Bug and Enhancement Discussion

Bugs and Enhancement discussions

Introduction

Sometimes, patches or bugs requires some strategic discussion to define the best way to do something. This discussion can be purely technical, or functionnal.

A new bug status "in discussion" has been created in 2011 december, to identify those bugs.

On the 2012 february IRC meeting, we decided the following workflow for those bugs:

• start a wiki page explaining what is to be discussed, what's the problem, what are the possible solutions, with pros and cons
  
• send a mail to koha-devel and koha mailing lists to let everybody know there's a discussion that started
  
• let ppl discuss (on the mailing lists or on the wiki) of the possible solutions, pros and cons, until the next IRC meeting, but not less than one full week
  
• at the next IRC meeting,
  - if the discussion (on the wiki or koha-devel) result in a general agreement, nothing specific need to be made (no vote needed)
  - if the discussion result in a balanced situation, organize a vote.
  
• Ppl that can't attend the next IRC meeting can express their vote on the wiki, it will be counted during the IRC meeting
• After the IRC meeting, report the conclusions to the mailing lists, and make the decision real by updating the bugs !

Past discussions

• Technical discussion - Cache handling in Koha - started on 2012-02-08 - Consensus reached on koha-devel
• Technical discussion - Table naming - started on 2012-02-08 - Consensus reached on koha-devel
• Technical discussion - Generalise the use Template Toolkit plugins - started on 2012-02-08 - Consensus reached on koha-devel