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| ====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: January 10, 2012 ====== | ====== VuFind Developers Call Minutes: January 10, 2012 ====== |
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| Attending: | Attending: Anoop Atre, Filipe Bento, Lutz Biedinger, Demian Katz, David Lacy, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Luke O'Sullivan, Sean Purcell, Ernie Simuro |
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| ===== Agenda ===== | ===== Agenda ===== |
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| ==== 1. New/Updated JIRA Tickets ==== | ==== 1. New/Updated JIRA Tickets ==== |
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| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-224|VUFIND-224]] / [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-228|VUFIND-228]] / [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-250|VUFIND-250]] - Several WorldCat issues have been resolved during VuFind 2.0 development; since these problems are unlikely to be resolved in 1.x, the tickets have been closed and marked as fixed in 2.0RC1. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-279|VUFIND-279]] - The addition of a user phone number field to the database was proposed here. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-421|VUFIND-421]] / [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-441|VUFIND-441]] - Some updated files have been attached to these tickets, which deal with hierarchical navigation of VuFind records. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-427|VUFIND-427]] - Upgrade tools for the 1.3 release are complete, so this ticket has been closed. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-480|VUFIND-480]] - Demian has submitted patches proposing schema additions for Solr dynamic fields; he will commit these in time for the 1.3 release. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-485|VUFIND-485]] - This minor Unicorn driver improvement has been committed. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-486|VUFIND-486]] - This minor Voyager driver bug fix (involving character encoding in the volume field) has been committed. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-487|VUFIND-487]] - This tool exports MARC records from the VuFind index. Demian will try to find time to polish it and add it to the trunk eventually. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-488|VUFIND-488]] - The Summon API has a new parameter for dealing with user language preferences; this ticket is a reminder to implement support in VuFind. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-489|VUFIND-489]] - Certain characters in the marc_error field of the Solr index would occasionally cause RSS fields to fail to generate; this ticket includes a patch to fix the problem (which has been committed to the trunk). |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-490|VUFIND-490]] - If a user created a list without naming it, it was always called "My Favorites" regardless of language setting; this ticket proposes a fix, which has been committed to the trunk. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-491|VUFIND-491]] - The marc.properties file does not include a "first" specifier to limit the number of editions values sent to the Solr index. Since the Solr schema's edition field is not multi-valued, this can cause fatal errors. A similar issue exists for the author-related fields. Since the MARC fields involved are never supposed to be multi-valued, this shouldn't be a problem in theory... but bad MARC records exist in reality. Do we want to make VuFind more fault-tolerant, or do we want to retain the current configuration to help users identify potential problem records? |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-492|VUFIND-492]] - It appears that VuFind's .DEB package does not work under Debian (it was developed/tested under Ubuntu). |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-493|VUFIND-493]] - This ticket proposes some XSLT code for breaking up comma-separated values in XML fields. |
| | * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-494|VUFIND-494]] - The "hide_holdings" setting in config.ini now applies to search results as well as record views; this ticket includes a patch (which has been committed to the trunk). Note that this also improves the behavior when holdings information is unavailable -- search results will now hide the "Location:" and "Call Number:" fields rather than leaving them blank/Unknown. |
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| ==== 2. VuFind 2.0 Update ==== | ==== 2. VuFind 2.0 Update ==== |
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| We will probably have to raise the base requirement to PHP 5.3 in order to take advantage of [[http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php|late static bindings]]; this requirement will also probably exist if we decide to upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Zend Framework 2.0. | We will have to raise the base requirement to PHP 5.3 in order to take advantage of [[http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php|late static bindings]]; this requirement will also probably exist if we decide to upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Zend Framework 2.0. |
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| | Demian has once again refactored the search code in an effort to make the organization more logical. To test the latest arrangement, he has begun implementing non-standard search modules (Authority, Reserves, WorldCat). So far the new system works well -- it is much easier to implement a whole new search interface than it used to be. Record views have also been refactored to complement the refactored Search functionality. Next search-related tasks: implementing the Summon module and some across-the-board functionality that has not been ported yet (citations, reviews, etc.). |
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| | The MyResearch area is also coming along nicely, with most of the list-related functionality now complete (apart from the need to add some fields to the database to allow sorting across multiple record sources). |
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| | More unit tests have been built, and code coverage should be improving; however, there are currently problems on the continuous integration server that are preventing PHPUnit from generating coverage reports correctly; Demian is investigating. |
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| | Demian has figured out how to use namespaces in the Wiki, so he will begin documenting VuFind 2.0 in its own namespace as time permits. |
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| ==== 3. Hierarchical / Archival Data in VuFind ==== | ==== 3. Hierarchical / Archival Data in VuFind ==== |
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| | Eoghan and Luke are planning to meet up to work on [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-421|VUFIND-421]] and [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-441|VUFIND-441]] in February. These patches are designed to add support to VuFind for hierarchical relationships between records. |
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| | Hierarchical data needs to be pulled from different sources in different situations -- i.e. National Library of Ireland uses their ILS for the data via the driver, while other situations will need to pull from external files or other software packages. |
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| | Development of this functionality for VuFind 1.x will continue, but it should also be ported to 2.0. |
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| | More links and updated code will be posted to the tickets; please take a look and add your thoughts and comments there. |
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| | There was some discussion about possibly adding a "hierarchy level" field to the Solr index to allow filtering based on granularity during searching, though this requires more thought since hierarchical levels are not necessarily equivalent across hierarchies. |
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| | There was also discussion of the difficulty of working with EAD due to different best practices; perhaps a SolrEAD tool is needed to configure indexing differently for different record sets. |
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| | Luke and Eoghan sense a need for better display of records in the archival community, so once this is all working, it may open a whole new market for VuFind. |
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| ==== 4. New Mobile Theme ==== | ==== 4. New Mobile Theme ==== |
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| | Demian improved the real-time location/call number behavior in the jquerymobile theme as part of his work with [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-494|VUFIND-494]]. |
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| | Luke will put cart support for the jquerymobile theme on his long-term to-do list, but it is not a high priority. |
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| | Luke also suggested using CSS media queries in place of (or in complement to) browser sniffing for the mobile experience -- he recommends [[http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/|this article]] for an introduction to the concept. |
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| | Also on the medium-term to-do list: add mobile support to VuFind 2.0. |
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| ==== 5. Other Topics? ==== | ==== 5. Other Topics? ==== |
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| | No additional topics this week. |
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| ===== Next Call ===== | ===== Next Call ===== |
| The next call will be Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11am Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5:00). | The next call will be Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11am Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5:00). |
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