Attending: Filipe Bento, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Jan Frederick Maas, Benjamin Mosior, Luke O'Sullivan, Sean Purcell, Ben Wiens
We have continued making minor improvements to the main bootstrap theme, plus we have pushed out a “bootprint” theme that adds Blueprint-inspired styling. Chris has also opened a PR to use Less for CSS generation; we should discuss this in more detail.
Popular idea: include compiled CSS, but recommend putting write permission on target folder so customized Less files can be properly recompiled.
An edismax branch has been established in GitHub (see this pull request); however, we need to decide how to proceed due to a Solr issue that causes edismax to handle NOT and - queries poorly.
Conservative approach: off by default, when on, detects NOT, terms starting with - and fails over to old Lucene logic.
The VuDL front end code has been committed to master and the back end is now available in GitHub. No documentation yet for the new version – talk to Demian if you need help.
Eoghan pointed out that some of our cache settings seem excessively high. At least one Solr expert agrees. Should we change them? If so, how do we determine better values?
Benjamin suggested setting up a shared document for devising test plans/documentation.
Step 1: Outline scenarios
Tod Olson could not make the call but emailed some suggestions; they will be incorporated into the testing scenario document.
Demian suggested setting a timeline so that there is a fixed planning period and then actual testing begins.
Benjamin & Ben are willing to take the lead on this effort.
Benjamin will start up a collaborative document and send an email to the vufind-tech list with more details about scenario collection, testing start dates, etc.
Are we getting ready to schedule a 2.2 release soon? Worth thinking about – we'll discuss further on next call.
The summit was a success – video can be viewed on the VuFind Summit 2013 page.
The next call will be Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (15:00 GMT).
IMPORTANT: Note the change from EDT to EST!