====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: July 8, 2014 ======

Attending: Judy Brink-Drescher, Chris Delis, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz

===== Agenda =====

==== 1. Development Updates ====

=== JIRA Tickets ===


  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-989|VUFIND-989]] - The EDS "cannot disable highlighting" bug has been fixed.
  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-995|VUFIND-995]] - This ticket discusses revision of Bootstrap theme lightbox code to use an event-driven approach (currently targeted for 2.4).
  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-996|VUFIND-996]] - This ticket addresses a bug in the database-driven statistics code -- resolved.
  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-997|VUFIND-997]] - This ticket proposes improved error handling in the feedback module.
  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-998|VUFIND-998]] - This ticket tracks a small improvement that needs to be made in the language files (to update a revised string across all languages).

=== Pull Requests ===

  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/170|#170]] - In progress: this PR contain's Demian's refactoring of third-party content logic (reviews, excerpts, etc.) to decouple logic from the view and make everything more modular.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/171|#171]] - Merged: a small fix to indexing of latitude/longitude (note that fix currently affects .bsh only -- we need to wait for the next SolrMarc release for global support).
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/172|#172]] - Merged: a fix for a duplicate [Social] section in config.ini.

==== 2. Development Planning ====

=== 2.3 Release ===

At this point, all open tickets for 2.3 have been either pushed to the 2.4 or resolved, with the exception of translation updates (now in progress) and Bootstrap 3 feedback (in case of last minute concerns/problems). Demian plans to finish up a few more pull requests and then freeze development by next week. At that point, he will create a 2.3 release branch and only merge bug fixes there so that other development can proceed in master.

=== Call Number Normalization ===

No news this week.

=== Bootstrap 3 ===

The bootstrap3 and bootprint3 themes have been merged to master. The CSS for these themes is compiled from LESS. Tools are bundled in to allow either on-the-fly or command-line-triggered compilation of LESS, but by default, it is not necessary for end users to use LESS unless they want to.

Discussion for next time: should we add a theme configuration to enable/disable on-the-fly LESS compilation?

Discussion for next time: should we maintain SCSS support?

=== MySQL and UTF-8 ===

Tod pointed out that MySQL only supports up to 3-byte UTF-8 characters by default. 4-byte support can be enabled but has some trade-offs as described [[http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode-upgrading.html|here]].

Deferred until next time due to low attendance.
==== 3. Marketing ====

Eoghan completed an experiment to convert Dokuwiki into GitHub pages and determined that the results are inferior to the original. Recommendation: stick with Dokuwiki for now.

Chris is currently in the process of revising the main website pages on GitHub and will be looking at wiki theming soon.
==== 4. 2014 VuFind Summit ====

Demian is still working on getting approval for the 2014 summit. It may take a few more weeks to get all the detailed sorted out.
==== 5. Other Topics? ====

Ben and Benjamin from Keystone Library Network will be moving on to other positions and will no longer be attending these calls. Demian wishes them both good luck!
===== Next Call =====

The next call will be Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT).