Erratum: Next major release will be in May, not March :) On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 11:39 Jonathan Druart < jonathan.dru...@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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