====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: November 8, 2016 ======

Attending: Matthias Edel, Leila Gonzales, Demian Katz, Claas Kazzer, Jochen Lienhard, Ere Maijala

===== Agenda =====

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

=== JIRA Tickets ===

  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1206|VUFIND-1206]] through [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1213|VUFIND-1213]] - These tickets have been opened to track issues discussed at the 2016 Summit; some existing issues have also been tagged. The whole list can be viewed by looking at the [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1213?jql=labels%20%3D%20Summit2016|Summit2016]] tag.

=== Pull Requests ===

  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/842|#842]] - merged - Fix to password recovery to work better with ChoiceAuth.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/843|#843]] - merged - MultiBackend ILS driver support for new account block functionality.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/844|#844]] - merged - Removal of the jquerymobile theme.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/845|#845]] - merged - Mechanism for serving static (but i18n-capable) pages through VuFind.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/846|#846]] - merged - Minor ILS driver tweak to make getRequestGroups() more flexible.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/847|#847]] - merged - Minor VoyagerRestful ILS driver tweak to make callslip retrieval more flexible.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/848|#848]] - in progress - Minor adjustments to clean up KohaILSDI driver.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/849|#849]] - merged - Update PHPUnit version in composer.json for improved PHP 7 compatibility.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/850|#850]] - in progress - Proposed changes to the interface of the UrlQueryHelper used for creating/modifying VuFind search parameters. See comment on PR for summary of discussion on this call.

=== Release 3.1.1 ===

The release went out on time.

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

=== Roadmapping Strategies ===

The [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/projects/1|GitHub Projects interface]] has been filled in. Please take a look and let us know (on mailing lists/Slack) if you have feedback.

=== Breaking Up Templates ===

PR [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/829|#829]] remains open for feedback. Further work is still needed for EDS compatibility.

=== API ===

Progress continues in [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/819|#819]]. Refactoring is complete; now tests are being written and some issues are being worked through along the way.

=== Channels ===

Demian has implemented some of the features discussed at the 2016 Summit, but some further bug-fixing and interface tweaking are still needed before we can merge. Please test [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/693|#693]]!

=== Modularization ===

No news.

=== Next ZF Version ===

No news; still waiting for progress on various ZF pull requests.

=== Improved Use of Permissions ===

No news.

=== Solr 6 ===

No news.

=== Deprecation Progress ===

jquerymobile has been removed. Demian plans to merge [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/824|#824]] (console route simplification) soon unless anyone objects.

=== Other Front End Updates ===

== "One search box" proposal ==

PR [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/814|#814]] close to being ready to merge.

== Minor Improvement to Autocomplete ==

No news.
==== 3. Institutional Home ====

No news.

==== 4. Next Meeting Date ====

We have chosen to skip the next meeting due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

==== 5. Other Topics? ====

Ere's Solr PR to fix MoreLikeThis is still open ([[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9644|SOLR-9644]]). If anyone has contacts in the Solr community, please encourage them to review/merge this.
===== Next Call =====

The next call will be Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).