VuFind Developers Call Minutes: January 5, 2016
Attending: Chris Delis, Matthias Edel, Demian Katz, Claas Kazzer, André Lahmann, Jochen Lienhard, Brad Patton
Agenda
1. Development Updates
JIRA Tickets
VUFIND-1139 - This ticket was closed when the “VuFind source in database” issue was resolved after the previous call.
Pull Requests
#474 - merged - This older PR, containing a significant new feature – record caching in the database – has been merged.
#550 - in progress - Improvements to the dynamic cover generator, based on recent mailing list discussion
#551 - merged - Add greater flexibility to ILS authentication exception handling.
#552 - merged - Minor
HTML fix
#553,
#560 - merged - Translation improvements
#554 - merged - Fixes to “hidden filters on search tabs” functionality
#555 - merged - Fixes to autocomplete handler (not merged as-is, but inspired fixes to master)
#556,
#558 - merged - Minor Voyager ILS driver fixes/enhancements
#557,
#561 - merged - Primo Central fixes
#559 - merged - PHP 7 compliance for session handlers
#562 - in progress - A new recommendation module for suggesting the removal of filters when no search results are found; currently under discussion whether this should stand alone or be incorporated into SwitchQuery somehow
#563 - closed - Some discussion of the ajaxTab config.ini setting is underway here; the original PR has been closed as it was based on a misunderstanding of the setting
#564 - closed - Some improvements to vufind.sh; this has been closed as vufind.sh will be replaced with solr.sh when Solr 5 upgrading is complete, so it isn't worth putting a lot of effort into the current script
#565 - merged - Updated links to DAIA specs in comments
Release 2.5.1
The release went out on schedule; no problems have been reported.
Revised Dependency Management
Eliminate "VuFind" source in Database
2. Development Planning
Improved Author Indexing
Demian has merged “author initials” functionality into the branch. All that remains are some outstanding translations and minting a new SolrMarc release. André will get latest translations, Demian will begin process of requesting SolrMarc release.
Delimited Facets
Ere offered some suggestions for improving this; the pull request (#528) is now on hold until Luke has a chance to respond to the feedback.
Solr Upgrade
Demian upgraded the solr5 branch to release 5.4.0, but unfortunately, a known bug in Solr prevents MoreLikeThis from working; we will probably have to wait for the next Solr release before proceeding. Demian has also made progress on fixing the bug described by VUFIND-453; this can be resolved after the release of Solr 5.5.
Javascript Reorganization
Chris has been working on lightbox simplification and the “bootstrap3 list” pull request.
Cover Issues
API
Modularization
Improved Use of Permissions
3. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).