for the manual

Status:

Who:

• Author: ?
• Testing/QA: Katrin

What: At the moment we have multiple issues here:

• Po files for 22.11 and later are missing, so no translations can happen. 22.11 manual po files are available now
• The translations are not reflected in the manuals on the website as there are no regular merges of the po files into the main repository which the manuals on the website are build from.
• There are no longer any nightly build manuals for translators to check their work.