The first general IRC meeting of the Koha project in a long time took place today. For those who couldn’t make it, a log of the discussion is available. The agenda for the meeting is on the wiki.

Some highlights from the meeting:

1. Koha 3.2 will be frozen for new features at the end of August. After two months for testing and translation, general release will be at the end of October. I will release a pre-alpha version of Koha 3.2, which will include the acquisitions work by BibLibre, during the month of June, and I plan on another intermediate pre-alpha release between June and August.
2. Henri-Damien Laurent plans two releases in the 3.0.x maintenance branch, 3.0.2 in June and 3.0.3 shortly thereafter to reconcile differences between the 3.2 tip and the 3.0.x branch.
3. There was a long discussion of the Koha bugs database. At KohaCon, users and potential users of discussed ways to keep track of potential developments to Koha and arrange sponsorships to fund the enhancements. We’ll be using the Koha bugs database to do this, and this will mean some changes to it (adding a field to record sponsorship status) as well as promoting the use of it.
4. I will start a weekly blog for news about the progress of 3.2.
5. We’ll start sending a monthly FAQ to the Koha mailing list and improve the welcome message to new subscribers. I will draftask Nicole Engard to help out with composing it, but if you have ideas for what this message should include, I’ve started a page on the wiki.
6. Nearly two and a half hours into the meeting, we talked a bit about KohaCon 2009, which was very successful. Thanks to David Schuster and the Plano Independent School District for hosting it, and thanks to the members of the KohaCon planning committee for doing a superlative job.

I would like to thank everybody who participated. Special thanks to MJ Ray for taking care of many wiki updates during the meeting. I’ll be calling another IRC meeting to occur in early June.

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