Development Meeting 1 November 2023

Place

Video conference meeting using Jitsi at https://meet.jit.si/KohaDevelopmentMeeting

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Time

1 November 2023, 13:00 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 (23.11)

Updates from the Release Maintainers

Updates from the QA Team

Status of roadmap projects

KohaCon24 update

Roles for 24.05 - Elections

Actions from previous meetings (please remove any items closed)
- CSRF fixes
- perldoc.koha-community.org update needed (tcohen and gmcharlt):
  - paulderscheid to share his script for perldocs
- Move from Gitea to Forgejo - tcohen and Joubu to update
- [DONE] tcohen to publish freeze dates via mailing list
- [DONE] tcohen will send an email about the roles to the mailing list
- DMARC compatibility for mailing lists - see Bug 34927 for details:
  - Update from the 18 October 2023 meeting: koha-devel has been reconfigured. The Koha mailing list still needs to be updated and maybe moved.
  - thd to inform the mailing list of the change
- tcohen to have a look at renaming master branch to main
- Translation server migration weblate (Joubu)
  - Status:
    - koha-manual is frozen on Pootle and the test server is syncing .po file and generating translated version every night
    - koha moved is on its way:
      - Waiting for the October releases before pushing some patches and backporting them (Joubu will push to the stable branches)
      - Then see Translation server migration weblate#Migration steps to see what is missing
  - Final switch will be ready for November releases (so expect freeze on Pootle a couple of days before the switch, translations will need to be merged and setup the sync process)
  - See Translation server migration weblate#Architecture for more info about how all this is working
  - Any questions? ask Joubu

General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)
- Draft style guide - needs to include how to use modals
- Propose new rules for future RMs
  - Minimum 1 year experience on the QA team
  - Previous experience as an RMaint

Review of coding guidelines
- ..

Set time of next meeting

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Joubu (bank holiday in France) #vote yes, cait++ community++

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