Development IRC meeting 14 December 2022

Place

The #koha IRC channel (IRC server irc.oftc.net).

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Time

14 December 2022, 15:00 UTC Time and Date.com converter for various local times

Agenda

Introductions (please use "#info" in front of your introduction to have it show up in the automatic minutes)
Announcements
Update from the Release manager
Updates from the Release Maintainers
Updates from the QA team
KohaCon24 bidding
- Set the rough schedule
- Find a volunteer to oversee the process and trigger actions
Status of roadmap projects
Actions from last meeting
- cait Update wiki page for LTS: completed, see Koha Versioning
- Deferred until after the 22.11 release:
  - tcohen to schedule/call a "CSRF day" to work on related patches together
  - tcohen to draft proposal for master→main change and draft of action list
  - oleonard ashimema draft in the developer handbook how to form our modals. With template of a simple case and a case with form inside.: focus is currently on staff interface redesign changes, see the draft style guide (WIP)
General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)
- git-bz is stuck on Python 2 which went end of life on January 1st 2020… should we start to consider alternatives? (Deferred from previous meeting(s).)
  - Helsinki university had a Python 3 fork, any news?
- git bz attach -e BUGNUMBER HEAD~X.. (where X = number of patches (davidnind):
  - I've always done it this way when signing off patches as it is what I was told to do
  - There was some discussion on IRC on using -e or not, and obsoleting patches
  - Just seeking guidance on best practice, including whether old patches should be obsoleted (by adding the obsolete tag) to make the bug "cleaner"
  - There maybe a number of scenarios where different options are preferred (for example, sign off vs. passed QA)
Review of coding guidelines
- SQL8 of our coding guidelines state that SQL should not be in .pl, but should be in the module in C4 or Koha. This would mean that SQL in the Koha namespace is allowed and there is no mention of DBIC in the coding guidelines right now. (Deferred from previous meeting(s).)
Set time of next meeting
- Should the next meeting be the 28th (straight after Christmas for countries that observe this) or 11th January?
- Should it then be in a timeslot more suitable for Oceana-Americas?

Apologies

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Minutes

Next meeting

Development IRC Meeting 11 January 2023