Development IRC meeting 2 June 2021

Place

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

If you don't have an IRC client you can join the meeting using your web browser.

Time

2 June 2021, 14:00 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 (21.05)
Updates from the Release Maintainers
Updates from the QA team
Status of roadmap projects
Actions from last meeting
- ashimema Write a coding guideline to clarify our message types: 'alert' vs 'error' (context of bug 27695)
- kidclamp Ask the ML for additional info about how to implement opt-out for notices. One idea would be to have "My message" at the OPAC (postponed)

General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)
- How to handle command line options vs system preferences in cron jobs?
  - There is a general push for moving configuration options out of CLI parameters and into system preferences, as this gives libraries the option to manage their settings and also because it eases contab management for servers with a lot of instances. Questions:
    - Should we have a 'main switch' in CLI still for activating/deactivating the system preference?
    - How do we switch from CLI to pref when replacing existing options seamlessly?
  - See Bug 28457 and Bug 25499 for recent discussion
Review of coding guidelines
Set time of next meeting

Apologies

Please list your name here if you would like to attend but cannot make this meeting

Thomas Dukleth, have to be in another part of the city. Had do some extra non-Koha work before, during, and after the holiday but I have posted a new code version for Koha Wiki database migration and update, Bug 23073 .

Minutes

Next meeting

Development_IRC_meeting_16_June_2021