====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: December 20, 2016 ======

Attending: Leila Gonzales, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Jochen Lienhard

===== Agenda =====

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

=== JIRA Tickets ===

  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1217|VUFIND-1217]] - This ticket addresses an inconsistency in the way trailing question marks are handled in advanced vs. basic Solr searches.

=== Pull Requests ===

As discussed last time, the API PR ([[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/819|#819]]) has been merged. Another noteworthy merge: form attribute support ([[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/802|#802]]).

  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/863|#863]] - merged - Work on removal of the statistics module
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/864|#864]] - merged - Use Composer to install PhpDocumentor
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/865|#865]] - merged - Use Composer to install Phing, and Phing to set up Swagger-UI
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/866|#866]] - in progress - DAIA driver improvements
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/867|#867]] - merged - New configuration option to set session cookie name
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/868|#868]] - merged - Minor tweaks/fixes to new API code
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/869|#869]] - in progress - Initial Solr 6 upgrade work
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/870|#870]] - merged - Minor Voyager ILS driver enhancement to account for barcode status codes.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/871|#871]] - in progress - Minor improvement to bulk export behavior.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/872|#872]] - in progress - Refactoring to separate "add to favorites" functionality from record drivers for cleaner design.

=== Phing and Composer ===

All of the VuFind sub-projects (VuFindCode, VuFindHarvest, VuFindHttp) have been updated to match the work in [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/864|#864]] and [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/865|#865]], and the Jenkins CI configuration has been adjusted to work with this new setup. Using a "Composer-first" strategy greatly simplifies continuous integration setup and will ease migration of the existing utilities to a new server as we work toward a PHP 5.6 upgrade at Villanova.
==== 2. Development Planning ====

=== Image Metadata API Revisited ===

Discussion has been renewed on [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1140|VUFIND-1140]].

=== Breaking Up Templates ===

We are ready to merge [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/829|#829]].

=== Channels ===

No news. Chris and Demian will discuss in person later today.

=== Modularization ===

No news.

=== Next ZF Version ===

More progress on PHP upgrades at VU. No progress on getting ZF pull requests merged -- Demian is trying to figure out how to expedite that.

=== Improved Use of Permissions ===

No news.

=== Solr 6 ===

The "unbundle Solr" pull request ([[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/769|#769]]) has been merged. Demian has begun work on a Solr 6 PR ([[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/869|#869]]).

=== Deprecation Progress ===

As noted above, a PR has been merged to remove the built-in statistics functionality. Still to do: BeanShell scripts and Google Maps support.

=== Release Date for 3.1.2 ===

Proposed: January 16, 2017. No objections.

=== Other Front End Updates ===

Chris explained the recently merged [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/802|form attribute support]] changes in more detail.

Chris requested a review of the [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/860|tokenize language strings]] PR in case there are more language strings that need updating. We will merge soon if no further suggestions are made.
==== 3. Institutional Home ====

No news until the new year.
==== 4. Next Call Date? ====

We decided to skip the next call due to the likelihood of minimal activity over the holiday break.

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

Jochen asked about PHP 7 support in VuFind. Demian reported that this should be working as of release 3.0. Demian is currently developing on a PHP 7 box and testing on a PHP 5 box.
===== Next Call =====

The next call will be Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).