====== August 13th, 2024 Developer Meeting ======


**Date:** 13 August 2024

**Time:** 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm Pacific

**Location:** #evergreen IRC channel on [[https://evergreen-ils.org/communicate/irc/|Libera]]


====== Action Items from Last Meeting ======

  * mmorgan will open a ticket for moving LP stats to community site & automating same
  * eeevil will open a bug for cross-column stats targets
  * gmcharlt - create a Git commit message type and update bug 2051946
  * redavis will look at making a regular calendar event for translation work in lock step with point releases
  * Dyrcona will look into git integration with POEditor
  * sandbergja, abneiman, redavis, and mmorgan will put out said point release
  * abneiman will review existing EOLI PRs for test plans
  * abneiman will add a discussion item for next meeting: test plans for big features


===== Updates =====


==== Release info ====

=== OpenSRF ===

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=== Evergreen ===

  * Roadmap: [[faqs:evergreen_roadmap|Evergreen Development Roadmap]] 
  * Maintenance releases 3.11.7, 3.12.5, 3.13.2 on July 19.
  * Merge Pause on Friday, August 16. Should be able to lift pause on Tuesday, August 20.
  * 3.13.3 and 3.12.6 monthly maintenance releases on Wednesday, August 21.
  * Bug squash week for 3.14 release, August 26-30.

=== Hatch ===

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=== Documentation ===

  * DIG met on August 1
  * We are running our style guide through Vale to find errors in the docs. Images without alt tags was first--all fixed now! Next up is consistent word use for certain terms
  * Plans to work on docs bugs and especially reviewing older bugs during Bug Squashing Week
  * Next meeting, September 5 

=== Launchpad Status (as of noon Eastern) ===

== Snapshot ==

  * Open Bugs - 3119
  * Pullrequests - 96
  * Signedoff - 15

== Updates Since Last Meeting ==

  * Bugs Added - 69
  * Pullrequest tag Added - 29
  * Signedoff tag Added - 18
  * Needswork tag Added - 2
  * Needstestplan tag Added - 0
  * Needsrebase tag Added - 5
  * Fix Committed - 22

===== New Business =====

 
  * (Jane) How can we encourage more automated testing?
    * What are current barriers to writing and running the automated tests?
    * We have a [[dev:contributing:qa|requirement that "new code contributions must be submitted with test code"]], which is largely not being followed.  Do we still want this policy or something like it?
  * Hatch extension 'may soon no longer be supported' [[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hatch-native-messenger/ppooibdipmklfichpmkcgplfgdplgahl|Hatch Chrome Extension]]
  * DokuWiki needs updating
  * (ABN) Test plans for big features?

===== Announcements =====

  * [[hack-a-way:hack-a-way-2024|Hack-A-Way]], November 12-14 in Boston, MA
  * Next Meeting is Tuesday, September 10th 2024