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VuFind Developers Call Minutes: May 15, 2012
Attending:
Agenda
1. New/Updated JIRA Tickets
2. VuFind 2.0 Update
Demian has ported the support for Solr sharding to VuFind 2. The new implementation differs from the 1.x version in some important ways:
- The shard-related configuration has been moved from config.ini to searches.ini; these are not really global configuration settings, and it makes more sense to localize them to a specific module. That way, each module can have its own shard configuration as needed.
- The [StripFacets] section of facets.ini has been eliminated because it is redundant – facet stripping can be addressed by the same values in the [StripFields] section of searches.ini.
- The old implementation persisted user-selected shards in the session, which meant that URL-sharing could have unpredictable results; the new implementation persists shards through GET parameters for bookmarkable URLs.
- Sharding has been built into the Search Object data model. This means that non-Solr modules can use the sharding mechanism if they have an equivalent feature (i.e. multiple databases in EBSCO, multiple sources in a federated search, etc., etc.).
Batch delete/import scripts for use with OAI harvesting are now updated to account for VuFind 2's local directory mechanism.
Mobile device detection has been implemented along with some new mechanisms for specifying alternate themes and allowing the user to switch between them. Additionally, Demian has begun porting the jquerymobile theme to VuFind 2.
3. New Mobile Theme
4. VuFind Developers Summit 2012
5. VuFind Hierarchical Collections Update
6. Open Data / Shared Central Index
7. Other Topics?
Next Call
The next call will be Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT).