Development IRC meeting 26 June 2019

The #koha IRC channel (IRC server irc.oftc.net).

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Introductions (please use "#info" in front of your introduction to have it show up in the automatic minutes)
Announcements
- Rescues leaderboard now on the dashboard
Update from the Release manager (19.11)
Updates from the Release Maintainers
Updates from the QA team
General development discussion (trends, ideas, ...)
- Bugzilla Status Proposals
  - Add Pushed to oldstable and Pushed to oldoldstable to get us in line with Debian package codenames and reserve RESOLVED FIXED for applying upon release.
  - Script for RMaints to mark all Pushed to branch as RESOLVED FIXED upon release.
  - Remove Pushed for QA and Pushed by Module Maintainer as they aren't in active use.
  - Prevent RESOLVED FIXED from being REOPENED to encourage new bugs instead.
- Deprecate package support for Debian 8 (Jessie) and Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
  - See Bug 23128
- Proposal to fork of the simple keyboard project to allow community members to contribute new layouts. Document and provide tools to rebase it against newer version if needed.
  - See Bug 17178
- Discussion on workflows with regards maintaining the mana-kb serverside project
  - See Bug 23161
- Moving PayPal payments into a plugin (done): discuss harmless upgrade path
  - See Bug 23118
- The road forward for Koha as a Mojolicious application - let's get this one moving again
  - See Bug 20582
- git repository splitting and cleanup
  - See Git_Splitting_and_Shrinking

Review of coding guidelines

- Bug 22600 introduced a base class for commandline scripts, but we forgot to followup with a guidline and qa script change to catch new scripts without the base class.
- SQL12: Enforcing it more easily with a QA script addition and updating existing breakages
  - See Bug 21294
  - See Issue 20 (PR waiting to be approved)
- Revise JavaScript coding guideline JS8 to recommend ESLint; Add a default .eslintrc.json file to Koha.
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Joubu
drojf (Sorry, got the time wrong. Maybe you can put possible arguments against deprecation of Jessie/Xenial support in the minutes)

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