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VuFind® Community Call Minutes: February 6, 2024

Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Maccabee Levine, Ere Maijala, Peter Murray, Mario Trojan, Susan Turkel, Thomas Wagener

Agenda

1. Development Planning

Newsletter Highlights

The January, 2024 Newsletter was discussed.

Release 9.1.1

Discussion point: is it time to set a release date yet?

Pull Request Review (release 10.0)

The following pull requests are scheduled for inclusion in release 10:

Architectural Enhancements
  • #1680 - Display flash message on login
    • Status: Complex issue; on hold until #3361 is resolved to provide required underlying functionality.
  • #2233 / VUFIND-1480 - Convert from Laminas\Db to Doctrine
    • Status: Work in progress continues; still much to do.
  • #2612 / VUFIND-1588 - Add support for WorldCat Search v2 API
    • Status: Early work in progress; still needs somebody to take the lead on moving it forward.
  • #2624 / VUFIND-1514 - Replace grunt with NPM scripts
    • Status: Work in progress; has some conflicts and failed checks.
  • #2723 - Component: confirmation menu
    • Status: Needs conflict resolution; many outstanding TODO items.
  • #2814 - Replace jumpMenu controls with menu-button components
    • Status: In review
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Chris should look at style/accessibility improvements
  • #2934 - Switch to Splide Carousel Library
    • Status: In review
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Chris should resolve conflicts and work on latest review comments.
  • #3039 - Accessibility: Moravian Library Report
    • Status: Work in progress; some checks were unsuccessful. This PR is an umbrella covering a number of topics, some of which have been split out as separate PRs.
  • #3222 - Add bootstrap5 theme
    • Status: In progress.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Ere should continue work; others should test as time permits.
  • #3361 - Convert DOM events to stored functions
    • Status: In progress.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Chris and Demian will continue collaborating on this.
New Features
  • #2991 - Add filtering capability to facet list pop-up
    • Status: Nearly done, but still needs some aesthetic fixes.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Mario should work on latest review comments.
  • #3103 - Add Notifications CMS functionality
    • Status: Currently in review.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Johannes should work on conflict resolution and latest review comments.
  • #3142 - Multi page selection in favorite list
    • Status: In progress.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Demian should review and test the latest changes.
  • #3226 - Adding the option to make html elements sticky
    • Status: On hold due to autocomplete problems.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Chris and Demian should finish resolving issues caused by most recent autocomplete.js upgrade.
Smaller Features/Enhancements/Fixes
  • #2642 - Create view helper for translating EDS labels
    • Status: Early proof of concept; requires design discussion to move forward.
  • #3279 - Small enhancements to the DefaultRecord class
    • Status: In review.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Waiting for progress from @dmj.
  • #3294 - Updated loadHTML from jQuery to native Javascript
    • Status: In review.
      • :!: ACTION ITEM: Waiting for progress from @padmasreegade.
  • #3382 - AbstractAPI: use status instead of code to capture HTTP status
    • Status: Needs review
Specialized PRs Requiring Input from Creators

:!: ACTION ITEM: as the section heading indicates, all of the PRs listed below currently await review resolution or comment responses from the users who created them.

  • #2060 - makes the DAIA services which should be accepted configurable (etc.)
    • Status: In review/under discussion.
  • #2688 - Announce number of search results in title
    • Status: Under discussion.
  • #2763 - SetupThemeResources: Ensure 'Content-Type' is never escaped
    • Status: Discussion underway on GitHub; awaiting response from @mtrojan-ub.
  • #2850 - Change route type for Help/Home from Static to Segment
    • Status: Work in progress; all checks have passed. PR needs review by @mtrojan-ub.
  • #2999 - Get unique html element id from record view helper
    • Status: Only a bit more work is needed, now that PR 2982 has been merged. Ready for @elsenhans and @RLangeUni to revisit.
  • #3025 - Add new Overdrive features
    • Status: Work in progress; @bpalme is in the process of making updates.

Scheduled JIRA Tickets (release 10.0)

Architectural Enhancements
  • VUFIND-1210 - Use Solr JSON APIs
  • VUFIND-1510 - Consider deprecating CspNonce view helper in favor of Csp helper
  • VUFIND-1547 - Normalize search event namespace
  • VUFIND-1584 - Remove deprecations from 9.x.
  • VUFIND-1601 - Improve CSS configuration in themes
  • VUFIND-1614 - Modernize PubDateVisAjax recommendation module
  • VUFIND-1618 - Investigate the need for setlocale in Bootstrapper
  • VUFIND-1628 - Clean up record collection factories
  • VUFIND-1633 - Replace email library
  • VUFIND-1640 - Eliminate submit inputs named “submit”
  • VUFIND-1652 - Add database support for storing session-specific data
  • VUFIND-1653 - schema.org markup causes trouble when there are no holdings or reviews
  • VUFIND-1657 - Disabling cache fails with EDS backend
Smaller Fixes/Improvements
  • VUFIND-1521 - Add id validation to ILL requests and storage retrieval requests
  • VUFIND-1583 - Any action using ILS credentials fails to display the account menu if credentials missing
  • VUFIND-1592 - Clarify labeling of list menu
  • VUFIND-1594 - Provide a direct link to an ILS login form when using ChoiceAuth plus Shibboleth
  • VUFIND-1607 - Embedded records (in results list) have invalid aria and/or role attributes
  • VUFIND-1632 - Improve install.php existing file handling
  • VUFIND-1639 - Improve ILS error handling during installation process
  • VUFIND-1651 - Address Java deprecation of finalize() method in UpdateDateTracker.java
  • VUFIND-1658 - Sandal theme: applied filter contrast is too low on home page
Test Suite Improvements
  • VUFIND-1351 - Create Mink tests for email verification functionality
  • VUFIND-1560 - DeduplicationListener: Add tests and clean up
Documentation Tasks
  • VUFIND-1625 - Document access to advanced search capabilities through API
  • VUFIND-1629 - Investigate changes in OpenAPI 3.1; implement for API if appropriate.
Finishing Touches (Tasks for Near Release Time)
  • VUFIND-1612 - Double check for “PHP version 7” in file comments
  • VUFIND-1645 - Update dependencies for release 10.0
  • VUFIND-1659 - Update GitHub branch protection rules when creating release-10.0 branch
  • VUFIND-1649 - Update language translation files for release 10.0

2. Technical Discussion: Theme Development Next Steps / Collaboration

Discussion point: font size in Sandal theme.

3. Technical Discussion: Javascript Unit Testing?

4. Future of Slack

5. Open Q&A / Other Topics?

Next Call

The next call will be Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 9am Eastern Standard Time (14:00 GMT).

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