[Koha-devel] What's on in koha-devel #10

[Jonathan Druart]

Erratum: Next major release will be in May, not March :)

On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 11:39 Jonathan Druart <
jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:

> Hello librarians and developers,
>
> Several interesting initiatives emerged in this beginning of year 2017.
> Lot of things need to ready for the next stable release in March.
> If you have some spare time, do not hesitate to get involve and make
> things you love moving forward :)
>
> = Catalyst academy =
> Let's start with the yearly Catalyst academy week.
> The Open Source Academy is a Catalyst initiative designed to provide
> training & work experience in open source development for young New Zealand
> technologists.
> We got signoffs and patches from 6 students (Zoe, Luke, Grace, Karen,
> Caitlin and Emma) and they all got at least 1 patch pushed into master this
> week [1].
> Congrats to all of them! Looking forward the next one :)
>
> = Move marcxml out of the biblioitems table (bug 17196) =
> Well, that's it, it's in and will be in 17.05!
> I'd like to specially thanks Mason, Josef, Zeno, Nick and Marcel to have
> been involved in the testing and QA process of this important change.
> It will offer us more flexibility in the future for new developments as
> well as bring us performance boost in few areas.
>
> Since that change will break lot of reports, I have worked on a way to
> automatically detect the problematic reports and automagically convert it
> using the new columns.
> I think we really need it for the next major release, take a look at bug
> 17898 (Add a way to automatically convert SQL reports).
>
> = Dashboard =
> I have submitted a pull request which has been quickly merged (thanks
> Chris!).
> The dashboard (http://dashboard.koha-community.org) now displays a
> "Overall bug tracker health status" with the number of blocker, critical
> and major bug reports opened over the last 60 days. If you want to
> quickly know which are the hot patches waiting for you, just click on the
> link and you will get the bug list.
>
> =Bootstrap 3=
> The bootstrap library used for the staff interface has been upgraded to
> the version 3.3.7.
> Lot of work has been done by Josef and Owen to make the staff interface
> looking awesome.
> Elements like buttons, links, icons, modal windows have been homogenised.
> Some work are still in progress but the big step has been done.
> You can take a look at the depend patches of bug 17873 (Make all buttons
> Bootstrap styled) if you want easy signoffs.
>
> = Hea - Share your statistics with the community =
> Few days ago I have submitted patches for a proposition of what could be
> Hea version 2.
> If you want more informations, take a look at bug 18066 and especially the
> comment 2 about screenshots.
> Developers are very welcome to test, and librarians to give their opinion
> on what could be missing to make Hea better.
> I would also like to get help from a native English speaker to add more
> informations on the administration page to explain better what happens (and
> what will not happen!) when an option or another is set.
>
> = Refactoring =
> Lot of refactoring bug reports are waiting for testers and QAers.
> Everything has been stuck for the last month.
> I really would like to see more attention on these bugs, to continue the
> work in progress.
> To know how you can help, take a look at this graph:
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=15449
> Zoom out, zoom out, once again. If you are a signoffer, pick the orange
> boxes, if you are a QAer, look at the yellow ones.
>
> = Template Toolkit syntax for notices =
> This is certainly one of the most important area if you want to help us
> getting this in for the next release.
> These are quite lot of things to do to get something ready. First we want
> to make sure we will not get regression using the TT syntax.
> To prove that, I have opened an omnibus (see bug 17961 and related bugs -
> TT syntax for notices - Prove we have an equivalent for our historical
> custom syntax). A huge amount of tests are provided to prepare the ground
> and safe our backs for later. It is, in my opinion, the important part of
> the work.
> All of these patches are easy to test.
> To ease the migration for libraries, I have developed an interface to
> automagically convert the notices from the historical syntax to the TT
> syntax.
> You can take a look at bug 17981 and bug 18007 for this interface change.
> To test *all* of this stack change, you just need to checkout the remote
> branch from my github repository [2]
> Screenshot of the convert interface:
> https://pageshot.net/pVRqSxln4A9cqjtM/pro.kohadev.vm
>
> = Authority merge bugs =
> Marcel is reworking the authority merge feature. It is quite buggy and the
> code is hard to maintain currently.
> You can take a look at  bug 17908 (Authority merge omnibus) and all
> related bug reports to help and/or follow the progress.
>
>
> The next general IRC meeting is on March 1st, 20 UTC.
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_1_March_2017
>
> The next dev IRC meeting is today (!) at 20 UTC
>
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_8_February_2017
>
> Hope to see your there!
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Catalyst_Academy
> [2] https://github.com/joubu/Koha/tree/bug_17981
>
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