Attending: Chris Delis, Guenter Hipler, Demian Katz, André Lahmann, Jochen Lienhard, Ere Maijala, Oliver
Translation progress has been made, a few more strings will be coming early next year (but require expert advice). André will adjust comments and reorganize file.
Only other outstanding issue: author initials. We can probably deal with that as a second pass after merging this PR.
No further work seems to be necessary in this area. We simply need to decide when to merge PR #501 to master.
We'll wait until next call to discuss this so that Guenter and others have time to test further.
Demian has continued investigating docValues and ran into a problem: docValues are not supported for TextFields, but many of VuFind's facet fields use TextField instead of StrField to allow regular expression processing to strip trailing punctuation. He also noticed a TextFacetRaw field type that can probably be removed from the schema, as it is essentially the same as a StrField.
Demian will change TextFacetRaw to StrField in the near future.
Ere is in favor of changing the processing to the indexer side, but he does not use SolrMarc, etc. André mentioned not having capacity to work on Solr upgrade until next year – more comments there. Guenter will look into docValues/TextFields issue now.
Solr 5.4 is coming soon – we'll see if that changes anything.
Chris has merged quite a few changes to master. If you have custom Javascript in your theme, it may require adjustments.
Discussion of limitations/advantages of current cover system. Can we include extra information in image HTTP headers? Do we need an AJAX API that triggers on load of image to retrieve additional information?
Demian will do research on possibility of HTTP header-based solution (seems very unlikely to work, especially when introducing browser caching – but worth a quick look). Volunteers needed for AJAX-based solution; Demian will open a JIRA ticket to track progress.
Guenter's colleague Markus plans to begin work on a search API to meet local needs (built on ZF3).
Ere mentioned that more work has been done on simple API for search/record retrieval (currently specific to National Library of Finland's index structure, but could be made more generic). Relevant code: https://github.com/NatLibFi/NDL-VuFind2/blob/master/module/Finna/src/Finna/Controller/SearchApiController.php, https://github.com/NatLibFi/NDL-VuFind2/blob/master/module/Finna/src/Finna/Controller/FinnaApiTrait.php.
Demian may try to prioritize cover generator work to get all functionality implemented prior to a possible reorganization.
No news on ILS driver reorganization yet.
No news.
Discussions have recently been renewed a Villanova about the possibility of creating a non-profit organization to help sustain the VuFind project. This would be useful, among other things, for answering the periodic question of “what do we do with money that gets donated to the project?”
We're interested in feedback/suggestions.
Nothing will go forward without review by the community, and the intent here is to facilitate project growth rather than to make any shocking changes.
Demian has upgraded the wiki to a newer version, adding some new plugins to allow pages to be moved (with old URLs forwarding to new ones). This will allow some significant reorganization in the near future. Demian hopes to remove the current “VuFind 1 vs. VuFind 2” emphasis of the wiki in favor of a “latest documentation vs. legacy notes” approach. He also hopes to use the Wiki's namespacing to create more useful breadcrumb trails to all content, perhaps using a new hierarchy based around Installation/Configuration/Indexing/Development/Administration (though alternate category suggestions are welcome). Suggestions on reorganization and volunteers to help with the process of updating/moving pages would be welcomed.
We discussed whether to skip the next scheduled call (December 22) due to its proximity to the Christmas holiday. Due to limited expected attendance, we decided to defer until January 5, 2016.
Update on Foundation 5 theme: feature branch will soon be updated with current Javascript changes. Should be finished by Christmas. Demian offered to provide support as needed on questions about JS changes and/or integration testing.
The next call will be Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).