Development IRC meeting 22 March 2016

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Introductions (please use "#info" in front of your introduction to have it show up in the automatic minutes)

Review coding guidelines
- New coding guidelines
- Reword/update coding guidelines
  - [kfischer] 'PERL12: VERSION [Deprecated as of start of 3.12 release cycle] Each module should have a $VERSION variable to preserve progressive levels of compatibility with dependent code.' A bit confusing - should remaining VERSION variables be removed?
    Action from last meeting: Verify if perlcritic complains about missing VERSION and figure out, if we want/can reconfigure it.
    - [mtompset] perlcritic does not complain about missing $VERSION until -2, but since we only perlcritic to -5, there is no need to keep this.
    - see also: discussion on the mailing list
- Revamp/restructure coding guidelines page
  - [khall] I would like to revamp our guidelines page in the manner of https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/ I can start a new page for this which can be voted on at a later date if everyone approves of the idea. (Update)

Any bugs that are in discussion
- [kfischer] Bug 9254 - New option to block patrons from changing messaging preferences in OPAC

General development discussion (Trends, ideas, ...)
- [Joubu] Merge borrowers and deletedborrowers tables
- Preventing XSS attacks. (Bug 13618) doesn't work - are there other options?
- [Joubu] Get rid of item-level_itype
- [kfischer] Performance issues: Benchmark for 3.22, Bug 15342

Updates from the QA team
- 2016-03-24 Global bug squashing day
- List of blockers and critical bugs

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