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Title : Koha-devel Digest, Vol 199, Issue 15
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Today's Topics:

1. String Freeze Notice (Arthur)
2. Long-term support version of Koha (bug 31008) (David Nind)
3. Effective circulation rule preview/tester
(dcook@prosentient.com.au)
4. Re: Long-term support version of Koha (bug 31008) (Paul Poulain)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:13:43 +0200
From: Arthur <arthur.suzuki@biblibre.com>
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: [Koha-devel] String Freeze Notice
Message-ID: <a355126e-c220-b4f6-0ebb-0fdeb7af0505@biblibre.com>
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String freeze will go into effect as of today for 21.11.x branch.

Maintenance release scheduled for the 23.

Arthur


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:44:05 +1200
From: David Nind <david@davidnind.com>
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: [Koha-devel] Long-term support version of Koha (bug 31008)
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At the Development IRC meeting on 8 June 2022 the issue of having a
long-term support version of Koha (Koha LTS) was discussed. (It has been
discussed and proposed in the past.)

Summary
=======

General agreement was reached that:

1. A long-term support (LTS) version of Koha would be for 2.5 to 3 years

2. We would start with oldstable (which is now 21.11)

3. There would be an LTS maintainer role for each cycle (there is no
expectation that this is the same person for up to three years - it is
preferable that it is someone different each cycle)

4. The mandate for the LTS version would cover:
. security fixes
. things that are broken (such as APIs (external), dependencies (such
as Elasticsearch), etc), and
. essential back ports only, once past oldoldstable

5. It would be an irregular release - only when something is needed once
past oldoldstable

6. We would inform the Koha Community about the LTS version of Koha, what
it is, and what it means for support (including updates to the website,
mailing list, manual section on supported versions, etc)

Next steps
========

Your feedback is welcome on the proposed LTS version of Koha. Feel free to
provide this however you wish, including replying to this email, IRC, and
on bug 31008.

It will then be discussed again, and the approach confirmed at the next
available Development IRC Meeting (ideally this would have been the 22 June
2022 meeting, but I've just sent this email!).

References
=========
[1] Bug 31008:
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31008
[2] 8 June 2022 Development IRC meeting:
. Minutes:
https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.html
. Log:
https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.log.html#l-134

David Nind | david@davidnind.com
New Zealand
m. +64 21 0537 847
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:16:19 +1000
From: <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
To: "'koha-devel'" <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: [Koha-devel] Effective circulation rule preview/tester
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Hi all,



How good would it be if there were a preview/tester for effective
circulation rules in the Admin module?



I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggles to figure out what circulation
rule is being applied in any given scenario at times. I imagine a lot of
librarians could make use of it especially.



Probably not something I would develop, but thought it was an interesting
idea.



David Cook

Senior Software Engineer

Prosentient Systems

Suite 7.03

6a Glen St

Milsons Point NSW 2061

Australia



Office: 02 9212 0899

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:47:36 +0200
From: Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Long-term support version of Koha (bug
    31008)
Message-ID: <dd8074e0-8477-07f3-bc21-7f2d8ce78757@biblibre.com>
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Hello David & others,

Good thing to have a LTS, my main question is about the ecosystem around
Koha. For example, how to manage Koha LTS regarding
Debian/Ubuntu/Elastic Search/MariaDB... upgrades ? How can we be sure
that, in 2 years, Koha LTS will become "unmaintainable" because it
requires a Perl library that can't be upgraded and the underlying tool
(OS, search engine...) isn't maintained anymore in the compatible version ?

I hope that it's a theoretical question that will never become reality,
but it has to be asked I think.

Good day everyone

Le 22/06/2022 à 01:44, David Nind a écrit :
> At the Development IRC meeting on 8 June 2022 the issue of having a
> long-term support version of Koha (Koha LTS) was discussed. (It has
> been discussed and proposed in the past.)
>
> Summary
> =======
>
> General agreement was reached that:
>
> 1. A long-term support (LTS) version of Koha would be for 2.5 to 3 years
>
> 2. We would start with oldstable (which is now 21.11)
>
> 3. There would be an LTS maintainer role for each cycle (there is no
> expectation that this is the same person for up to three years - it is
> preferable that it is someone different each cycle)
>
> 4. The mandate for the LTS version would cover:
>     . security fixes
>     . things that are broken (such as APIs (external), dependencies
> (such as Elasticsearch), etc), and
>     . essential back ports only, once past oldoldstable
>
> 5. It would be an irregular release - only when something is needed
> once past oldoldstable
>
> 6. We would inform the Koha Community about the LTS version of Koha,
> what it is, and what it means for support (including updates to the
> website, mailing list, manual section on supported versions, etc)
>
> Next steps
> ========
>
> Your feedback is welcome on the proposed LTS version of Koha. Feel
> free to provide this however you wish, including replying to this
> email, IRC, and on bug 31008.
>
> It will then be discussed again, and the approach confirmed at the
> next available Development IRC Meeting (ideally this would have been
> the 22 June 2022 meeting, but I've just sent this email!).
>
> References
> =========
> [1] Bug 31008:
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31008
> [2] 8 June 2022 Development IRC meeting:
>      . Minutes:
> https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.html
>      . Log:
> https://meetings.koha-community.org/2022/development_irc_meeting_8_june_2022.2022-06-08-20.59.log.html#l-134
>
> David Nind | david@davidnind.com
> New Zealand
> m. +64 21 0537 847
>
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--
Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
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