VuFind Community Call Minutes: March 3, 2020

Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Claas Kazzer, Ere Maijala, Mario Trojan

There have been a few significant bug fixes since the 6.1 release; Demian proposed releasing 6.1.1 on March 16.

The Laminas migration in pull request #1537 is now stable, though a few outstanding issues will have to be dealt with later, as various dependencies update to use Laminas. Demian proposed merging the pull request following the call. JIRA tickets will be opened for significant outstanding issues as needed. Demian will next focus on Symfony Console migration.

The proposed minimum version increase to PHP 7.2 took effect in master.

The February, 2020 Newsletter was discussed.

Chris has been working on a different project recently, but he's doubling back to accessibility soon. Claas recently commented on one of his PRs about close buttons reading as “multiplication symbol” which may be in the wrong place; Chris will be sure he looks for that. Chris is aiming to complete accessibility work by end of month and to share a proof-of-concept accessible prototype soon. He asks that everyone watch the #accessibility channel on Slack for ongoing discussion as work proceeds. After accessibility, new theme work will heat up.

Since this has been inactive for so long, Demian emailed Tod Olson about the status of this project prior to this call in order to identify next steps.

A video was recorded covering the basics of automating common VuFind-related tasks (Solr start-up and search/session cleanup) on a production server.

None this month.

The next call will be Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).

Note the transition from Standard to Daylight time in the Eastern zone; your local time may be different from the previous month.