====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: August 5, 2014 ======

Attending: Filipe Bento, Judy Brink-Drescher, Adrian Christen, Demian Katz

===== Agenda =====

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

=== JIRA Tickets ===

  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-116|VUFIND-116]] - Demian has closed this ticket, as the practicality and value of creating a Windows Installer package for VuFind seems highly questionable.
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1005|VUFIND-1005]] - Luke's view helper for retrieving help pages has now been incorporated into master.
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1007|VUFIND-1007]] - As discussed on the previous call, we have opened a ticket to track our response to MySQL's UTF-8 limitations.
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1008|VUFIND-1008]] - This ticket (now resolved) addresses the fact that Amazon content retrieval was not previously using proxified HTTP objects.
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1009|VUFIND-1009]] - This ticket (now resolved) tracks a new feature -- embedded Google Preview tabs for record pages. See also pull request [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/181|#181]].
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1010|VUFIND-1010]] - This ticket (now resolved) tracks a small Bootstrap theme bug.

=== Pull Requests ===

  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/178|#178]] - Merged: More combined.ini settings to control the layout of the combined search results screen.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/179|#179]] - In progress: A new Koha driver using a RESTful API currently under development.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/180|#180]] - Merged: Minor adjustments to OpenLibrary subject recommendations.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/182|#182]] - Merged: A bug fix for the LESS code used in the Bootstrap 3 theme.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/183|#183]] - Merged: Italian translation updates.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/184|#184]] - Merged: improved hierarchy display in the bootstrap3 theme.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/185|#185]] - In progress: a revised version of the earlier PR featuring hierarchical facet functionality.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/186|#186]] - Merged: a proposal to refactor search tab rendering in the bootstrap3 theme to reduce redundancy and simplify customization.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/187|#187]] - In progress: display borrowing location for loans (in ILS driver).
==== 2. Development Planning ====

=== 2.3 Release ===

Demian will push out the release a little early (likely this Friday) since he will be traveling on the originally-announced release date.

=== Call Number Normalization ===

No updates this week.

=== Bootstrap 3 ===

SCSS support has been removed for now, as LESS has more robust support.
==== 3. Marketing ====

The website design has been updated. Chris is open to feedback.
==== 4. 2014 VuFind Summit ====

The Summit will definitely be held this October. It has its own [[community:conferences:summit_2014|wiki page]] with details. Please submit talk proposals and requests to help us plan.

There was also some discussion of the upcoming [[http://www.hebis.de/eng/vufind-anwendertreffen-2014_en.php|German event]], which is likely to contain more English-language content this year than in the past.
==== 5. Other Topics? ====

None this week.
===== Next Call =====

The next call will be Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT).