Attending: Filipe Bento, Chris Delis, Matthias Edel, Oliver Goldschmidt, Leila Gonzales, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Claas Kazzer, André Lahmann, Jochen Lienhard, Jay Roos
Still waiting for SolrMarc release; will discuss at Code4lib next week.
Solr 5.5 has been released, which fixes more bugs and restores the missing caching functionality that set off the whole docValues conversation. Demian has done some performance testing and hasn't noticed dramatic benefits from docValues (but this may be a flaw in his tests rather than a real indication that docValues are unimportant). In any case, it appears that the time to merge the solr5 branch to master may be soon. Demian will continue cleaning up remaining TODO items on the PR.
The top-level VuFind namespace has been simplified (and initialized earlier, so it's easier to hook extensions into it). Work continues on improved lightbox functionality.
Chris has a list of front-end improvements he's investigating for 3.0 to modernize development workflow, organization, etc. If you have preferences for best practices, please let Chris know.
No updates this time.
No updates this time.
Demian began work on a ZF 2.5 branch; there is a serious issue in the latest version of Zend\Feed that breaks our RSS functionality. Demian has submitted a PR to the component's repo but hasn't gotten word back yet. For now, we are working around the problem by pinning an earlier version of the component in composer.json. Additionally, composer.json has been revised to pin all of the versions of individual ZF2 components used by VuFind, instead of loading the framework as a whole, to eliminate unnecessary dependencies and to enable greater control over which versions are loaded.
Oliver and Demian have continued discussing this; pull request #608 contains some work in progress.
Demian has continued work on PR #584 and believes that he has come up with a mechanism for improving performance without risk of breaking old code (at the cost of some complexity, including the introduction of a VuFind\Session\Settings object which allows a lower-cost replacement for the old writeSession() controller method. He would like to merge this soon but will allow a little more time for review/comment.
Demian suggested that we should issue a 2.5.3 release prior to 3.0 in order to get known PHP 7 compatibility improvements (and a few more bug fixes) into the 2.5.x series prior to focusing entirely on the new major version. This could be scheduled to happen in parallel with 3.0 or slightly before.
Demian proposed Monday, April 25 for 3.0 with tentative feature freeze on April 4 (with room to slide schedule slightly if necessary).
Demian reminded everyone that he will be at Code4lib next week and plans to run a breakout session.
Chris D. and Demian discussed indexing holdings data from Voyager using SolrMarc's record combination features; see this wiki page for details.
Next time: Leila Gonzalez on enhancements to geographic functionality.
The next call will be Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).