Development IRC meeting 8 January 2025

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Time

8 January 2025, 14:00 UTC Time and Date.com converter for various local times

Agenda

Introductions (the convention is `- <NAME>, <ORG>, <PLACE>`)
Announcements
Update from the Release manager (25.05)
Updates from the Release Maintainers
Updates from the QA team
Status of roadmap projects
- Road map 25.05
  - Discussion of suggested community sprint projects.
  - Decision on first sprint project.
Actions from last meeting
- cait: Set up a wiki page to collect project ideas and send email to list
  - https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
  - Candidates for closing/deletion:
    - Annonces : Biblibre/French? Last email in archive from March 2007 => I (Paul P) confirm that it's not used anymore)
    - Info : Biblibre/French? Last email in archive from October 2012 => I (Paul P) confirm that it's been replaced by koha.infos@groupes.renater.fr many years ago.
    - koha-acquisitions : I believe a google mailing list list is in use now, last email May 2022
    - koha-announce : last email February 2013
    - koha-commits : push notices, last email November 2020
    - koha-cvs : already marked as defunct, last email May 2010
    - Koha-i18n-ar : last email March 2018
    - koha-i18n-german : successor is koha-de, close so there is only one list for German speakers
    - koha-patches : last email May 2018
    - koha-sysop : test mails only
    - koha-win32 : last email December 2014
    - koha-zebra : last email March 2018
    - Mailman : 1 accidental email in archive
- cait: update the wiki to inform that the string freeze dates aren't really a thing anymore.
  - Done: String freezes still make sense, but also pointed out continuous updating of po files.
- oleonard: write developer documentation on the bootstrap 5 upgrade.
- paulderscheid: file an issue for integrating JS15 into QA scripts
- lisette: Add a QA script check for NOTICE1 in the coding guideline.
- paulderscheid: write a draft on date/time related naming conventions for discussion.
- cait: to get in touch with Biblibre on retiring unused mailing list
- paulderscheid: to document the new process for chairing and managing meetings on the Wiki
- paulderscheid: Reintroduce JS guideline to always use double quotes, update prettier config to enforce for js and vue.
- paulderscheid: Add a roadmap item about creating a generic bootstrap modal component to replace alerts. Also discuss usage of toasts.
- joubu: write a QA test for hea system preference changes.

General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)
- Bug 38664 - Tidy the whole codebase, also see Development channel
- QA rules - Development workflow#Rules
Review of coding guidelines
- Should we have a coding guideline for Template Toolkit translation macros?
Any other business
Set time of next meeting

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Minutes

   * Minutes: https://koha-hedgedoc.servers.llownd.net/Development_IRC_meeting_8_January_2025

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