====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: September 25, 2018 ======

Attending: Demian Katz, Claas Kazzer

===== Agenda =====

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

=== JIRA Tickets ===

  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1302|VUFIND-1302]] - Ticket about eliminating remaining static factories in VuFind (a goal for 6.0).
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1303|VUFIND-1303]] - Ticket about investigating the suitability of the new [[https://www.dimensions.ai/|Dimensions]] service as a search backend.
  * [[https://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-1304|VUFIND-1304]] - Ticket for brainstorming design of a command line generator tool to create new plugins (as opposed to extending existing ones).

=== Pull Requests ===

  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1227|#1227]] - merged - Improved performance / error tolerance during status lookups in the MultiBackend ILS driver.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1228|#1228]] - merged - Voyager ILS driver bug fix related to selecting status messages.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1229|#1229]] - merged - Added "change password" support to KohaILSDI driver.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1230|#1230]] - in progress - Work in progress on an authentication plugin using Open ID Connect.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1231|#1231]] - merged - Better handling of logOutRoute setting.
  * [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1232|#1232]] - in progress - Proposed changes to handling of parent language files.

=== Release 5.0.1 ===

Still waiting for news from the SolrMarc project.
==== 2. Development Planning ====

=== ILS Support Updates ===

No major news, but work continues on FOLIO record import.

=== Browse Handler Optimizations ===

Tod continues to make progress on the test suite.
==== 3. Institutional Home ====

No news.
==== 4. VuFind Summit 2018 ====

The talk schedule is in place; see the [[https://vufind.org/wiki/community:conferences:summit_2018|wiki page]] for details.
==== 5. Other Topics? ====

Claas offered to share a report from the recent German community meeting.
===== Next Call =====

We will skip the October 9th call due to preparations for the in-person VuFind Summit (which will also be streamed online).

The next call will be Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).