Attending:

The July, 2023 Newsletter was discussed.

The goal is to release 9.1 in the Fall – probably October. To meet this goal, we are going to have to reprioritize some work from 9.1 to 10.0.

The following pull requests are scheduled for inclusion in release 9.1:

• #2688 - Announce number of search results in title
  • Status: awaiting input from PR creator (@stephanieleary)
• #2723 - Component: confirmation menu
  • Status: needs significant work; might be reprioritized to 10.0. Chris suggested that we might be able to use the newly introduced popover property (spec) in combination with a polyfill to address this in a standards-based way.
• #2763 - SetupThemeResources: Ensure 'Content-Type' is never escaped
  • Status: awaiting input from PR creator (@mtrojan-ub)
• #2814 - Replace jumpMenu controls with menu-button components
  • Status: needs significant work, including accessibility review. Candidate for reprioritization to 10.0.
• #2850 - Change route type for Help/Home from Static to Segment
  • Status: requires further discussion
• #2934 - Switch to Splide Carousel Library
  • Status: in review; needs fixes. Candidate for reprioritization to 10.0.
• #2961 / VUFIND-1252 - Add ID prefix option to deletes script
  • Status: needs review
• #2962 / VUFIND-1568 - Make Solr port configurable during installation
  • Status: needs review
• #2974 - Fetch only requested facets from Solr
  • Status: awaiting input from Ere following his vacation
• #2979 - Quote autocomplete results for more accurate matches
  • Status: in review/discussion
• #2982 - Add translations to improve accessibility for account/list checkboxes
  • Status: changes extracted from #2874; in review
• #2985 - KohaRest: Add missing permission to .ini comment
  • Status: awaiting input from Ere following his vacation
• #2991 - Add filtering capability to facet list pop-up
  • Status: to be discussed later on this call
• #2994 - Search form reset button
  • Status: in review
• #2999 - Get unique html element id from record view helper
  • Status: changes extracted from #2874; in review
• #3006 / VUFIND-1598 - Allow users to view their proxy relationships
  • Status: in development; awaiting feedback on naming/organization, and possible KohaRest support from Ere

The following JIRA tickets represent features, fixes and improvements that do not yet have an active PR associated with them:

• VUFIND-1599 - FOLIO: improve documentation/error handling around permissions
  • Status: unassigned
• VUFIND-1604 - Templates: components do not work inside of slots
  • Status: unassigned
• VUFIND-1606 - Upgrade vanilla-cookieconsent to fix HTML validation when new version available
  • Status: Assigned to Ere; in progress.
• VUFIND-1607 - Embedded records (in results list) have invalid aria and/or role attributes
  • Status: unassigned
• VUFIND-1611 - Accessible local CAPTCHA option
  • Status: minimum viable solution was merged via pull request #2959; Chris is researching better options.

The following JIRA tickets represent test suite improvement ideas that have not been started yet:

• VUFIND-1541 - Add Mink test coverage for Markdown rendering
  • Status: assigned to Chris; not started.
• VUFIND-1603 - Add test to verify that search tabs are created properly
  • Status: assigned to Ere; not started.

The following JIRA tickets represent tasks to be handled closer to the final release:

• VUFIND-1608 - Update language translation files for release 9.1
• VUFIND-1609 - Update dependencies for release 9.1
• VUFIND-1612 - Double check for “PHP version 7” in file comments
• VUFIND-1613 - Update GitHub branch protection rules for release-* branches

Release 9.0.3 went out on time.

The next call will be Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 9am Eastern Daylight Time (13:00 GMT).