[Koha] Meeting Notes

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Kia Ora everyone,

We had a good IRC meeting yesterday, it was great to see so many people, 
and it was hard to get back to work afterwards :-)

A few decisions and resoloutions were made...

Firstly a huge thank you to Pat Eyler who has done such a lot for the 
project over the last couple of years as our first Kaitiaki!

Pat is still keen to be involved with the project, but doesn't quite 
have the time right now, so I've stepped in as the new Kaitiaki.

I'm really excited about Koha at the moment, with bug fixes in 2.0 
(thanks Slef), and a new snapshot from Paul for 2.1 things are really 
moving at the moment.

Slef/MJR has agreed to keep supporting 2.0 until at least 2.2 has gone 
stable. Thank you :-)

Paul Poulain is the current 2.2 Release Manager and when 2.2 becomes 
stable he will continue to be the 2.2 Release Maintainer which is going 
to be great continuity.  Paul hopes to have a release candidate ready 
within a month or so, assuming all goes well with the last few bugs, and 
testing.

Emiliano has been coaxed into being the 2.4 Release Manager with support 
from Paul and I'm sure all the rest of us too, so thanks Emiliano, we 
look forward to your leadership.  His first task is to get a roadmap 
started - so feel free to start putting your thoughts forward.  We are 
hoping that 2.4 will have code from a few differnt coders, so if you've 
got an itch you want to scratch see if you can get it into 2.4.

Stephen Hedges has already started in his role as Documentation Tyrant - 
  we thought we needed a librarians perspective to make sure we actually 
get the documentation they need.  Nick is I hope continuing with his 
able work actually *writing* documentation without which we are all sunk 
:-)  This tends to incorporate organising/linking in translations as 
well I think.

Russel Garlick is going to be testing and QA'ing the 2.2 release - 
although I'm sure we're going to need a small army doing that really.

Mike Mylonas and Rachel Priebee (not at the meeting) have volunteered to 
work on the website side of things - I'm hoping Mike will sort out what 
it should say and find all the "stuff" and Rachel will be happy to 
actually do the coding.

Chris Cormack is still the man in charge of version 1.x, and he is 
hoping to get his hands into Koha again in the next year I know.

IF you missed the meeting and would like to read it then the Log is 
available at

http://koha.org/irc

Click on Koha Organizational Meeting 2004-09-21

Thanks everyone

Ka kite Ano

Rachel

Koha Kaitiaki

-- 
_____________________________________________________________

Rachel Hamilton-Williams                Katipo Communications
MANAGING DIRECTOR                       Ph  021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285
mailto:rachel at katipo.co.nz              PO Box 12487, Wellington
http://www.katipo.co.nz                 New Zealand
Koha Open Source Library System
http://www.koha.org