Bug 41506

Summary: Should we remove RabbitMQ?
Product: Koha Reporter: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer>
Component: Architecture, internals, and plumbingAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: victor
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35920
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=36484
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1993
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=36702
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39314
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39277
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35092
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31616
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Description Katrin Fischer 2025-12-31 12:51:14 UTC
At the hackfest in Wellington this came up as a question in the discussion and it was decided to bring it up at the next development meeting. 

https://koha-hedgedoc.servers.llownd.net/Development_IRC_meeting_26_November_2025#

The discussion is difficult and we want to include as many opinions/people as possible. I felt it would be a bit lost on bug 35920, so proposing a separate bug report instead.
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2025-12-31 12:56:53 UTC
Adding some more personal notes:

* When we had a survey at the hackfest in Marseille last year it showed that almost all of the big providers have deactivated RabbitMQ in their installations. That certainly impacts the amount of testing and development work in that area.

* Currently RabbitMQ is a dependency that is installed with the Koha packages. So currently it requires some hacking to make sure it's not installed and running even when the new pref JobsNotificationMethod is set to SQL polling. 

I'll link open RabbitMQ related bugs in the see also section.