Attending: Filipe Bento, Demian Katz, David Maus, Benjamin Mosior, Tod Olson, Sean Purcell, Roni Shwaish
There has been some recent discussion on the Zend Framework mailing list about namespace names and the PSR-0 standard. The wording of the standard implies that all software from a vendor should have the same top-level namespace, but the Zend community has interpreted this to mean that the top-level namespace should CONTAIN the string, but may also include a suffix.
VuFind originally took this very literally – there was a VuFind\CLI module, and the tests all liveed in VuFind\Test. However, Demian is now considering rearranging things to have multiple top-level namespaces, as it may clean up the organization of the code slightly. He has already moved VuFind\CLI to VuFindConsole (a definite win on clarity) and is considering changing VuFind\Test to VuFindTest when time permits.
Demian is now working on using Zend Framework's service manager component to power most of VuFind's plugin interfaces, which will make the software much more flexible and extensible. This will require a significant amount of refactoring.
So far, authentication and session handlers are fully supported through the new mechanism. The ILS spec has been revised slightly in preparation for ILS-related changes. Benjamin is working out how to apply these changes to the 2.0 version of the multi-backend driver.
In parallel with plugin work, Demian is also slowly updating the wiki documentation to reflect 2.0 issues. He also hopes to write a blog post about service managers soon; in the meantime, Benjamin pointed out this post.
The latest release of the framework, RC7, addresses the remaining outstanding database problems that were preventing VuFind from being fully functional. Demian will update Git shortly. The final ZF 2.0 will probably be released very soon. VuFind 2.0beta is also now feature-complete, thanks to Chris' help getting statistics up to speed. Demian is planning an October 1 release for 2.0beta. There is obviously a lot more work to do to refactor and clean up, but it's probably time to release an official demo that people can play with.
David expects to finish his Solr refactoring soon and will submit a pull request.
A schedule has been added to the VuFind Summit 2012 page; talk titles will be filled in once all proposals are reviewed (soon).
No lightning talk/breakout ideas have been submitted yet – please contribute if you have ideas.
Filipe has added a section for InTech Open eBooks.
Some discussion came up of the Z39.50 breakout idea – this has to do with creating a generic ILS driver plug-in to pull status information over Z39.50 instead of using native ILS mechanisms. The topic came up on the mailing lists. Tod offered to discuss this further if people need more input, though he will not be at the summit. He also mentioned SRU as another applicable protocol.
This also led to some discussion of OLE/VuFind integration, which will probably rely on NCIP and SRU/SRW. Z39.50 may also be available via a bridge application.
The next call will be Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT).