VuFind® Community Call Minutes: August 1, 2023

Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Maccabee Levine, Ere Maijala, Peter Murray, Mario Trojan, Susan Turkel, Thomas Wagener

The July, 2023 Newsletter was discussed.

The goal is to release 9.1 in the Fall – probably October. To meet this goal, we are going to have to reprioritize some work from 9.1 to 10.0. We also need to be sure that all work involving new language file strings is completed by early-to-mid September to allow at least a month for translation work.

The following pull requests are scheduled for inclusion in release 9.1:

• #2688 - Announce number of search results in title
  • Status: awaiting input from PR creator (@stephanieleary) - Demian will ask about status at WOLFcon
• #2723 - Component: confirmation menu
  • Status: needs significant work; might be reprioritized to 10.0. Chris suggested that we might be able to use the newly introduced popover property (spec) in combination with a polyfill to address this in a standards-based way.
• #2763 - SetupThemeResources: Ensure 'Content-Type' is never escaped
  • Status: awaiting input from PR creator (@mtrojan-ub); can be moved to 10.0.
• #2814 - Replace jumpMenu controls with menu-button components
  • Status: needs significant work, including accessibility review. Candidate for reprioritization to 10.0.
• #2850 - Change route type for Help/Home from Static to Segment
  • Status: requires further discussion; can be moved to 10.0.
• #2934 - Switch to Splide Carousel Library
  • Status: in review; needs fixes. Candidate for reprioritization to 10.0.
• #2961 / VUFIND-1252 - Add ID prefix option to deletes script
  • Status: needs review
• #2962 / VUFIND-1568 - Make Solr port configurable during installation
  • Status: needs review
• #2979 / VUFIND-1630 - Fix autocomplete/searchbox bugs; add autocomplete formatting configs
  • Status: in review/discussion
• #2982 - Add translations to improve accessibility for account/list checkboxes
  • Status: changes extracted from #2874; in review
• #2985 - KohaRest: Add missing permission to .ini comment
  • Status: awaiting input from Ere following his vacation
• #2991 - Add filtering capability to facet list pop-up
  • Status: to be discussed later on this call; might be reprioritized to 10.0 depending on scope
• #2999 - Get unique html element id from record view helper
  • Status: changes extracted from #2874; in review
• #3006 / VUFIND-1598 - Allow users to view their proxy relationships
  • Status: in review/under discussion
• #3014 - Remove OCLCIdentities autocomplete based on discontinued API
  • Status: awaiting review

The following JIRA tickets represent features, fixes and improvements that do not yet have an active PR associated with them:

• VUFIND-1599 - FOLIO: improve documentation/error handling around permissions
  • Status: unassigned
• VUFIND-1604 - Templates: components do not work inside of slots
  • Status: unassigned
• VUFIND-1606 - Upgrade vanilla-cookieconsent to fix HTML validation when new version available
  • Status: Assigned to Ere; in progress.
• VUFIND-1607 - Embedded records (in results list) have invalid aria and/or role attributes
  • Status: unassigned
• VUFIND-1611 - Accessible local CAPTCHA option
  • Status: minimum viable solution was merged via pull request #2959; Chris is researching better options.

The following JIRA ticket represents a test suite improvement idea that has not been started yet:

• VUFIND-1603 - Add test to verify that search tabs are created properly
  • Status: assigned to Ere; not started.

The following JIRA tickets represent tasks to be handled closer to the final release:

• VUFIND-1608 - Update language translation files for release 9.1
• VUFIND-1609 - Update dependencies for release 9.1
• VUFIND-1612 - Double check for “PHP version 7” in file comments
• VUFIND-1613 - Update GitHub branch protection rules for release-* branches

Release 9.0.3 went out on time.

Two development tools we have used for many years in our CI stack were deprecated earlier this year: phpcpd and phploc. Demian was unable to find any explanation for the ending of these projects, nor are any replacement tools suggested. The outputs of these tools have not been used much (if at all), so it should be safe to simply remove them from Jenkins configuration.

If anyone has concerns about this, please let Demian know; otherwise, he will remove the tools when time permits.

In the meantime, he has reviewed the phpcpd results and reduced some copy and paste in tests to take advantage of the results while they remain available. He also opened VUFIND-1628 to highlight some record collection factory work that should be done eventually (currently scheduled for 10.0). There is still more that could potentially be done, but nothing too severe.

Major problem: Javascript needs to work correctly both inside and outside of lightbox.

Major problem: combination with more button

Question: some code lives in common.js but maybe it should be moved to or combined with lightbox.js

Further discussion can take place on the pull request – Mario is looking for technical guidance on these issues.

Demian reminded everyone that the WOLFcon 2023 schedule is available for viewing and that registration (including free online access) remains open until fairly close to the event itself.

None this month.

The next call will be Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).