Development IRC meeting 9 September 2020

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

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Introductions (please use "#info" in front of your introduction to have it show up in the automatic minutes)
Announcements
Update from the Release manager (20.11)
Updates from the Release Maintainers
Updates from the QA team
Actions from last meeting
- ashimema is collecting notes about bug 15522 and is going to review and dig a bit more into the code (postponed)
- tuxayo integrate the RMaint-handover-draft into the "release maintenance" wiki page (postponed)
  - Done, is the place in the page ok? Release_maintenance#Handover_between_two_cycles
- davidnind Find and update relevant places to record Perl version required, including release notes, manual and wiki (one source of the truth): update 2020-09-09 - still working on this, apologies (postponed)
- Joubu open a bug report for the QA script to catch input type number
  - See https://gitlab.com/koha-community/qa-test-tools/-/issues/38 - There is a merge request attached.
- ashimema write a guideline to forbid usage for type "number"

General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)
- Zebra search support and the future - summary from mailing list discussion: Zebra is still maintained, but no longer actively developed; many libraries will not have the resources and budget to run Elastic; work on a lightweight alternative, and until we have one support Zebra - don't leave people behind!
Review of coding guidelines
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